After landing in Beijing, I talked with a Gen Y (26 years old) named Wilma who mentioned she would be observing Earth Hour. In less than 12 hours, it will be Earth Hour. No matter where you are in the world, at 8:30pm on March 28th, you are supposed to turn off your lights and reduce your use of electricity
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BONN, Germany — From an Antarctic research base to the Great Pyramids of Egypt and beyond, the world switched off the lights on Saturday for the second Earth Hour, dimming skyscrapers, city streets and some of the world’s most recognizable monuments for 60 minutes to highlight the threat of climate change. Time zone by time zone, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries joined the event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund to dim nonessential lights from 8:30 p.m Amtrak in Illinois will receive $80 million in federal stimulus money to modernize train repair centers as well as to improve security and wheelchair accessibility. That’s according to a statement Wednesday from U.S. FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country’s most rarefied community of scholars. Lately, however, since coming “out of the closet as far as global warming is concerned,” as Dyson sometimes puts it, there has been noise all around him. Chat rooms, Web threads, editors’ letter boxes and Dyson’s own e-mail queue resonate with a thermal current of invective in which Dyson has discovered himself variously described as “a pompous twit,” “a blowhard,” “a cesspool of misinformation,” “an old coot riding into the sunset” and, perhaps inevitably, “a mad scientist.” Dyson had proposed that whatever inflammations the climate was experiencing might be a good thing because carbon dioxide helps plants of all kinds grow. Now I’m disappointed and more than a little confused by EPA’s “clarifying” statement issued this evening. Based on this, it appears that EPA is taking a positive step forward — but it’s a more of a baby step. Vegan pet food — and the decision to force one’s pet to go vegan — is suddenly very buzzy. ABC News reports that it’s a bit easier for a dog to go vegetarian than it is for a cat , and one person they interviewed said she suspects that “vegan” cats are supplementing their diets by hunting. But there are some strong proponents of the idea: Now artists and activists (with one more feline in the family) in Ithaca, N.Y., Moore and her partner, Shira Golding, are part of a relatively small but deeply dedicated group of vegan pet owners who believe their cats’ and dogs’ diets should reflect their own beliefs about the treatment of animals and environmentally sustainable lifestyles (CNN) — An Indonesian fisherman has been killed by Komodo dragons after he was attacked while trespassing on a remote island in search of fruit, officials said Tuesday. Despite their ungainly appearance, the carnivorous reptiles can run as fast as a dog in short bursts, jump up on their hind legs, and kill animals with a blow of their powerful tails NEW YORK — Nobel laureate’s Al Gore’s follow-up to his best-selling “An Inconvenient Truth,” originally planned for last spring, is coming out this fall with a new title. WILLOW, Alaska — Rita Jackson said she was taking a sip of coffee when she tasted something funny on her lips _ ash. Alaska’s Mount Redoubt’s first cluster of eruptions in nearly 20 years _ a total of six were detected between Sunday night and Monday night _ sent a volcanic ash plume more than 9 miles into the air and down into nooks and crannies. Ash missed the state’s largest city, but dusted small communities north of Anchorage As we’ve noted, PETA has its own trademark ways of getting attention, and perhaps the most noticeable is their various semi-nude or nude protests . One of their campaigns that gets the most attention is the ” I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur ” campaign, because it enlists attractive celebrities to pose for billboard photos. |
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