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It may be that we see a bit more activity on this blog, following Talitha's suggestion to crank up the old-style journal club. That is, a club with more than one person in it, who actually read and discuss journal articles, and post their musings on this site (formerly created for that very purpose). I'd be very keen on this sort of development, ...

The journal Urban Ecosystems has just published a Special Issue on Soils. As our planet and its human populations become increasingly urbanised, this would seem to be a growth area for the earth and ecological sciences. Some of the articles from this issue of the journal: A comparison of soil organic carbon stocks between residential turf ...

A recent article in Environmental Science and Technology identifies scientific facilities as high energy users. Mills, Evan. 2009. Sustainable scientists.Environ. Sci. Technol., 43:979-985. University sustainability, as rightly pointed out by Sky elsewhere in myResearchSpace (''A Sustainable Campus''), commonly focuses on 'green' or ecological ...

Trevors, J.T. and Saier, M.H., Jr. (2007). Academics and their knowledge are underutilized. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 186:1-2. ''Scientists and other academics are generally underutilized in numerous ways. For example, many scientists who also serve as instructors are not provided with the best infrastructure for use in teaching ...