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Sep 21
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Earth Friendly Cleaning

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I’ve worked hard over the years to learn how to be a better steward of our planet and use less resources. I’ve also dedicated myself to finding products that are gentler on my body and the planet. I’ve collected and edited recipes for cleaning products and found natural beauty solutions that are more inline with my life philosophy. I decided to combine these into a small book so that others can share in this resource. I’m going to make it available on Kindle and other digital distribution networks and also print a limited number of paperbacks, understanding that some people will…

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Aug 24
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California Drought Leaves Homes Without Water

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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of rural San Joaquin Valley residents no longer can get drinking water from their home faucets because California’s extreme drought has dried up their individual wells, government officials and community groups said. The situation has become so dire that the Tulare County Office of Emergency Services had 12-gallon-per person rations of bottled water delivered on Friday in East Porterville, where at least 182 of the 1,400 households have reported having no or not enough water, according to the Porterville Recorder (http://bit.ly/1rsgwsZ ).

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Aug 08
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Green Monster

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Algae has been dominating the news. Residents in Toledo, Ohio woke up to a new reality that they could not trust their drinking water. A rush on grocery stores ensued and even boiling water was deemed unsafe due to toxic bacteria growing in the algae soup that is now Lake Erie. This excellent photo essay describes how the algae is getting out of hand and how we might mitigate future impacts. In short, we have to embrace a future where ewe use less fertilizer and pesticides. Agricultural runoff is killing the lake. It is within our power to change the way we farm…

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Jul 25
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Greenland

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Greenland’s Ice Cap The Greenland ice cap has an estimated volume of 1.7 million km3 with numerous glaciers that extend from the ice cap out to the Davis Strait. The most well-known of these is the Ilulissat Glacier. It is one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world, creating dramatic and breath-taking scenery of ice and sea. Producing 10% of all Greenland’s ice fields, this glacier represents roughly 35 billion tons of ice a year. The ice fields of Greenland’s glaciers are products of the ice cap, formed form fresh water which has fallen as snow over the…

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Jul 20
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Changing Salinity in Arctic Waters

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Immense ‘dome’ of fresh water bulging atop Arctic Ocean off Alaska Doug O’Harra CPOM scientists have discovered that the freshwater stored in the western Arctic Ocean has increased by 8000 km3 between the mid 1990s and 2010. Credit: UCL – ESA – PVL Enough extra fresh water to just about fill lakes Michigan and Huron to the brim has collected in the top layers of the Arctic Ocean northeast of Alaska during the past decade, according to new research published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Driven largely by strong winds and an immense circular current, some 8,000 cubic kilometers of fresh water have…

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Jul 15
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Water Change in the Arctic

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How Climate Change Affects Water in the Arctic Right now the permafrost is changing fast in the Arctic and will likely shrink more than 10% in the next 20 years with the permafrost borders shifting up to 200 km northward. Where permafrost is present, the ground is frozen up to 500 m deep with only the top meter thawing in summer. That means that lakes, rivers and wetlands in the Arctic do not generally connect with the  groundwater. Surface water is abundant in summer offering breeding grounds for  fish, birds and mammals. That paradigm is changing fast. When surface water…

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