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'Gasland' nominated for an Oscar

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 28 January 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

"Gasland," the controversial film on oil shale, fracking and natural gas development, has been nominated for an Oscar for best documentary feature. The film, which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, explores the natural gas industry in 24 states, including Wyoming.The film portr...

What Happened To "We the People"?

Posted by joeycello on Thursday, 27 January 2011 in Human Health

President Obama gave his State of the Union last night and set out a clear vision for our country. I agree that we need to win the future – and we can begin by investing locally in clean energy technology, reinvigorating our manufacturing sector, and leading the world to a sustainable 21st century e...

Global Social Change Film Festival Semi-finalists Announced

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

San Francisco, CA, January 24, 2011 - The Global Social Change Film Festival and Institute (GSCFFI) is excited to announce the semifinalist films for its inaugural festival to be held in Ubud, Bali April 13-17, 2011. The GSCFFI aims to create a space where activists, filmmakers and local communitie...

Chart: Wind Power Explained

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 24 January 2011 in Wind

Obama Climate Adviser Leaving

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 24 January 2011 in General Environment

A key climate change adviser to President Barack Obama will step down soon, administration officials said on Monday, in the latest staff departure as the White House adapts to a shift in power in Congress. Carol Browner, White House coordinator of energy and climate policy, "will stay on as long as...

Green Energy's Huge Challenge to Scale Up

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 20 January 2011 in General Environment

To shift the global economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy will require the construction of wind, solar, nuclear, and other installations on a vast scale, significantly altering the face of the planet. Can these new forms of energy approach the scale needed to meet the world’s energy demands?...

Transforming Dirty Coals’s New Corridor

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Mining

The Corporate Doomsday Machine’s (aka the fossil fuel industry) latest scheme to plunder and ruin the earth for profit involves transforming the highways, waterways and railways of the Northwest into a transport corridor for coal. King Coal’s domestic options are soon going to be limited after Obam...

Australian Animals in Danger From Floods

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Animals

Wombats will have drowned, turtles won't breed and kangaroos will starve for lack of feed in the wake of Queensland's floods. Pets aren't the only animals in danger from the state's flooding, and native wildlife will suffer serious long-term impacts, Robert Johnson, of the Australian Veterinary Ass...

Conspiracies Don’t Kill Birds. People, However, Do

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Animals

NOT DEAD YET A flock of red-winged blackbirds like the ones that made news by dying by the thousands in Arkansas. At the beginning of this month when about 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in one night in Arkansas, biologists were called on to put a damper on public speculation about...

How The National Commision Let BP Get Away?

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Oil Spill

What failures of the BP board of directors and its senior management led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico? Although the recent report of the National Commission on the catastrophe (http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/) purports to provide "thorough analysis and impa...

Dr. King's Lessons On The Environment

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 in Environmental Heroes

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind [sic] to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind [sic] must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliati...

What comes next for sustainability?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 in Sustainable Development

by Greg Lavery, Ph.D. Who will drive sustainability in the future? Government, community or business? This thought-piece suggests that supporting business transformation to more sustainable practices may be our best hope. If we look at the avenues for change that exist in the world – those ways in ...

What comes next for sustainability?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 in Sustainable Development

by Greg Lavery, Ph.D. Who will drive sustainability in the future? Government, community or business? This thought-piece suggests that supporting business transformation to more sustainable practices may be our best hope. If we look at the avenues for change that exist in the world – those ways in ...

How Green Jobs Are Fueling The Economy

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 17 January 2011 in Sustainable Development

Creating new well-paying jobs to spur the economic recovery remains a central concern globally and in the US. The Great Recession has left many professionals and their families struggling to make ends meet for over two years. This jobless recovery is likely to be the longest recovery since the Great...

The True Cost Of Global Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 12 January 2011 in Climate Change

Researchers disagree about what the economic costs of climate change will be over the coming decades. But the answer to that question is fundamental in deciding how urgent it is to take action to reduce emissions. by john carey When climate legislation died last summer in Congress, one cau...

A Positive Path for Meeting the Global Climate Challenge

Mass Wildlife Die-Off Events

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 11 January 2011 in Animals

On New Year's Eve, over 3,000 red-winged blackbirds inexplicably plummeted to their deaths from the skies over Arkansas. They may have struck something while in the air such as lightning or hail. It is also possible that the ground itself caused their deaths, and they were merely rendered unconsciou...

Financial problems could wipe out commercial whaling

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 08 January 2011 in Agriculture

The past few years have seen a sharp rise in awareness, and criticism, of Japanese whaling practices. The Oscar winning documentary The Cove and Animal Planet's television show Whale Wars have brought western public attention to the killing of both large and small cetaceans. Whale meat is sold openl...

When Offshore Drilling Returns

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 07 January 2011 in Fossil Fuels

On Tuesday, the Obama administration finally announced the end of a politically motivated offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico. The drilling ban, originally scheduled to be lifted in November, has been the subject of a torrent of criticism from Gulf area resident...

Significant Wetlands May Disappear in The Next Few Decades

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 05 January 2011 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Many coastal wetlands worldwide — including several on the U.S. Atlantic coast — may be more sensitive than previously thought to sea-level rise projections for the 21st century. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists drew this conclusion from an international research&n...

Flooding Down Under - Military Flies in Supplies

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 03 January 2011 in Climate Change

Military aircraft flew supplies to an Australian town slowly disappearing under floodwaters, as authorities warned on Monday that record floods that have devastated the northeast were far from over. The spreading environmental disaster is estimated to have caused more than A$1 billion ($980...