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Aerosol Operation Over NYC by New York Skywatch Alan Gross

ANOTHER BRIGHT IDEA
Lawmakers take up battle against light bulb ban
‘Government has substituted its choice for the American consumer’s’

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and 24 other representatives on Capitol Hill have asked the government to reconsider mandating that all Americans use exclusively compact fluorescent bulbs, or CFLs, in light of growing concerns over the safety and environmental impact of the bulbs.\

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=7246

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Low-energy bulbs ‘could cause skin cancer’

Using environmentally-friendly light bulbs can be bad for your skin, say doctors.

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Sloshing Inside Earth Changes Protective Magnetic Field

By Jeremy Hsu

Something beneath the surface is changing Earth’s protective magnetic field, which may leave satellites and other space assets vulnerable to high-energy radiation.

The gradual weakening of the overall magnetic field can take hundreds and even thousands of years. But smaller, more rapid fluctuations within months may leave satellites unprotected and catch scientists off guard, new research finds.

A new model uses satellite data from the past nine years to show how sudden fluid motions within the Earth’s core can alter the magnetic envelope around our planet. This represents the first time that researchers have been able to detect such rapid magnetic field changes taking place over just a few months.

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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080818-mm-earth-core.html

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Pilot Roark Schwanenberg

Carson Helicopters, Inc.
Grants Pass, Oregon

Pilot James Ramage

US Forest Service - Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Redding, California

Firefighter Steven Renno

Grayback Forestry Inc.
Merlin, Oregon

Firefighter David Steele

Grayback Forestry Inc.
Merlin, Oregon

Firefighter Bryan Rich

Grayback Forestry Inc.
Merlin, Oregon

Firefighter Edrik Gomez

Grayback Forestry Inc.
Merlin, Oregon

Firefighter Matthew Hammer

Grayback Forestry Inc.
Merlin, Oregon

Firefighter Scott Charlson

Grayback Forestry Inc.
Merlin, Oregon

Firefighter Shawn Blazer

Grayback Forestry Inc.
Merlin, Oregon

http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/

Film Review - “Good Food”

As someone who loves good food, especially good food grown and produced in a sustainable manner by local growers and producers here in Oregon and SW Washington, I must say that I was quite intrigued when I first heard of this film. A recently released 73-minute documentary from Moving Images directed by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, “Good Food” is a fascinating and extremely enjoyable film that touches on all aspects of a local sustainable food system. From farm and ranch, to market or distributor, to grocery store and restaurant and on to our forks and dinner tables - “Good Food” focuses on our successful and ever-growing sustainable local food system here in the Pacific Northwest, and in doing so also demonstrates that we can (and must, if we are to carry on as a working society much longer…) do the same everywhere across the nation.

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http://www.lavidalocavore.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=227#1410

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Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the biggest-ever environmental disaster

By Jeff Randall

The mass development of genetically modified crops risks causing the world’s worst environmental disaster, The Prince of Wales has warned.

In his most outspoken intervention on the issue of GM food, the Prince said that multi-national companies were conducting an experiment with nature which had gone “seriously wrong”.

The Prince, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph, also expressed the fear that food would run out because of the damage being wreaked on the earth’s soil by scientists’ research.

He accused firms of conducting a “gigantic experiment I think with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong”.
“Why else are we facing all these challenges, climate change and everything?”.

Is Columbia River “nose” real or imagined illness?

HOOD RIVER, Ore. — They call it “river nose” — an occasional affliction that has been a mystery for at least 20 years.

Some avid windsurfers and kite boarders have complained of symptoms that can include stuffy noses, sinus infections, sneezing attacks, cuts that don’t heal, nausea and fatigue.

This year, the number of reports of symptoms are higher than ever, according to Columbia Riverkeeper.

So the river advocacy group, with the help of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, is investigating.

Potential culprits are many in a deep, wide river that starts at a Canadian glacier and runs 1,200 miles, passing through the Hanford nuclear reservation and picking up along the way agricultural runoff, heaps of allergens, dioxins from 13 pulp and paper mills, heavy metals from mines, and sewer outflows from cities and septic tanks.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003833819_rivernose13m.html

www.extreme365.com/…/story_119764.shtml

Oregon farmers design a breakthrough for fish, growers alike

Floods racing off Mount Hood in 1996 nearly destroyed the little Farmers Irrigation District. Its water intakes in the Hood River Valley were in ruins. The small hydroelectric plants that brought in revenue were shut down.

“We were broke,” says Jerry Bryan, the district’s project manager. “We were fundamentally bankrupt.”

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http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1218684316158480.xml&coll=7