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Protecting the Earth With Religion

Posted by Calle on Saturday, 16 February 2013 in Environmental Heroes

She was born in Nairobi, Kenya and brought up in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. She went to Texas A&M University in the USA and is a veritable byword for the global citizen. But Kusum Vyas is also a staunch follower of the Hindu way of life, and its culture and traditions. She takes great inter...

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Why Not to Get Killed on a Bike

Posted by bensor on Saturday, 16 February 2013 in Transportation

Want to kill someone and get away with it? Run them over while they’re on a bicycle. Within Boston’s growing cycling community, a perceived lack of criminal prosecution of motorists involved in fatal bike crashes has been a regular source of outrage in recent years. That ire came to a fever pitch ...

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The Mayor Who Banned Stryofoam

Posted by Aaron on Saturday, 16 February 2013 in Recycling

When I was a kid, you could come to New York City and buy a big soda in a large styrofoam cup. (You could also get murdered a lot more easily or score some drugs or afford a place in Soho, but that’s not my point here.) Big soda kept cool in a nice big cup — paradise, in its way. Reuters / Eduard...

Environmental News Ratings

Posted by amir on Thursday, 14 February 2013 in Earth Violators

Kardashians receive nearly 50 times more coverage than ocean acidification The non-profit organization Project for Improved Environmental Coverage (PIEC) recently released a report that compared and ranked news organizations according to how they had prioritized environmental headlines. The...

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Grant Gives Renewable Energy to Local Families

Posted by Talex on Thursday, 14 February 2013 in Solar

Two Reedley families will soon be saving on their energy bills, thanks to a program made possible by Reedley Rabobank and Grid Alternatives.The non-profit solar contractor brings the benefits of solar technology into low-income households throughout the Central Valley. Reedley's Rabobank branch awar...

Earth Protect and BIOCOM Institute Form Partnership

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 in General Environment

(February 6, 2013) Denver, CO— Earth Protect Moves People “From Image to Action” telling stories of people and companies protecting the Earth through its video focused web site and its full service video production and sustainability services division, Earth Protect Productions. The BIOCOM Institut...

Rhino Poaching in 2013

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 12 February 2013 in Wildlife Conservation

India Monday lost its ninth rhino to poaching so far this year within the northern state of Assam. The greater-one horned, or Indian rhino, was found shot dead with its horn removed in Kaziranga National Park. Seven other rhinos have already been killed in the park during 2013, and an additiona...

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Big Business for Monitoring Air Quality

Posted by acox on Monday, 11 February 2013 in Air Quality

China's efforts to assess the problem of smog hanging over Beijing and other cities has meant business for Western providers of specialized air-monitoring equipment, and this could pick up with efforts to clear the skies. "It's only recently that equipment able to monitor PM2.5 has been manufacture...

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A close look at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Posted by Dale on Monday, 11 February 2013 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

When that plastic water bottle that you brought to basketball practice was empty, you probably recycled it. But lots of plastics don’t end up in the recycling bin. (Think deli containers and straws.) So where do they go? One place is the Pacific Ocean, in an area that has been called the Great Paci...

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Trusting Global Warming

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 08 February 2013 in Climate Change

A growing majority of Americans think global warming is occurring, that it will become a serious problem and that the U.S. government should do something about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Even most people who say they don't trust scientists on the environment say temperatures are ris...

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Religious Leaders Stand Up For Elephants

Posted by katysai on Wednesday, 06 February 2013 in Wildlife Conservation

SCB Engages Religious Leaders to Help Protect Elephants Demand for ivory in Asia for religious purposes threatens elephants in Africa WASHINGTON – Elephant poaching and ivory smuggling in Africa are at their highest levels in more than a decade, according to a 2012 report from the Convention on In...

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Schwarzenegger Calls for the End of Doom and Gloom

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 05 February 2013 in Sustainable Development

Arnold Schwarzenegger called Thursday for an end to "doom and gloom" environmentalism as he hosted the first conference of his new green movement fostering action by local governments and individuals. "If we want to inspire the world, it is time for us to forget about the old way of talking...

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Saving Planet With A Career In Math

Posted by katysai on Monday, 04 February 2013 in Green Products/Services

Here’s a quick post about the handoffs that occur in this human race as one generation proffers advice to the next. In a recent and noteworthy post at Realclimate.org, Gavin Schmidt, a founder of the blog and NASA climate modeler, published and answered this question from a young stu...

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Time Running out to Save Elephants

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 04 February 2013 in Wildlife Conservation

The new wave of killing of elephants in Africa is in many ways far graver than the crisis of the 1970s and 80s. Firstly there are fewer elephants, and secondly the demand for ivory is far higher. Record ivory prices in the Far East are fueling poachers, organized crime, and political instability rig...

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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...

Is Denial the Biggest Barrier to Sustainable Change?

Posted by mak on Friday, 01 February 2013 in Climate Change

There's the old joke that denial is not a river in Egypt. However, it is the most pernicious barrier to dealing with the sustainability challenges of our age. Now that we should be surprised, because as humans, we are particularly capable of blocking out all sorts of trauma in the hope we can hold ...

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Heart Disease is 32 Percent Lower for Vegetarians

Posted by amir on Friday, 01 February 2013 in Food

Meat consumption around the world has been on the rise as incomes have grown. In the United States, more meat is consumed than anywhere else. For many, a meal simply is not a meal if it does not have at least a half-pound of flesh on it. Vegetarianism has been in practice by large groups for quite a...

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Not "Sustainability" but "Value" and "Innovation"

Posted by Greg Lavery on Friday, 01 February 2013 in Sustainable Development

By Greg Lavery, Lavery and Pennell The term "sustainability" has a confusing number of definitions. Leading companies have realized that sustainability is really all about capturing non-traditional areas of value – financial, social and environmental – which all add to the success of a company. In ...

Earth Protect Adds Talent

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 01 February 2013 in General Environment

WE HAVE GROWN-in numbers, talent and knowledge, contacts and depth. This year we added John Balkcom to our Board. Gerri Walsh, (retired) Sustainability Director, Ball Corp, joined our Advisory Council. Morgan Rider joined our Team bringing her knowledge and experience in sustainability to both...

Can Algae Fuel Make it?

Posted by Dale on Friday, 01 February 2013 in Biofuels

This photo shows oil being squeezed from the algae species, Botryococcus Braunii. B. Braunii is known for its production of oil, which converts relatively easily into gasoline and diesel. Credit: Arum Han/Texas A&M University (Phys.org)—Though biofuels from algae hold great promise, Cornell res...

Work needed to make algal biofuel viable, study suggests