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Sierra Leone: Journalists Trained On Mining, Environmental Issues

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 03 September 2012 in Mining

By Hawa Amara The Association of Journalists on Mining and Extractives (AJME) on Friday trained journalists from both the print and electronic media on how to report on mining and environmental issues. The training took place at the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) headquarter on Camp...

Algae. The Biofuel Wave of the Future.

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 02 September 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Algae. The Biofuel Wave of the Future. Algae were first explored as a fuel alternative in 1978 under President Jimm...

Researchers to Make Diesel with More Renewable Biofuels

Posted by henryfool on Friday, 31 August 2012 in Biofuels

Researchers at the Univ. of California, Riverside’s College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) are working with the state of California to develop diesel formulations with higher levels of renewable biofuels. This research supports several California legisla...

Not-So-Clean Cleaning Products

Posted by Angel on Friday, 31 August 2012 in Green Products/Services

by Lauren Deville The bad news: We live in a toxic world. There are all kinds of nasty foreign substances all around us, from heavy metals to plastics (otherwise known as phthalates) to pesticides, solvents, molds, and other fat- and water-soluble chemicals. It isn't really possible to avoid toxins...

The Connection to Human Health and The Environment

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 in Human Health

We’ve long known that environmental factors contribute to disease, especially contamination of air, water, and soil. Scientists are now learning the connection is stronger than we realized. New research shows that 60 per cent of emerging infectious diseases affecting humans — thos...

Expanding Gorilla Conservation

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Two months after media-mogul Ted Turner donated $1 million to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, the group has already begun to expand conservation efforts in Eastern Congo amid growing regional instability. The gift has allowed the organizatio...

Could algae be the next biofuel?

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Monday, 27 August 2012 in Biofuels

by Boua Xiong Algae has been studied and experimented with for decades. Now St. Cloud State University is helping take it to the next level. In 2010 students at St. Cloud partnered with Algaedyne, a Minnesota start-up company, to try and find the most efficient way to convert the small organisms i...

EPA Says Water Is A Pollutant?

Posted by amir on Monday, 27 August 2012 in Water Conservation

The EPA has declared water, the substance the Clean Water Act was created to protect, a pollutant - and it is getting the federal government dragged into court. How so? They are requiring Fairfax County, Virginia, to artificially control the flow of water in Accotink Creek watershed beca...

Farmers work to reduce fertilizer runoff contributing to algal blooms

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 26 August 2012 in Agriculture

by Kristina Smith Horn When Jerry Whipple was a boy, his grandfather and father impressed upon him the value of the land they farmed and their responsibility to it. "They were very passionate about the soil," said Whipple, a third-generation farmer. "They said, 'Son, they don't make any more soil....

Growing Algae from Wastewater Runoff in the Ocean

Posted by GreenDog on Sunday, 26 August 2012 in Biofuels

Algae Magazine Interview: NASA’s Dr. Jonathan Trent By David Schwartz NASA scientist, Jonathan Trent, Ph.D., the inventor, heart, and soul of the OMEGA system (Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae) has been developing an idea for a way to grow algae using wastewater, but not on lan...

Eco-Village: Sustainable, Affordable

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 25 August 2012 in Sustainable Development

By Jim Buchta, Star Tribune Nakeia and Ramell Dismond are like most working-class families: After the rent is paid, they have no money left in the budget for their kids' activities or vacations. That will change in a couple of months when they purchase a new twin home on the west edge of River Fal...

Polar bear killed in Arctic by BP security guard

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Saturday, 25 August 2012 in Earth Violators

A polar bear was inadvertently shot to death by a security guard at BP's Endicott field on the North Slope of Alaska when it approached a compound where oil workers live. The shooting earlier this month marked the first time one of the region's iconic bears -- listed as threatened under the federal...

Screenings of Mission of Mermaids, a film about our ocean

Posted by Gwen on Saturday, 25 August 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

I'd like to bring everyone's attention to the upcoming screenings of the film Mission of Mermaids, on which I have had the privilege of working as associate producer and as outreach consultant. The film will be screening around the world this summer and fall--Brazil, Australia, US. For more informat...

Slash helps launch Bob Irwin Wildlife Conservation Foundation

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 24 August 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

On Wednesday, Slash was on hand to help launch the Bob Irwin Wildlife Conservation Foundation at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia. Slash says he first met Bob, the father of the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, a couple of years ago at a music festival. "He [Bob] brought some...

Go Daddy CEO under fire for 'elephant snuff film'

Posted by smashley1988 on Thursday, 23 August 2012 in Earth Violators

PETA gives Parsons 'scummiest CEO' gong and boycott Bob Parsons, chief executive of the market-leading domain name registrar Go Daddy, has come to blows with animal-rights organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), after he shot an African elephant and posted the video onlin...

The secret to oil spill cleanup?

Posted by henryfool on Thursday, 23 August 2012 in Oil Spill

It may live in peanut butter jars and chocolate milkshakes by Jason Koebler Researchers at the University of Southern Mississippi say that lecithin, an ingredient used in non-stick cooking sprays and many food products and cellulose, a compound derived from plants' cell walls that can give ice cre...

Clean technology gaining ground in U.S.

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 23 August 2012 in Clean Technology

by Angie Bergenson Cleantech Group releases new report on clean technology patents The Cleantech Group, a market research firm that focuses on clean technology, has published the latest edition of its Clean Energy Patent Growth Index. The report aims to provide insight on the trends that are influ...

Japan Citizens Favor Zero Nuclear in Debate Over Energy Option

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 23 August 2012 in General Environment

TOKYO -- Japan's public wants the government to phase out nuclear power according to the results of town hall-like forums to give the public a say in the debate on the nation's energy supply post-Fukushima. The forums brought together 286 citizens for two days in early August in Tokyo from...

Another Record Melt For Artic Melt

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 23 August 2012 in Climate Change

Sea ice extent in the Arctic is very near to beating the previous record low set in 2007, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center. Researchers told Reuters that they expect the record to be beaten by the end of month, well over a week before the melt season ends in the frozen north. ...

Saving the Forest When Fires Burn

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 23 August 2012 in Forestry

In the 1990s, life was simpler for environmentalists. Crippling the logging industry was all that was needed to protect trees and birds. But, as in abortion or gun control, you have to sue everyone or you can sue no one and even responsible logging and clearing brush was stopped by environmen...