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Earth Day 2012 Finds Kids Ready to Do Their Part, Says Author Seymour Simon
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on March 23, 2012
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By Larry Bock Founder and Organizer, USA Science & Engineering Festival Planet Earth — that fragile blue marble in space that we call home — deserves better from all of us, I think we would agree. And for good reason. With such issues as energy, pollution, conservation and sustainability, and climate becoming rising worldwide concerns,…
Fukushima Fallout
Posted by carlyo of USA Science & Engineering Festival on March 7, 2012 by Fred Bortz, author of Meltdown! The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future (Twenty-First Century Books, 2012) A year ago this week, on March 11, 2011, the biggest earthquake in Japan’s history devastated the Tohoku region, 320 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. In the huge tsunami that followed, more than 13,000 people drowned, and…