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FAIR TRADE – WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Posted by joeycello on Sunday, 02 October 2011 in Newsletter Archive

Jimmy Gets the Last Laugh…If He Was That Kind of Guy - Fuel economy rates for America’s cars are at 1970s levels – 12-14 miles per gallon. President Carter didn’t have alternative fuels to work with at the time, but he did impose fuel standards for cars that averaged 28.5 mpg – a significant improve...

Can We Carry the Planet

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 30 September 2011 in Sustainable Development

The idea that human societies, at their best, seek to evolve toward a more perfect embodiment of humankind’s shared aspirations for peace, freedom, justice, prosperity, personal and collective wellbeing. Today, and for the foreseeable future, that list also includes sustainability: living within the...

Annual Dolphin Hunt Season in Taiji, Japan Began on September 1st

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 in Earth Violators

The annual dolphin hunt season in Taiji, Japan began on September 1st. We’ve told you recently aboutSave Japan Dolphins Day and Ric O’Barry in Taiji and Kelly Slater raising awareness of the dolphin slaughter. Now, reportedly the first dolphins of the season have been killed...

Dolphin slaughter art pulled to appease Japan

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

A censorship row has erupted after a painting depicting the slaughter of dolphins at Taiji in Japan was excluded from the Shinju Matsuri festival art awards over fears it would offend Broome's Japanese sister town and local Japanese community. Adrian Dwyer, who won the Broome festival's $...

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Shows Problems in Fish and Shrimp

Posted by Aaron on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 in Food

BATON ROUGE, La. -- A new Louisiana State University study shows the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on fish living in Louisiana marshes and reveals a problem that could affect the future of the seafood industry. The study was conducted by associate professors of biological scien...

Engineers: We have all the tech we need to cut carbon

Posted by CindyJennings on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 in Climate Change

Grist.com article: BY JESS ZIMMERMAN on 26 SEP 2011 1:04 PM Apparently the world's engineers are getting sick of being told that cutting emissions is an engineering problem. Eleven of the biggest engineering organizations have re...

Air pollution making children sick

Posted by Cathym on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 in Air Quality

I installed solar panels on my roof in September. I made my decision after my monthly energy bill hit an all-time high, and then exceeded it the next month. But perhaps my most compelling reason to go solar is the least intuitive: I want to help stamp out asthma. As a hospital-based pediatrician at...

Nitrate Pollution in Pacific Ocean

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Rising nitrate levels in the northwest Pacific Ocean could alter the makeup of marine plants and influence marine ecology, U.S. and Korean researchers say. Atmospheric and riverine pollution off the coasts of Korea and Japan that is changing the ratio of nitrate to phosphorus has researchers sa...

Avoiding Global Warming

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 26 September 2011 in Climate Change

I got a call the other day from some producers I very much admire. They wanted to talk about a series next year on global warming and I thought, why does this subject make me instantly tired? Global warming is important, yes; controversial, certainly; complicated (OK by me); but somehow, even broach...

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 ...

‘Paper industry growth constrained by raw material availability'

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 23 September 2011 in General Environment

The per capita consumption of paper and boards in India is also the lowest among the major developing countries. With these factors, we feel that, the paper market development in India will remain strong. The paper industry is facing one of the most challenging times with sharp increase i...

Love Note Day

Posted by joeycello on Thursday, 22 September 2011 in Newsletter Archive

Send a Love Note To the EarthSeptember 23rd is Love Note Day.Send us your Love Notes to Earth by September 20th and we’ll include as many as we can in our Love Notes newsletter on the 23rd. Love Notes can be sent in the form of video, blogs, photos or written notes. Be creative! Send the love to gr...

Bill Clinton Slams GOP Climate Deniers During Global Initiative Conference

Posted by Aaron on Wednesday, 21 September 2011 in Agriculture

We look like a joke, right?" Former President Bill Clinton wasted no time at his annual philanthropic conference with an attack on GOP climate deniers. At the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual NYC meeting, Politico reports that the former president said, "If you’re an American, the best thing you ...

It’s World Water Monitoring Day

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 19 September 2011 in Water Conservation

Today is World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD), an international event that raises awareness about the importance of protecting the valuable water resources around the world. Many people are unaware of the impact their daily decisions have on the quality of water. Because humans and other fo...

Sweden's Oil Spill worst in area since 1987

Posted by bensor on Monday, 19 September 2011 in Oil Spill

Rescue teams have been working around the clock to clean up an oil spill in waters off the coast of Tjörn, an island community of around 15,000 people, in southwestern Sweden. It's the worst spill in the area since 1987. Coastguards on nine ships are using brush skimmers to remove oil fr...

Ocean Acidification Threatens World's Oceans

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 19 September 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide is driving fundamental and dangerous changes in the chemistry and ecosystems of the world's oceans, international marine scientists have warned. "Ocean conditions are already more extreme than those experienced by marine organisms and ec...

Understanding Methane's Seabed Escape

Posted by amir on Monday, 19 September 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2011) — A shipboard expedition off Norway, to determine how methane escapes from beneath the Arctic seabed, has discovered widespread pockets of the gas and numerous channels that allow it to reach the seafloor. Robot carrying seismic recorder is launched towards the seabed...

Eating Organic is the Single Greenest Thing You Can Do

Posted by amir on Sunday, 18 September 2011 in Agriculture

"If you do just one thing -- make one conscious choice -- that can change the world, go organic.... No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future." That's a bold statement. Is eating organic mo...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster: Who is at fault?

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Sunday, 18 September 2011 in Fossil Fuels

With much of the gulf coast region still feeling the effects of the BP oil spill in April 2010, the question of who is to blame for this disaster is on many people’s minds. The issue may never be completely resolved, especially for those who lost family members and profits from the spill...