August 2010


Bike to work or school:

Do it for the climate, for your health - do it for all of us

Submitted by: Dominique Bachelet
Aug 31, 2010

Four years ago, Worldwatch in their wonderful but now defunct magazine, published a few interesting numbers. In the mid-1990s there were 385 bicycles per 1000 Americans (US), the number in Germany was 588 per 1000 Germans and in Holland .... 1000 bikes per 1000 Dutch people of course! Bicycles in Europe are considered a transport vehicle just like a car and are treated as such unlike in most of the continental US.

Data Basin Migration: This week!

Submitted by: Tosha Comendant
Aug 30, 2010
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To date, the Data Basin system has been powered in part by a custom, beta version of ESRI's ArcGIS Online.  Now that the officially-supported, public version of ArcGIS is available, Data Basin will migrate content over and start using this newer version.

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My week without plastic

Submitted by: Wendy Peterman
Aug 23, 2010

I found that I was getting depressed every day when I took a piece of bread out of a bag to make French toast, open a pill container to take my allergy medicine, or peeled back the wrapper from a block of cheese to make an omelette, so I took a vow not to buy any new plastic for one week. Plastics aren't just in grocery bags, which I can avoid most of the time. They're in food wrappers, diapers, hair care, appliances, toys, computers, writing utensils, art supplies, pet supplies, eyeglasses, business envelopes, you name it.

Seeing is believing

Submitted by: John Bergquist
Aug 13, 2010

In the entryway to the Conservation Biology Institute offices is a map we printed in 2004 of the Late Seral Forest of the Pacific Northwest, that was displayed in the American Museum of Natural History.

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