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Getting Away From Oil

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 24 October 2011 in Transportation

At long last, America is taking steps to end our dangerous addiction to oil. With two announcements in the same number of weeks, the Obama administration announced plans that will require every new vehicle on the road to go farther on a gallon of gas, reducing the risk of more oil spills and the dan...

Shifting Attitudes on Global Warming-response

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 24 October 2011 in Climate Change

“Where Did Global Warming Go?” (Sunday Review, Oct. 16) notes that Europe, Australia, China, India and Brazil are all moving ahead with policies to reduce heat-trapping pollution, while most American politicians duck the issue or actively question the reality of the problem. Unfortunately, the arti...

Climate Change A Concern For European Citizens

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 08 October 2011 in Climate Change

Those who doubt the earth's climate is changing are a diminishing breed in Europe, according to a new survey released Friday. It shows large majorities in the European Union see climate change as a very serious problem – and fighting it as an opportunity to create jobs and boost the economy. ...

Japan Whale Hunt Plan

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 03 October 2011 in Agriculture

Japan plans to go ahead with its Southern Ocean whaling program this year despite threats from activists to disrupt the annual hunt. Japan's fisheries minister said measures would be taken to ensure the safety of the whalers and the hunt would go ahead. It is expected to begin in ...

Annual Dolphin Hunt Season in Taiji, Japan Began on September 1st

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 in Earth Violators

The annual dolphin hunt season in Taiji, Japan began on September 1st. We’ve told you recently aboutSave Japan Dolphins Day and Ric O’Barry in Taiji and Kelly Slater raising awareness of the dolphin slaughter. Now, reportedly the first dolphins of the season have been killed...

Dolphin slaughter art pulled to appease Japan

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

A censorship row has erupted after a painting depicting the slaughter of dolphins at Taiji in Japan was excluded from the Shinju Matsuri festival art awards over fears it would offend Broome's Japanese sister town and local Japanese community. Adrian Dwyer, who won the Broome festival's $...

Avoiding Global Warming

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 26 September 2011 in Climate Change

I got a call the other day from some producers I very much admire. They wanted to talk about a series next year on global warming and I thought, why does this subject make me instantly tired? Global warming is important, yes; controversial, certainly; complicated (OK by me); but somehow, even broach...

‘Paper industry growth constrained by raw material availability'

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 23 September 2011 in General Environment

The per capita consumption of paper and boards in India is also the lowest among the major developing countries. With these factors, we feel that, the paper market development in India will remain strong. The paper industry is facing one of the most challenging times with sharp increase i...

'Oceans at Risk' House Stirs Controversy

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 14 September 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KTLA) -- A Santa Monica homeowner, who recently unveiled his giant "Oceans at Risk" art installation live on KTLA, is in hot water with the city. Several residents complained about the graffiti-style artwork, which is displayed on the side of Adam Corlin's 3-story home, locat...

White House Rejects EPA Proposal to Strengthen Smog Standards

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 07 September 2011 in Air Quality

On Friday, September 2, 2011, the White House directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw and reconsider a proposal to strengthen National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone, the primary ingredient in smog. The announcement marked the first time that the ...

Could We Survive on Nothing But Cookies?

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 02 September 2011 in Agriculture

If you could eat only one kind of food forevermore -- just one kind, all day every day -- what would it be? For me, it would be cookies. When you've seen a lot of life and death, you start to wonder how you'd live if you could make the rules. You realize what you would reta...

Waste-to-Energy Firm Harvest Power Raises $1.3 Million in Venture Capital

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 02 September 2011 in Agriculture

Waltham, Mass. – Harvest Power, a developer of technology for recycling waste materials into soils, fertilizers, energy, and engineered fuels, has raised $1.3 million in venture capital, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Founded in 2008, Harvest P...

Mollusc Stocks At Risk From Ocean Acidification

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 29 August 2011 in Fishing

Fishermen in Haiti and some African countries could lose their livelihoods as ocean acidification causes a decline in mollusc populations, a study has found. Human industrial activities release carbon dioxide, which dissolves in sea water, increasing its acidity. This higher acidity damages...

Our Dwindling Food

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 25 August 2011 in Food

As we've come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared. It's hard to know exactly how many have been lost over the past century, but a study conducted in 1983 by the Rural Advancement Foundation International gave a clu...

Gardening on the Roof

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 21 August 2011 in Green Design

NEWARK -- On a warm fall day in 2008, Annette Shine sat in a classroom teaching a course she likes to call "how not to blow up a chemical plant." Her group of University of Delaware chemical engineering students struggled to learn the difficult material in a sweaty, 86-degree room. The bui...

Ray C. Anderson dies at 77; carpet tile mogul

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Anderson's Georgia-based firm, Interface, makes carpet tiles from petroleum products. He transformed the firm into a model of sustainability. By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times In the summer of 1994, carpet-tile mogul Ray C. Anderson made a sobering discovery: Although his billion-dollar business wa...

Surfer ridding beach of garbage

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 11 August 2011 in Environmental Heroes

On Earth Day of this year, pro surfer Jesse Heilman, 23, thought about what he might be able to do to make a difference in the environmental landscape. With seemingly insurmountable doom and gloom on the ecological horizon, the possibility of affecting change might seem too daunting for some. &nb...

India Assessing Mumbai Oil Spill Damage

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 08 August 2011 in Earth Violators

India's coastline remains dangerously vulnerable. Last week MT Pavit, an unmanned oil tanker, ran aground on Juhu beach. That happened because, nitpicking over their jurisdictional responsibilities, Mumbai police sat on the information for hours. The alarm bells still ringing, a technical snag groun...

Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 29 July 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison today at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. He was taken immediately into custody, being denied the typical 3 weeks afforded to put his affairs in order and say goodbye to his friends and family. Federal prosecutors asked for Tim to...

Oil Spill Should Be A Wake-up Call

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 17 July 2011 in Earth Violators

We’re now two weeks into the cleanup of the ExxonMobil oil spill in the Yellowstone River near Billings, and while we still don’t have all the answers — among them, exactly why the spill strarted, how much oil it actually involved and how much more effort the cleanup will take — a few things have be...