• Join
  • Login
Sign in with Facebook
  • Facebook Page: 128172154133
  • Twitter: EarthProtect1

Recent blog posts

Posted by on in Newsletter Archive
Dear Earth Protectors, We realize you have many choices on who or what to vote for this election. We would like to tell you we have all the answers. The most important thing for you to do is VOTE for the environment first. We have been fielding blogs and news from around the county on the Hurricane,...
Continue reading
Tagged in: 2012 Election Climate Change
ep-admin
Hits: 2412 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Climate Change
Mayor's endorsement could turn climate change into a serious election issue – and it might even embolden RepublicansNew York City's mayor Michael Bloomberg took climate change out of the closet on Thursday by invoking the issue in his endorsement of Barack Obama. "This November, vote for a presiden...
bloomberg
Continue reading
Tagged in: 2012 Election Bloomberg global warming Hurricane Sandy New York Obama Romney
bchristo
Hits: 3084 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities -- and walking  Excerpted from "Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time"In 2001, Scott Bernstein, at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in inner-city Chicago, produced a set of map...
Continue reading
Tagged in: carbon emissions suburbs Sustainable Development Transportation walking
Wolf
Hits: 2426 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Climate Change
  Hurricane Sandy is now a gauge of the region’s new fragility. Climate change and extreme weather are presenting government — and the public — with some overwhelming choices. The authorities must not only reopen the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, but also ponder whether to put up sea gat...
Continue reading
Tagged in: Climate Change global warming Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Severe Weather Storms
Angel
Hits: 3235 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Sustainable Development
  In case you’ve been living under a rock, today is election day in the U. S of A – and we’re super excited for the possibilities that this hotly contested presidential election brings. If you are anything like most Americans, you’ve probably been following this election in the news, online,...
Continue reading
Tagged in: Climate Change drill less environment global warming green power solar power voting
Angel
Hits: 3050 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Would you like to see a billion dollars of revenue restored to the state of California while 70,000 clean energy jobs are created? Vote YES on Proposition 39! Prop 39, the Clean Energy Jobs Act, will close a tax loophole that currently gives an unfair advantage to businesses located outside Califor...
Continue reading
Tagged in: California clean energy jobs California jobs green jobs Proposition 39 vote for clean energy
bchristo
Hits: 2971 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
  For a decade, the state legislature and three different governors have struggled to close a troubling state budget gap. In recent years, programs ranging from public healthcare to wildlife management have suffered cuts. Earlier this year, the legislature and the governor agreed on a budget...
Continue reading
Tagged in: California voting Department of fish and wildlife Parks and Recreation Proposition 30
amir
Hits: 2134 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in General Environment
  by Yvon Chouinard My friend Tom Brokaw recently wrote an op-ed about an issue gone missing in this election -- the war, the two wars, we’ve been involved in for the past decade, that so far have taken 5,000 American lives and a trillion dollars out of the treasury. Tom’s ...
Continue reading
Tagged in: American Votes clean air Clean Water Climate Change Environmental Justice Storms
Dale
Hits: 2824 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in General Environment
  Efforts to reverse the worrying loss of Earth's dwindling natural resources received a substantial boost on Saturday when a UN conference in India agreed to double biodiversity aid to poor countries. Governments reached an early-morning deal after long nights of tough bargaining in Hydera...
Continue reading
Tagged in: 2020 biodiversity Climate Change global warming green groups protect earth
EarthDude
Hits: 2990 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in General Environment
  When you wake up on November 7th, what kind of future do you want to have ahead?A future in which your children – and the generations beyond them – will have the opportunities to play in the same forests, discover the same animals, climb the same mountains, and swim in the same lakes tha...
Continue reading
Tagged in: Air Quality green election public health voting green Wildlife conservation
EarthDude
Hits: 4235 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Climate Change
The climate will continue to change, whether or not we believe it, or are prepared for it, or are willing to do anything about it.In the near future of our planet ignorance will not be bliss. As much as some voices in the political sphere would like us to believe that the science is muddled and inco...
Continue reading
Tagged in: 2012 Election government Obama Romney
henryfool
Hits: 3012 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Climate Change
By Darrell DelamaideWASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — An absolute monarchy can find it easier to implement enlightened policy than a democracy in hock to vested interests, so it was only mildly surprising when a Saudi Arabian prince said the world’s largest oil producer intends to rely 100% on renewable en...
Continue reading
Tagged in: 2012 Election Obama Politics Romney
Wolf
Hits: 3071 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Biofuels
During his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama said:    “With only 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves, oil isn’t enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper...
Continue reading
Tagged in: 2012 alternative energy economy government
thatsenough
Hits: 2956 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Food
Going Bananas Over Climate Change? You Might Have ToOur old staple and friend the potato has had a good run but, thanks to climate change, we may in the future have to find other food sources to underpin our diets — and the banana family is one likely candidate.Researchers from the Consultative Grou...
Continue reading
Tagged in: banana Climate Change potato staples wheat
henryfool
Hits: 2575 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Green Design
  “LEED has the power to connect people and pull them in, no matter where they are starting from.” Scot Horst, Senior Vice President,LEED, U.S. Green Building Council The hallmark of LEED is its consensus based development process and continuous improvement. Guided by the ma...
Continue reading
EarthDude
Hits: 2521 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Biofuels
  Algae biofuels could bloom into a $1.6 billion industry by 2015, according to a recent report by energy research firm SBI. As pondscum fuels make the jump from test tube to tanker trucks, the growing industry is lobbying Congress to make sure it has a level playing field&nb...
Continue reading
acox
Hits: 4081 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Solar
Apparently doing something good can be contagious. Or at least this seems to be the case with solar power adoption. According to a study by Yale and New York University, published though Marketing Science, individuals are most likely to install solar panels on their home if one of their neighbors ha...
Continue reading
amir
Hits: 2330 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Climate Change
A Yale University study found that a growing number of Americans – 70 percent – believe that global warming is occurring. That belief grew by 13 percentage points between January 2010 and September 2012. Those who say global warming is not happening declined by half, from 20 percent in 2010 to 12 p...
yale_pdf
Continue reading
henryfool
Hits: 2225 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Solar
What would you do if you had your own tropical island in the middle of paradise? If you’re Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, you’d turn it into a haven for sustainable technology.  Four months ago, the billionaire bought 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai for $500 million. In a recent&n...
Continue reading
davebishop
Hits: 2041 0 Comments
0

Posted by on in Newsletter Archive
Agricultural cooperatives are the focus of World Food Day 2012. The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), gives focus to World Food Day observances and raises awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hun...
Continue reading
Tagged in: Agriculture World Food Day World Food Week
ep-admin
Hits: 2567 0 Comments
0
© Earth Protect