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Try To Make No Trash For An Entire Week

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 09 October 2009 in General Environment

Celebrate No Trash Week by not making any! Get some friends together, advertise to your email address book, announce it on your blog, post flyers (previously used paper, of course) at your work and school! Tell everyone it's happening, then participate! How do you participate? Strive to make no tra...

Air Pollutants From Abroad A Growing Concern, Says New Report

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 05 October 2009 in Climate Change

ScienceDaily (Sep. 30, 2009) — Plumes of harmful air pollutants can be transported across oceans and continents -- from Asia to the United States and from the United States to Europe -- and have a negative impact on air quality far from their original sources, says a new report by the National Resea...

Algae: Biofuel Of The Future?

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 05 October 2009 in Biofuels

ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2008) — In the world of alternative fuels, there may be nothing greener than pond scum. Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day. ...

Using algae to make fuels, he's thinking beyond pond scum

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 05 October 2009 in Biofuels

The gig: Chief executive of Sapphire Energy Inc., a San Diego biofuels company that develops algae-based fuel that has been used experimentally to power airplanes and, recently, a car that was driven across the country. The serial entrepreneur has had a hand in starting several companies in industri...

Sweden calls for carbon taxes

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 03 October 2009 in Climate Change

Sweden urged other European nations on Friday to follow its lead in linking new taxes to greenhouse gas emissions as governments seek additional sources of income in the wake of the financial crisis. Denmark, Finland and Slovenia already have taxes on household carbon emissions that can add costs t...

Griffith Park users outraged by shooting of 7 coyotes

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 28 September 2009 in Animals

The howls echoing through Griffith Park today are coming from joggers, parents and nannies -- not coyotes. Park visitors are angry with wildlife officials' decision to trap and shoot coyotes in the 4,210-acre mountain park. Trackers were called in to trap and shoot the animals after two people repo...

China's President Hu speaks to UN on the enviroment

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 25 September 2009 in Climate Change

President Hu Jintao is making an unprecedented string of visits to United Nations summits as he leads a high-ranking Chinese delegation to the United States this week. The president will be in New York for the UN Summit on Climate Change, the 64th annual UN General Assembly debate and a nuclear non...

NWEI Makes it to the Final Round...

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 in Environmental Heroes

The Northwest Earth Institute is a contender in the Tom's of Maine Community Projects contest. From over 2,000 entries 50 finalists have been selected and a public vote will select the winners. Read more about the details here, and vote early & often for the Northwest Earth Institute's project....

Earth Protect Announces Winners of Membership Drawing!

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 22 September 2009 in Beauty and Fashion

Earth Protect announces the winners of the membership drawing of the prizes provided by Marty Stevens Heebner of Rebagz. The Magnolia Tote was won by Earth Protect user "earthling" and the book, Altered Shoes - A Step By Step Guide To Making Your Footwear Fabulous, was won by Earth Protect user "pa...

"The Age of Stupid": a wakeup call on climate

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 21 September 2009 in Arts and Entertainment

Could we, the human race, really miss an ever-narrowing chance to save the planet from the ravages of global warming? "The Age of Stupid," which will be screened in hundreds of venues around the world next week, contemplates this grim scenario with the open aim of galvanising a collective effort to ...

President Obama delivered speech to United Nations on climate change

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 21 September 2009 in Climate Change

President Obama delivered a speech to the United Nations today as 100 world leaders gathered for the highest-level summit yet on climate change. Obama said the United States is "determined to act" as the "threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing." Here is the text of O...

Serious Whaling

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 11 September 2009 in Animals

New Zealand and Australia claim they have created a way to do scientific research on whales without killing them. This is in response to Japan's major whaling operations that kill up to 1,000 whales per year. More information can be found at the environment section of The NZHerald.

Chinese solar plant expected to be the biggest

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 08 September 2009 in Solar

Field of panels would eventually be slightly larger than Manhattan From: AP First Solar Inc. said Tuesday it has received initial approval from the Chinese government to build what may become the largest solar field in the world. First Solar, which makes more solar cells than any other company, sa...

Maldives to introduce green tax on tourists

Posted by joeycello on Monday, 07 September 2009 in Ecotourism

From: Ranga Sirilal, Reuters MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives archipelago, threatened by rising sea levels blamed on climate change, said on Monday it would introduce a new environment tax on all tourists who use its resorts and provide its economic lifeline. Famed mostly for high-end luxury resorts ...

Japan's annual dolphin cull disrupted by activists

Posted by joeycello on Monday, 07 September 2009 in Animals

From: Julian Ryall, Telegraph UK An animal rights campaigner who trained dolphins for the 1960s television series Flipper has managed to disrupt the first two days of the annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji, but accepts that as soon as he leaves the fishermen will resume the killing. ...

Chinese Children Killed by Pollution

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 August 2009 in Earth Violators

There was a horrifying report in The Denver Post on Aug 21 that told of 1,300 children being poisoned by pollution from a manganese-processing plant. This occurred just days after emissions from a lead smelter in another province sickened hundreds. The people are protesting but this tiny article on...

Scientist in the Pacific Gyre Study

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 31 August 2009 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The Scripps research vessel (R/V) New Horizon left its San Diego homeport on Aug. 2 for the North Pacific Ocean Gyre, roughly a thousand miles off California's coast. With collaborators from Project Kaisei, the team is surveying plastic distribution and abundance, collecting samples for analysis in ...

Global Peace Day

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 August 2009 in Peace

Global Peace Day Sept 21, 2009 We invite You to Mark, Create and Take a STAND Globally for PEACE. To Celebrate with us together FREELY & UNIQUELY as ONE VOICE in Your Own Way... ~The Global Ceasefire between All United Nations Countries. To acknowledge All people who bring peace to the world, ...

Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Climate Change

Climate change is essentially irreversible, according to a sobering new scientific study. As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, the world will experience more and more long-term environmental disruption. The damage will persist even when, and if, emissions are brought under control, says st...

Activists seek tough U.N. climate pact in 100 days

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Climate Change

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, Sun Aug 30, 2009 OSLO (Reuters) - Activists launched what they called the world's biggest campaign to combat global warming on Friday, urging governments to agree a tough U.N. climate pact at talks in Copenhagen starting in 100 days' time. Environmental...