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Award Winning Children’s Author and scientist Joins Earth Protect

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 16 September 2012 in Newsletter Archive

World Rhino Day- Sept. 22 Today, there are perhaps 5,000 black rhinos and 20,000 white rhinos left on the contine...

A Letter to Your Grandchildren

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 06 September 2012 in Climate Change

by Jeffrey BennettOn average, we are all about 50 to 60 years older than our grandchildren are or will be. That is, if you are a high school student today, your grandchildren are likely to be high school students somewhere around the year 2065. If you are in your prime career years today, your grand...

Algae. The Biofuel Wave of the Future.

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 02 September 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Algae. The Biofuel Wave of the Future. Algae were first explored as a fuel alternative in 1978 under President Jimm...

A preview of Our Changing Climate

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 19 July 2012 in Climate Change

Earth Protect is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch's How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (Dawn Publications, 2008), a book on climate change aimed at readers in grades 4 through 8. The preview consists ...

"Abrupt" Climate Change in the summer of 2012

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 16 July 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Notable climate anomalies began in March when more than 15,000 warm weather records across the country were broken. Many people are starting to ask the same question: As the climate changes, can we expect more of this? The average temperature for the contiguous United States during June was 2°F abo...

Rio+20 U.N. environmental summit's unhappy ending

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 04 July 2012 in General Environment

It was hard to find a happy soul at the end of the Rio+20 environmental summit. Not within the legion of bleary-eyed government negotiators from 188 nations who met in a failed attempt to find a breakthrough at the U.N. conference on sustainable development. Not among the thousands of activists wh...

World Population Day

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 02 July 2012 in Newsletter Archive

World Population Day Socially Speaking We’re a social lot at Earth Protect. Join us on any or all of these social media channels. friend on FaceBook follow on Twitter conn...

Court decision clears way for climate change controls

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 in Climate Change

By Judy Fahys Cleaner air and less of the pollution blamed for climate change will be among the benefits Utahns and other Americans can expect as a result of a federal appeals court ruling on Tuesday. That was the consensus of environmental groups reacting to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distri...

Federal court upholds Obama EPA's climate change regulations

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 in Climate Change

By Ben Geman A federal appeals court has upheld Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations, a victory for the Obama administration that’s also sure to inflame election-year political battles over the White House green agenda. Environmentalists heralded the three-judge panel’s...

The Earth in 2050

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 23 June 2012 in General Environment

By Mikhael Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, Parker Liautaud, Jamie Oliver and Philippe Cousteau Jr. Mikhael Gorbachev - Green Cross International founding president and the last leader of the Soviet Union. The future is not predetermined. It depends on what we do today. In the face of every great cha...

Rio+20: the basics

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 21 June 2012 in General Environment

What's with the name?The official title is the 'United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development'. The '+20' is because the conference is being held on the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Rio earth summit, a huge event which was attended by more than 100 world leaders, including then US president G...

Thousands of Animals Saved During National Day of No Kill

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 21 June 2012 in Animals

Monday, June 11 marked the first national day of no kill in animal shelters in the USA, and, according to Animal Ark and the No Kill Advocacy Center, the event organizers, between 7,000 and 9,000 animals were saved that day because of it. For the event, called Just One Day, 766 animal welfare organ...

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 10 June 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Rio+20 Socially Speaking We’re a social lot at Earth Protect. Join us on any or all of these social media channels. friend on FaceBook follow on Twitter connect on LinkedI...

Brazil World Environment Day Host Country

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 30 May 2012 in Peace

Brazil, a country with one of the fastest growing economies in the world, will host World Environment Day 2012 (WED) on 5 June. Brazil had previously hosted WED in 1992, on the eve of the first Earth Summit, when world leaders, government officials and international organizations met to refocus, re...

May 2012 - Earth Protect on Food

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 30 April 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Earth Protect is proud to introduce Boulder Ice Cream to the green business directory Boulder Homemade creates ice cream and gelato just like you imagined it could be - rich all-natural and organic flavors of the highest quality. All of our products contain no artificial ingredients, and our milk ...

1/3 Food Produced For Human Consumption is Wasted

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 in Population

One-third of the food produced for human consumption winds up lost or wasted globally, about 1.3 billion tons a year, according to a study by the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK). The UN supported the study titled “Global Food Loses and Food Waste.” Although the amount of food lost...

Buying Meat Directly From a Farmer: 7 Things You Need to Know

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 08 December 2011 in Buy Local

Like most things that I’ve done around here over the course of the past few years, I started buying meat directly from a local farmer in idealistic and almost utter ignorance.I mean, it’s not exactly like I went out looking for someone to sell me half a hog.As a matter of fact, when I first started ...

Buy Local: Quick Facts on the Benefits of Buying Local

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 08 December 2011 in Buy Local

With current market conditions, it has become increasingly cheaper to buy distantly produced goods, despite the increased costs of packaging, transport, inspection, and associated expenses. However, along with lower prices comes the added cost of repercussions on the environment and impacts on the e...

Great Quick Glance at Where Your Money Ends Up When You Spend It Locally

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 08 December 2011 in Buy Local

Buying Local - A Bright Idea! To Read More: http://adventurelightingblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/buying-local-a-bright-idea/ Posted by adventurelightingblog on March 18,2010

Global Warming and Your Food

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 08 December 2011 in Buy Local

IS INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE COOKING THE PLANET?DID YOU KNOW that our food system is a major contributor to global warming? The U.S. food system uses between 17-19% of the total energy supply in the country, (1)(2)(3)(4) contributing a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere ev...