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Japan Killing Dolphins Facts

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 07 November 2009 in Animals

In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year. In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins...

Worlds largest solar power project planned

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 18 October 2009 in Solar

Gujarat, a state of India, is quite eager to opt for alternative sources of energy. It started out as a small dream. The Gujarat government visualized only 500 MW of solar power generation by 2014. But this humble goal may now be increased to 3,000 MW. The Gujarat Government is undertaking a $10 bi...

Try To Make No Trash For An Entire Week

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 09 October 2009 in General Environment

Celebrate No Trash Week by not making any! Get some friends together, advertise to your email address book, announce it on your blog, post flyers (previously used paper, of course) at your work and school! Tell everyone it's happening, then participate! How do you participate? Strive to make no tra...

Air Pollutants From Abroad A Growing Concern, Says New Report

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 05 October 2009 in Climate Change

ScienceDaily (Sep. 30, 2009) — Plumes of harmful air pollutants can be transported across oceans and continents -- from Asia to the United States and from the United States to Europe -- and have a negative impact on air quality far from their original sources, says a new report by the National Resea...

Sweden calls for carbon taxes

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 03 October 2009 in Climate Change

Sweden urged other European nations on Friday to follow its lead in linking new taxes to greenhouse gas emissions as governments seek additional sources of income in the wake of the financial crisis. Denmark, Finland and Slovenia already have taxes on household carbon emissions that can add costs t...

Griffith Park users outraged by shooting of 7 coyotes

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 28 September 2009 in Animals

The howls echoing through Griffith Park today are coming from joggers, parents and nannies -- not coyotes. Park visitors are angry with wildlife officials' decision to trap and shoot coyotes in the 4,210-acre mountain park. Trackers were called in to trap and shoot the animals after two people repo...

China's President Hu speaks to UN on the enviroment

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 25 September 2009 in Climate Change

President Hu Jintao is making an unprecedented string of visits to United Nations summits as he leads a high-ranking Chinese delegation to the United States this week. The president will be in New York for the UN Summit on Climate Change, the 64th annual UN General Assembly debate and a nuclear non...

President Obama delivered speech to United Nations on climate change

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 21 September 2009 in Climate Change

President Obama delivered a speech to the United Nations today as 100 world leaders gathered for the highest-level summit yet on climate change. Obama said the United States is "determined to act" as the "threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing." Here is the text of O...

Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Climate Change

Climate change is essentially irreversible, according to a sobering new scientific study. As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, the world will experience more and more long-term environmental disruption. The damage will persist even when, and if, emissions are brought under control, says st...

Activists seek tough U.N. climate pact in 100 days

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Climate Change

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, Sun Aug 30, 2009 OSLO (Reuters) - Activists launched what they called the world's biggest campaign to combat global warming on Friday, urging governments to agree a tough U.N. climate pact at talks in Copenhagen starting in 100 days' time. Environmental...

Study says shines light on sun spot-climate link

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Climate Change

Fri Aug 28, 2009By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Small changes in the energy output of the sun can have a major impact on global weather patterns, such as the intensity of the Indian monsoon, that could be predicted years in advance, a team of scientists sa...

Dolphins being slaughtered

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Animals

More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered every year in a cove in Taiji, Japan. Their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food, often times labeled as whale meat. Courageous documentary filmmakers infiltrated the heavily guarded cove to uncover the truth ab...

Climate change opens Arctic’s Northeast passage

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Climate Change

Two German ships set off on Friday on the first commercial journey from Asia to western Europe via the Arctic through the fabled Northeast Passage – a trip made possible by climate change. August 22nd, 2009 Niels Stolberg, president and CEO of Bremen-based Beluga Shipping, said the Northern Sea Ro...

Farmers care About trees too

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Agriculture

Almost half of the world's farmland has at least 10 percent tree cover, according to a study on Monday indicating that farmers are far less destructive to carbon-storing forests than previously believed. From: Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, ReutersPublished August 24, 2009Farmers Care Ab...

NOAA: Warmest Global Ocean Surface Temperatures on Record for July

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 23 August 2009 in Climate Change

The global land surface temperature for July 2009 was 0.92 degree F (0.51 degree C) above the 20th century average of 57.8 degrees F (14.3 degree C), and tied with 2003 as the ninth-warmest July on record. Notable Developments and Events El Niño persisted across the equatorial Pacific Ocean duri...

The Wild Dolphin Project

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 23 August 2009 in Animals

Now that The Cove - the documentary about dolphin slaughtering in Japan - has officially rolled out to most U.S. cities, people's awareness about dolphins' precarious position on this planet has risen to new levels. Films like this are incredible in that they can literally shock viewers into action...

Ground Zero for Dolphin Slaughter

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 10 August 2009 in Animals

Taiji Town: Ground Zero for the World’s Largest Dolphin Slaughter Taiji is a small fishing village located on the southern part of the Japanese archipelago at the tip of the peninsula that extends into the Pacific Ocean. This is where the practice of driving dolphins into shallow water and slaught...

Greenpeace Goes Guerilla in its War with HP

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 29 July 2009 in Clean Technology

Greenpeace has started a war of sorts. Ironic? Not really, considering its adversary, Hewlett Packard (HP), and the two organizations’ history of contempt. By Sarah Harper | July 30th, 2009 The eco activist network has taken on HP, which Greenpeace claims is producing hazardous chemicals and not m...

Plastic Left Holding the Bag as Environmental Plague

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 in General Environment

Nations around world look at a banby Joan Lowy Imagine a world without plastic shopping bags. It could be the future. There is a growing international movement to ban or discourage the use of plastic bags because of their environmental effects. Countries from Ireland to Australia are cracking down...

MANATEE - Do we want speed boats or this unique sea mammal?

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 in Animals

All over the world more than 10,000 animal species are in danger. Some are in danger because their homes are being destroyed. Many are in danger because people hunt them. Among these are the manatees. Manatees are gentle creatures that some call Sea Cows. Their Falling Numbers!!Florida Manatees ar...