Population Ecology

1 International Conference on Human Ecology Manchester UK June 29 th to July 3 rd 2009 Jointly convened by the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council the Society for Human Ecology and the University of Manchester in cooperation with the German Society...  

  The Copenhagen summit has got leaders from across the world deliberating on climate change. But, the people are already fighting a battle in their own ways.   Do common people doing their bit for ecology have a greater impact than high profile summits?   Resident Editor, The Times of India, Chandigarh   P.S. You may also SMS or email your views. Mail us on mytimesmyvoice@timesgroup.com with `Climate' mentioned in the subject line. To SMS...  

Ecology Coatings, Inc., a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, advanced coatings, has developed UV-cured coatings specifically to address opportunities within the paper and packaging industry. These opportunities include the need for increased water and chemical resistance, along with solutions to important application and environmental issues, such as lower energy use, sustainability, solvent-free materials, and...  

Then there is Mama Joules with two poisonous posts: first, a disturbing one about the dangers of lead poisoning in your home, and the still high childhood exposure rate even years after lead based paints were banned in the US. ...  

Many collective human activities, including violence, have been shown to exhibit universal patterns1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. The size distributions of casualties both in whole wars from 1816 to 1980 and terrorist attacks have separately been shown to follow approximate power-law distributions6, 7, 9, 10. ... (Read on Source)  

Regarding Carolyn Guillot’s Nov. 19 letter (“Uncle Sam is out of control with cap and trade”), she’s terrified of cap and trade, probably the most effective program that actually reduces carbon dioxide emissions? Really? read more  

Students to Travel to Study, Save Endangered Turtles. BY MOLLY MORRIS — DECEMBER 20, 2009. Students under Gloria Zakers' tutelage at Montessori School & International Academy venture near and far – from the local mangrove lagoons and ...  

One day each year, a group of bird-watchers fans out across the region to write a chapter in Western Pennsylvania's history. The Christmas Bird Count, a gathering that attracts as many as 130 birders, began more than 50 years ago as a hobbyists' holiday.  

Fisheries Management and Ecology journal presents international papers that cover all aspects of the management, ecology and conservation of inland, estuarine and coastal fisheries including:• Fisheries policy, management, operational, conservation and ecological issues• Fisheries managers' and ecologists' need for information, techniques, tools and concepts• Integration of ecological studies with all aspects of fisheries management• Promoting...  

Modifications enforcing a cleaner burn inside the engine. The result is a reduced carbon footprint exiting your engineGlendale,CA,USA -Engine Ecology (PR), by Dan Renner -18 Nov 2009: ... Engine Ecology brings about greenhouse gas pollution reduction very simply with our engine air intake system modifications... Burn more fuel inside of your engine rather than spitting it out of your exhaust with Engine Ecology's modifications to your...  

Excerpts from Oliver Rackham, "Ecology and Pseudo-Ecology: The Example of Ancient Greece," in Graham Shipley and John Salmon, edd., Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity: Environment and Culture (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 16-43:P. 16:A factoid is a statement that looks like a fact, makes sense like a fact, commands the respect due to a fact, and has all the properties of a fact except that it is not true. An example is the belief that...  

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The Ecology Center's latest testing of children's toys and apparel is still finding lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic and other harmful chemicals in items on store shelves.For the past two years the annual toy test results have...  

'...a bit of bad logic has been faithfully repeated by intellectuals seeking power: the belief, as sincere as it is silly, that if you have the right ideas, you are by definition smarter than the system you are trying to control. That's Weishaupt's Fallacy. -- Systems theory was a victim of the same fallacy. Very few of the newborn institutions in the systems movement were self-funding, most of them subsisted on government grants, and thus...  

40°, 73°: Works at the Intersection of Art and Ecology is a new public art series produced by The Canary Project that will occur in late September, with a culminating presentation by the artists at Old American Can Factory on Sunday, October 5, 6:30-8 pm. For this series The Canary Project is working with 3 artists Charles Goldman, The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, and Benoit Maubrey/Die Audio Gruppe-- to create site-specific works...  

The Ecology Center facilitates urban lifestyles consistent with the goals of ecological sustainability, social equity, and economic development. We seek to make these goals accessible by providing people with the information they need, the alternatives they seek, and the infrastructure necessary to make sustainable practices possible on a large scale. We aim to make the visionary mainstream.