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Bees Colony Collapse Disorder

Posted by acox on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 in Agriculture

Bees are a vital part of the ecosystem. It has been falsely attributed to Albert Einstein that the great scientist and philosopher said that if the bee disappeared from the planet then man would have no more than four years to live. Einstein did not say this but the sentiment, if exaggerat...

Apple New Solar Farm, Pictures From the Air

Posted by acox on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 in Solar

Apple is building a giant solar farm to power a data center in North Carolina, and GigaOM has aerial shots that show just how huge it is. The pictures were taken by North Carolina television station WCNC-TV. At 100 acres, this is going to be the world’s largest privately owned solar ...

Technology and Sustainable Development

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 in Sustainable Development

Washington, D.C.—More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and countries such as India and China are in need of hundreds of additional cities to accommodate growing populations. People in many cities suffer from inadequate transportation, sub-standard buildings, lack o...

Montreal Protocol Turns 25

Posted by kenk on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Sustainable Development

Washington, DC 14 September 2012 – The world’s most successful environmental treaty turns 25 this week on September 16th. The treaty is the Montreal Protocol and its success has avoided one of the most severe global environmental threats the world has ever faced—the destruction of th...

Bees Vanish Leaving Questions

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Sheila Colla wades into the pye weeds, her net swooping over the pink flowers. “This is bumble bee heaven,” she says, as she catches a bee and nudges it from the net into a small plastic vial for inspection. It’s a lemon cuckoo bumble bee, one of the strange cast of characters in the be...

African and Caribbean seas 'need protection'

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

More research and better policies are needed to protect the world's most vulnerable seas, lying off the coast of West Africa and the Caribbean, local experts have toldSciDev.Net. The two regions have some of the world's unhealthiest seas, according to a new index that assessed the health ...

Wildlife Trade Bans May Put Species in Danger

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

While founded with good intentions, wildlife trade bans may in some cases be worsening the plight of some endangered species, argues a commentary published in the journalTropical Conservation Science. Looking at three animals listed under the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered S...

How to Save the Rhino

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Glen Martin Author, 'Game Changer: Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa's Wildlife' The holocaust of the African rhinoceros is accelerating, with the very real possibility that both the continent's species -- white and black rhinos -- could be extinct outside zoos in a matter of years. At the begi...

Award Winning Children’s Author and scientist Joins Earth Protect

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 16 September 2012 in Newsletter Archive

World Rhino Day- Sept. 22 Today, there are perhaps 5,000 black rhinos and 20,000 white rhinos left on the contine...

Power East Coast via wind

Posted by grant on Saturday, 15 September 2012 in Wind

Placing wind turbines off the East Coast could meet the entire demand for electricity from Florida to Maine, according to engineering experts at Stanford University.It would require 144,000 offshore turbines standing 270 feet tall — not one of which exists since proposals have stalled due to controv...

Corporate Responsibility Spotlight: AT&T

Posted by henryfool on Saturday, 15 September 2012 in Energy Efficiency

Telecom giant AT&T (NYS: T) may not be the first company that comes to mind for a socially responsible investor, although it has made great strides in corporate responsibility. Having recently released its 2011 Sustainability Report, AT&T makes a great candidate for scrutiny. The positives ...

New ‘Frankenstein’ Grass Could Be Huge For Biofuel Industry

Posted by MStayman on Friday, 14 September 2012 in Biofuels

Now here is a GMO I can get behind: starchier grass.A research partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of California, Berkeley has yielded a variety of switchgrass 250 times starchier than other varieties. More starch means more sugars to ferment into ethanol, makin...

Airlines grapple with food vs. biofuel debate

Posted by henryfool on Friday, 14 September 2012 in Biofuels

Airlines battling to cut costs and pollution may not find a quick fix in biofuels, as concerns grow that using feedstocks to create an alternative to kerosene will push food prices higher. The European Union plans to impose a limit on the use of crop-based biofuels, in a major shift in the region's...

Green concepts in ecotourism in Florida

Posted by henryfool on Thursday, 13 September 2012 in Ecotourism

The "green" movement has developed from an expanding awareness that each individual's lifestyle choices have both a personal and a community impact. The decision to modify lifestyles and expenditures towards a more sustainable outcome is increasing in significant numbers within the more affluent we...

You Can Literally Hear What Pollution Sounds Like

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 13 September 2012 in Air Quality

In the flat lands of California's Central Valley, oil pumps obscured by waving lines of fuel-richened air dip and rise on the horizon. Two hundred miles to the north and west, aging eighteen-wheelers pound through an urban bypass tunnel, staining the walls black with diesel fumes. Farther to the nor...

No lack of wind for energy, computer model shows

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 12 September 2012 in Wind

If the world shifts to clean energy, wind-generated electricity will play a big role—and there is more than enough wind for that, according to new research. Researchers developed the most sophisticated weather model available to show that not only is there plenty of wind over land and near to shore ...

Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change?

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 12 September 2012 in Animals

Does a large population of sea otters reverse one of the principal causes of climate change? New research from the UC Santa Cruz is suggesting that a population boom of sea otters would go a long way to reduce sea urchin numbers, and therefore allow kelp forests to become very large."The spreading k...

Eco living: how to save food and reduce waste

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Tuesday, 11 September 2012 in Food

Remember bubble and squeak? That crispy, almost sweet concoction of fried mash and cabbage or brussels sprouts? Or bread pudding? These and other leftovers dishes are making a comeback from their Seventies heyday as emptier pockets are forcing us to change our domestic habits.One side effect of this...

Environmental Working Group Cleaning Guide

Posted by henryfool on Tuesday, 11 September 2012 in Green Products/Services

EWG’s 2012 Guide to Healthy Cleaning reviews and rates more than 2,000 popular household cleaning products with grades A through F, based on the safety of their ingredients and the information they disclose about their contents. In the making for more than a year, EWG’s Guide to Healthy Cleaning, t...

The 'Silent Green Revolution' Underway at the Department of Energy

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 10 September 2012 in Clean Technology

Last week, the New York Times reported on an exciting new energy project that is scheduled to begin testing off the coast of Oregon in early October. A company called Ocean Power Technologies is going to lower a 260-ton generator into the Pacific ocean, just 2.5 miles from the shore, in order to cap...