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Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 07 December 2010 in Arts and Entertainment

Join us at the 1st Annual Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute Ubud, Bali April 13 - 17, 2011Join us at The Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute (GSCFFI) celebrating and promoting social change film and media. The Institute supports filmmakers and activists in creating i...

Google Earth Allows Tracking of Environmental Changes

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 06 December 2010 in Sustainable Development

Google has unveiled an online technology that allows scientists and researchers to track and measure changes to the environment using 25 years worth of satellite data. Google Earth Engine, introduced during climate talks in Cancun, utilizes “trillions of scientific measurements” colle...

Is the End in Sight for The World’s Coral Reefs?

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 06 December 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

It is a difficult idea to fathom. But the science is clear: Unless we change the way we live, the Earth's coral reefs will be utterly destroyed within our children's lifetimes. by j.e.n. veron Over the past decades, there have dozens of articles in the media describing dire futures f...

Denver Zoo Reaches Out To Help Endangered Animals

Posted by GreenDog on Saturday, 04 December 2010 in Animals

The Denver Zoo quietly has shifted its mission from displaying captive threatened animals to working worldwide for species survival. The latest project: sending out zookeeper biologists to save the Lake Titicaca giant frog. This fabled underwater frog (Telmatobius culeus) lives only in that windbl...

Polar bears 'spotted swimming with cubs on back'

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 02 December 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Polar bears have been spotted carrying their cubs on their backs while they swim through icy waters, according to an article in UK online newspaper the Telegraph. According to the article, the practice is thought to be the result of the bears having to swim longer distances in the sea because of rec...

Signs of change: Day One at the COP16 climate talks in Cancun, Mexico

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 02 December 2010 in Sustainable Development

Cross-posted from WWF-Canada Blog – November 29, 2010 (c) Fredy Mercay/WWF I have arrived at the United Nations climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico. The first thing I saw as I drove away from the airport in a shuttle was a massive billboard advertisement for the NISSAN Le...

Off Shore Drilling Banned in Gulf for Seven Years

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 02 December 2010 in Fossil Fuels

WASHINGTON — Pointing to the BP blowout and risks of a new environmental disaster, the Obama administration reversed itself Wednesday and promised not to pursue offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or anywhere else along the nation's East Coast. The decision was generally hailed ...

The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins to Melt

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 28 November 2010 in Climate Change

The fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern Antarctic Peninsula warming faster than virtually any place on Earth. These rapidly rising temperatures represent the first breach in the enormous frozen dome that holds 90 percent of the world’s ice. by f...

Cancun: your five-minute guide to the COP16 climate conference

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 26 November 2010 in Sustainable Development

What is it? This will be the 16th annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP), which meets every year to agree international efforts to address climate change. It was set up as part of a UN treaty on climate change, known as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).Where is ...

557 million gallons of oil used for transportation each day

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 in Transportation

A recent statistic stated that transportation is responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas pollution in the United States. As we move forward, we need to make sure that we reduce this source of pollution through creating livable communities, making public transportation options more acce...

Save A Turkey

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Adopt-A-Turkey Project seeks to end the misery of commercially-raised turkeys by offering a compassionate alternative for Thanksgiving. Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary has rescued more than 1,000 turkeys, placed hundreds into loving homes through our annual Turkey Express adoption even...

Our forests are our future

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 19 November 2010 in Forestry

Next year, 2011, will be the UN's International Year of Forests, aiming to strengthen the sustainable management of forests for the benefit of current and future generations. It would be a tragic legacy for the government if it marked this year by starting to sell off lar...

Chevron Must Think We're Stupid

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 18 November 2010 in Earth Violators

Rainforest Action Network and the Yes Men have put together a great campaign focusing on Chevron’s efforts to green wash their poor environmental record: “Angry and frustrated that oil companies like Chevron think they can ignore their environmental and human rights abuses while cleaning up their im...

Plan To Save Blue Tuna Fails

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 18 November 2010 in Fishing

BRUSSELS — France, Spain and other Mediterranean nations forced the European Union to retreat Thursday from an ambitious plan to save the threatened and prized bluefin tuna. After drawn-out negotiations, the 27-nation EU abandoned a plan to seek cutbacks in fishing quotas based only on scientific a...

Wild Tigers Around the World

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Next week may be make-or-break for the future of wild tigers around the world. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will be hosting delegations from tiger-range countries for the first ever International Tiger Summit in Saint Petersburg. Heads of state from 13 tiger-range countries plus a...

Arnold Schwarzenegger focuses on environment

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 in General Environment

As California's governor, it may have been Arnold Schwarzenegger's last appearance on a world stage.His third and final Governor's Global Climate Summit concluded Tuesday at UC Davis with the forming of coalitions, signings of memorandums of understanding and other calls to action. There's R20 - Re...

Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay $25 million

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 in Earth Violators

Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve complaints over its handling of a huge underground oil spill in New York City. The settlement with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and a related agreement with the environmental group Riverkeeper will settle years of litigation over the tox...

Is Global Warming Too Boring?

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 15 November 2010 in General Environment

You'll find huge budgeted projects examining public attitudes toward climate, doing focus groups, studying "framing," the use of language, symbolism, metaphor ... blah, blah, blah. But what about the simple fact that climate is quite possibly THE most boring subject the science world has ever had to...

Britain sets up the world's largest marine reserve

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 12 November 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

At midnight tonight, the world's largest fully protected marine reserve will come into force in the British territorial waters of the Chagos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. But this new sanctuary, designated as a "no-take" zone where commercial fishing will be banned, serves to un...

Tom Coburn Stops Shark Finning

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 09 November 2010 in Earth Violators

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} Just one man is blocking the total ban on shark finning in American waters: Senator Tom Coburn. The senator from Oklahoma decided to block progress of the bill, due to concerns that it will cost too much money and is a "special intere...