Category Archives: In the News

Reading through the dailies and finding articles of interest.

Water On The Moon

By kimba | Published: November 13, 2009
NASA announced last night that the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, had successfully discovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater on the moon. The LCROSS spacecraft and a companion rocket stage made twin impacts in the Cabeus crater October 9 that created a plume of material from the bottom of a [...]
Also posted in Out in Space | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Buy Local, Buy Organic, It’s Important!

By kimba | Published: July 17, 2009
I was inspired to write a post about looking for, and buying, local produce and food by this article I spied yesterday on Alternet.org about the soybeans used for making Silk soy milk. Few Silk products are certified organic anymore, and some are processed with hexane, a neurotoxin. The use of hexane poses risks to [...]
Also posted in Down to Earth, Not Quite What It Seems | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Clear Cutting In The Tongass

By kimba | Published: July 16, 2009
On Monday, the Obama Administration approved the U.S. Forest Service sale of timber to a Ketchikan mill in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest. The Tongass National Forest is a 17 million acre temperate rain forest in southeast Alaska. It is home to both native Alaskan people and communities aas well as endangered [...]
Also posted in Down to Earth, Not Quite What It Seems | Tagged , | Leave a comment