today was a very nice day. i met with a few friends for some coffee this morning, then decided to head for the coast. it was my first time going to cannon beach. the first place i found myself was ecola state park. the view of cannon beach from there is spectacular.


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Birds Can Dance, Experts (and Zany Videos) Reveal NGM

For one of two new studies on animal dancing, Aniruddh Patel at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego and colleagues worked with Snowball the parrot, which seems to love "dancing" to the likes of Queen and Backstreet Boys.

the more i learn about packaged food the more i am glad i am buying locally produced fruits, vegetables, bread, and now, honey (because it is a damn sight tastier than grocery store honey).

honey can kill you...

two thirds of the honey sold in this country is imported.

honey laundering: a sticky trail of intrigue and crime - country of origin no ( Read more... )

yet another article of the strange changes taking place on the planet. add it to the mass death of bee colonies, the white nose fungus killing off bats, crabs disappearing from chesapeake bay, and baby oyster deaths leading to a shortage of mature oysters by 2010

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Washington Post Staff Writer ( Read more... )

another article about water shortages, this time from the guardian uk - is water the new oil

i like this suggestion from the article, Some have even urged a return to more vegetarian diets, which at their extreme demand only half the water of a typical American meat-eater's. This is, according to Lord Haskins, the former chairman of Britain's ( Read more... )

i read an article today that gave me pause. is the organic food you eat truly organic?

Oregon's organic farmers fight genetically modified seeds

if the fields near the organic fields are planted with genetically modified seeds how do you keep drift from contaminating the clean crop?

this past spring as i made the decision to leave southern california i had a few discussions with my brother about my reasoning.

it would appear that one of the reasons for leaving may (not necessarily will)come to fruition.

California cuts water deliveries to cities, farms

The Department of Water Resources announced it will deliver just 15 ( Read more... )

starving bears eat russian guardsapparently man has so depleted and nearly eradicated the salmon runs in russia the hungry bears have started eating man ( Read more... )

here is another example of more money about to come out of your wallet.

in an article in the new york times, food chain - as the price of corn rises, catfish farms dry up

"i don't eat catfish", you might say. ah, but you do eat beef or chicken in all likelihood. the same impact is going to be felt on that industry.

i found the line "government ( Read more... )

disappearing crabs in the chesapeake bayhaving lived on the chesapeake bay for four years and enjoyed the blue crab as a dinner entree, this truly sucks ( Read more... )