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Underground Desert Living Unit: UDLU
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Underground Desert Living Unit. The Underground Desert Living Unit is a project being developed by the Underground Desert Living Research Institute to explore the creation of an affordable, sustainable, energy-efficient single-family underground residence, as a way to help solve living problems arising from the the likely loss of fertile land, the growth of deserts and the creation of millions of "global warming refugees" due to the effects of climate change during the coming century. Article entitled, "...
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بیست و سه دلیل برای دوستداران حیوانات که چین را تحریم کنند (بخش2)
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بیست و سه دلیل برای دوستداران حیوانات که چین را تحریم کنند (بخش2). حمایت از حقوق حیوانات. انگلیسی ها یه ضرب المثلی دارن که میگه: «ما اونقدر پولدار نیستیم که جنس ارزون بخریم! ولی ما ایرانی ها فقط به قیمت اجناس نگاه می کنیم! مطلبی که پیش رو دارید برگرفته از تارنمای. در طول این سالها، من داستان های بی شماری درباره ظلم و ستم به حیوانات در. جهان شنیده ام در میان تمامی کشورها، یک کشور است که بیشترین و گسترده. عتناعی را نسبت به حقوق و رفاه حیوانات آشکارا نشان می دهد: "چین" . بیش از ٢,٣میلیون نفر در. قفس های کوچ...
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Rubicon Days: "The Traveler" Returns to Pakistan
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010. The Traveler" Returns to Pakistan. The Urdu poet Mustafa Zaidi died today in 1970. What might he have written had he lived to witness the floods that have devastated his homeland? Today in 1970, Pakistan lost one of their great modern Urdu. Poets when Mustafa Zaidi. Passed away. He was just 39 years old. The Traveler' is a tour de force of longing - a longing for place, for recognition, and for love," Steele writes. If Zaidi returned today, what might he see? He might see destr...
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Rubicon Days: The True Cost of Megamalls
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009. The True Cost of Megamalls. The global recession has stifled mall culture. That's not a bad thing. In December, the French business management consultancy group Beauvais Consultants. Released a study entitled " Setting Up Superstores and Climate Change. Which examined the environmental impact of shopping in suburban malls - or "hypermarkets" - through surveys of 5,000 urban-dwelling consumers. Bigger than 3,000 square meters. In 2004, developer Larry Siegel broke ground for Xanadu.
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Rubicon Days: Jimmy Carter Was Right
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Jimmy Carter Was Right. Barely two weeks into his presidency, Jimmy Carter called for a comprehensive, long-range energy policy that emphasized conservation. Too bad no one listened. One of our most urgent projects is to develop a national energy policy," said President Jimmy Carter. In a televised Oval Office address on February 2, 1977. It was his Report to the American People on Energy. He had been president for just 13 days. Just think for a moment where we might be today if...
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Rubicon Days: Dying for a Diet Drink
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Friday, May 29, 2009. Dying for a Diet Drink. One hundred and twenty-three years ago today, Americans were introduced to a drink that would change the world, for better or worse. On this day in 1886, those who opened up the pages of the Atlanta Journal. Were the first to see an advertisement for a product that would eventually become one of the world’s most ubiquitous beverages: Coca-Cola. Also known as Coke. Invented by American chemist John Pemberton. From which cocaine is made) and kola nut. Over two ...
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Rubicon Days: Obama: Offshore and Off Base
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Thursday, April 1, 2010. Obama: Offshore and Off Base. Obama's decision to drill on the outer continental shelf is a bad one on several counts. The US. Congress instituted a moratorium on drilling the outer continental shelf in 1981. President H.W. Bush issued a parallel presidential moratorium in 1990. President Clinton extended it. In 2008, President George W. Bush lifted the moratorium. Oil companies cheered. Environmentalists and renewable energy advocates were stunned. Then there's the issue of wild...
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Rubicon Days: Crossing the River Jordan
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Crossing the River Jordan. Symbolically, it flows powerfully through Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But today, the Lower Jordan River is a mess. According to the Canonical gospels. Gospel of the Hebrews. Jesus Christ was baptized in the Jordan River. Crossed it and rode a chariot of fire into Heaven. Elisha. Used the river's water to cure lepers. Joshua. Crossed it into Canaan. It was a prominent part of the Prophet Muhammad. S nighttime journey from Mecca. Over 98% of the his...
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Rubicon Days: Retreat at Îles Kerguelen
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009. Retreat at Îles Kerguelen. France's largest glacier is quickly disappearing. S 1966's sci-fi novel Rocannon's World. There is a city called "Kerguelen" on the planet " New South Georgia. Kerguelen is also a French territory composed of about 300 islands in the southern Indian Ocean named after Breton navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec. Who discovered the archipelago in 1772. Also known as Desolation Island, the Îles Kerguelen. Which is melting at an alarming rate.
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