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Cannon Power receives stimulus grant

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 20 June 2010 in Wind

Renewable energy pioneer Cannon Power Group, based in Del Mar Heights, announced Wednesday it was awarded a cash grant from the Department of Treasury through the American Recovery and Reimbursement Act to enable the further build-out of the Windy Point/Windy Flats project in rural Klickitat County,...

IWC faces total collapse

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 19 June 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

On the eve of an international meeting to decide the fate of thousands of whales, New Zealand's foreign minister is warning that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is facing total collapse. Murray McCully told TVNZ's Q and A programme that could result in anarchy on the high seas and ...

Oil spilled in Gulf full of methane gas, adding new concerns

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 18 June 2010 in Oil Spill

It is an overlooked danger in the oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico's fragile ecosystem. Michael DeMocker / The Times-Picayune The Discoverer Enterprise burns off n...

How to help wildlife threatened by the oil spill

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 18 June 2010 in Oil Spill

A massive oil slick caused by the BP oil drilling platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has reached the U.S. Gulf Coast. Efforts are already underway to protect sensitive ecological areas. Many organizations are preparing to mobilize along the coast from Louisiana to Florida to help rescue anima...

Bill Gates pays for ‘artificial’ clouds to beat greenhouse gases

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 18 June 2010 in Clean Technology

The first trials of controversial sunshielding technology are being planned after the United Nations failed to secure agreement on cutting greenhouse gases. Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards....

More Off-Shore Drilling As BP’s Oil Disaster Grows?

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 18 June 2010 in Oil Spill

As Oil Execs Testify About Drilling Safety, GOP Rallies with Same Old "Drill, Baby, Drill!" WASHINGTON, DC – Despite tens of thousands of gallons of oil continuing to gush from BP’s oil well and executives from five major oil companies testifying before Congress today about off-shore drilli...

Greening America's Capitals

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 17 June 2010 in Green Design

Greening America's Capitals is a project of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities between EPA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to help state capitals develop an implementable vision of distinctive, environmentally frie...

Reflections on the Gulf Oil Spill - Conversations With My Grandpa

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Oil supplies the United States with approximately 40% of its energy needs. Billions upon billions of gallons are pumped out of our wells, brought in from other countries, and shipped around to refineries all over the states. 1.3 million gallons of petroleum are spilled into U.S. waters from vessels ...

Please, your help is needed to save the Leather-back Sea Turtles from extinction!!

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Dear Family and Friends, In six months I will be taking on the challenge of volunteering to help save the Leatherback Sea Turtles in Costa Rica, the largest sea turtle in the world. I will be joining scientist and other...

Tell your senators to pass energy legislation that will prevent future oil spills

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 in Oil Spill

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an environmental disaster that also threatens profound social and economic damage. NRDC has sent a team of experts to the gulf to document the environmental and health impacts of the spill and to advocate for every possible action to limit the damage to ...

President to Nation: "Now is Time for Action, Clean Up Mess in Gulf and Move Ahead to Clean Energy Economy"

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 in Oil Spill

WASHINGTON (June 15, 2010) -- In his first Oval Office address, President Obama laid out his plans for cleaning up the millions of gallons of oil that have already escaped and talked about what we must do to decrease our dependence on oil. "Tonight, President Obama made it clear that he plans to pu...

BP to fund $20bn Gulf of Mexico oil spill payout

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Oil giant BP is to put $20bn (£13.5bn) in a compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill and will not pay shareholders a dividend this year. Barack Obama announced the compensation deal after talks at the White House with senior BP executives. Shortly a...

BP bosses including chief executive Tony Hayward (L) at the White House meeting Preisdent Obama (2nd R)

Economy/Environment, Gulf Spill A Sad Lesson to Learn

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Louisiana, Florida and other Gulf Coast states face worse that thought environmental damage as the estimates of how much oil is spilling rise, the latest estimate is as much as 40,000 barrels!!! a day. Moody Investors Services site unemployment, tempered in the short term by clean up jobs but a long...

Bearing witness to the tar sands

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 14 June 2010 in Fossil Fuels

We arrived in Calgary, Alberta today on the first leg of a trip to see firsthand the strip mining and drilling for oil in the tar sands region of Canada’s Boreal forest. NRDC’s Executive Director, Peter Lehner, and others in leadership positions with the organization will be touring the region...

What is Biodiversity?

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 14 June 2010 in Climate Change

Biodiversity is starting to be become another buzz word like green products and carbon footprints. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem or on the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems. The biodiversity found on Earth...

Kevin Costner’s Oil Extractor Ready to Take Action in the Gulf

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 14 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Kevin Costner, actor, musician and environmentalist is ready to help clean up the Gulf oil spill with a centrifuge device that is already in the Gulf waters, ready for action. Concerned about the short-term and long-term ramifications of oil spills in 1993, Costner procured a technology transfer fr...

Jacques Cousteau's 100th birthday launches year long celebration

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 11 June 2010 in Environmental Heroes

Today marks the 100th birthday of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The Cousteau Society will commemorate the centennial of his birth with a year-long celebration in Paris, as well as various events planned around the world. The Society is currently accepting proposals for other officially sanctioned ...

What would a Citizen Engineer do with the BP Oil Spill

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 11 June 2010 in Earth Violators

In a world of increasing complexity, accidents happen. This accident is a tragedy with 11 dead and 17 injured in an explosion that created the worst oil spill in the history of the United States. Let's start the clock over on these events and explore what a Citizen Engineer would do. Ma...

NASA photo taken May 24 from web site http://2010gulfoilspill.com/

Kevin Costner sells 32 oil spill machines to BP to recycle 6 million gallons of water a day

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 10 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Kevin Costner presented his oil spill solution to Congress and demonstrated his machine that recycles and separates oil from water with a 99.9% success rate. Actor, Kevin Costner said that he was inspired by the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989 to come up with an idea that would safely separate oil fr...

James Cameron Will Fix the Gulf Oil Spill

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 in Oil Spill

There have been several options bandied about as to how to stop oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. Some have suggested nuking the spill, while Hoda and Kathie Lee of the Today show have offered up even stranger solutions. Clearly, someone needs to get “titanic” on the Gulf. Enter James Camero...