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Million trees LA

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 in Sustainable Development

1. WHAT IS THE MILLION TREES L.A. INITIATIVE?Mayor Villaraigosa is committed to making Los Angeles the largest, cleanest, and greenest city in the United States. The Million Trees L.A. (MTLA) Initiative will accomplish this through public-private partnerships that will plant one million trees throug...

UNEP, IEA, ITF and FIA Foundation to Launch Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI)

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 16 July 2009 in Transportation

A partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation is launching the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) at the upcoming Geneva motor show. The “50 by 50” effort calls for cars worldwide to be made...

400 billion euro plan to bring African solar energy to Europe

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Solar

AFP, 13 July 2009 -Twelve European companies on Monday launched a 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) initiative to set up huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe. The consortium says the massive project could provide up to 15 percent of Europe's electricity ne...

Watching Whales Watching Us in California

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Animals

Joel ReynoldsDirector of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CAPosted July 13, 2009 in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild PlacesIn yesterday's New York Times Magazine ("Watching Whales Watch Us"), author Charles...

To Save Animals, Put a Price on Them

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Animals

By Brandon KeimFebruary 24, 2009Rather than relying on warm, fuzzy feelings to protect animals, conservationists suggest appealing to something more reliable: greed. By selling financial contracts pegged to species health, the government could create a market in the future of threatened animals, ma...

Want a Chimp? Endangered Animals for Sale Online

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Animals

By Alexis MadrigaMaybe there really isn’t anything that you can’t buy online.Endangered animals, including chimps, marmosets and leopard cubs, are being bought and sold online, according to a new report. Over six one-week observation periods earlier this year, the International Fund for Animal Welf...

Sears Tower Going Greener

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Green Design

On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, executives at the Sears Tower announced plans for the most significant sustainable modernization projects of an existing building ever undertaken. The project will result in energy savings and reduced CO2 emissions to the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, cutt...

A Bad Economy Makes For A Bad Environment

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Climate Change

As the markets have gone down, long-held assumptions have been thrown up and into the air. Economic theories, and not just the value of our homes and our retirement accounts, are coming undone. In some cases, that may just be a good thing. Consider the argument that climate change solutions, no mat...

Saving the Columbia and Snake River salmon

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 05 July 2009 in Wildlife Conservation

A judge overseeing endangered salmon on the Columbia and Snake Rivers is raising the possibility of dam removal. If politics trumps science this time, how can we hope to deal with climate change?By Paul VanDevelderJuly 6, 2009 If ever there were a story that foreshadowed the political and legal Wat...

New Hydrogen Car Unveiled in London

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 in Transportation

A hydrogen concept car that attempts to sidestep the three main hurdles to the dream of hydrogen-fuelled highways has been unveiled in London, UK. The car weighs 772 pounds and can travel 186 miles on just 2.2 pounds of liquid hydrogen. The Riversimple Urban Car fuel cell combines hydrogen with ox...

Statement from Former Vice President and Alliance for Climate Protection Chairman Al Gore

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 28 May 2009 in Climate Change

Statements on Passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act out of House Energy and Commerce Washington, DC – Former Vice President and Alliance for Climate Protection Chairman Al Gore today issued the following statement on the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act out of t...

The Presidents Clean Energy Plan - Earth Day 2009

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 in Clean Technology

THE WHITE HOUSE - Office of the Press Secretary April 22, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON CLEAN ENERGY Trinity Structural Towers Manufacturing Plant, Newton, Iowa I just had a terrific tour of the facility led by several of the workers and managers who operate this plant. It wasn't too long ago,...

How to Recycle your Clothes, Shoes, Electronics, and More

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 15 May 2009 in Recycling

If you want to recycle EVERYTHING you possibly can, this post is for you. Recycle Ok, I am an environmental engineer (well, sort of). I would be an environmental engineer by now if I hadn’t came to Wageningen to get a Masters degree, or if the Portuguese were like normal people and didn’t have 5 y...

Top Ten Actions to Protect the Environment

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 in General Environment

Smart ShoppingBuy what you need, not what you want.Consider renting and borrowing things that are seldom needed.Buy used items from garage sales and second-hand stores. Simple SaversReplace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.Use aerators on faucets and shower heads.Weatherstrip...

Happy Earth Day: Court Rules Against Environmentalists, Approves Timber Sales In National Forest

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 in Forestry

Today is Earth Day, so it'd be bad karma to derail a Muni bus, toss plastic bags in the ocean, or randomly scatter wads of used chewing gum on the sidewalks (in fact, these are always bad karma). But the U.S. government can cut down its share of trees in a national forest, thanks to a ruling fr...

Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 30 March 2009 in Climate Change

April 2009 (CNN) -- Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remains divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility. Against a backdro...

Al Gore Refuses To Dignify Debate "It's Not a Matter Of Theory"

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 30 March 2009 in Climate Change

Former Vice President Al Gore must not have been too surprised when it happened, but a well-known climate skeptic confronted him at the Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics forum in Santa Monica. The skeptic, Bjorn Lomborg, is a favorite of conservatives who would rather not spend on the environment. D...

The State of American Birds

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 in Animals

20-03-2009 A new report based on 40 years of data analysed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, state government wildlife agencies, and non-governmental organizations including Audubon (BirdLife in the USA), shows that birds are sending an important and troubling message a...

The Season of Killing Baby Seals has Begun

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 22 March 2009 in Animals

Amidst worldwide protest and controversy, Canada’s shameful annual massacre of 300,000 baby harp seals began today. Mass killings are underway in the Saint Lawrence Gulf and will soon expand to Newfoundland. Canada’s seal hunt (if you can call bludgeoning defenseless baby animals to death “hunting”)...

Amphibians disappearing from Yellowstone Park

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 14 March 2009 in Wildlife Conservation

Source ABC, October 29, 2008Frogs and salamanders are disappearing in Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming. These amphibious indicators of the environment are the kind of discovery that, for a Ph.D. candidate, can be the makings of a career. So,...