Climate change is killing our trees. This is an unfortunate irony, because we rely on living trees to remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Dead trees do the opposite – their decomposition releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas primarily responsible for global climate change. This tree data [...]
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This post now appearing on Google News and on www.basilandspice.com. We’re making progress! The southern California city of Irvine is taking a giant leap for “green” energy that should help other cities follow suit. All 21 schools in the Irvine Unified School District will soon be solar-powered, by rooftop photo-voltaic panels. The historic plan was [...]
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Tis the season to eat pecan pies, Christmas cookies, cheese sticks, and other festive goodies. Right? Just for a month or so. Then we’ll all go on diets! Diet books’ highest sales are right after the holidays. I’ve already gained a couple of pounds and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet! But after reading this study [...]
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Readers, I like to publish this riveting article by animal-rights activist Jim Mason every Thanksgiving. It’s in honor of the millions of turkeys that will be consumed during the coming week. After reading it, you may decide to eat something else! Many thanks to my friend Jim, co-author of the landmark book Animal Factories for [...]
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Posted in Animal welfare / animal rights, Book review, Classroom Critters and The Scientific Method, Environmental footprint, Food, Health, Livestock, Sustainable Living, Sustainable choices for your home, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Wildlife on Nov 23rd, 2009
A book review by Sally Kneidel, PhD http://sallykneidel.com As a biologist and co-author of two books about the meat industry, I was asked by Jonathan Safran Foer’s publicist to review Foer’s new non-fiction book Eating Animals. I confess I didn’t want to read it, because the topic can be distressing. But I’m glad I did. [...]
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The Louisiana coast in the year 2100, according to scientists’ projections of rising seas and reduced sedimentation. Note that New Orleans is far off the coast. Photo courtesy of Science News, 7/18/09. The residents of New Orleans have had it rough the last few years, following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Much of the [...]
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All photos and text by Sally Kneidel, PhD, of sallykneidel.com and veggierevolution.blogspot.com Photo by Sally Kneidel, PhD I read an article today that blew my socks off – it may be the most significant article I’ve ever read. It’s online and in the Nov/Dec 2009 print issue of Worldwatch, a publication of Worldwatch Institute – [...]
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Story by Sally Kneidel, PhD, of sallykneidel.com The New York Times reported on October 11 that eating ground beef is still risky. Well, yes, but what’s new about that? Of course it’s still risky. Every now and then the media decide to write up something about the hazards of beef as though it were new, [...]
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Americans’ demand for plush toilet paper is contributing to the disappearance of old-growth forests
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All text and photos by Sally Kneidel at sallykneidel.com I visited my dear friends Kathleen Jardine and Jim Cameron again last weekend. They have the coolest home I’ve ever seen. It’s a true passive-solar design and has solar thermal panels on its durable steel roof, but it looks like a French country cottage! I arrived [...]
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