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Leonardo DiCaprio Urges Action on Climate Change

Posted by davebishop on Tuesday, 01 March 2016 in Climate Change

Leonardo DiCaprio used his Oscar acceptance speech last night to declare that climate change “is real” and to blast what he called the “politics of greed.”DiCaprio won the Academy Award for best actor for his role in “The Revenant” as a 19th-century frontiersman who is left for dead after being maul...

Study measures steep coastal costs of China's GDP growth

Posted by davebishop on Saturday, 09 August 2014 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

A new study by a team of Chinese and American conservation biologists quantifies the serious consequences of China's recent economic growth on its coastal ecosystems. By several measures, 1978 was the beginning of a hugely successful surge in the nation's ability to produce economic value, ...

Happy New Year

Posted by davebishop on Saturday, 29 December 2012 in Agriculture

Happy New Year from Earth Protect

Turning Hawaii's Lanai Island Into Solar-Powered Paradise

Posted by davebishop on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 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...

The Wisdom of Youth, Earth Force and Other Youth Develop Charter of Planet Responsibility

Posted by davebishop on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 in General Environment

Charter of ResponsibilitiesLet’s Take Care of the PlanetWe, the young people of the world, and the delegates of this International Conference, invite you to share the responsibility to take care of the Planet.This Charter, created by the gathering of 53 countries, represents the responsibilities and...

Dirtying the Clean Air Act

Posted by davebishop on Tuesday, 08 February 2011 in Air Quality

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Feb. 6: Conservatives have been attacking the Clean Air Act since its passage in 1970, continually claiming that federal efforts to fight air pollution would wreak economic ruin. As congressional Republicans prepare to...

My first-hand view of global warming

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 11 October 2010 in Climate Change

By: Stephen Hesterberg, Posted: 10/12/10 The peak was an off-white color, a mixture of dirt and ice. The thin layer, which followed the contour of the mountainside, was much smaller than I had imagined, nothing like the glaciers seen on National Geographic. At the time, the view from th...

Rainforest loss slows

Posted by davebishop on Thursday, 07 October 2010 in Forestry

Deforestation rates in tropical countries dropped significantly during the first decade of the 21st century relative to the 1990s, reveals new data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO figures show deforestation across 121 tropical countries averaged 9....

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...

Majority Leader Reid Introduces Plan to Prevent Future Oil Spills

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

Some positive news from the oil spill. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) today introduced a Clean Energy jobs and Oil Spill Accountability Plan. The following is a statement by Sarah Chasis, Director of the Oceans Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The BP disaster in the Gulf is a sober...

A Bipartisan Strategy for Energy Leadership

Posted by davebishop on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 in Sustainable Development

By Teryn Norris & Clifton Yin Published by The Huffington Post When President Obama and key Senate leaders meet today to reach a compromise on energy and climate legislation, they should strongly consider increasing federal investment in clean energy technology to at least $15 billion annually....

DIVE! Living Off America's Waste

Posted by davebishop on Thursday, 24 June 2010 in Food

DIVE! Living Off America's Waste Every year in America we throw away 96 billion pounds of food. That's 263 million pounds a day. 11 million pounds an hour. 3,000 pounds a second. Inspired by a curiosity about our country’s careless habit of sending&...

May 2010 Global State of the Climate

Posted by davebishop on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 in Climate Change

Is it getting hotter or is summer has come early? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a report recently about the state of the global climate, and the results were not pretty. It turns out the combined global land and ocean surface temperatures set a record in May. In...

Ex-rangers ride to the rescue of the world's national parks

Posted by davebishop on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Baoshan, China — On Sept. 30, 2009, Anne Castellina fielded an e-mail from Doug Morris, a fellow US National Park Service retiree. Did the former Alaska park superintendent, Mr. Morris wondered, feel like flying to China in November as a volunteer consultant? "Sure," Ms. Castellina said. ...

Oceans' fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

Posted by davebishop on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are o...

No-Kill Whale research sets sail

Posted by davebishop on Saturday, 06 February 2010 in Animals

No-kill researchers sail to study Antarctic whales Researchers set sail from New Zealand on Tuesday to study whales off Antarctica without killing them - an open challenge to Japan's killing of up to 1,000 whales a year in the name of science. By RAY LILLEYAssociated Press WriterWELLINGTON, New Ze...

Science vs politics at Copenhagen

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

India, Dec. 11 -- At stake: WHY: Scientists from every nation have produced data that points towards a steady increase in the global temperatures. According to their estimates the global mean temperature has seen an increase in 0.6 to 1.0 degree centigrade. The reason for this rise is the way we are...

Copenhagen Talks Collapse, Developing Countries Walk Out?

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

My sense of these things is that this will happen five or six times before what will be termed as an “historic agreement” is signed, but this one does sound fairly serious: Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam put out this statement: Africa has pulled the emergency cord to avoid a train crash...

COP 15: Wong says deal 'salvagable' despite African walkout

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

A MAJOR group of developing nations, including China and most African nations, have walked out of working groups, triggering a major stalemate between developed and developing countries at the Copenhagen climate change negotiations. LUCY KNIGHT IN COPENHAGEN The stalemate comes as more than 120 wo...

Copenhagen climate summit: Blindfolds are hiding the crucial issues at Copenhagen

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 07 December 2009 in Climate Change

As we are engulfed from all sides by suffocatingly one-sided coverage of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, three hugely important issues have been largely stuffed away from sight. The first of these is the matter of cost: the scarcely believable bill our politicians wish to land us with ...