Photo via wikipedia CC They’re like little troll dolls with tails. These super cute and super tiny animals are Cotton-Top Tamarins, found only in Columbia, and they’re about to disappear from the wild
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Photo via wikipedia CC They’re like little troll dolls with tails. These super cute and super tiny animals are Cotton-Top Tamarins, found only in Columbia, and they’re about to disappear from the wild Image credit: Andres Rueda , used under Creative Commons license. Allison Arieff just kills with her latest article in the New York Times on suburban housing. This is a different world than the modern prefabs she used to write about, or the solar decathlon houses that every blog is talking about; this is where most Americans live. She describes how regional vernacular forms that worked so well have disappeared: Today, it’s essentially the same floor plan, sheetrock and construction that’s used coast to coast. Image credit: Tom Harper When even the IEA chief economist says no government is prepared for peak oil , we can be forgiven for getting a little nervous about the economic and environmental future of our kids. Luckily, there are plenty of kid environmentalists out there actively fighting for a cleaner future. Here’s a cool little video about an exercise in which kids get to grips with our oil dependence, and… This week Andrea and Dan have an engaging, informative conversation with a journalist investigating the impact of pollution on our nation’s school kids. Later in the show, you’ll learn a creative seed-starting idea that uses egg shells. |
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