Monthly Archives: March 2010

High Housing and Transport Costs in Anne Arundel — ?environmental consequences?

The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) in Chicago has developed a complicated model to 337 neighborhoods around the country, showing the real economic and environmental costs of sprawl. A URL for some of the interactive, on-line map products… Continue reading

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Lazy Wins. . .

Seems right to me . . .bp Continue reading

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The Weather: Cocktail Chatter for two or three parties here . . . .

good post by one of the bloggers on Weather Underground . . . Posted by: JeffMasters, 3:26 PM GMT on March 12, 2010The U.S. just experienced its coldest winter in 25 years, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The winter period December… Continue reading

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Trumpeter Swans Resting on the South River, en route north

Tuesday afternoon — there were about 30 swans in the middle of the river – really looked like 15 pairs. Sorry I spooked them from the kayak. Continue reading

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NewScientist on Invasives Control on South Georgia

excerpt from the New Scientist at http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527501.200-extermination-in-paradise.html?full=true Extermination in paradise 09 March 2010 by Sanjida O’Connell Magazine issue 2750. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. For si… Continue reading

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Tom Horton’s Growing, Growing Gone Article

In our local area, retired Baltimore Sun columnist, Tom Horton is one of the few opinion leaders who is willing to take on questions of economic and population growth as fundamental drivers of pollution and environmental degradation. We had the pl… Continue reading

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