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Hawaii sugar grower working to power Navy

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 08 August 2010 in Sustainable Development

HONOLULU — The federal government has turned to a 130-year-old Hawaii sugar grower for help in powering the Navy and weaning the nation off a heavy reliance on fossil fuels. It will spend at least $10 million over the next five years to fund research and development at Maui cane fields for crops ca...

Gulf disaster renews interest in biofuel technology

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 08 August 2010 in Biofuels

Even as last of BP oil spilled on the Gulf Coast dissipates, interest in Florida's biofuel industrypiqued by the spill may linger, and even grow. For the moment certainly, biofuels such as ethanol and algae-derived diesel are gaining traction in the minds of the public and energy producers. Coul...

Can The U.S. Keep Up In Clean Energy Race?

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 07 August 2010 in General Environment

By Teryn Norris & Daniel Goldfarb This article originally appeared at the National Journal Energy Expert Blog as part of a special series called “Can The U.S. Keep Up In Clean Energy Race?“ U.S. economic leadership is at a crossroads. Recent outlooks suggest we may experience long-term stagnat...

2010: The year nature struck back?

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 06 August 2010 in Climate Change

Will 2010 be remembered as the year when nature struck back? We’ve witnessed the devastating Earthquake in Haiti, the toxic oil gusher in the Gulf, and now, historic floods in Pakistan that have killed over 1,000 people and displaced millions more. And those are just the international headlines. Di...

Building peace through environmental conservation

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 05 August 2010 in Peace

In recent decades debates about the relationship between the environment and peace have focused on how environmental problems like resource scarcity and climate change are likely to create or exacerbate conflict. The emerging discussion that links rising temperatures caused by climate change...

Diwen Cao, Earth Protect International Youth Fellow, Woman Working for Good

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 05 August 2010 in Environmental Heroes

About 2 years ago, Diwen met Grant and Carol Barbeito, Earth Protect Vice President and President at a Conference in New Zealand. Diwen is Chinese by birth and had just completed a management degree from University of Waikato. Her interest in helping people and the environment along with her enthusi...

Earth Protect International Youth Fellow

Earth Protect Presents at International Conference on Energy Logistics and The Environment

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 05 August 2010 in General Environment

The Conference is being held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver on October 7 to the 9th and for the 2nd time Earth Protect will present at this Conference. WWW.GLOBALCOMMERCEFORUM.ORGThe International Conference on Energy, Logistics and the EnvironmentTheme: Achieving Sustainability through Collabor...

Rescue Plan for Endangered Sea Turtles in the Gulf of Mexico

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 03 August 2010 in Oil Spill

Wildlife experts in the United States have announced an ambitious plan to rescue hundreds of turtle nests and eggs from the potential impacts of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Using a strategy never tested before on such a massive scale, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will coordinate the ...

10 Reasons Utilities Want to Build Their Own Smart Grid Networks

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 02 August 2010 in Green Design

The debate over whether utilities want to use public networks, like cell phone company infrastructure, or build out their own private networks for their smart grid deployments, rages on. On one hand smaller utilities don’t generally want to have the responsibilities — and expenses — of an IT...

Scientists condemn current development plan in Kalimantan

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 02 August 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Scientists with the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) have released a resolution opposing the current development plan for a road and bridge crossing Balikpapan Bay in the Indonesian state of Kalimantan. The resolution states that the plan threatens not only the fragile ecosys...

Plug-Free Electric Car Charger

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 01 August 2010 in Transportation

Plug-free charging — it’s been the holy grail for cell phone, laptop and gadget makers for years. And now it’s fodder for the plug-in vehicle crew. On Tuesday at the Plug-In 2010 conference in San Jose, Calif., a company called Evatran unveiled its “Plugless Power” electric vehicle charger, which wi...

They Can Measure Rate of Oil Leak if BP Releases Clear Seafloor Video

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 01 August 2010 in Oil Spill

Since BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded into one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in history, one big question has remained unanswered: Just how big of a mess is it? While BP asserts there's no way to know, marine experts say that if the oil giant would but release more video from its su...

They Can Measure Rate of Oil Leak if BP Releases Clear Seafloor Video

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 01 August 2010 in Oil Spill

Since BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded into one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in history, one big question has remained unanswered: Just how big of a mess is it? While BP asserts there's no way to know, marine experts say that if the oil giant would but release more video from its su...

Hawaii Gets World Heritage Status

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 31 July 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Sri Lanka's central highlands and a protected marine area in Hawaii, the only habitats of several endangered plant and animal species, have been added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites, the U.N. body said on Saturday. Sri Lanka's central highlands were deemed of prime importance because of t...

Is Your Beach Safe to Swim?

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 31 July 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

We aren't telling you to not go swimming, but maybe you need to know that this is not your parents beach anymore. "We found that when swimming in sub-tropical beach areas with no known pollution or contamination from sewage or runoff, you still have a chance of being exposed to the kind of ...

Good News for Gulf Fishermen

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 31 July 2010 in Fishing

In response to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal government closed off vast areas of the ocean to fishing operations. Much of the area was closed off as a precaution, even if it was minimally touched by the spreading oil, to avoid a public health disaster from contaminate...

Ocean greenery under warming stress

Posted by davebishop on Friday, 30 July 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

A century of phytoplankton decline suggests that ocean ecosystems are in peril. Marine phytoplankton — the vast range of tiny algae species accounting for roughly half of Earth's total photosynthetic biomass — have declined substantially in the world's oceans over the past century, researchers repo...

Good News in Galapagos

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 29 July 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

UNESCO says strong action by the Ecuador government has resulted in these amazing islands off their coast being taken off the endangered UNESCO list. The islands were threatened by overuse. This is the island chain that is home to unique animal species that inspired Darwin's ideas on evolution. I ha...

Climate change should be billed as a 'health' not 'environmental' disaster

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 29 July 2010 in Human Health

Public may be more likely to accept responsibility for climate change and support mitigation action if they see it as a threat to human health, suggests research If the human health impacts of climate change were explained in more detail to people they might be more willing to accept toughe...

BP gets "wake-up call" and $32 billion in spill charges

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 28 July 2010 in Oil Spill

BP Plc's newly named chief executive on Tuesday called the Gulf oil spill a "wake-up call" for the entire industry as the company tallied up its losses and disclosed two U.S. investigations. Bob Dudley, who will replace gaffe-prone Tony Hayward as chief executive on October 1, said safety would be ...