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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July 31, 2007
Jaguars, blue macaws and giant armadillos roam the fickle landscape of Brazil's Cerrado, a vast plateau where temperatures range from freezing to steaming hot and bushes and grasslands alternate with forests and the richest variety of flora of all the...
Posted by EJGili at 11:25 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Environment
An octopus with ears like an elephant? Scallops that hang like bats? Yup, they're real and they live off the East Coast. Deep sea creatures astound and amaze marine biologists exploring the Atlantic's ocean depths. ( CBC)...
Posted by EJGili at 11:04 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Energy
Now that the polar ice caps are melting resource exploitation in the artic will soon be possible. In the next few days, two manned minisubs will be launched through a hole blasted in the polar ice to scour the ocean...
Posted by EJGili at 10:54 AM • 0 Comments •
July 30, 2007
Category: Health
Air and water contaminants, pesticides in food, lead in soil, as well many other environmental threats which alter the delicate organism of a growing child may cause or worsen disease and induce developmental problems. This finding is part of the...
Posted by EJGili at 11:19 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Art&Design
On the heels of Sicko and an Inconvenient Truth, the mega-rich are backing film projects with a message that can influence elections and domestic policy. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is embarking on two new documentary film projects, one about human...
Posted by EJGili at 10:57 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Environment
A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by Bush political appointee William R. Steiger without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly...
Posted by EJGili at 10:42 AM • 0 Comments •
July 29, 2007
Some folklorists have cited the five-second rule as an invention of Genghis Khan (who supposedly called it the 20-hour rule), but there's no proof. Medieval etiquette books make no prohibition against eating off the floor; in fact, it was standard...
Posted by EJGili at 11:48 AM • 0 Comments •
July 28, 2007
Category: Art&Design
Facing down an army of nerds takes guts.Neil Gaiman enthralled and delighted a besotted audience hanging on his every word at Comic Con on Friday. He's notorious for having sold more ideas to Hollywood, without any of them actually getting...
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July 27, 2007
Category: Environment
During President Bush's time in the White House, the listing of endangered and threatened species has slowed down considerably. It's a fraction of the number his father made in four years (58 new listings compared with 231 by the senior...
Posted by EJGili at 11:21 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Commentary
As always there seems to be an Africa problem. These days, wracked by guilt at the humanitarian crisis it has created in the Middle East, the West has turned to Africa for redemption. Idealistic college students, celebrities such as Bob...
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