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[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 [...]

Tumblrd 2008april19

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[superlative thinking, bird flu] more bird flu than …thought

[health, bird flu] Brit TV company blamed for Peruvian tribal deaths
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/27/peru_flu_deaths/ >Brit TV company blamed for Peruvian tribal deaths Researcher carried flu, claim indigenous locals Indigenous tribes in southeastern Peru are demanding film and TV crews be banned from their territories around [...]

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 [...]

E Holomoana Käkou I Mua” – Nutes tai dathl ~ To Journey Forward Together

This looks to be a very interesting opportunity in Alaska to find out more about civic groups in Hawai’i and their work on grassroots organization and governance, tradition, sustainability and development, education, and fun. The convention is for registered participants. However, there is a public open house on the evening of the 16th. I put [...]

Readings for analysis and interpretation, sciencing

I acquired the original set of readings through recommendations from my Oxford tutor. I added others from my own experience, especially browsing authentic bookstores and open stack libraries. I combined them into a set for teaching a university course in statistical methods– Readings for quantitative analysis and interpretation in biocultural science, human biology, anthropology
The [...]

Native Crafts Health Effects Project

As part of the HazArt project | Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) | we tested the ambient air quality during a firing of black-on-black (reduced) pottery. This field project was a collaboration of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc., Sandia National Laboratory, and Tewa Women United.
The project [...]

Computers and such

User tech support for classroom social networking

For example

Testing blog clients (off-line writing and editing)
Coding long URLs in comments
Who knew a slash could be so forward
Sitemeter work-around
Images and thumbnails

FYI teachers of science, math, engineering

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free on-line Alaska regional planning calendar

Small Business in Western Alaska [...]

Special Projects

o Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/special-projects/hazart-traditional-arts-crafts/
o Small Business in Western Alaska
http://13c4.wordpress.com/special-projects/moravian-bookstore/
o The Anthropology of Human Survival -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/the-anthropology-of-human-survival/
o Rural SWMP Solid Waste Management Planning -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/special-projects/rural-swmp/
o St Innocent of Alaska Bicentennial (Ioann Veniaminov) -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/08/01/ st-innocent-of-alaska-bicentennial-ioann-veniaminov/
o Cross-cultural information technology, computers and such [...]

Pamphlet—Pueblo Crafts & Healthy Lungs

The pamphlet can be downloaded in Microsft Word format (click or right click to download) It is 6 pages with embedded graphics and available under a Creative Commons license.
When I figure out how to make a smaller (and updated) format of the original document, I will post that instead.
This work is licensed under a Creative [...]