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Dear Reader,
Welcome to our September issue of the Isla Earth
Radio Series e-Digest.
Last month we launched
our new website. If you haven't already done
so, check out the Community
Action and Discovery
Link pages. These two new online
communities are great environmental resource
tools designed just for you.
We also have a real calendar
now! If you have an environmental or
conservation event that you'd
like to post on the calendar, send the
information to us through the Contact
form on the new website.
Know-it-all Quiz.. This quiz rewards
you with
fun animated smiley faces every time you get the
answers to the questions right. Show off your
environmental knowledge and earn some smiley
faces
along the way. To start the puzzle fun, click
here.
| Who's the Biggest Polluter? |
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Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest
polluter of
them all? We may all have assumptions about who
holds that title BUT according to one study,
we may
just be wrong. So who is the biggest polluter?
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| Hibernation Has Advantages |
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We've all heard of the dangers of
hypothermia, but
scientists are looking at the interesting and
positive
things that happen in the body of an animal
when it goes into a hypothermic state.
Perhaps there are medical applications for
humans?
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| Better Than New |
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Some things are better the second time
around. Of course, everyone has to choose
when "pre-owned" is as good as new. But in
some cases, an item with a second-life is
better for the environment and just as sweet
as new.
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| Support Isla Earth today through your Amazon.com purchases... |
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The Unnatural History of the Sea by
marine
conservation biologist Callum Roberts
"presents a
devastating account of the effects of fishing
on the sea.
Once abundant aquatic life has declined to
the point
where we probably have less than five percent
of the
total mass of fish that once swam in Europe's
seas...Intensive fishing since medieval times
has
caused this decline gradually over the
centuries, so
that the fish-deprived sea seems normal to
today's
generations...Callum's alarming conclusion is
that by the year 2048, fisheries for all the
fish and
shellfish species we exploit today will have
collapsed..." --Publishers Weekly
Buy The Unnatural History of the Sea
by Callum
Roberts through Amazon.com by clicking here and up to
8.5% of the purchase will go to support the Isla
Earth Radio Series.
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CONNECT with Nature and Conservation
Efforts in New York...
The Oneida Lake Association was founded in
1945 to
protect, restore and preserve the natural
resources of
Oneida Lake and its surrounding ecosystem.
Starting
out as a fishing association, it has become an
environmental partnership group that
represents its
members in environmental issues that impact
Oneida
Lake including increasing public awareness of
Oneida
Lake, the recreational and ecological
benefits it has to
offer, maintaining adequate water levels for
the lake,
supporting the Oneida Lake fish cultural
station,
monitoring water quality and "problem
species," and
supporting conservation legislation. The OLA
represents 4000+ members.
The mission of the New York State Conservation Council,
Inc. is to
aid in the formulation and establishment of
sound
policies and practices designated to
conserve, protect,
restore and perpetuate forests, wildlife and
scenic and
recreational areas with especial regard to
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New York.
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