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Who We are Green Ambassadors!

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in General Environment

We Are the Green Ambassadors. We are an organization that works with teenagers or young adults and teach them the environmental problems and not just that we also teach them what to do about it. We as an organization help the students live differently. I am a student who was changed by joining the ...

J. Harrington, "Climate Diet" - Creating a Cooler Climate: You Can Make a Difference

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Climate Change

Global warming. The subject seems to be coming up a lot these days. Extreme weather events are becoming more common. Fertile land is morphing into desert. Each year seems hotter than the next. In fact, global mean temperatures increased significantly during the past century and scientists predict th...

Our Lifestyles—Her Life

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Climate Change

Different Actions=Different Futures Dr. Jonathan Harrington Journal Entry, July 1, 2030: My wife Kathy and I are having a wonderful time at Glacier National Park. Yesterday, my daughter Kela, her seven-year-old daughter Maria, Kathy, and I rode in a hydrogen-powered tour bus along Lake McDonald. W...

Working Less for the Planet

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 18 February 2010 in General Environment

Is It Time to Transition To 21 Hour Work Weeks? Less paid work means more civic involvement, satisfied lives & ecological sustainability By Matt McDermott I've been sitting with the New Economic Foundation's 21 hours report for a week now. Sometimes these things just have to percolate for a w...

Scientists Cruise Deep into Coral Ecosystems

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

By Matthew Cimitile, Amanda Demopoulos, and Christina Kellogg Above: Some of the team members from the third 2009 DISCOVRE cruise. The science crew contains an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Kneeling (left to right): Mi...

Suit Will Be Filed To Protect 83 Corals Threatened By Ocean Acidification

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 14 February 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

SAN FRANCISCO, California -- The Center for has formally notified the National Marine Fisheries Service of its intent to sue the agency for its failure to respond to a petition seeking to protect 83 imperiled coral species under the Endangered Species Act. These corals, all of which occur in ...

THE SHARK ANGELS

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 14 February 2010 in Animals

But you can’t stop something so terrible from happening if you don’t know about it or know why you should even care. An estimated 100,000,000 sharks were killed last year – primarily for their fins. Indeed, their populations are down to critical levels and they are still being fished out of the oce...

Mercury levels of whale-eating town's residents 10 times average

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 14 February 2010 in Human Health

Friday 22nd January, 06:40 AM JST, TOKYO — Levels of mercury in hair samples of residents of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, which is known for customarily eating small whales caught by coastal whaling, are about 10 times the average in Japan, possibly due to consumption of whale meat with high concentr...

California Delta Faces a Salty Future

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 13 February 2010 in Clean Water

If you've never heard of the Sacramento Delta, you're not alone. Even people who live in California aren't too sure where it is. But the Sacramento Delta is crucial to the health of the state, and climate change is threatening the delta's very existence. The Sacramento Delta is a small triangle of ...

Charting the Future: Young People Act on Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 08 February 2010 in Climate Change

Welcome to "Charting the Future: Young People Act on Climate Change." This is the US project associated with the upcoming International Children and Youth Conference on the Environment, which will take place in Brasilia from 5-10 June 2010. The International Conference is hosted by the Brazilia...

The Unfrozen North

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 28 December 2009 in Climate Change

There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future. This has happened before. Scientists have documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm ...

EPA Updates Mobile Source Emissions Model

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 28 December 2009 in Air Quality

The US EPA is the source of most air quality impact assessment models used in the US for regulatory purposes, such as predicting the potential impacts from proposed stationary sources of air pollutants and mobile sources such as motor vehicles. Since motor vehicle emissions vary with regulatory chan...

Is "Clean Coal" a Dead End?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 08 December 2009 in Fossil Fuels

by Richard Heinberg Many energy experts, politicians on both sides of the aisle, and representatives of the coal industry agree on the need to spend billions to develop technologies to capture and store the carbon from burning coal, thus making coal "clean" from a climate standpoint. President Obam...

Brookfield Zoo puts spotlight on plight of orangutans

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 15 November 2009 in Animals

By Donald Liebenson-Special to the TribuneNovember 13, 2009 A sibling drama is playing out in the replicated rain forest treetops of Brookfield Zoo's Tropic World exhibit: Denda, a 7-year-old orangutan, is snacking on a clump of alfalfa, and his toddler sister, Kekasih, wants what he's having. But ...

Winning the Wars at Home

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 in Recycling

A brief piece that shows a comparison between recycling during World War II and today. War is generally defined as an armed conflict between two nations, implying some measurable geographic set of boundaries. The United States has indeed been in many such wars in the last century - from World War I...

Plants Project in Tirimbina Costa Rica

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 in General Environment

Reserva Biológica Tirimbina (RBT) is located in Sarapiqui a scant 15 km from one of the most studied reserves in the world, La Selva Biological Station. This station claims more than 45 years of study and produces two scientific articles each week. From the proximity, one would expect not to find gr...

A Nation of Trash

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 21 October 2009 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

A NATION OF TRASH IN THE PACIFIC Scientists have recently discovered what they call a "plastic soup" of floating waste in the Pacific Ocean that is growing at an alarming rate, and currently covers an area twice the size of the continental United States. This massive, floating plastic garbage dump...

5 Companies Making Fuel From Algae Now

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 18 October 2009 in Biofuels

By Jeremy Jacquot Ubiquitous and easy to grow, algae has long been a promising biomass-to-fuel candidate in the eyes of researchers. Now algae is a burgeoning sector in biofuels with several high-profile staart-ups, including Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics, and the interest of big-time investors...

Powering Nations: Largest Solar Power Plant

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 18 October 2009 in Solar

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has announced the near completion of its DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida. This solar power plant will be producing electricity by the end of month. This project is ahead of its schedule. The plant has an impressive number of 90,0...

Council to turn off street lights at night

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 in Energy Efficiency

A Yorkshire council has come up with a radical new way to save money - turning off the street lamps at night. The idea is part of a 'sustainable street lighting strategy' to be considered by City of York Council's ruling executive, says the York Press. Paul Thackray, the council's head of highway ...