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North Country Sportsman’s Club, Gun Club Road, Williston, VT, Off Old Creamery Road. from 12:30 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. Agenda: Each session will be limited to 10 people: Cost: $20 per individual and pre-registration is recommended since each session will be limited to 10 people. Walk-ins are welcome as space permits.
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The Wilderness Survivor Survival Kit is the best equipped kit in the Best Glide Wilderness Series of Survival Kits. It is simply the top of the line of premade survival kits. It includes an extensive selection of high quality survival equipment, much of which is NATO or US Government approved survival equipment. Many of the survival items included in the Wilderness Survival Survivor Kit, like the smaller versions of the Best Glide Wilderness Survival Kits, are actual military issue. The Wilderness Survivor, formerly known as the SK1, is much more comprehensive than the Trekker and Companion Survival Kits.
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Has Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived?
ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2011) — With the steep decline in populations of many animal species, from frogs and fish to tigers, some scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that occurred only five times before during the past 540 million years. Each of these 'Big Five' saw three-quarters or more of all animal species go extinct. In a study to be published in the March 3 issue of the journal Nature , University of California, Berkeley, paleobiologists assess where mammals and other species stand today in terms of possible extinction, compared with the past 540 million years, and they find cause for hope as well as alarm.
Weaving an international Indigenous network, Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) catalyzes and facilitates culturally appropriate initiatives and opportunities that enrich the cultural, political and economic lives of Indigenous peoples. Founded by LaDonna Harris (Comanche) and a cohort of her fellow Native American activists in 1970, AIO draws upon traditional Indigenous philosophies to foster value-based leadership, inspire stakeholder-driven solutions, and convene visionary leaders to probe contemporary issues and address challenges of the new century. Governed by a Board of international Indigenous leaders, AIO seeks to create new avenues for international Indigenous interaction, and explore ways Indigenous peoples can influence globalization. AIO is a national nonprofit organization, headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) - That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killing countless seabirds, marine animals and fish, experts reported here this week. On remote Pacific island atolls, diligent albatross parents unknowingly fill their chicks' bellies with bits of plastic that resemble food. The chicks die of malnutrition, and when their bodies decay all those plastic bottle tops, disposable lighters, and the ubiquitous bits of plastic detritus get back into the environment in a cruel perversion of 'recycling'. There is now so much plastic in the oceans it is likely that virtually every seabird has plastic in its belly if its feeding habits mean it mistakes plastic bits for food. The same is true for sea turtles, marine animals or fish, experts say.
Dolphins have been declared the world’s second most intelligent creatures after humans, with scientists suggesting they are so bright that they should be treated as “non-human persons”. Studies into dolphin behaviour have highlighted how similar their communications are to those of humans and that they are brighter than chimpanzees. These have been backed up by anatomical research showing that dolphin brains have many key features associated with high intelligence. The researchers argue that their work shows it is morally unacceptable to keep such intelligent animals in amusement parks or to kill them for food or by accident when fishing.
Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' // Current
Scientist gives human extinction warning - UPI.com
CANBERRA, Australia, June 18 (UPI) -- A respected Australian scientist says a population explosion and unbridled consumption will drive the human race to extinction in 100 years. Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, direly predicted "homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years," Britain's Daily Mail reported Wednesday. "It's an irreversible situation," Fenner told The Australian newspaper. "I think it's too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off." "Frank may well be right," retired Professor Stephen Boyden said, "but some of us believe there will come about an awareness of the situation (with the resulting) revolutionary changes necessary to achieve ecological sustainability."
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By Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou One claim frequently heard regarding extreme heat waves goes something like this: ”Since this heat wave broke the previous record by 5 °C, global warming can’t have much to do with it since that has been only 1 °C over the 20th century”. Here we explain why we find this logic doubly flawed.
We are compelled to ask how there can be so many disturbing facts (inconsistent) and simple errors in both the BP and Oil Commission Reports? Simply put, there are now many more new questions and concerns given the data and information that has been officially published. The following cursory assessment presents a “report on the Reports” submitted to the Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference by BK LIM, Geohazards Specialist. We leave it to the reader to decide how to interpret the various basic discrepancies.
Disturbing Simple Facts and Errors in the BP and Oil Commission Reports | Phoenix Rising from the Gulf
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News Headlines Oil sands pipeline battle turns ugly. - Canada let loose an extraordinary rant against opponents of a controversial project to pump tar ... (posted 01/10/2012 from London Guardian) DEP's Marcellus Shale drilling numbers do not add up. - Research by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shows that there are 495 more wells producing gas or ... (posted 01/10/2012 from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Fracking moratorium urged as doctors call for health study. - The U S should declare a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in populated ...
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