Nikkei (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kyoto Firm Develops Way To Gold-Plate Injection NeedlesTOKYO (Nikkei)--Nakajima Kinzoku Co., a company that specializes in precision metal plating, has worked out a way to coat the inside of injection needles and other fine tubes with uniform layers of gold.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kyoto, Japan DH had to leave earlier than us, someone from the Japanese company came and got him to take him to his talks in Hammamatsu and Osaka. The kids and I did not have to get up quite so early, but we didn't have time for breakfast. I had packaged brownies from the airplane, so let the kids have those, which is a ghastly thing for a mother to do, but...
A Second Hand Conjecture (Free subscription) | yesterday
The march of the watermelons towards control of US policy continues apace: Polar bears will now be listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should not be “misused” to regulate global climate change. “Listing the polar bear as threatened can reduce avoidable [...] [[ This is a content summary only....
small dead animals (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The figures don't lie. The only environmentally sustainable course of action for the Toronto Star is to commit corporate suicide. (More quickly than it already is, that is.) For the planet. For the children; A prototypical publisher selling 250,000 newspapers...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
Consumers just aren't playing fair... E.ON AG. Chief Executive Officer Bernotat said the European Union will probably not meet the 2012 carbon dioxide emission targets of the Kyoto Protocol because consumers are using too much energy, Die Zeit reported. Bernotat said in an interview with the weekly newspaper he is sceptical that the German government's longer-term emission target of one-quarter...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kyoto, Kinki, Japan IMH: Kyoto is well known as centre for traditional Japanese culture and boasts 17 Unesco World Heritage sites and more than 1600 Buddhist temples. Even though it is classified as a city it was far less intimidating that Tokyo or some of the other cities we have visited and had a refreshing lack of high-rise buildings. Kyoto...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kyoto, Kinki, Japan I had no idea that I loved Japanese style. Kyoto's beauty has startled and overwhelmed me. I only walked a quarter of what I thought I would today because the city is so thick with incredibly beautiful sites.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kyoto, Kinki, Japan Whether it is a sign of our own ignorance, or just a product of Japan's distance from home, neither of us knew much about Kyoto before our visit. Indeed, in my mind it was a place of greenery and lakes - I can only think that somewhere along the way I have linked it with Geneva, possibly due to their respective protocol and convention!...
small dead animals (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Cereal killer warning over corn flakes:CLIMATE change could lead to "killer cornflakes" with the most potent liver toxin ever recorded, an environmental health conference has been told. The effects of the toxins, known as mycotoxins, have been known since the...
United Conservatives of Virginia (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Yet again, McCain opens his mouth and drives away the GOP base...... The United States Senate refused to ratify the Kyoto Treaty. It was dead BEFORE arrival. President Clinton, seeing the writing on the wall, did not submit the treaty. Senator McCain was a member of that august body. So, if the Kyoto treaty was bad for America then, why is it such a good idea now, Senator McCain? The...
Turkish Digest (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
"Turkey should sign Kyoto Protocol, says Nobel winner Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Anil Markandya, professor of Economics and International Development, said Turkey should look to becoming a member of the Kyoto Protocol, or at least to joining the new form of the successor agreement, which will be drawn up in 2012 when Kyoto ends." More: Turkey should sign...
Japundit (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Kyoto is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan - for good reason. 48 million people visited in 2006! (That is the equivalent of 40% of the population of Japan and comes out to over 125,000 per day!) The New York Times recently offered a travel guide to Kyoto for the frugal traveler. Check out the [...]
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Hugh Hewitt is a California attorney practicing environmental law when he is not hosting a radio talk show or writing for his blog. He was the first and only prominent member of any sort of media, in the mainstream or out, who pointed out a covert and very clever initiative on the part of the leftist [...]
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Anil Markandya, professor of Economics and International Development, said Turkey should look to becoming a member of the Kyoto Protocol, or at least
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
KYOTO (Reuters Life!) - Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital, is a laid-back counterpart to Tokyo, first established more than 1,000 years ago.
