Convio - Nonprofit success stories for online donations, email marketing, volunteer recruitment

Convio - Nonprofit success stories for online donations, email marketing, volunteer recruitment Web / content & email list management for non profits.

Solutions for Communities, Organizations and Non-Profits on Bondware Web Solutions

Solutions for Communities, Organizations and Non-Profits on Bondware Web Solutions: "Online File Library - The File Library allows you to receive large files easily and securely. Allow your members to upload content, pictures, and music for a truly interactive publication. Secure digital content management.
Community Calendar - Get a Bondware 3.0 website and add the Community Calendar module. Add exciting functionality and keep your members up to date and informed of the happening events.
Community Forums - Make your site the place to be! Provide a place for members to discuss topics your newspaper has covered. Keeps your members coming back time and time again. Private and Public forums available. "

This is a new software I am considering transfering this blog to for better interactivity with the visitors of this web site. Please comment... We are looking for a better solution than this booger.com which to me seems no better than a stack of papers on my desk.
- Tom Fenaughty

Harvard@Home: On the Relation of Science and the Humanities, with Professor Edward O. Wilson

Harvard@Home: On the Relation of Science and the Humanities, with Professor Edward O. Wilson

since Many People outside of the biological sciences know who E.O. Wilson is I would like to present this link as an introduction to one of the most humane and brillant scientific minds that America currently has actively working for a better world based on science and compassion for the human condition.

The Paula Gordon Show

The Science of Survival with Dr. Edward O. Wilson

The real work of the 21st century, according to the great Harvard scientist Edward O. Wilson, is to settle humanity down before we wreck the planet. Dr. Wilson says the explosion of the human population promises 8 billion people living on earth within 40 years (as compared to 2 billion in 1900.) It's a vast bottleneck coinciding with a documented worldwide decline in arable land and water. And we people are pushing the rest of life off the face of the earth. But Wilson also offers both hope and plans for action.

While Dr. Wilson expects the 21st century will be a scary rush of accelerating change, if -- and this is a very big "if" -- if we address our challenges of natural resources, conservation, and human population, we have a chance for a quieter, more secure time for humans and other forms of life on the other side.

We need what we are destroying. Creepy-crawlies and weeds are the very foundation of life, the little things that run the earth, cycle and recycle nutrients, create the air and soil. And they do it for free. Without them, Wilson assures us the terrestrial ecosystems of the world would collapse within a year, making human life unsustainable. That's before taking into account the species we are driving to extinction provide us priceless resources for scientific information, new pharmaceuticals, and much more.

Besides, Wilson asks, who are we to destroy Creation, the product of 100s of millions of years of evolution?

Thank you Doctor Wilson!!!

Stirling Energy Systems Inc. - Biomass Overview

Stirling Energy Systems Inc. - Biomass Overview

BIOGAS OVERVIEW

Biogas resources are organic crops and wastes, such as wood and paper residues, landfill gas, biogas from sewage wastes, and other agricultural wastes, converted to usable energy. Globally, the most common use of biogas is heating and cooking. However, there is a noticeable amount of biogas converted to electricity. One of the governing economic factors of biogas is the cost associated with shipping the fuels. These shipments can quickly move the cost per kWh to a noncompetitive level. Because of these costs, most of the biogas generation is in dispersed and customer-sited operations smaller than 100 MW.

In the U.S., there is approximately 10.5 gigawatts of biogas generating capacity. This capacity has remained constant for the past five years. The majority of this capacity is generation within the industries that produce their own fuel resources, such as the paper and lumber industries. These sectors have experience little growth in the recent past, and in turn, biogas has not seen any growth. Despite this relative stagnation, there is a shift occurring in the industry. Most new biogas capacity additions are using landfill gas and digester gas as fuel which frees them from an industry specific presence.

A further shift is expected to occur as technologies develop that allow smaller facilities to economically use available fuels. These operations could include farmers and other smaller industries in remote settings where this generation is most likely to be economically viable. One of the technologies expected to contribute to this shift is the Stirling engine, which is uniquely capable of handling diverse non-liquid biogas fuels because of its external combustion design.

Asthma: Children and Adolescents | CDC APRHB

Asthma: Children and Adolescents | CDC APRHB: "Asthma's Impact on Children and Adolescents

Asthma is a major public health problem of increasing concern in the United States. From 1980 to 1996, asthma prevalence among children increased by an average of 4.3% per year, from 3.6% to 6.2%. Low-income populations, minorities, and children living in inner cities experience disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality due to asthma. Asthma’s effects on children and adolescents include the following:

• Asthma accounts for 14 million lost days of school missed annually.
  
• Asthma is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization among those younger than 15 years of age.
  
• The number of children dying from asthma increased almost threefold from 93 in 1979 to 266 in 1996.
  
• The estimated cost of treating asthma in those younger than 18 years of age is $3.2 billion per year.

LII: Constitution of the United States of America

LII: Constitution: Bill of Rights

The End of the Republican Party?

The End of the Republican Party? 2nd Amendment discussion - An Examination of current gun legislation about "Americans 2nd Amendment Right to Bear Arms".
Just for the Record the Second Amendment of the United States of America Constitution reads, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free STATE, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

It also states that A well regulated militia is NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE. In addition, the RIGHT of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

And yet these rights have been infringed and most states have disbanded their state militias.

EPA - Envirofacts - EMCI - Chemical References Index

EPA - Envirofacts - EMCI - Chemical References Index
List of Toxic Chemicals that the EPA monitors

Specter Believes Spy Program Violates Law - Yahoo! News

Specter Believes Spy Program Violates Law - Yahoo! News: "Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), whose committee has scheduled hearings Monday on the National Security Agency program, said he believes the administration violated a 1978 law specifically calling for a secretive court to consider and approve such monitoring."