thegreenjournal.ca | 2008 June 20

A carbon plan, budget and campaign platform rolled into one

Source: NPL Environment top stories ⋅ June 20, 2008 ⋅

John Ivison: We wondered where Mr. Dion was going to find the money to fund his “war on poverty” and still afford to pay for an expensive environmental plan. Now we know

Weekly green blog round-up

Source: My Green Element ⋅ June 20, 2008 ⋅

The future is the most narcotic of thoughts….
More from the realm of green IT, something My Green Element has been on top of.
Grist does some interesting consumer affairs research on Green Soaps.
Michele Bachmann is almost a parody of herself.
I hate to rip on some dude’s compost heap, but this isn’t that impressive. Off the top of my [...]

News Bytes of the Week–Przewalski’s Prize: Vets Reverse Vasectomy on Endangered Horse [News]

Source: Scientific American Topic - Green Technology ⋅ June 20, 2008 ⋅

Back out to stud: veterinarians perform first reverse vasectomy on an endangered horse Veterinarians at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., announced this week that they reversed a vasectomy that had been performed nearly a decade ago on a Przewalski’s horse (pronounced "zshah-VAL-skeez"), a short, stocky breed that only grows to about four feet (1.3 meters) tall. About 1,500 of the animals have been raised in zoos worldwide since 1970, when they were declared extinct in the wild in their native Mongolia and China. Fearing a loss of genetic diversity in the tiny remaining population, scientists surveyed captive Przewalski’s horses in search a set of genes worthy of being passed on. One of their primo candidates: a 20-year-old male named Minnesota, a former resident of the Minnesota Zoo. Alas, it turned out that Minnesota had had a vasectomy in 1999 so that he could be housed with but not impregnate female Przewalski’s horses. A first attempt to reverse his vasectomy in March 2007 failed, but zoo officials say a second effort seven months later seems to have done the trick. National Zoo scientists hope to arrange a rendezvous between Minnesota and a suitable female next month.

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Books to Build a Better World

Source: WORD OUT! The Blog to Build a New Society ⋅ June 20, 2008 ⋅

As part of a series of interviews focusing on current trends in the publishing world, Tom Masters of Future Perfect Publishing recently interviewed Chris and Judith Plant, the principals of our company, about the focus and direction of New Society Publishers.

From the interview:

FPP: Given the concerns about global climate change and all of its effects, are you seeing more demand for your titles than in previous years and changes in the readership for your titles?

Chris & Judith: Absolutely! Our topics of concern have all of a sudden become mainstream. That’s what we were struggling to achieve all along and now that it’s a reality, it’s very exciting to be at the forefront of the trend. A part of our list was always designed to ‘mainstream’ the movement; now we’re seeing way more so-called ordinary people take on the key issues of our time.

Read the whole interview here!