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Top 10 states for clean energy jobs

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 in Clean Technology

By Barbara Vergetis Lundin of fierceenergy.com According to research from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), up to 37,409 jobs could be created from the more than 70 major clean energy projects launched across the U.S. in the second quarter of 2012 alone. Public transportation, electric vehicle manu...

Molly Stayman, Super Duper Film Intern

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 in General Environment

Earth Protect was very fortunate to have Molly as a Summer Intern entering her Junior Year this fall at Drexel University. She is a Film & Video and Television Major. Molly has great organization skills, is a whiz at editing and wowed the IGERT graduate students at UCSD Scripps Institution...

Hot Weather Speed up Harvest

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 in Agriculture

John Bollingberg remembers a few other years when the area’s wheat crop was harvested this early. But there’s an important difference with this early harvest. “Those other years, we didn’t have crops of any quality,” says Bollingberg, a retired 78-year-old Bremen, N.D., farmer. “But this ye...

Mississippi River Shows Signs of Drought

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 in Climate Change

These images show a stretch of the Mississippi River just south of Memphis, Tennessee. The top one was taken by a NASA satellite on August 8, 2012, and the bottom one by a different NASA satellite on August 14, 2011. See how there are huge patches of light tan along the river in the i...

How the Drought is Hurting Baby Bears

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 in Water Conservation

Shocked by the prices you’re seeing at the grocery store? Widespread drought is causing the prices of common foods like corn, soy beans, and beef to shoot through the roof. Many families are struggling to keep bellies full despite browning plants and cracking ground, and not all of them ar...

Biorefinery finds treasure in spent coffee grounds and stale bakery goods

Posted by henryfool on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 in Recycling

With 1.3 billion tons of food trashed, dumped in landfills and otherwise wasted around the world every year, scientists today described development and successful laboratory testing of a new “biorefinery” intended to change food waste into a key ingredient for making plastics, laundry detergents and...

End for fossil fuels

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 in Fossil Fuels

by Ben Cubby of brisbanetimes.com.au THIS year is likely to be seen by future historians as the ''beginning of the clean-energy era'', when the world turned decisively towards renewable energy, according to the chief of Australia's climate commission, Tim Flannery. Professor Flannery will try to s...

Palm oil need not come at expense of the environment

Posted by henryfool on Monday, 20 August 2012 in Agriculture

from mongabay.com Greenpeace highlights community model for palm oil production. Palm oil production need not come at the expense of the environment, says Greenpeace in a new campaign that highlights a smallholder approach used by a community in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra. The campaign...

Trees found to be emitting methane gas

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 20 August 2012 in Forestry

By Jim Shelton It's time to add gassy trees to the list of climate concerns. According to a new study by Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, diseased trees may be releasing unusually large amounts of methane gas into the air. If the data holds up, it could alter forest ...

New Program on Global Sustainability & Resilience

Posted by Aaron on Monday, 20 August 2012 in Population

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today announced the creation of a new program to study the impact of global changes—such as population growth, resource scarcity, urbanization, migration, and economic development—on people's lives, from their environment and health to their secur...

Scientists Score Ocean Health 60 out of 100

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 20 August 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

STANFORD / UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — Scientists have assessed the state of the ocean and its ecosystems, and the global average is 60 out of 100. If thought of as a school report card, 60 out of 100 looks like a failing grade, but that’s not quite how the assessment should be read. “It’s better to t...

Trout Problem the Result of Oil Spill

Posted by amir on Monday, 20 August 2012 in Oil Spill

As BP's oil approached the coast in 2010, many marina operators and fishing guides who had been wiped out by Hurricane Katrina found themselves looking back at that disaster with something akin to longing. Experience had taught them that although hurricanes could beat them down, at least they left ...

Pros and Cons of Extracting Metal Versus Recycling Scrap Metal

Posted by henryfool on Sunday, 19 August 2012 in Recycling

by Jennifer Dalcour from greenerideal.com Metal is extracted from the soil. It is then refined, processed, and transported to various manufacturers where it will undergo further procedures to become products. However, these processes do a lot of damage to the environment. To offset the damages, we ...

Urban Agriculture and Tourism for Sustainable Urban Development

Posted by henryfool on Sunday, 19 August 2012 in Sustainable Development

By Gary Thomas, azocleantech.com "Promoting Sustainable Urban Development through Urban Agriculture and Tourism" is the theme of the 2012 World Cities Scientific Development Forum (WCSDF). The World Cities Scientific Development Alliance (WCSDA) organizes WCSDFs every year along with its partners....

Agriculture is nation's biggest water polluter but usually goes unpunished

Posted by Aaron on Saturday, 18 August 2012 in Agriculture

By Robert McClure, InvestigateWest Eight times in seven years, a state inspector asked Joe Lemire to keep his cattle off the banks of Pataha Creek. Why? Because they drop cow pies in the water. Cows trample pollution-filtering streamside plants. Cows mash the banks down so dirt gets into the stream...

Is the Global Ocean Healthy? We Can Answer That Now

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 18 August 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

by Ben Halpern, Jameal Samhouri, and Karen McLeod of psmag.com As the Ocean Health Index makes its public debut, three of its parents describe the moment of 'Eureka!' in summing up the well-being of the global ocean and its human dependents. There are very few moments in science where years of wor...

2012 World Cities Scientific Development Forum

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 18 August 2012 in Sustainable Development

Promoting Sustainable Urban Development Through Urban Agriculture and Tourism The multi-stakeholder 2012 World Cities Scientific Development Forum (WCSDF) will take place 12 – 14 December 2012 in the historic city of Xi’an, China under the theme “Promoting Sustainable Urban Development through Urba...

United Airlines joins sustainable aviation fuel users group

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 17 August 2012 in Transportation

United Airlines today announced it further strengthened its commitment to sustainability and the environment by joining the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG), an industry working group whose objective is to accelerate the development and commercialization of aviation biofuels. “We are e...

TV Media Ignore Climate Change In Coverage Of Record July Heat

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 17 August 2012 in Climate Change

by Jill Fitzsimmons & Max Greenberg of mediamatters.org Scientists say that human-induced climate change made this year's record heat more likely, and project that extreme heat will become more common in the United States. But a Media Matters analysis of media coverage of record-breaking heat i...

Methane from fracking triggers climate change

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Thursday, 16 August 2012 in Mining

By Dominic Frongillo of syracuse.com Gas from fracking is mostly methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas that is up to 105 times more powerful at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over 20 years. As this record-breaking summer continues to heat up, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is purportedly nea...