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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June 30, 2007
Category: Commentary
Green to Gold, the new book from Yale University professors Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston, is a kind of CSR manual. The authors accept uncritically what Keynes perceived: that the managers of firms of a certain size will...
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June 29, 2007
Of all the domesticated animals, cats are the most inscrutable. They tend to walk about the house as if they own the place and bring home nasty presents. Research suggests cats set up shop on the edge of villages during...
Posted by EJGili at 05:50 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Environment
DNA extracted from 50-year-old animal dung could reveal whether the Tasmanian Tiger lived decades beyond its reported extinction. It's last known address was the Hobart Zoo. But zoologists are investigating whether the secretive predator may have survived in remote pockets...
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Category: Environment
Germany has one of the most carefully managed, yet some of the unhealthiest stands of trees in Europe. A forest would imply a habitat suitable for forest- dwelling creatures such as deer, owls and badgers rather than fast-growing monocrops of...
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Rachel Carson has been shouldering a lot of blows lately, especially for a woman who has been dead more than 40 years. Last month marked the 100th birthday of the woman whose 1962 book, "Silent Spring," is credited with launching...
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June 28, 2007
Category: Environment
The bald eagle, long a national symbol of freedom, has be removed from the Endangered Species list just in time for the 4th of July. Conservationists breath a sigh of relief and developers start priming thier chain saws. Government biologists...
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Category: Health
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday is awarding two local non-profit groups $100,000 to help nail salons go green -- or at least greener. Salons use polishes, solvents and chemicals to make acrylic nails, some of which contain ingredients that...
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Category: Environment
Megadroughts, raging wildfires, decimated forests, dengue fever, legions of Katrinas - unless humans act now to curb our climate-warming pollution, warned the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "we are in deep trouble." You would think, in the wake of such...
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June 27, 2007
Category: Health
Blocking a key brain chemical can reverse many of the symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome -- an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism -- in mice engineered to have the disease, an online scientific journal reported yesterday....
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Category: Environment
From Gold Rush clear-cutters to modern home-builders, people have brought changes to the Tahoe basin that have fueled the intensity of the 2,500-acre Angora fire near the town of South Lake Tahoe. By Monday night, 178 homes had fallen casualty...
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