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POPSWind Farm not Eco-Neutral Just a reminder that the best energy source is to use less of it. We don't have a totally green energy source (if we could only photosynthesize!)
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POPSNew Orleans: The Art of the Corpse by Andre Codrescu New Orleans sank into the funk like a corpse into the embrace of the earth. The rows of fridges lining the streets looked by moonlight like primed canvasses ready for painting. The city’s artists, who have been enthralled since John James Audubon by New Orleans’ embrace of decay and death (Audubon purchased all his American birds dead from the French Market) were not long in reacting. New Orleans music and art had always been inspired by funk ... Now here was all this funk, magnified a thousand times. And here were all these metal tombs stretching as far as the eye could see, more numerous than the graves they resembled. ,,, In a short time, there were thousands of art works in the city, an exhibition that stretched for miles, Today, most of the show is closed. New Orleans always renewed its armies of ghosts after every disaster of its 500-year history, but this last addition came with its own unique, absolutely new style.
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POPSGeese Gassed for pooping on Golf Course Golfers with a God complex successfully had an entire flock of fifty Canadian Geese gassed to death because they were upset about droppings on the greens. Of course, this is the same city where the city counsel threatened to euthanize a large group of harmless feral cats because they left some poop and prey in the picnic area. An individual mobilized a protest and adoption program, and the city councel gave a thirty-day extension for the capture and adoption to continue. Of course, an absent city councelman later commented that they could find castles for each cat in thirty days. Many still need homes. It is also the city made semi-famous by a UFO sighting that has since been debunked. The killing of these Geese is a Travesty. I would encourage anyone who is offended by these killings to voice their feelings at pnj.com, nwfdailynews.com, tigerpointclub.com, and to your Federal Representatives. PLEASE POP THIS!!!!!
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POPSMillions of Missing Birds, Vanishing in Plain Sight "In our everyday economic behavior, we seem determined to discover whether we can live alone on earth. E.O. Wilson has argued eloquently and persuasively that we cannot, that who we are depends as much on the richness and diversity of the biological life around us as it does on any inherent quality in our genes. Environmentalists of every stripe argue that we must somehow begin to correlate our economic behavior — by which I mean every aspect of it: production, consumption, habitation — with the welfare of other species. This is the premise of sustainability. But the very foundation of our economic interests is self-interest, and in the survival of other species we see way too little self to care. We look around us, expecting the rest of the world’s occupants to adapt to the changes that we have caused, when, in fact, we have the right to expect adaptation only from ourselves."
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POPSAudubon study: common bird populations collapsing Due to habitat fragmentation and loss as well as the effects of climate change on migration routes, the populations of some common North American bird species have dropped 80% in the last 40 years. Several prior clips from {{arifsali}} and {{dorine1722}} have already looked at this story: see http://snipr.com/1nd7l
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POPSBirds and Global Warming We can see how birds can adapt to warmer world... Birds adapt to warmer world http://www.usatoday.com/weather/gallery/2007/w070315_birds/flash.htm
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POPSA Haven For Retiring Gay Couples
It's about time that life-partner's have retirement facilities available that allow us to spend out senior years together, in a welcoming and nurturing atmosphere. I know a good number of older gay and lesbian couples who are essentially forced to live in retirement communities in which they have to hide their relationship for fear of being ostracized by less open-minded neighbours. Many actually rent or purchase separate homes or apartments in order to maintain a "straight" appearance. I know that Arnold and I are beginning to think about retirement, and after spending 25 years together, we would never consider being split up, nor should be put in a position to have to give thought to such a circumstance. I am not saying that ALL retirement communities are anti-gay or homophobic, and one of these days, no one will give a crap who is gay, straight or anywhere in between. But it is nice to know there are areas for retiring gay and lesbian couples if this is what they choose.
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