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Our third Green Adventure took place this past weekend, April 4th - April 7th, 2009, at Quail Springs (http://quailsprings.org) and was a huge success! Sara Laimon, Guzel Gjenasaj and Amy Frame led ten students of Environmental Charter High School. They spent four days learning about permaculture, ...
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Posted by on in Forestry
On March 2, 2009, Common Vision visited Environmental Charter High School to promote the planting of fruit trees and recycling in artistic and upbeat ways. Common Vision and Green Ambassadors allied to plant fruit trees around the community of Lawndale. Groups of students and Common Vision members...
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Posted by on in Recycling
Being green is not something you only do at home or at school, but EVERYWHERE! On Saturday March 28, the softball team played proud and hard in the Westminster Tournament. After a long day, during their snack time, the girls had Gatorade bottles and orange peels left over. Practicing being Green A...
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Posted by on in Animals
Please join hundreds of wildlife advocates who are walking to support our native animals on Sunday, May 3 at Zuma Beach, Malibu. The money raised from CWC Walk on the Wild Side® will go directly to funding the free services and programs CWC provides, including paramedic rescue and rehabilitation fo...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
April 2009 (CNN) -- Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remains divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility. Against a backdro...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Former Vice President Al Gore must not have been too surprised when it happened, but a well-known climate skeptic confronted him at the Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics forum in Santa Monica. The skeptic, Bjorn Lomborg, is a favorite of conservatives who would rather not spend on the environment. D...
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Posted by on in Animals
20-03-2009 A new report based on 40 years of data analysed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, state government wildlife agencies, and non-governmental organizations including Audubon (BirdLife in the USA), shows that birds are sending an important and troubling message a...
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Amidst worldwide protest and controversy, Canada’s shameful annual massacre of 300,000 baby harp seals began today. Mass killings are underway in the Saint Lawrence Gulf and will soon expand to Newfoundland. Canada’s seal hunt (if you can call bludgeoning defenseless baby animals to death “hunting”)...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Authorities in Florida shot and critically wounded one of the US's most wanted environmental crime fugitives, Larkin Baggett. Baggett pointed a gun at police. He is owner of Chemical Consultants Inc. and has been charged in federal court in Utah with dumping chemicals down drains, into paved alleys ...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Source ABC, October 29, 2008Frogs and salamanders are disappearing in Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming. These amphibious indicators of the environment are the kind of discovery that, for a Ph.D. candidate, can be the makings of a career. So,...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
From: WWFPublished March 12, 2009 The new climate and clean energy package proposed by Sweden should serve as an example for all EU countries ahead of crucial global warming negotiations, WWF says. If followed by other industrialised nations the deal could lead towards a low carbon future and help ...
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Posted by on in Animals
KYOTO (Japan) - THAI monkeys have been observed showing their young how to floss - proof that primates teach offspring to use tools, a Japanese researcher says. 'I was surprised because teaching techniques on using tools properly to a third party are said to be an activity carried out only by human...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
L.A. Times - An 18-year study shows an increased annual risk of death from respiratory illnesses, depending on the pollution level. It goes beyond studies that linked brief ozone spikes to short-term effects. By Thomas H. Maugh IIMarch 12, 2009 Ozone pollution is a killer, increasing the yearly ri...
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Posted by on in Mining
Examples of Modern Mines that Damaged Rivers & Fisheries (Compiled by Mara Bacsujlaky for the Bristol Bay Alliance) The mines that are featured here are all mining operations whose main components were developed within the last 30 years, using “state-of-the-art”, modern hardrock mining technol...
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Posted by on in Animals
By Laura Tull Stingrays are fascinating animals, brought to the attention of the media by a true accident with the death of Steve Irwin, and by recent discoveries of Giant Stingray's in Thailand. Though related to the sharks they are not as aggressive and are not prone to attack humans. They are ne...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
China must already grapple with some of the worst environmental effects of climate change, including severe air pollution, desertification, water scarcity, and flooding. Is there more to come? Air Pollution and Public HealthChina's reliance on its abundant but dirty coal has produced a number of ne...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
February 23, 2009 09:00 AM - WWF Perth, Australia - Nine out of 10 marine species found off Australia’s south-west coast are found nowhere else on earth but less than one per cent of this globally significant region is protected. A new report found a series of globally significant “hotspots” for m...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen has one critical goal: a global treaty to help cut carbon emissions to levels that will prevent dangerous rises in global temperatures and catastrophic climate change. That deal must set goals for cutting global CO2 emissions: some say a 50 percent red...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
February 27, 2009 Apple Inc. had its shareholder meeting Wednesday and the media focused on the absence of its charismatic leader Steve Jobs. But there's an even more famous guy associated with Apple. Al Gore is one of my heroes. As a journalist, I covered him as a Senator 20 years ago in Washingto...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By AL GORE It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we would still need to deal with the n...
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