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Bottled water industry wages PR battle against tap water movement

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 05 April 2012 in Clean Water

Worried by an eco backlash, the bottled water industry is waging a PR battle to turn the public back onto plastic bottled water Bottled water is the totemic bête noire of the environmental world, a multibillion-dollar industry that takes what in the west is clean and readily avail...

Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn the United States into a Third-World Petro-State

Posted by bensor on Thursday, 05 April 2012 in Earth Violators

The “curse” of oil wealth is a well-known phenomenon in Third World petro-states where millions of lives are wasted in poverty and the environment is ravaged, while tiny elites rake in the energy dollars and corruption rules the land. Recently, North America has been repeatedly ...

Earth Hour savings dimmer this year

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 in General Environment

People in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge failed to turn their lights out Saturday during the annual Earth Hour challenge to reduce electricity consumption. Although both municipalities scored above the provincial average of 1.67 per cent drop, neither matched last year...

EPA's encroachment of power

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 in Air Quality

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a pronouncement in December 2009 to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. It claimed it was using the authority provided it from the Clean Air Act and the May 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling inMassachusetts v. EPA that "greenhouse gases in the atmosph...

Earth Day 2012 - Mobilize the Earth

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 01 April 2012 in Peace

As the 42nd Anniversary of Earth Day approaches, people are becoming frustrated with the failure of governments to take any steps toward protecting and preserving the environment. The Earth Day 2012 campaign is designed to provide people with the opportunity to unite their voices in a call for a sus...

The Navy and Rare Whales

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 29 March 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Environmentalists asked a federal judge Thursday to decide whether the Navy must halt plans to build a $100 million offshore training range because of potential threats to endangered right whales. The Navy wants to install an undersea array of cables and sensors for training warships, sub...

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Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 29 March 2012 in Sustainable Development

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Is The Military Using Whales to Test Weapons

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 26 March 2012 in Earth Violators

A couple of years ago, there were rumblings at exactly 7: 30 a.m. every morning At the same time, we were told that the ocean floor was being banged on right where there is a marine reserve for whales. Not much later, dead whales washed up on the beach in Washington state. The U.S. air fo...

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...

Brazil Arrests 17 Chevron Oil Execs For “Environmental Crimes”

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Brazil is going to great lengths to protect its commons. Seventeen executives, including American citizens, working with Chevron and oil rig contractor Transocean, have been charged with crimes against the environment in Brazil after an oil spill off the coast poured about three thousand ba...

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Just after midnight, a series of errors on board the Exxon Valdez oil tanker led the ship aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. About 30 million litres of crude oil leaked from the tanker's breached hull, causing massive destruction along hundreds of kilometres of once-pristine coast. ...

Arctic Ocean Drilling

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Fossil Fuels

As the Obama administration prepares to issue final permits for exploratory oil drilling on the outer continental shelf off Alaska's Arctic coast this summer, the public is hearing some familiar promises from industry and government -- the risk of a catastrophic oil spill is small, best avai...

Dolphins Dying in the Gulf

Posted by Angel on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Earth Violators

Over 675 wild dolphins have been stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since February 2010. Most of them were found dead, but 33 were alive and seven were taken to rehabilitation centers. The average number of dolphin strandings for the northern Gulf is 74 per year, according to NOAA. So...

Charge - The Electric Motorcycle is here to stay

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 19 March 2012 in Transportation

Charge documents the inaugural grand prix for electric motorcycle racing at the venerable Isle of Man TT. Choosing the IoM as the GP debut for electric motorcycle racing both solidified the class as a credible racing format as well as ostracized it among racing traditionalists. “This is the...

Lawsuit Seeks Plan to Save Florida's Corals

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 15 March 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service today for failing to develop a recovery plan for two species of coral, elkhorn and staghorn, that live off the coast of Florida and in the Caribbean. Although these corals have been prote...

Ocean Temperatures Harm Protected Coral Reefs

Posted by Aaron on Thursday, 15 March 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Special conservation zones known as marine protected areas provide many direct benefits to fisheries and coral reefs. However, such zones appear to offer limited help to corals in their battle against global warming, according to a new study. To protect coral reefs from climate change, marine prote...

Two-thirds of China’s cities fail on air standards

Posted by bensor on Sunday, 11 March 2012 in Air Quality

Two-thirds of China’s cities currently fail to meet stricter air quality standards that the government wants to phase in over four years to combat notoriously smoggy skies, a senior Chinese environmental official said Friday. The State Council, China’s Cabinet, on Wednesday issued new lim...

FBI Investigate Fracking Protestors, instead of Frackers

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 11 March 2012 in Environmental Heroes

In today’s Washington Post, it was revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been investigating peaceful climate and anti-fracking activists as a threat. In response to anonymous complaints Rising Tide North Texas, a part of the Rising Tide North America ...

Clammers on front lines of climate change

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 09 March 2012 in Fishing

ROCKPORT — When it comes to the acid-base balance in human blood or ocean water, a small change can mean a lot. That was the message presented at a March 3 seminar at the Maine Fishermen's Forum. The scale between acid and base conditions is expressed using the term pH, on a range fr...

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Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 09 March 2012 in Sustainable Development

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