Posts Tagged ‘Earth’
A life of faith is willing to face into the wild and untamed reality of planetary existence. In that confrontation, we know a God who cannot be tamed by our attempts at domestication.
RTI a tool for Environmental Protection
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Accra, Aug. 30, GNA - Issues of environmental protection, climate change and global warming have in recent times assumed centre stage of discussions in Ghana with various organizations and institutions running workshops and seminars to educate the public on the need to adopt measures to defend Our Earth through healthy environmental practices.
While Tennessee lawmakers line up on either side of Big Coal in legislative fights over mountaintop removal, the earth …
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
You are filthy. You can taste the grit as it flies into your face, through your nostrils, hits the back of your throat and drapes your body like a gauzy pall. One dump truck passes you on a dirt road, then two, then three.
Revealing the metabolic activity of microbial communities: New method for tracing carbon flux
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Microbial communities are performing important functions all around us -- from the earth in our flowerpots to the human gut. Now researchers have developed a method for studying the metabolic functions of microbial communities in detail. It is now possible for the first time, thanks to a new algorithm, to use the incorporation of stable carbon isotopes into proteins to investigate natural ...
Gardening: medicine for the body and mind
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Working with earth, planting seeds and tending plants can help people with a range of physical and mental health problems I spent much of the weekend working in my garden. Well, to be honest, it isn't really a garden, just a patch of mud and nettles, a�convenient dump for unwanted items: a rusting child's bicycle, tyres long flat, whose owner is now in college; a broken fish tank; a couple of ...