December 2011
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'Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Shifts,... →
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From Science Daily:
By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth’s land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological community type — such as forest, grassland or tundra — toward another, according to a new NASA and university computer modeling study.
Researchers from...
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climateadaptation:
500 manatees. As the temperatures drop in the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of giant manatees make their way to river in Citrus County, FL.
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unconsumption:
Here on the Unconsumption Tumblr we champion the idea of repairing things, or, as our friends at Do The Green Thing like to say, “stick with what you got.”
This story in the Houston Chronicle (related video above) about a Houston-based shoe craftsman earning the shoe repair industry’s highest honor [from the Shoe Service Institute of America (SSIA)] made me think I should call...