Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Leonid Meteor Shower edition)

by Neon Vincent

Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.

This week's featured story comes from the University of Texas via physorg.com.

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday

The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the two to three hours before dawn on Nov. 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.

More science, space, and environment stories after the jump.

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Global Online Climate Change Brainstorm - November 14

by gmoke

Coalition Movement Camp II: Connecting the Dots
November 14, 2010, 2.00pm to 6pm EDT: http://movementcamp.org

The Coalition Movement Camp series brings new players and possibilities into view and allows us to connect the dots between them. Our goal is to consolidate our collective powers and prepare for a collaborative web development project unlike anything the world has seen.

The inaugural Coalition Movement Camp took place on October 10, 2010. Participants included representatives of Appropedia, OpenKollab, Metacurrency, 350, Dadamac, CoopAgora, JAK Bank, GreenTribe, and Gaia10. For eight hours, we brainstormed ideas towards a new generation of internet platforms and collaborative strategies for the climate crisis. Details of the 10/10/10 Coalition Movement Camp can be found on the Coalition blog
( http://cotw.me/... http://cotw.me/... ).

On November 14, 2010, the conversation continues.

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Action: Dolphins in killing cove

by Devsd

I have been writing a series of diaries lately on the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. This will be brief with a few short action items. Follow me after the jump to help the dolphins.

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The Word Obama Forgot to Say

by Michael Brune

A couple months ago, I was out in Dimock, PA, meeting with community members who've been affected by reckless natural gas drilling in and around their town. I was also there to tape an interview with Leslie Stahl, for an episode of 60 Minutes that will air this Sunday.

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Energy policy will change under GOP House Dr. Daniel Fine

by finehelen10

With the Republican Party's newly won control of the House of Representatives, national energy policy could be rolled back to 2005, with all legislative advances under a Democratic Party majority at risk.

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Weekly Mulch: For Cancun Climate Summit, Activists Consider the Long View

by The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger

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Innovation of the Week: Taking the Classroom to the Field

by NourishingthePlanet

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.

Over the last fifty years or so, "the world has changed a lot," says Paul Clark, project manager for Knowledge Network®.  "In rural areas there is a growing demand for resources that are... increasingly depleted. Meanwhile, knowing how to use computers and exposure to the internet is increasingly important. So we are combing these skills to improve the local environment and livelihoods."

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Gulf Watchers Friday - The More Things Change... - BP Catastrophe AUV #424

by Lorinda Pike

You are in the current Gulf Watchers BP Catastrophe - AUV #424. ROV #423 is here.

Bookmark this link to find the latest Gulf Watchers diaries.

Please RECOMMEND THIS DIARY, the motherships have been discontinued.

The digest of diaries is here.

Please be kind to kossacks with bandwidth issues. Please do not post images or videos. Again, many thanks for this.

PLEASE visit Pam LaPier's diary to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier for working on this!

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'Stupid Indians:' Make Ag Corp Eat Its Words

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

Supervisors of Giumarra Vineyards in California hurl racist insults at indigenous farm workers from Mexico:

"Stupid Indians" .... "Indians are of no use" ..."Indians don’t understand anything or how to do anything"

Workers reported these statements as evidence of the harassment and discrimination based on "indigenous status" for a lawsuit involving the sexual harassment of a 17-year old girl.

The farm workers are organizing to get a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract so they can obtain some protection from the continual abuse and violation of their rights by Giumarra, but a UFW rep told me it will be some time before it is unionized.

We can help now with an e-mail letter campaign to ask Kroger (which buys the produce) to enforce its company rules that  vendors can not discriminate against workers and "must operate in a manner that respects the rights of people."

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eKos: Record Warming & Melting of Greenland's Ice Cap

by FishOutofWater

Melt water, Greenland summer 2010

Photo: Sarah Das, WHOI

Record high temperatures over Greenland in spring and summer brought record melting of Greenland's ice cap in 2010.

Cumulative net annual area changes for the 35 widest marine-terminating glacier outlets

Increasing flow of warm melt waters into cracks and crevasses may lead to ice cap destabilization, rapid outlet glacier flow, rapid ice cap decline and rapid sea level rise.

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