Re: ENERGY Sustainability Biofuels REQUIRED READING FOR EVERY ECOLOGIST? Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

2007-03-30 Thread Paul Cherubini
Cara Lin Bridgman wrote: Here's the link to a recent article by George Monbiot on Biofuels. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/109/ Ironically, eight years ago the commondreams.org newscenter ran an article that favored, rather than opposed, federal funding of research and

very frightening forecast of civilization's impending crash

2007-03-30 Thread stan moore
seehttp://www.warsocialism.com/duncan_tscq_07.pdf for the text of this discussion. Folks -- I do not post this reference lightly, and just discovered the updated analysis of well-defined and transparent empirical data by Richard Clark Duncan this evening. Duncan is an

Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

2007-03-30 Thread joseph gathman
Is there anyone on this list who can refute the essential points made in this article? I don't think so. It's a question of quantity. Even if we devote large amounts of cropland to ethanol crops (substantially reducing food production in the process), there's no way to replace

NOAA sponsored coral reef sessions at 33rd AMLC Scientific Meeting in St. Thomas, USVI

2007-03-30 Thread Felix A Martinez
NOAA's Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR) is proud to be a co-sponsor of the 33^rd Scientific Conference of the Association of the Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC) to be held June 4 -- 8, 2007 at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas. As such we

Re: ENERGY Sustainability Biofuels REQUIRED READING FOR EVERY ECOLOGIST? Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

2007-03-30 Thread Jim Sparks
I think this describes how many people see us... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkEIx0vwHZ8eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmessaging%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser%2EviewComment%26guid%3D3C057EFC%2DC22F%2D415A%2D8050%2D26EC1448D4A6%26viewemb It's a joke, but its pretty funny. When we allow

correction to press release on plan to gut ESA

2007-03-30 Thread stan moore
The date should include the year 2007, not 2006. Anyone can go to the following web page to find more details, such as comparisons between proposed and existing regulations and other details of this situation and the players involved: http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=838 Note:

JOB: Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology Education

2007-03-30 Thread Diane Ebert-May
Michigan State University Postdoctoral Research Associate: Biology Education Plant Biology Department Applications are sought for a postdoctoral fellow to work on an NSF-funded grant as part of a team of ecologists and computer scientists developing an assessment database for undergraduate

Re: George Monbiot on Biofuels

2007-03-30 Thread David Bryant
JG I don't see these as mutually exclusive and hopefully the technological development and conservation spawned by the latter will help to obviate the former. On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:32 AM, joseph gathman wrote: We need to stop worrying about global warming and start figuring out how we

Re: Can natural selection drive development of aesthetic values in wildflowers?

2007-03-30 Thread Aaron Heit
Ernie, Flower symmetry is effected by several interacting environmental and genetic facotrs. Creating a range from perfectly to bilaterally symmetrical flowers. Based on the environmental and genetic factors, symmetry or lack of can be attributed to developmental instability. Thus, how

Split-plot ANOVA in Systat

2007-03-30 Thread L Quinn
Anyone out there have experience setting up data to be analyzed in a split-plot design in SYSTAT (I have version 10)? Please reply off list if you would be willing to help me go through the initial set-up steps. Thank you in advance. Lauren Quinn - Lauren

gas shmass

2007-03-30 Thread adam herbert
I am absolutely thrilled by the number of heart-felt responses I received to my provocative email about dumping our addiction to oil in favour of biking and public transportation. I do have a slight advantage, I must admit, having served in Ecuador as a Peace Corps volunteer and seeing how it is