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Coast Guard to conduct rare oil-spill test in Arctic

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 in Oil Spill

by Alex DeMarban With Royal Dutch Shell possibly on the eve of exploring for oil off Alaska's Arctic coasts -- and other companies waiting in the wings -- the U.S. Coast Guard plans an oil-spill response drill in the fragile region next week. The exercise will be part of the agency's effort to bee...

Water Quality Conference Coming to Denver

Posted by henryfool on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 in Clean Water

DENVER, July 24, 2012 -- Experts on Stormwater and post-fire damage control will gather here August 19 - 23 to explore the newest water pollution prevention and mitigation technologies, share recent experiences and discuss strategies that are most effective in minimizing surface water pollution and ...

The Next Manufacturing Revolution

Posted by Greg Lavery on Friday, 20 July 2012 in Sustainable Development

Radically better ways of doing business have begun to unlock enormous value for a few far-sighted manufacturers - and now a new organization plans to help UK firms join the revolution A new not-for-profit group has been set up to help the UK benefit from an imminent revolution in the manufacturing...

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 ...

Madagascar Lemurs Increasingly Endangered

Posted by MStayman on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 in Animals

Of the 103 species of lemurs, over 90% should be on the Red List of Threatened Species. This is according to an assessment made by the Primate Specialist Group of the IUCN, BBC News Science and Environment reports. Lemurs in the wild are only found in Madagascar, dubbed the ‘land of the lemurs...

Aware But Unwilling to Change? Green Guilt Not Enough To Change Behavior

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 in Sustainable Development

by Brigid Milligan According to the National Geographic Society and the consultancy GlobeScan, Americans lag behind the rest of the world regarding sustainable behavior, but notably don’t feel that bad about it. The fourth annual Greendex report studied 17,000 consumers in 17 countries, asking que...

Apple Returns to Green Registry After Dropout

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 in Green Products/Services

By Adam Satariano and Kathleen Chaykowski Apple Inc. (AAPL) said it’s rejoining an environmental rating system after its exit from the group threatened to halt sales to governments and universities that use the registry when making purchasing decisions. Apple’s decision to drop out of the environm...

Six themes for business success after the financial crisis

Posted by Greg Lavery on Tuesday, 17 July 2012 in Sustainable Development

By Greg Lavery Our work with business and thought leaders has identified a profound change in the way that businesses are run in the after-financial-crisis (afic) world. This discussion identifies the causes of the change and how businesses are responding. On the input side, capital is scarce, res...

"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...

New biofuel process creates 20 times more energy than existing methods

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 16 July 2012 in Biofuels

by Anne Seccombe A new biofuel production process created by Michigan State University researchers produces 20 times more energy than existing methods. The results, published in the current issue of Environmental Science and Technology, showcase a novel way to use microbes to produce biofu...

US armed forces test biofuel

Posted by joeycello on Sunday, 15 July 2012 in Biofuels

The U.S. Navy angered Republicans by spending $26 a gallon for biofuels for this week's Great Green Fleet demonstration, but the Air Force received little attention when it paid twice as much per gallon to test synthetic jet fuel last month. The Air Force bought 11,000 gallons of alcohol-to...

Climate change in action: Weird weather continues across U.S.

Posted by Jen on Sunday, 15 July 2012 in Climate Change

by Dorsi Diaz 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 answer is yes, according to climate change scientists...

U.S. Abrupt Climate Change 2012

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Sunday, 15 July 2012 in Climate Change

by Glen Barry Where Will You Be the Day Earth's Death Became Unavoidable? The world’s and especially America’s environment has gone mad during the summer of 2012. Abrupt climate change is clearly upon us, and life-giving ecosystems are visibly failing, portending doom for our shared biosph...

Catastrophic Climate Change can Happen in an Instant

Posted by amir on Sunday, 15 July 2012 in Climate Change

by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Large bodies of water — particularly the oceans and seas — have a moderating effect upon the weather. As anyone living on an island or near the seashore is well aware, the summers in such an area tend to be cooler than farther inland, and the winters tend to be warmer. As a r...

Colorado fires, severe storms, floods and record-setting heat: The summer of hellfire and brimstone?

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 14 July 2012 in Climate Change

By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite “They will be tormented with fire” (Revelation 14:10) and burn (Revelation 19:20). Those are the biblical images of hellfire and brimstone that best describe the burning heat and violent storms this country is experiencing. They also describe the hellish cond...

The Challenge of Renewable Energy

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 12 July 2012 in Energy Efficiency

In the aftermath of the recent United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the focus of many industrialized nations is beginning to shift toward planning for a sustainable future. One of the foremost challenges for sustainability is efficient use of renewable energy resources, a goa...

Republicans push through mining deregulation bill that could avoid US environmental reviews

Posted by Aaron on Thursday, 12 July 2012 in Mining

Republicans pushed a bill through the House Thursday that allows the government to exempt gold, copper, silver and uranium mining on federal land from formal environmental reviews. The bill makes it harder for opponents to mount legal challenges against new ventures. The legislation, appro...

Report urges UK food industry to adapt to climate change

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 12 July 2012 in Food

By Alex Blackburne Food businesses that adapt properly to the impacts of climate change are the ones that will prosper in the future, according to a report by the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra). The study, called Adapting to climate change in the food industry, was writ...

Zambia: Renewable Energy Key to Safe Environment

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 11 July 2012 in Sustainable Development

BY SYLVIA MWEETWA A GERMAN consultant Klaus Heidler has challenged developed nations to consider investing in renewable energy technology which has minimal impact on the environment. Dr Heidler who is Solar Consulting Agency for Sustainable Communication chief executive officer said German...

Apple removes green certification from all products

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 11 July 2012 in Clean Technology

by Matt Petronzio Apple‘s products are no longer considered environmentally friendly after the tech giant asked the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) — the group that sets environmental standards for electronics — to remove all 39 of its products from its green regist...