6/1/09
May 31st, 2009 Michigan, USA. - Sage Park Middle School Wins International Community Problem Solving Competition
Shad Derby Parade Photos
For Old Drugs, New Tricks Advice Veers Away From Flushing Unused Pills
Summer heat jumps the gun
Acid seas 'attacking shellfish, corals'
BioEngineering Claims Health Benefits
Swine of the times: The making of the modern pig
Green Website Certification
Monday June 1st
Chamber of Commerce
6:30-7:30 Monthly Meeting
| | Green Committee Newsletter June 2009 |
Hello Everyone,
Thank you everyone that contributed to the Shad Derby Parade and Earth Day booths. It's been a fun 4-5 weeks. Luckily we can relax now.
I hope to see you at the Thursday night concerts on the green. Remember, we'll continue to have our monthly meetings on the first Monday of each month. Let me know if you can make it.
-John
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| May 31st, 2009 Michigan, USA. - Sage Park Middle School Wins International Community Problem Solving Competition |
"On Sunday May 31st, 2009 Jonathan Mejias a student at Sage Park Middle School in Windsor, CT was awarded first prize in the International Community Problem Solving Competition held by Future Problem Solvers. This International competition was held in Michigan, USA."
http://windsorcc.org
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Thank you everyone that contributed to the Shad Derby Parade booth. Peri did an outstanding job working with kids for hours planting seeds.
Greg and Rich worked with kids on the bicycle powered generator. Things got really exciting once we put a meter on it and everyone tried to pedal hardest.
Click for photos
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| Summer heat jumps the gun |
"Summer is three weeks away, but many regions already are sweating out unseasonably warm weather that promises plenty of dog days ahead.
Above-normal temperatures have registered in 13 states in the South and Southwest so far this year. Also, Portland, Maine, topped 90 degrees for the first time in April. And Washington Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital notched its earliest three-day string of 90-degree days since records began in 1962."
www.usatoday.com/weather/forecast/2009-05-31-warmweather_N.htm
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| Acid seas 'attacking shellfish, corals' |
" CLIMATE change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years.
Seventy academies from around the world urged governments meeting in Bonn for climate talks from June 1-12 to take more account of risks to the oceans in a new UN treaty for fighting global warming due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December.
The academies said rising amounts of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted mainly by human use of fossil fuels, were being absorbed by the oceans and making it harder for creatures to build protective body parts."
www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25567364-23109,00.html
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| BioEngineering Claims Health Benefits |
"Scientists have developed purple tomatoes which they hope may be able to keep cancer at bay.
The fruit are rich in an antioxidant pigment called anthocyanin which is thought to have anti-cancer properties.
A team from the John Innes Centre, Norwich, created the tomatoes by incorporating genes from the snapdragon flower, which is high in anthocyanin.
The study, published in Nature Biotechnology, found mice who ate the tomatoes lived longer."
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7688310.stm
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| Swine of the times: The making of the modern pig |
"The science of pork production has made major strides in the last twenty years, and one wouldn t expect to find pigs mating the old-fashioned way at state-of-the-art hog facilities."
Interesting Article - Warning It Talks About "Artificial Insemination"
www.harpers.org/archive/2006/05/0081030
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| Green Website Certification |
"CO2Stats is the only service that automatically calculates your website's total energy consumption, helps to make it more energy efficient, and then purchases audited renewable energy from wind and solar farms to neutralize its carbon footprint -- all for a flat, affordable monthly fee."
www.co2stats.com/
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