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GOT GREEN? EVENT AT ALONDRA PARK

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 in General Environment

Green Ambassadors event hosted by Environmental Charter High School Students (Lawndale) 28, April, 2012- Environmental Charter High School Green Ambassadors students are hosting a water event at Alondra Park from 1:00pm -3:00pm on April 28, 2012 to raise awareness of the water crisis happening arou...

Take a Virtual Walk Through a Rain Forest

Posted by EarthDude on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Forestry

Google's latest Street View mapping projects let users take a stroll in the lush Amazon rain forest or the recuperating cities of Thailand, shining a spotlight on both deforestation issues and disaster recovery. Google has documented local roads, college campuses, malls and even airports in the 360...

Man Made Trends in Oceans Acidity

Posted by EarthDude on Friday, 27 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Nearly one-third of CO2 emissions due to human activities enters the world’s oceans. By reacting with seawater, CO2 increases the water’s acidity, which may significantly reduce the calcification rate of such marine organisms as corals and mollusks, resulting in the potential loss of ecosystems. The...

Feeding 7 Billion People Without Ruining The Planet

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 22 January 2012 in Agriculture

It turns out converted rainforest land is neither particularly productive as farmland nor climate smart, since creating it releases huge amounts of carbon sequestered in trees. Now that we’re surrounded by 7 billion of our closest friends, it’s probably a good time to talk about how we’re ...

Ecuador is Proposing to Not Drill for Money

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 03 January 2012 in Sustainable Development

A possibly ground-breaking idea has been kept on life support after Ecuador revealed its Yasuni-ITT Initiative had raked in $116 million before the end of the year, breaking the $100 million mark that Ecuador said it needed to keep the program alive. Ecuador is proposing to not drill for an estimate...

'Christmas miracle' for endangered rhinos

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Conservationists and wildlife officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah airlifted a young female Sumatran Rhinoceros — one of the world's most endangered animals — to an area of forest where she would encounter a potential partner, reports the Sabah Wildlife Department and Borneo Rhino Alliance. Sum...

What’s wrong with the electric car?

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 05 December 2011 in Transportation

It’s hard to find an energy wonk out there who doesn’t love the idea of electric cars. Most white papers on ending our oil dependency envision a large future role for plug-in vehicles and hybrids in the future. The concept has legions of devoted fans. Back in 2006, the documentary “Who Killed the El...

Evidence shows Gulf oil spill caused widespread ecological damage

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 07 November 2011 in Oil Spill

Evidence is mounting that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster caused wide-ranging ecological damage in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Since the blown oil well spewed 186 million to 227 million gallons of crude into the Gulf last year, several species of fish have developed skin ulcers in what app...

New Wave Energy Converter Also Captures the Power of the Sun

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 02 November 2011 in Solar

There is a new invention just released that captures two types of clean energy with the same device. These inovative energy converters are designed to harness both solar and wave energy. Phil Pauley, founder of design and innovation agency PAULEY, developed the renewable power plant in a bid to driv...

Film “Greedy Lying Bastards” Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 31 October 2011 in Oil Spill

“Greedy Lying Bastards” is a new feature length documentary, scheduled to be released in 2012, investigating the role the oil industry plays the world over in all facets of people’s lives from politics and economics to the environment. Filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh traveled the globe includ...

Oyster Season delayed by test

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 09 October 2011 in Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS Louisiana may delay the start of the oyster season on most public seed grounds while scientists collect oysters and sediment to check for any damage from last year's BP PLC oil spill. National Resource Damage Assessment teams will begin next week to look for informati...

New Zealand Wildlife Feeling the Oil Spill

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 09 October 2011 in Oil Spill

Four oil-covered little blue penguins have been found off Papamoa Beach this afternoon, as the Transport Minister admits he isn't under any illusions about the job ahead to salvage the Rena from a reef off Tauranga. Oiled Wildlife Response member Kerri Morgan said the oil-covered penguins...

Mandy Moore Making Time for Clean Water

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 26 September 2011 in Water Conservation

Besides her careers as a singer-songwriter and actress, Mandy Moore has quietly carved out another role as spokeswoman for global humanitarian efforts such as clean water and fighting malaria, taking her to remote villages in African countries and, this week, to the Clinton Global Initiative meeting...

Can the Bicycle Save the World?

Posted by EarthDude on Saturday, 24 September 2011 in Transportation

Can the bicycle save the world? This Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will be hopping on their bicycles and taking to the streets for Moving Planet, a global demonstration coordinated by 350.org. Together, we’ll not only be calling on our politicians ...

Hawaiian monk seal sliding towards extinction

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 13 September 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Hawaiian monk seals in a marine protected area are heading towards extinction, while those in a nearby unprotected area are thriving, according to new research. Listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN, the Hawaiian monk seal was persecuted in the past for its meat, hide and oi...

BP Seeping Oil in Gulf

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 in Oil Spill

The Press-Register of Mobile, Alabama discovered new BP oil seeping just a mile from the site of last summer’s debacle. BP wasted no time at all in claiming that the oil wasn’t theirs… but the facts prove otherwise. The fingerprint is clear, as is the location of the oil — exac...

Outlook gloomy on global warming

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 29 August 2011 in Climate Change

Deutsche Bank's head of carbon emissions research Mark Lewis can't see how the world can avoid dangerous global warming - judged as greater than two degrees Celsius - based on the targets agreed at climate change summits in Copenhagen and Cancun. Mr Lewis said a target to restrict global warming to...

The Problem with the Pipeline

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would start in the town of Hardisty, which about a hundred and twenty-eight miles southeast of Edmonton. It would cross the Canadian-U.S. border in Montana, jog through western South Dakota, then head down through Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma all the way to refine...

9 new leaks in China oil spill

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 21 August 2011 in Oil Spill

US oil giant ConocoPhillips, already facing legal action and mounting public anger over a huge oil spill off China's northeast coast, has found nine new leaks in the same area, authorities said. The State Oceanic Administration said on Saturday ConocoPhillips had reported the leakages near a pl...

Species Shifting Habitats Faster

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 21 August 2011 in Animals

Due to global warming, plant and animal species are shifting their natural habitats towards the north at a faster rate, reveals a survey of over 2,000 species. The survey, a four-decade-long analysis of various species across Europe, North and South America and Malaysia, revealed that organisms...