Blog :: Earth Protect - Earth Protect Blog

45 Million Turkeys

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 in Food

Thanksgiving should be a time for celebration, not cruelty, yet approximately 45 million turkeys — gentle birds who enjoy having their feathers stroked and gobbling along to music — are killed every year for Thanksgiving dinner. Before they’re killed, turkeys spend several months pa...

Australia Creates World's Largest Marine Park

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Sunday, 18 November 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Australia created the world's largest network of marine national parks on Friday, protecting an area of ocean the size of Western Europe in a move which will prevent oil and gas exploration and commercial fishing in the most sensitive areas. Environment Minister Tony Burke said the decisi...

Chasing Ice Tries To Understand Climate Change

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 18 November 2012 in Environmental Heroes

Photographer James Balog set out to film climate change by placing two dozen time-lapse cameras throughout the Arctic. The result, aside from frostbit fingers and a near helicopter crash, are stunning images of melting glaciers. His footage is captured in "Chasing Ice," a 75-minute documentary with...

Eco-friendly Thanksgiving

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Social Norming: Show Don’t Tell by Cindy Jennings (Earth Protect's latest Featured Blogger!) We have all lived social norming. If you’ve ever gotten into an elevator and turned around to face the door, this is a social norm. If you’ve ever given a dirty look to someone talking on his or her cell ph...

Ocean Hoarding Putting Eco Systems At Risk

Posted by McCormick on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Fishing

All over the world, food systems and the ecosystems they rely on are coming under pressure from the over-exploitation of natural resources. But nowhere are these impacts occurring as rapidly and dramatically as in the world's oceans. Between 1970 and 1990, buoyed by generous fuel and boat...

Green Job Training Creating More Than a Green Job

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

Can a community like the South Bronx, which suffers from high unemployment, underinvestment and so-called environmental injustice, fit into the green economy? In 2010 a union-backed training initiative took on the question, enrolling unemployed residents, including many w...

BP to Pay another $4.5 Billion for Criminal Charges

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Oil Spill

Two years ago British Petroleum had an accident in the Gulf of Mexico causing millions of gallons of oil to spill into the gulf. There was lying, hundreds of lawsuits and a major lack of leadership. Today there is some justice. BP, said Thursday that it would pay $4.5 billion in fines and...

Social Norming: Show Don’t Tell

Posted by CindyJennings on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in General Environment

We have all lived social norming. If you’ve ever gotten into an elevator and turned around to face the door, this is a social norm. If you’ve ever given a dirty look to someone talking on his or her cell phone in a theater, this is a social norm. If you’ve ever recycled your trash into every single ...

Doing Good While Doing Well

Posted by amir on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

Problem: Changing the US and other countries in the world to create a green-based economy, while phasing out fossil fuels. Solution: It will take more than government programs and incentives. Companies and other organizations need to embrace the change and can prosper in doing so. This week's Solu...

Why Obama's Win Won't Help Renewable Energy

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 in Wind

Barack Obama's re-election may have seemed like a sure win for solar and wind power, given the President's history of supporting green energy. But the optimism quickly darkened in the aftermath. In the days following the election, renewable energy stocks fell, along with the broader market. The fu...

Do's & Don'ts for an Eco-Thanksgiving

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 in Food

by Brandy NorleenIt’s that time of year again, and you are preparing to cook a feast to feed the masses. As you start planning the smorgasbord of side dishes and entrees to feed your family this Thanksgiving, are you asking yourself how you can make this holiday a little more eco-friendly? It is eas...

Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island - Project RFP

Posted by Aaron on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 in Clean Technology

Reznick Think Energy has an exciting opportunity for developers, engineers, EPCs and financiers interested in working on high profile renewable energy projects. We are working with Carbon War Room to help Necker Island, the Caribbean island owned by Sir Richard Branson, to transition away from fossi...

Illinois Coal Production Pushes On

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Coal production in the Illinois Basin during the first half of 2012 (64.4 million short tons) was 13% higher than the same period in 2011. This expansion of production, which occurred despite declines in total U.S. coal production and consumption, was a response to both domestic and interna...

Coral reefs begin to recover in the Maldives

Posted by Dale on Monday, 12 November 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Scientists have witnessed a “promising” recovery in the coral reefs around the Maldives, a recent survey has revealed. The results show that some reefs now have more live coral cover than before the catastrophic El Niño bleaching event in 1998, which killed 95 percent of the country’s reefs – a key...

Water, Water Everywhere

Posted by babrown on Sunday, 11 November 2012 in Water Conservation

“Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to spare.” As a child, this rhyme along with its alternate versions was a common chant sung at the playground. Not much thought was ever given to the words; it was simply a fun phrase everyone seemed to know. Now, these words carry a much heavier meaning. The...

Reduce Plastic Pollution in Our Oceans

Posted by Dale on Sunday, 11 November 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Plastic waste, such as plastic bags, bottles, and containers, are littering the world’s oceans and causing harm to marine animals. Birds often mistake small pieces of plastic for food and swallow them, but because birds are unable to digest plastic, the plastic pieces fill up their stomachs and proh...

The Great Lakes Plastic Dump

Posted by Dale on Sunday, 11 November 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Plastic pollutants circulate in pockets of the Great Lakes at concentrations higher than any other body of water on Earth, according to a recent State University of New York study. The study is the first to look at plastic pollutants in the Great Lakes. It is part of a larger global endeavo...

NZ Students films show care about world

Posted by britt on Sunday, 11 November 2012 in Environmental Heroes

New Zealand's Southland schoolchildren have shown their film-making talents in a competition to raise awareness of environmental matters. The red carpet was rolled out for the second annual Green Screen Environmental Short Film Awards at Centrestage, Invercargill, on Thursday night. The film proje...

Humans Caused Historic Great Barrier Reef Collapse

Posted by EarthDude on Thursday, 08 November 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The expansion of European settlement in Australia triggered a massive coral collapse at the Great Barrier Reef more than 50 years ago, according to a new study. The study, published Nov. 6 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that runoff from farms clouded the pristine waters off the Qu...

Obamas Climate Change - A Second Tier Debate

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 08 November 2012 in Climate Change

The invitation to the White House in the spring of 2009 struck Barack Obama's allies in the environmental movement as a big moment: a clear sign that climate change was on his radar and that the president was eager to get to work. The event was indeed a turning point, but not the one ca...