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kavalierandclay:

Rain + Hoodie + Beard = Portland

Beardwood & Co. sent these little holiday gifts out to their clients this year. I’ve got to get on their ‘nice’ list next year. (via Pinball Publishing)

martinanderson:

My dear friend Heather Cook is organizing a benefit next week called Save Our Arts.  The show benefits the arts education program at the Central Park School For Children, as well the greater Durham community.  CPSFC is a really inspiring and positive force in this area.  The show takes place at the Trotter Building in Durham (401 W Geer St) and will feature musical performances from Tea and Tempest, Midtown Dickens, Megafaun, The Beast, and Hammer No More The Fingers.  There will also be food and drink from Only Burger and Triangle Brewery, as well as a silent auction and other cool stuff.  For more info, check out the website: http://cpsfcsaveourarts.weebly.com/

kateoplis:

The Case Against Blowing Up Mountains:

Since the 1960s, mining companies in Appalachia have increasingly relied on mountaintop removal to get their coal. The process is just what it sounds like: Miners buzz down the trees and blow up the tops of mountains with dynamite to get at the coal seams underneath, and then dump the excess rock and soil in nearby valleys. In the latest issue of Science, a group of ecologists, hydrologists, and engineers do the first thorough review of all the evidence to date on the effects of mountaintop removal, and it’s a ghastly picture. More than 700 miles of Appalachian streams have been filled in by debris, and as a result, contaminants and heavy metals have seeped into waterways and wells. Heavy mining areas are associated with higher rates of lung cancer, chronic heart disease, and mortality. And the loss of trees and topsoil has made the region much more vulnerable to heavy flooding. The scientists are calling for a halt to all new mountaintop mining until “new methods can be subjected to rigorous peer review and shown to remedy these problems.” Coal-industry reps are already dismissing the paper as biased (it was prompted by a request from environmental groups, although the researchers didn’t receive any outside funding), but the study itself was intensively peer-reviewed and hard to refute. Granted, that doesn’t mean everyone will listen: The EPA just approved a brand-new mountaintop mining permit on Monday after a few months’ moratorium—despite the fact that the agency says it agrees with the study

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