Dead Zones

This morning National Public Radio reported on the rapid expansion of global marine ‘dead zones’ in the past thirty years. In order to better understand this problem:
What is a “Dead Zone?”

T. Boone Pickens and Water

A friend, Stas Antons, just commented on investments T. Boone Pickens has been making in water rights and wind power. The water rights article:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089040017753.htm?chan=search
The alternative energy article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-unveils-n_n_111444.html

Vegetarianism and Water

I am not a vegetarian…but eat almost no meat and, perhaps stupidly, have not thought much about the environmental impacts of meat production. I just received an email pointing out the following post:
I’ve been vegetarian since 1982. I attended my first anti-vivisection protest in the spring of 1985 at UC San Diego, when anti-apartheid demonstrations were taking [...]