The DC Green Festival returns to the Washington D.C. Convention Center September 24 and 25. I went last year and I highly recommend it. There will be a wide variety of exhibits, all supporting a sustainable future. In addition, there will be speakers, including Lester Brown, Dennis Kucinch, and our own Medea Benjamin.
This is a wonderful convention. It far exceeded my expectations last year. I would recommend anyone who is able to attend.
Wave of Marine Species Extinctions Feared
by Angry White Liberal“At the end of my career, I get to document the destruction of the species I’ve been documenting for 20 years,” [S. H. Gruber] lamented as he watched the bulldozers. “Wonderful.”
Gruber’s sentiments have become increasingly common in recent years among a growing number of marine biologists, who find themselves studying species in danger of disappearing. For years, many scientists and regulators believed the oceans were so vast there was little risk of marine species dying out. Now, some suspect the world is on the cusp of what Ellen K. Pikitch, executive director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, calls “a gathering wave of ocean extinctions.” Dozens of biologists believe the seas have reached a tipping point, with scores of species of ocean-dwelling fish, birds and mammals edging toward extinction. In the past 300 years, researchers have documented the global extinction of just 21 marine species — and 16 have occurred since 1972.
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