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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May 31, 2007
Category: Energy
Any company that rings up $39.5 billion in profit, as Exxon Mobil did last year, is liable to take some flak from consumers and politicians but can usually count on the support of its shareholders. Outside the oil giant's annual...
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Category: Energy
The blue agave plant has a rich cultural history among Mexicans as the source of tequila. Now the once lucrative crop is being burned to make way for another form of high-grade hootch ethanol. ( Reuters)...
Posted by EJGili at 12:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Environment
An 11-year-old Alabama boy made headlines over the week end after allegedly killing a giant feral pig so large there is widespread speculation that the story, and its accompanying picture, could be a hoax. As hunters have noted noted pigs...
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May 30, 2007
Category: Health
In recent years, Peter Lockuk ventures into the watery world of the Alaskan wilderness that has sustained his people for millenia. Collecting eggs not only for the tables of his extended family but also for a crew of biologists. He...
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Category: Technology
The last time they took the stage together - in 1997 - Bill Gates was unable to be there in person, opting instead to be video-conferenced in via satellite. That's why there is, to put it lightly, mild excitement in...
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This must be a marketers dream, breeding cows producing low- fat whole milk that can be sold to health conscious consumers worried about the fat content in contained milk and other dairy products. ( Times Online)...
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Category: Commentary
The main source of resistance to scientific ideas concerns what children know prior to their exposure to science. The last several decades of developmental psychology has made it abundantly clear that humans do not start off as "blank slates." Rather,...
Posted by EJGili at 11:17 AM • 2 Comments •
May 29, 2007
Category: Health
Will tons of mercury now housed in eight U.S. chemical plants eventually get into the hands of poverty-stricken people panning for gold in developing countries and then into rivers and the air? The U.S. government, led by the Environmental Protection...
Posted by EJGili at 11:57 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Health
A 2006 finding that unselfishness can feel good lends scientific support to the admonitions of spiritual leaders such as Saint Francis of Assisi, who said, "For it is in giving that we receive." But it is also a dramatic example...
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Category: Energy
Prodded by intense lobbying from the coal industry, lawmakers from coal states are proposing that taxpayers guarantee billions of dollars in construction loans for coal-to-liquid production plants, guarantee minimum prices for the new fuel, and guarantee big government purchases for...
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