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WATER WORLD IN PERIL
IS THE U.S. HEADED FOR AN "AQUA SHOCK"?
Financial Sense — 05 Dec 2009
Susan J. Marks, author of Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America, gives us a tour through the problems faced by the US with fresh water in the coming century, from limitations on supply to chemical contamination and water's relationship to energy. As the fossil aquifers draw down and climate change reduces summer water from snow pack and glacier melt, will farms, cities, and all of us be able to adjust?
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More books:
-- Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
-- When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Related GP articles:
-- Water Pollution Solutions
-- Water Usage Quiz
Other GP resources:
-- Water Quotes
-- Environmental Movies about Water
Related videos:
-- Water Pollution Video: Poisoned Waters
-- Funny Water Supply Video
Related GP cartoons:
-- Water Cartoon: Clean Enough?
-- Funny Water 'Joke News'
Diet Science
Relieving Holiday Stress with Natural Foods — 07 Dec 2009 — Holidays, good cheer, evil food, and stress all show up this time of year. Nutritionally speaking, there is actually a relationship between the food and stress parts of that equation. Find out what you should be eating more of to relieve your holiday stress.
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EconTalk
Going on a Debt Diet — 07 Dec 2009 — Megan McArdle discusses approaches to managing personal debt, including the anti-debt program espoused by Dave Ramsey. Fiscal discipline is compared to discipline in other areas of life, such as dieting.
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Scientific American
Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense — 03 Dec 2009 — This clip takes on a few of the common red herrings of the climate discussion, including manmade CO2 vs. natural sources, water vapor as a greenhouse gas, CO2 from volcanoes, the "hockeystick" graph(s), and whether the climate is really cooling, not warming.
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Democracy Now
Headlines — 11 Dec 2009 — Stories include... US criticized for rejecting "climate reparations" ~~ Study warns of CO2-related ocean acidification ~~ Thousands protest Obama outside Nobel ceremony ~~ Report says Blackwater played key role in rendition, Iraq-Afghanistan raids ~~ Mining giant fined $1.79 billion
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NOT-SO-COOL & CLASSIC
THE WORLD'S MELTING ICE |
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Food Chain Radio
An Amish Autism Anomaly — 05 Dec 2009 — Veeeerrrryyy interesting .... that Amish children and at least one alternative-medicine cohort of children have much, much lower incidences of autism than children from the general populace. So what is it about Western medicine and/or our modern industrial lifestyles that is causing autism?
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Free Speech Radio News
Headline News #1 — 11 Dec 2009 — Stories include... Financial reforms pass the US House ~~ Europe ponders tax on executive pay and speculative financial transactions ~~ Simmering Israeli-Palestinian trouble in West Bank ~~ Yemen refugee camp numbers ballooning amid fighting in north
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5:35
Headline News #2 — 10 Dec 2009 — Stories include... Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize, defends need for war ~~ Social conservatives' riders removed from appropriations bill ~~ Extrajudicial killings in oil-rich Nigeria exposed
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5:57
Lawmakers Question Treasury Secretary Over Extension of Bailout Program — 10 Dec 2009 — Treasury Secretary Time Geithner faced a skeptical government oversight panel as he reported on the future of the TARP program used to save the big banks.
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A Silver Lining in the Leaked Climate Proposal? — 09 Dec 2009 — A leaked climate proposal from the Danish government was criticized for advantaging rich nations at the expense of African nations. But the text also appears to be giving life to a serious push for stronger emissions reductions.
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Science Friday
Carbon, Climate, Copenhagen — 11 Dec 2009 — A quick mention of the EPA declaration on carbon dioxide and then a report on the Copenhagen climate meetings, which are described as "semi-controlled chaos."
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6:59
Top Tech Gadgets — 11 Dec 2009 — The editor of Wired Magazine gives listeners a tour of the year's top tech gadgets and apps.
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22:04
Guns and Butter
Webster Tarpley: Obama Declaring War on Pakistan — 09 Dec 2009 — Webster Tarpley talks about the importance of central Asia to the US energy strategy, the escalation of the US wars in Central Asia, and the de facto inclusion of large portions of Pakistan as part the Afghanistan war.
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Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal
Wars to Come — 06 Dec 2009 — The transition from Bush II to Obama I has resulted in little change in the policies that drive war and serve empirical ambition.
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Jim Hightower
Selected recent Hightower commentaries...
CEOs Sacrifice Workers While Enriching Themselves
...OR... Morally bankrupt chiefs still feathering nests as they push their brave warriors over the cliff
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Hiding Worker Injuries from OSHA
...OR... Bottom lines, self-regulation, and intimidation combine to whack workers
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Obama's War
...OR... Carrying on with the Permanent War
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War... Or Class War?
...OR... Insulating our weak citizenry from the ugliness of war
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KunstlerCast
'The Long Emergency' US Tour, Part 2 — 10 Dec 2009 — James Howard Kunstler predicts how various regions of the United States will fare during the energy crisis that he anticipates is coming. In this segment, "The Long Emergency" comes to the US Great Plains, the Upper Midwest, the Mid Atlantic and New England. He also talks about issues with fresh water scarcity.
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Related book:
The Long Emergency
C-Realm Podcast
Carolyn Baker: Collapse and Spirituality
09 Dec 2009 — KMO reads a passage from Carolyn Baker's Sacred Demise that talks about the spiritual void that some collapse preppers may face after the descent.
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Radio EcoShock
Bulldoze Suburbia? — 11 Dec 2009 — Is it foolish to hope for eco-cities, while tax revenues collapse? Richard Register says it's late, but cities across the world, rich and poor, are finding solutions—because they must. ~~ Elizabeth Grossman on the chemical toxins in our homes and bodies. ~~ Prashant Vaze on trying to an "economical environmentalist" by slashing personal emissions—despite job and family and all that.
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Related books:
- EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature by Richard Register
- Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry by Elizabeth Grossman
- The Economical Environmentalist: My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Costs by Prashant Vaze
Max Keiser Radio
The Vatican Bank — 09 Dec 2009 — Max and Stacy talk about the Vatican's banking activity. Max's sideways suggestion: the Vatican could monetize their guilt by engaging in sin arbatrage.
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Diet Soap
John Bowe: Nobodies — 09 Dec 2009 — John Bowe talks about his book Nobodies, which exposes one of the dark sides of our modern economic empire—there is an ongoing global slave trade based on extortion, manipulation, fear, and violence.
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John Bowe's book:
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
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DEC 2009
Two Beers With Steve
