Topic: Culture & Society

Coffee table book recounts how eight Atlantic bottlenose dolphins were washed out to sea from their home in Gulfport, and rescued weeks later.

On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most catastrophic storms in the history of the United States, Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas is proud to launch the real life, non-fiction adventure book, The Katrina Dolphins: One-Way Ticket to Paradise. This 170-page, full-color coffee table book by Georgeanne Irvine chronicles the extraordinary saga of eight Atlantic bottlenose dolphins - Jackie, Jill, Michelle, Kelly, Tamra, Toni, Noah, and Elijah - that were washed out to sea from their Marine Life Oceanarium home in Gulfport, Mississippi, and dramatically rescued weeks later.

When the attorney of Beltway Sniper suspect Lee Malvo was asked why his client committed random killings, his answer was simple: The Matrix made him do it. Salisbury University faculty Cynthia Cooper explores the logic—and frustrations—behind this and similar phenomena in her new book "Violence in the Media and its Influence on Criminal Defense."

When the attorney of Beltway Sniper suspect Lee Malvo was asked in court why his client committed random killings, his answer was simple: The Matrix made him do it.

Move over, pastor. Make room for "pastorpreneur." The Old School church of days gone by has given way to marketing magic. In his latest book, "Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face," James B. Twitchell explains not only how and why it happened but also what it means for America’s churchgoers.

Time was when a religion was something people were born into, grew old with in comfort and died with in glory.

How quaint.

Sikh turbans, a mandatory article of the Sikh faith, are listed as an item to be screened at U.S. airports by the Transportation Security Administration. Other headwear included on the list includes cowboy hats and berets.

The Sikh Coalition, the nation's largest Sikh civil rights organization, strongly opposes new headwear screening procedures put in place by the Transportation Security Administration on August 4, 2007. TSA officials told the Sikh Coalition that the new Standard Operating Procedure includes a guidance recommending that America's 43,000 airport screeners pull aside turban-wearing travelers for secondary screening, based solely on their headwear.

The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development, the U.S. Embassy (Kabul), the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently provided training to the U.S. military in Afghanistan to help reduce illegal trade that threatens one of this nation’s most precious natural resources—its unique wildlife.

The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development, the U.S. Embassy (Kabul), the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently provided training to the U.S. military in Afghanistan to help reduce illegal trade that threatens one of this nation’s most precious natural resources—its unique wildlife. The training took place at the Bagram Airbase to educate the U.S. Army Post Office and customs personnel to prevent soldiers who may unknowingly purchase pelts from endangered species from attempting to ship them home as souvenirs and incur substantial financial and legal penalties for doing so.

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Representatives from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency recently provided training for the U.S.
Military in Afghanistan on how to curb the illegal wildlife trade in that country.
.Above, military personnel examine illegal pelts from the region's endangered
species.

EarthLab and the makers of "The 11th Hour" urge consumers to take "The 11th Hour Challenge" and reduce carbon output by ten percent.

EarthLab.com, the leading climate crisis community, has partnered with Warner Independent Pictures, Tree Media and the filmmakers to create The 11th Hour Challenge, timed to the release of The 11th Hour documentary, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. The challenge provides an opportunity for individuals to educate themselves and make small, practical, lifestyle changes by the end of this year to decrease their energy usage and carbon output with a goal of reducing their emissions by ten percent in 2008.

A new website, GreenLivingIdeas.com, is designed for those of us who are attempting to make our environmental footprint smaller.

Environmental sustainability is a pressing issue in the world today, and living in an environmentally responsible manner is more important than ever. The brand new Green Living Ideas website is an online educational resource that provides consumers with articles, tips, videos and podcasts dedicated to teaching users how to incorporate green living into all aspects of their lives.

It still uses natural gas, and still creates greenhouse gases, but this new process promises to help make hydrogen more plentiful and cheaper.

A new class of catalysts created at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may help scientists and engineers overcome some of the hurdles that have inhibited the production of hydrogen for use in fuel cells.

Global survey finds green costs overestimated by 300% and a need to foster zero net energy construction.

Key players in real estate and construction misjudge the costs and benefits of "green" buildings, creating a major barrier to more energy efficiency in the building sector, a new study by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) reports.

"Reader's Digest" unravels the mystery in their September issue.

When it comes to comedy, sex matters. That's what the editors of Reader's Digest reveal in the September issue of the magazine, devoted to humor, on newsstands now.