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Join the Earth Hour movement: Turn off your lights on March 27, 8:30 PM

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 in Energy Efficiency

Earth Hour 2010 It’s as simple as a flick of the switch. What began in 2007 as a campaign to get Sydneysiders to turn their lights off, has grown to become one of the world’s biggest climate change initiatives. In 2010, at 8.30pm on March 27, people around the world will turn their lights for one h...

Why Should We Care about Global Warming? A Moral Call to Action

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 26 February 2010 in Climate Change

By Dr. Jonathan Harrington, author of The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet (Earthscan 2008). Virtually all religions embrace once central moral tenet, do no harm. In America parents, preachers and teachers endlessly drum this age old mantra into our heads. You wou...

'Widespread fraud' in California's smog test program

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 in Air Quality

State aims to make major changes after finding that nearly a third of older cars fail roadside smog checks within a year of passing at test stations. February 25, 2010 | By Margot Roosevelt Nearly a third of older-model cars stopped for roadside smog tests in Southern California failed them, despi...

The Green Future

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in General Environment

Hi everybody, I'm Amanda and I'm a student at Environmental Charter High School. My role here at the school is to spread the "Green Change" throughout my school by Selling Kanteens and Chico bags to everybody in my school. My goal is to for all the soccer, baseball, basketball, and softball players ...

Who We are Green Ambassadors!

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in General Environment

We Are the Green Ambassadors. We are an organization that works with teenagers or young adults and teach them the environmental problems and not just that we also teach them what to do about it. We as an organization help the students live differently. I am a student who was changed by joining the ...

J. Harrington, "Climate Diet" - Creating a Cooler Climate: You Can Make a Difference

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Climate Change

Global warming. The subject seems to be coming up a lot these days. Extreme weather events are becoming more common. Fertile land is morphing into desert. Each year seems hotter than the next. In fact, global mean temperatures increased significantly during the past century and scientists predict th...

Our Lifestyles—Her Life

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Climate Change

Different Actions=Different Futures Dr. Jonathan Harrington Journal Entry, July 1, 2030: My wife Kathy and I are having a wonderful time at Glacier National Park. Yesterday, my daughter Kela, her seven-year-old daughter Maria, Kathy, and I rode in a hydrogen-powered tour bus along Lake McDonald. W...

Where Do Puffins Go in the Winter?

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Animals

A recent increase in winter mortality in Atlantic puffins could be due to worsening conditions within the North Sea, according to new findings published in the scientific journal Marine Biology. The study used geo-location technology to track puffins from the Isle of May National Nature Reserve, hom...

Rare Rhinos Relocated In Effort To Keep Species Alive

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Animals

This month, conservationists in the Czech Republic and Kenya launchedan audacious bid to save one of the world's rarest animals: thenorthern white rhinoceros. Four of the last eight known northern whitesin the world, two male and two female, were packed into wooden cratesand sent from a Czech zoo to...

Time 'may be running out' for orangutans

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Animals

Time may be running out for orangutans living in the rainforests of Sumatra, it has been warned. According to the Jakarta Post, the "auburn haired" creatures may be facing extinction as they can now only be found in the north of Sumatra and Aceh, areas which are both being hit by deforestation. T...

About Orangutans

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Animals

The name “orangutan” literally translates into English as “man of the forest”. It comes from Malay and Bahasa Indonesian orang (man) and hutan (forest). Orangutans are extremely intelligent creatures who clearly have the ability to reason and think. Their similarity to us is uncanny. Baby orangutan...

Can Condoms Help Save Polar Bears?

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

By SINDYA N. BHANOO The Center for Biological Diversity is spreading the word about the impact of population growth on the environment by distributing condoms with cheeky slogans. An environmental group is distributing hundreds of thousands of free condoms with hopes that it will educate the publi...

California Solar Startup and German Industrial Giant Forge Partnership

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Solar

By TODD WOODYFEBRUARY 19, 2010, 12:10 PM The German industrial giant Ferrostaal will use solar technology from the California startup eSolar in power plants to be built in Europe, the Middle East and South Africa. The partnership, announced on Thursday, comes a month after eSolar, which is backed ...

Only 3,500 Great Whites Now Left in the Wild

Posted by joeycello on Saturday, 20 February 2010 in Animals

Great Whites Could Go Extinct Before Tigers Two of the world's most famous carnivores are now under the microscope for being perilously close to extinction. One of them, the tiger, has gotten plenty of PR recently, along with the frightening revelation that the entire species could be on the brink ...

Working Less for the Planet

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 18 February 2010 in General Environment

Is It Time to Transition To 21 Hour Work Weeks? Less paid work means more civic involvement, satisfied lives & ecological sustainability By Matt McDermott I've been sitting with the New Economic Foundation's 21 hours report for a week now. Sometimes these things just have to percolate for a w...

Scientists Cruise Deep into Coral Ecosystems

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

By Matthew Cimitile, Amanda Demopoulos, and Christina Kellogg Above: Some of the team members from the third 2009 DISCOVRE cruise. The science crew contains an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Kneeling (left to right): Mi...

Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Growth: Historical Perspectives from Core-Based Studies

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

By Ryan P. Moyer November 2009 Coral reefs are uniquely complex ecosystems in that they are defined by the underlying geologic structures ("reefs") that are constructed primarily by calcifying organisms (mostly coral and algae). Coral-reef habit...

2009 Spring Survey Shows Drop in California Sea Otter Numbers

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 in Animals

The sluggish recovery of the southern sea otter of California, a threatened population on the Endangered Species list, appears to have stalled once again. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists say the latest 3-year running average (2,813 sea otters) was 0.5-percent lower than last year, the firs...

Number of southern sea otters counted during spring surveys, plotted as 3-year running averages

Suit Will Be Filed To Protect 83 Corals Threatened By Ocean Acidification

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 14 February 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

SAN FRANCISCO, California -- The Center for has formally notified the National Marine Fisheries Service of its intent to sue the agency for its failure to respond to a petition seeking to protect 83 imperiled coral species under the Endangered Species Act. These corals, all of which occur in ...

THE SHARK ANGELS

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 14 February 2010 in Animals

But you can’t stop something so terrible from happening if you don’t know about it or know why you should even care. An estimated 100,000,000 sharks were killed last year – primarily for their fins. Indeed, their populations are down to critical levels and they are still being fished out of the oce...