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Earth Day Poster Contest

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 05 March 2012 in Arts and Entertainment

The National Trust for the Cayman Islands is urging students to get their entries in for the annual Earth Day poster competition. The competition asks students to design a poster reflecting environmental issues that are important to them, in keeping with the 2012 Earth Day theme “Every ...

Earth Protect's Grant Barbeito Hosts CEFF Filmmaker Brunch

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 01 March 2012 in Arts and Entertainment

On Friday, February 24th, Earth Protect's Founder and Creative Director Grant Barbeito, hosted the Filmmaker Brunch. Rocky Thompson, Principal of Gaia Video and President of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival Board moderated. Other panelists and attendees include: Steve Roberts, H...

Artificial Glaciers Water Crops in Indian Highlands

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 in Agriculture

Villagers discover that it is easier to store water in ice than in a reservoir, and less is lost to evaporation. A remote Indian village is responding to global warming-induced water shortages by creating large masses of ice, or "artificial glaciers," to get through the dry spring months. (See a ma...

Water prospects in the 21st century

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 in Water Conservation

Access to water is one of the pressing global issues of the 21st century. As our global population grows and becomes wealthier, the demand for water will greatly increase. At the same time, water availability and quality are also under growing stress from climate change, energy scarcity, land use de...

Water in the 21st Century

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 in Water Conservation

Emerging Global Water IssuesThe Looming Water Crisis Earth is the blue planet with water one of the most plentiful natural substances in its environment. There is more than 1.4 billion cubic kilometers (km3) of the stuff-enough to give every man, woman, and child more than 230 million cubic meters ...

Clean energy, dirty business

Posted by Aaron on Sunday, 26 February 2012 in Earth Violators

The fact is that 10 to 12 per cent of the primary energy supply today comes from renewable sources (not counting hydroelectric energy). But new renewables – technologies of the future – still make up only one or two per cent of this supply. The rest comes from biomass systems of the poor, ...

China's coal consumption continues to rise

Posted by bensor on Sunday, 26 February 2012 in Fossil Fuels

According to the China Electricity Council, China's coal demand will reach 4.3 billion tons by 2015, an increase of 970 million tons compared to the year 2010 and an annual increase of 5.2 percent, Shanghai Securities News reported on Monday. An expert told the paper that as the cost...

BP Oil Spill Blame Game on Trial

Posted by bensor on Saturday, 25 February 2012 in Oil Spill

A massive trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill heads for a New Orleans federal courtroom on Monday, to determine how much BP Plc and others should cough up for the worst U.S. offshore oil spill. The case is perhaps the most complex environmental lawsuit in history, and could leave c...

Illegal Orangutan Trade

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 23 February 2012 in Animals

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) has just announced Sumatra's first ever successful sentence of an illegal orangutan owner and trader in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The seven-month prison sentence is only the third for In...

“Sustainability: the HOW”

Posted by Greg Lavery on Thursday, 23 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

This paper describes how to succeed in profitably transforming the sustainability of organisations. Or you could look at this as how to sustainably increase profitability. Included in the document are: A sustainability transformation roadmap describing the building blocks of a successful program ...

The Effects of the BP Oil Spill on Animal Life

Posted by bensor on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 in Oil Spill

The BP Oil Spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 has affected an incredible number of human lives, in various ways, but we must also consider the negative impacts of the BP Oil Spill on Animals as well. When animals are affected, human beings become affected as well. We are all...

British scientist warns AAAS of the threat posed by ocean acidification

Posted by bensor on Monday, 20 February 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Dr Jason Hall-Spencer, of Plymouth University, says that the combination of ocean acidification and rising water temperatures kills off corals, shellfish and other valuable marine life – posing a risk to industries such as fishing and tourism. Dr Hall-Spencer addressed the Annual Meeti...

BP could reach settlement for Gulf oil spill this week

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 20 February 2012 in Oil Spill

BP PLC, operator of the Macondo well that caused the United States’ worst oil spill, may reach a settlement for the disaster this week after a partner agreed on fines, an Oppenheimer & Co. analyst said. Mitsui & Co.’s MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC will pay $90 million to the U.S. and five ...

Spreading the Word on Biochar

Posted by EarthAction on Friday, 17 February 2012 in Agriculture

What if there existed a material that could help solve world hunger, fight climate change, and offer a solution for energy shortages to boot? Recent studies on biochar say that it may be just the product, and here’s the kicker: it has been around for at least 2,000 years. It is a solid mat...

Grant Barbeito and Earth Protect Host Filmmakers Brunch at CO Environmental Film Festival

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 17 February 2012 in Agriculture

Earth Protect is a proud sponsor of the CO Environmental Film Festival in Golden, CO February 23 through the 25th. The Filmmakers Brunch is Friday the 24th from 10 until 12. Use this link to learn more and register. Earth Protect will also be hosting trailers and films post Festival so stay tuned. ...

Big Greenwashing 101

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 16 February 2012 in Earth Violators

By Red Emma Greenwashing—[a compound word modeled on "whitewash"] a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that a company’s policies or products are environmentally friendly. John Muir must be rolling over in his grave. Th...

WB launches wildlife conservation project

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 13 February 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

World Bank launched a $36 million project on Sunday for conservation of endangered wildlife which has become extinct due to their illegal trade and unplanned development activities. Evden Eve NakliyatKayseri Evden Eve Nakliyatdizi izle “This will be a milestone in regional cooperation for wildlife ...

British scientist in Karachi to probe dead whale shark

Posted by bensor on Saturday, 11 February 2012 in Animals

ISLAMABAD: A British scientist arrived in Karachi on Friday to examine and record the details of the 11-metre long whale shark that was towed by local fishermen to the Karachi Fish Harbour from the open sea earlier this week. He is being accompanied by a documentary production team to tape ...

The New Tesla, making SUV's Electric with Style

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 09 February 2012 in Transportation

Elon Musk said Thursday his luxury electric car company is in compliance with terms of its loans from the federal government, and on schedule to launch two new models by the end of next year. "We have a lot of cash in the bank," Mr. Musk said in an interview ahead of the scheduled unveiling...

Emissions link to ocean acid levels

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 09 February 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Man-made carbon emissions since the industrial revolution have acidified the oceans far beyond natural levels, research suggests. Ocean acidity makes it harder for organisms such as molluscs and coral to construct the shells they need to survive. In some regions, acidity rose faster in t...

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