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Chart: Wind Power Explained

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 24 January 2011 in Wind

Green Energy's Huge Challenge to Scale Up

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 20 January 2011 in General Environment

To shift the global economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy will require the construction of wind, solar, nuclear, and other installations on a vast scale, significantly altering the face of the planet. Can these new forms of energy approach the scale needed to meet the world’s energy demands?...

Transforming Dirty Coals’s New Corridor

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Mining

The Corporate Doomsday Machine’s (aka the fossil fuel industry) latest scheme to plunder and ruin the earth for profit involves transforming the highways, waterways and railways of the Northwest into a transport corridor for coal. King Coal’s domestic options are soon going to be limited after Obam...

Australian Animals in Danger From Floods

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Animals

Wombats will have drowned, turtles won't breed and kangaroos will starve for lack of feed in the wake of Queensland's floods. Pets aren't the only animals in danger from the state's flooding, and native wildlife will suffer serious long-term impacts, Robert Johnson, of the Australian Veterinary Ass...

Conspiracies Don’t Kill Birds. People, However, Do

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Animals

NOT DEAD YET A flock of red-winged blackbirds like the ones that made news by dying by the thousands in Arkansas. At the beginning of this month when about 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in one night in Arkansas, biologists were called on to put a damper on public speculation about...

Dr. King's Lessons On The Environment

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 in Environmental Heroes

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind [sic] to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind [sic] must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliati...

What comes next for sustainability?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 in Sustainable Development

by Greg Lavery, Ph.D. Who will drive sustainability in the future? Government, community or business? This thought-piece suggests that supporting business transformation to more sustainable practices may be our best hope. If we look at the avenues for change that exist in the world – those ways in ...

What comes next for sustainability?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 in Sustainable Development

by Greg Lavery, Ph.D. Who will drive sustainability in the future? Government, community or business? This thought-piece suggests that supporting business transformation to more sustainable practices may be our best hope. If we look at the avenues for change that exist in the world – those ways in ...

How Green Jobs Are Fueling The Economy

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 17 January 2011 in Sustainable Development

Creating new well-paying jobs to spur the economic recovery remains a central concern globally and in the US. The Great Recession has left many professionals and their families struggling to make ends meet for over two years. This jobless recovery is likely to be the longest recovery since the Great...

The True Cost Of Global Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 12 January 2011 in Climate Change

Researchers disagree about what the economic costs of climate change will be over the coming decades. But the answer to that question is fundamental in deciding how urgent it is to take action to reduce emissions. by john carey When climate legislation died last summer in Congress, one cau...

A Positive Path for Meeting the Global Climate Challenge

Mass Wildlife Die-Off Events

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 11 January 2011 in Animals

On New Year's Eve, over 3,000 red-winged blackbirds inexplicably plummeted to their deaths from the skies over Arkansas. They may have struck something while in the air such as lightning or hail. It is also possible that the ground itself caused their deaths, and they were merely rendered unconsciou...

Financial problems could wipe out commercial whaling

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 08 January 2011 in Agriculture

The past few years have seen a sharp rise in awareness, and criticism, of Japanese whaling practices. The Oscar winning documentary The Cove and Animal Planet's television show Whale Wars have brought western public attention to the killing of both large and small cetaceans. Whale meat is sold openl...

When Offshore Drilling Returns

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 07 January 2011 in Fossil Fuels

On Tuesday, the Obama administration finally announced the end of a politically motivated offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico. The drilling ban, originally scheduled to be lifted in November, has been the subject of a torrent of criticism from Gulf area resident...

Significant Wetlands May Disappear in The Next Few Decades

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 05 January 2011 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Many coastal wetlands worldwide — including several on the U.S. Atlantic coast — may be more sensitive than previously thought to sea-level rise projections for the 21st century. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists drew this conclusion from an international research&n...

Flooding Down Under - Military Flies in Supplies

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 03 January 2011 in Climate Change

Military aircraft flew supplies to an Australian town slowly disappearing under floodwaters, as authorities warned on Monday that record floods that have devastated the northeast were far from over. The spreading environmental disaster is estimated to have caused more than A$1 billion ($980...

Sea Shepherd Battle Japanese Whalers

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 01 January 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Japanese whalers shot water cannons at anti-whaling activists on Saturday, the conservationist group's founder claimed, hours after the activists tracked down the hunting fleet in the remote and icy seas off Antarctica. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is chasing the fleet in the hop...

Saving Whales at the Bottom of the World

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 01 January 2011 in Environmental Heroes

“What an awesome way to begin the New Year,” said captain of the Gojira Locky MacLean of Canada. “Our three vessels dancing dangerously through the ice packs locked in confrontation with the three harpoon ships of the Japanese whaling fleet. It was both deadly and beautiful. Dead...

Top Natural Disasters of 2010

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 30 December 2010 in General Environment

By Brett Israel, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer The natural forces of the planet were in full swing this year, with some spectacular and devastating consequences. From the massive Haiti earthquake to a bevy of explosive volcano eruptions, 2010 saw its share of natur...

10 Ways Save Earth

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 27 December 2010 in General Environment

Our planet is gasping for breath. Our harmful pollutions is choking the eco system and stripping the ozone layer and affecting the water and air. In response to this alarming state of the only planet we live on maybe it is time we did something more about it. The science is there, the know...

China Fisheries Get More Protection

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 26 December 2010 in Fishing

China will intensify management of the fishing industry in its territory, an annual national fishery conference heard on Thursday. "Normal patrols to safeguard fishing around the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea will be organized in 2011," said Zhao Xingwu, director of the Fishery Admin...