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Josephine Campbell and Hyman Rudoff
Josephine Conrad Campbell 1927-2006
Editor and Publisher, Ecotopics International News Service
Hyman Rudoff, PhD. 1912-2006
Contributor, Ecotopics International News Service
Josephine Campbell, journalist, environmentalist, civil rights activist, gun
owner and dog lover, died March 1, 2006 in Petaluma of complications from cancer. In her
last hours her three daughters surrounded her with reminiscences, art, music,
poetry and song. Sadly, her longtime companion, Dr. Hyman Rudoff, aka Rudy, a frequent
contributor to Ecotopics, had died
only two days before.
Jo, a retired journalist, and Rudy, a retired scientist, lived for years in
Willits in Mendocino County,
California. They wrote for the Willits News and for the online ‘zine Jo
edited and published, Ecotopics
International News Service, www.ecotopics.com.,
which features dispatches from correspondents in Asia and Africa
and articles on environmental controversies. Jo had been a feature writer and
editor for thirty years for International Press Service, part of the U.S.
Information Agency. She was active in the National Writers Union, the National
Press Club, the Dog Writers Association of America, the Northern California ACLU
and the Ukiah Gun Club.
She grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida, spent her working life in the Washington,
D.C. area and retired to the Eastern Shore of
Maryland before moving to California
to be near her daughters.
Her husband of forty-one years, Donald Campbell, a retired
systems analyst, died in 1988. Her daughters Carolyn, Deborah and Kathleen
Campbell, Kathleen’s husband Dr. Richard Fine and Carolyn’s fiancé John Collins
live in California.
Granddaughters Sarah and Lynn Fine live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Granddaughter Felicia Fine and her partner James Corcoran and other family
members live in Maryland.
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THE FUTURE
The Ecotopics site
will remain up for the foreseeable future and Jo’s family thanks all the
excellent writers who have contributed to the site over the eleven years it has
been online.
Jo's family members can be contacted using the following links:
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by
Jo Campbell, Editor
Predictions have been in the writings for decades that our
wars about oil will soon cease. We will revert to the days of
the Old West, but on a Global scale.
We have correspondents: Samir
Kumar Sinha in Patna, India. We welcome a new correspondent,
Syed Raza Hassan,
from Karachi, Pakistan. We will miss Shahid
Husain in Karachi, Pakistan as he will no longer be writing
for us. He is however a lifetime friend and we wish him all
the best in his new position! In addition, Britain’s Mike
Flanagan has provided a grimly chiding cartoon. Click on
bylines for biographies of our writers and other contributors.
Ecotopics editor: Jo Campbell
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DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR - DIPLOMAT
SPEAKS OUT
AMBASSADOR
TIBOR P. NAGY, JR.
Strong water quality legislation, enforced for purity, lack of disease
and chemical intrusion, as well as availability for agriculture and
human consumption could help guide the rest of the world.
Women get all the work with no advantages.
(By
Syed Raza Hassan)
The fact that the shortage lies, not in water itself, but in potable
water, safe to drink
(By Hyman Rudoff, Ph.D.)
The part of the water world’s "Great Conveyor Belt"
that we know best is the Gulf Stream. Flowing northward along the North
American coast, and then toward Europe, it is the main factor in maintaining
those regions as habitable. It is, however, just a portion of the Great
Conveyor Belt...
By
(Samir Kumar Sinha)
Not only wild animals but also the thousands of poor villagers living
in the vicinity of the forest tract are dependent on these streams.
But, abuse and misuse by the local humans is turning water into an endangered
– and dangerous - natural commodity in the region.
Reprinted with permission from
Forum: Agricultural Research, USDA
Agriculture uses 65 to 70 percent of the total fresh water resources
in the United States and the world, and there is increased interest
in how agriculture affects water quality.
Coca Cola linked to bribery scandal, water pollution
Bryan Mundel, Miljenko Mervic, and
Joe Sepe
The value of games within a pedagogy of active
learning - some games teach us - really!
(from archived articles)
Future wars could erupt -- not over borders or religion, but over rights
to water. Ordinary people and governments seem to have their attention
elsewhere. What are US researchers doing to forestall the conflicts?
(from archived articles)
Communities must look to their limits.
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