Tumblr Post Digest for hlthenvt

[My apologies for the messy formatting and duplicates. I still can't get the Yahoo Pipes Cleaner to work properly. It isn't collecting all requested and doesn't clean up after itself. But the links should all work.]
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Tumblr Regular Post Digest for hlthenvt [Not much of a weekly update, eh?]

[trash] Plastic bags banished from Old Crow

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/07/22/oldcrow-bags.html?ref=rss
People in the isolated Gwich’in community of Old Crow, Yukon, are using
plastic bags – more precisely, the absence of them – to help make a
stand against oil drilling in Alaska.

[environmental change, tundra] SNRAS scientists’ work featured on [...]

Tumblred April 26, May 2, May 9

environmental change] New WWF Report Available – Arctic Climate Impact Science
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 06:00:00 -0400 To: “ArcticInfo” Subject: New WWF Report Available – “Arctic Climate Impact Science – an Update since ACIA” The full report can be downloaded at: http://www.panda.org/arctic The World Wildlife Fund (WWF)’s International Arctic Programme announces the publication of an [...]

Tumblred week(s) of 2008apr11

[I can't get Yahoo Pipes Cleaner Greasemonkey script to work properly to clean up yahoo's messy coding.]
[aging] Re: road colouring theorem
Subject: Re: road colouring theorem Hooray for those of us in our 60s! Like we suddenly turn brain dead? SW On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:51 PM, M Pamela Bumsted wrote: “March 28, 2008 [...]

Tumblr week of 2008mar29

[environment] Earth Hour The Hour is Near!
Since the sun won’t set until well past 8:30 PM (and light past 10 PM), even us so far south of the Arctic Circle will do just fine. But think about the earth. mpb
EARTH HOUR WEBSITE | SPREAD THE WORD | GET INVOLVED THE HOUR IS NEAR! This is [...]

Digest: Tumblr 2008mar09

These digests are described here, Briefs 5a, now Tumblrd

[preparedness, accessibility] Horseradish smell fire-alarm for waking up deaf people

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/09/horseradish-smell-fi.html Horseradish smell fire-alarm for waking up deaf people Nelson sez, “Japanese researchers have developed a fire alarm that sprays the aroma of horseradish instead of ringing an alarm. It was effective in waking 13 out of fourteen [...]

Anthropology in a climate of change, war, and internecine environments 2

[In process]
Background*
Part 1**
Part 2*** From a follow-up to the newslist discussion about anthropology and climate change–
Q. “So…what can we do to solve this problem? Can we think like engineers?”
Please, don’t. Not even anthropological engineers. For example, see this —

Anthropology in a climate of change, war, and internecine environments 1

[In process]
Background*
Part 1**
Part 2*** [separate post]
* Background
I think there is a need for anthropological perspective in any issue of human existence.
It is a sad irony that the discipline (science) which is most comprehensive and fundamental (science is a human activity and the basic science of human activity is anthropology) has often seemed through its [...]

Alaska at the national anthropology conference 2007

106th AAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual Meeting Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2007 Washington, DC
The abstracts are not on-line, but it may be possible to do an Internet search on the author’s names to find their contact information.
Governing the Harvest: Law and Subsistence Hunting in Alaska
Session Title: Legal Pluralism and Popular Justice
Start Date:
Session Time: -
Type: [...]

Online database of best practices in sustainability and environmental management

These would best be used as idea starters for rural and remote communities.
SustainLane Government [pdf] http://www.sustainlane.us/ Based in San Francisco, SustainLane Government was started in 2004. Their primary goal is to provide an online database of best practices in sustainability and environmental management. Currently, the database includes over 100 best practice documents [...]

Nuclear Winter transmittal letter

This really belongs with the post but I only just located it.

The Anthropology of Human Survival –
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/ the-anthropology-of-human-survival/

mpb
DATE: May 8, 1986
IN REPLY TO: CHM-1/86-349-MPB
Chemistry Division
NAME, ADDRESS
The enclosed document, NUCLEAR WINTER: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HUMAN SURVIVAL, may be of interest to you as a professional in [public communication] [or public policy] . [...]

regional nuclear war climate change?

In 1985 I put together a panel of scientific experts to identify what the human effects of a nuclear weapons exchange might mean (as far as I know, still the only such report) and then assisted in the discussion in New Zealand.

The Anthropology of Human Survival -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/ the-anthropology-of-human-survival/

New Zealand after Nuclear War -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/02/20/ new-zealand-after-nuclear-war/

I moved [...]