Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
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February 28, 2007
Rather than rush headlong into the 21st Century,Cambodian farmers are recalibrating their ambitions. A sizable number of small-scale farmers in the Kingdom of Cambodia are not leaping into today's chemically dependent farming practices. Instead, they're using intelligent low-tech to take...
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Thanks to global warming, the ban-the-bulb movement is gaining strength. Australian officials and European lighting manufacturers have announced phaseouts of the energy-draining bulb. A California legislator has proposed a ban. Now, in a move that could speed the move away...
Posted by EJGili at 12:49 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Environment
As stories on global warming become more alarming various subplots are beginning to emerge. Among them, incremental temperature changes have begun to redraw the distribution of bacteria, insects and plants, exposing new populations to diseases that they have never seen...
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February 27, 2007
Category: Art&Design
Animals were the first things that human beings drew. Not plants. Not landscapes. Not even themselves. But animals. Why? The earliest known drawings are some 30,000 years old. They survive in the depths of caves in western Europe. The fact...
Posted by EJGili at 01:20 PM • 1 Comments •
What's in a name? For supporters of the theory of "intelligent design" (ID), a great deal. They argue that the complexity of our universe is best understood as the result of an intelligent cause rather than the undirected process of...
Posted by EJGili at 12:54 PM • 1 Comments •
February 26, 2007
Genealogy and politics can make for strange bed fellows. Two emblematic figures of America's ongoing racial divide, a civil rights leader and a segregationist may share common bloodlines. The Rev. Al Sharpton is shocked to discover his ancestors were once...
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Sen. John Kerry's permanent hang dog expression may have cost him valuable votes on Election Day. According to recent findings published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, the qualities that voters think they can discern in a candidate's face...
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Category: Commentary
These days, Al Gore is rolling with a whole new circle of friends joining him in the effort make Hollywood more eco-friendly. In the year since his global warming film an Inconvenient Truth premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, to...
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Category: Environment
In communities throughout San Francisco the multi-colored flag of the gay pride movement adorns houses and buildings. Now residents have thier own upside down rainbow. ( SF Chronicle)...
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February 23, 2007
Category: Transportation
Fuel-saving gasoline-electric hybrid cars don't save as much fuel as previously thought, according to new government fuel-economy ratings available to the public for the first time. The new ratings go into effect beginning with 2008 models, a few of which...
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