One -, two +.Just a couple of short comments on the article by Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Charman ["Brave Nuclear World?" July/August 2006]. With regard to the statement "it seems impossible to pin down exactly how carbon-intensive the nuclear fuel chain is," I call attention to a study (now several years old) by the German Oko-Institut that estimated C[O.sub.2] emissions of 25-50 grams per kilowatthour. For more details, see www.oeko.de or contact info@oeko.de. And for a real worldwatch (not just USAwatch), more about subsidies for nuclear power in Europe and Asia would have been helpful. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a completely different note: the pieces by Gary Gardner on markets and by Brian Halweil on organic farming organic farming, the practice of raising plants—especially fruits and vegetables, but ornamentals as well—without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers. were really excellent. The newest version of On-Earth (from NRDC NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC National Research and Development Centre (Institute of Education, London) NRDC National Realty & Development Corp. ) also reports studies indicating far better resistance to disease and pests for organically grown plants. The problem is how to get that information disseminated disseminated /dis·sem·i·nat·ed/ (-sem´i-nat?ed) scattered; distributed over a considerable area. dis·sem·i·nat·ed adj. Spread over a large area of a body, a tissue, or an organ. to a much wider public. EDITH EDITH Exit Drills In The Home (Fire Prevention) EDITH European Development on Indexing Techniques for Databases with Multidimensional Hierarchies BORIE Karlsruhe, Germany |
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