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Earth Day Poster Contest

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 05 March 2012 in Arts and Entertainment

The National Trust for the Cayman Islands is urging students to get their entries in for the annual Earth Day poster competition. The competition asks students to design a poster reflecting environmental issues that are important to them, in keeping with the 2012 Earth Day theme “Every ...

Illegal Orangutan Trade

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 23 February 2012 in Animals

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) has just announced Sumatra's first ever successful sentence of an illegal orangutan owner and trader in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The seven-month prison sentence is only the third for In...

Big Greenwashing 101

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 16 February 2012 in Earth Violators

By Red Emma Greenwashing—[a compound word modeled on "whitewash"] a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that a company’s policies or products are environmentally friendly. John Muir must be rolling over in his grave. Th...

Students Raise Awareness About Plastic Bags

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 06 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

The amount of litter around the community raised concerns for Stacey Jambura's Lowell Elementary School students. But its potential impacts on the environment --- including the world's oceans --- is what spurred them to action. Jambura's 13 third- through fifth-grade expanded learning prog...

Fears over Wetland Development

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Wildlife researchers are worried an internationally significant wetland near Hobart is being threatened by development. World Wetlands Day today marks the anniversary of the Ramsar Convention recognising sites of international importance for waterfowl. In Tasmania there are 10 Ramsar sit...

World and Nat’l Wetlands Day

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

MANILA, Philippines — The country joins in the global celebration of World Wetlands Day (WWD) today in commemoration of the day in 1971 when the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, was adopted in Ramsar City, Iran. Organized by t...

China, India will Continue to Replace Declining US Coal Demand so What's the Problem

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Peabody Energy Corp., one of the world’s largest coal miners, said the industry will continue to rely on China and other developing nations as the U.S. uses less. Here’s what the St. Louis company expects for the coal market in 2012: —Ninety gigawatts of coal-fired power plants will come onl...

BP may agree $25 billion oil spill payout

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 22 January 2012 in Oil Spill

BP is likely to agree next month to pay $20-$25 billion to settle all charges around the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a leading analyst, double the figure the company has set aside and more than other analysts expect. BP and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) have been silent ...

Can a hot day persuade people that global warming is real?

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 02 December 2011 in Climate Change

Weather isn’t the same thing as climate. Just because it’s sunny or chilly on a given day doesn’t tell us all that much about long-term temperature trends. Even so, plenty of research suggests that local weather does heavily influence how people think about climate change. Back in 2009, survey data ...

Meet the Scalloped Hammerhead

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

This shark's oddly shaped head is thought to be a mechanism to spread out its highly specialised sense organs, which amongst other things help it to detect electrical currents created by its prey. A useful skill to have when you have an entire ocean to scan for food! Where am I fo...

Air Pollution: Bad For Health, But Good For Planet?

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 12 November 2011 in Air Quality

Cleaning up the air, while good for our lungs, could make global warming worse. That conclusion is underscored by a new study, which looks at the pollutants that go up smokestacks along with carbon dioxide. These pollutants are called aerosols and they include soot as well as compounds of...

Fracking Firm Admits It Caused Earthquakes

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 11 November 2011 in Earth Violators

Given the twin concerns of peak oil and climate change, it's no surprise that natural gas (with its lower carbon intensity than coal) has been hailed by many as the salvation of our modern way of life, at least for now. And with the discovery of enormous deposits under Marcellus Shale in the Eastern...

What's An Environmental Activist To Do?

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Climate Change

It's been more than 40 years since the first Earth Day and the founding of the modern environmental movement -- an awakening to the notion that human beings can, and do, have a profound impact on the planet. If Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail have their way, the nation...

Temperatures Rising found to be Real by Skeptic

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 October 2011 in Climate Change

WASHINGTON — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly. One of the most prominent global warming skeptics is...

SeaWorld sued for 'enslaving' killer whales

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 27 October 2011 in Agriculture

An animal rights group has sued SeaWorld, accusing the aquatic theme park chain of violating the rights of captive killer whales under the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which abolished slavery. The lawsuit, filed late on Tuesday in US District Court in San Diego, lists five per...

Alaska Gov. Parnell Wants his Pipeline

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 27 October 2011 in Fossil Fuels

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell proposed a new way forward on a natural gas pipeline Thursday, saying if demand for gas has shifted from the Lower 48 to Pacific Rim markets, the state must be willing to move with it. Parnell, in a speech to an oil and gas industry g...

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Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 in Sustainable Development

Almost every day of his childhood, He Xin remembers the skies in his hometown of Shenyang being gray. “If I wore a white shirt to school, by the end of the day it would be brown,” recalls He, who was born in 1974, “and there would be a ring of black soot under the collar.” He grew u...

First Consumer Standard Label for Wind Power

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 14 October 2011 in Wind

The technical standard for the first global consumer label for companies to buy wind power and other clean renewable energy has been launched today. The program is backed by companies including WWF, Vestas Wind Systems, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the LEGO Group, Bloomberg and Pri...

It’s World Water Monitoring Day

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 19 September 2011 in Water Conservation

Today is World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD), an international event that raises awareness about the importance of protecting the valuable water resources around the world. Many people are unaware of the impact their daily decisions have on the quality of water. Because humans and other fo...

How To Write a Love Letter to Your Planet

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 11 September 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

We discuss every day the idea that every man and woman should strive to be a caring person, and how the earth needs our love as much as our family or friends. So this month Earth Protect is holding us accountable to write a love letter to your planet. As long as love (and writing utensils)...