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THE POWER OF TWO

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 05 November 2013 in Environmental Heroes

By LOHASIA Team Posted on November 04, 2013 How Far Does The Rabbit Hole Go? Hands up who has fallen down a YouTube hole only to discover that you've lost 2 hours of your day watching everything from breakbeat dancing cats to cute babies and the latest viral ad sensation? Watching vid...

Education, Perspective and Inspiration

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 17 October 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Video - The Scarecrow The Scarecrow has been praised as an innovative piece of marketing and beautiful work of art, and applauded for its anti-factory-farming message.watch the video here... The Wizard that Saved the World Diego is a young boy who dayd...

Intertwine Alliance and Book Giveaway announcement

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 05 September 2013 in Newsletter Archive

The Intertwine Alliance - EP Partner The Intertwine Alliance is built on regional efforts dating back to 1988. The Alliance was formed in 2008 and launched as an independent non-profit organization in July 2011. With a small infrastructure footprint, TIA is developing a unique collaborative approac...

What You Eat Can Hurt You

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 20 August 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Shopping was easy when most food came from farms. Now, factory-made foods have made chemical additives a significant part of our diet. In general, it's best to avoid the following ingredients: Sodium nitrite Saccharin, Aspartame, Acesulfame-K Caffeine Olestra Food Dyes And don't forget to cut...

Prosperity, Growth and Sustainability

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 06 August 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Can We Have All 3? Sustainability explained through animation short animated movie explaining sustainabilitygo to video... UK Manufacturers Gain through Resource Efficiency Next Manufacturing Revolution Report and Programme of Action Launch...

Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious?

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 01 August 2013 in Food

Discover the real difference between organic foods and their traditionally grown counterparts when it comes to nutrition, safety and price. Once found only in health food stores, organic food is now a regular feature at most supermarkets. And that's created a bit of a dilemma in the produce aisle. ...

World Population Day

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 02 July 2013 in Newsletter Archive

The United Nations' (UN) World Population Day is annually observed on July 11 to reaffirm the human right to plan for a family. The UN has published its latest population projections, which forecast that the world’s population will increase from 7.2 billion today to 8.1billion in 2025 and 9.6 bill...

World Whale Day - A Big Celebration

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Whales Remind Us to Wonder and Protect Humpback whales filmed up close Underwater footage of a humpback whale fifteen miles off Bermuda. I had spent 300 hours over ten weeks trying to film the migrating humpbacks underwater. watch video... Killin...

OUR Oceans Connect Us All

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 03 June 2013 in Newsletter Archive

World Oceans Day June 8 OUR Oceans Connect Us All World Oceans Day reminds us to take action to protect our oceans which are essential to "our lives" no matter where we live. Celebrate Marine Parks World Oceans Day is being celebrated by millions of people all over the globe. Be ...

Climate Change Milestone

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 20 May 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Climate Change Milestone Carbon reaches 400 parts per million- Highest in 3 Million Years Troubling milestone is reached that scientists think mean large changes in the climate and sea levels. Human efforts to control carbon emissions are faltering. Evidence shows that global temperatures an...

Wildlife ARE OUR Canaries in the Coal Mine

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Wildlife ARE OUR Canaries in the Coal Mine When they are endangered can we be far behind? Our challenge is learning a more enlightened approach to the human endeavor. Like it or not we are the most powerful species that has appeared on Earth. We are de facto ecological managers. Wildlife c...

Water, Water Everywhere - Not in 2012

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 19 March 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Water, Water Everywhere - Not in 2012Last year’s drought touched more than 80 percent of U.S. agricultural land. While the drought was most likely initially set into motion by the cooler-than-average water temperatures of La Niña in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which influences weathe...

Want to Save the Planet? Slack Off at Work.

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Want to Save the Planet? Slack Off at Work. View this email in your browser We are having ...

Air Pollution

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 04 February 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Air pollution, both indoors and outdoors, is a major environmental health problem affecting everyone in developed and developing countries alike. The 2005 WHO Air quality guidelines (AQGs) are designed to offer global guidance on reducing the health impacts of air pollution. The guidelines first pro...

Eco-friendly Thanksgiving

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Social Norming: Show Don’t Tell by Cindy Jennings (Earth Protect's latest Featured Blogger!) We have all lived social norming. If you’ve ever gotten into an elevator and turned around to face the door, this is a social norm. If you’ve ever given a dirty look to someone talking on his or her cell ph...

Election 2012

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 05 November 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Dear Earth Protectors, We realize you have many choices on who or what to vote for this election. We would like to tell you we have all the answers. The most important thing for you to do is VOTE for the environment first. We have been fielding blogs and news from around the county on the Hurricane,...

World Food Week - 2012

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 15 October 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Agricultural cooperatives are the focus of World Food Day 2012. The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), gives focus to World Food Day observances and raises awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hun...

2012 - Year of Sustainable Energy for All

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 01 October 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations: "Energy is central to everything we do, from powering our economies to empowering women, from generating jobs to strengthening security. It cuts across all sectors of government and lies at the heart of a country's core interests. Now more than ...

Sustainable Energy for All

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 September 2012 in Energy Efficiency

2012 has been declared as the 'International Year of Sustainable Energy for All' by the UN. Sustainable Energy for All is an initiative launched by the United Nations Secretary-General and guided by his High Level Group that brings all key actors to the table to make sustainable energy for all a rea...

World Rhino Day- Sept. 22

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 23 September 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Today, there are perhaps 5,000 black rhinos and 20,000 white rhinos left on the continent, but even these numbers must be considered optimistic; the killing has reached such a frenzied pitch that the only thing that's certain is that the populations are in free-fall. The root causes for the slaught...