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Study says shines light on sun spot-climate link

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

Fri Aug 28, 2009By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Small changes in the energy output of the sun can have a major impact on global weather patterns, such as the intensity of the Indian monsoon, that could be predicted years in advance, a team of scientists sa...

Dolphins being slaughtered

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Animals

More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered every year in a cove in Taiji, Japan. Their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food, often times labeled as whale meat. Courageous documentary filmmakers infiltrated the heavily guarded cove to uncover the truth ab...

Climate change opens Arctic’s Northeast passage

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

Two German ships set off on Friday on the first commercial journey from Asia to western Europe via the Arctic through the fabled Northeast Passage – a trip made possible by climate change. August 22nd, 2009 Niels Stolberg, president and CEO of Bremen-based Beluga Shipping, said the Northern Sea Ro...

Can farms and forests mix?

Posted by joeycello on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Agriculture

August 24th, 2009Forests and farms don’t mix, according to conventional wisdom. Farmers are often portrayed as the villains, slashing and burning trees to clear land for crops and wrecking forests from the Amazon to Indonesia (…not to mention Europe, where people cleared most forests thousands of y...

Random Acts of Kindness; Helping Others Save Energy

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Energy Efficiency

A few years ago, my family gathered in Mississippi for a funeral. While we were there, we undertook the renovation of a living area and found it was quick and easy to make some energy efficient choices. August 25, 2009 We replaced all of the regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs...

Farmers care About trees too

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Agriculture

Almost half of the world's farmland has at least 10 percent tree cover, according to a study on Monday indicating that farmers are far less destructive to carbon-storing forests than previously believed. From: Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, ReutersPublished August 24, 2009Farmers Care Ab...

NOAA: Warmest Global Ocean Surface Temperatures on Record for July

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 23 August 2009 in Climate Change

The global land surface temperature for July 2009 was 0.92 degree F (0.51 degree C) above the 20th century average of 57.8 degrees F (14.3 degree C), and tied with 2003 as the ninth-warmest July on record. Notable Developments and Events El Niño persisted across the equatorial Pacific Ocean duri...

The Wild Dolphin Project

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 23 August 2009 in Animals

Now that The Cove - the documentary about dolphin slaughtering in Japan - has officially rolled out to most U.S. cities, people's awareness about dolphins' precarious position on this planet has risen to new levels. Films like this are incredible in that they can literally shock viewers into action...

Assault on Public Lands

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 in Mining

In the April/May 2008 issue of National Wildlife magazine senior editor Roger Di Silvestro tells us how, because an antiquated 1872 law, hard rock mining companies are able to obtain leases on public lands at ridiculously low cost and extract minerals from those lands at huge profits, and leave behi...

Ground Zero for Dolphin Slaughter

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 10 August 2009 in Animals

Taiji Town: Ground Zero for the World’s Largest Dolphin Slaughter Taiji is a small fishing village located on the southern part of the Japanese archipelago at the tip of the peninsula that extends into the Pacific Ocean. This is where the practice of driving dolphins into shallow water and slaught...

GRIEF NOT ANGER

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 06 August 2009 in Arts and Entertainment

This poem has been written by me on the Earth Day 2009 in grave concern to our mother EARTH. Hoping for wide publicity by all. Chaarvi Murari P-3 Kalpi Road, Gwalior , India Like a dead corpse I lie, and you gnaw away and feedLike those feathery demons,Who just know hunger and greed.Don’t steal, b...

Ocean & Climate Change Film Hits US TV Sept. 26: A Sea Change News

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 02 August 2009 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

So much great news to report about A Sea Change. In June, the film received the Grand Prize, Feature Documentary, at the FICA International Environmental Film Festival in Brazil. We are honored, and delighted that this story of a Norwegian-American is meaningful around the world and across the lang...

A study report on Environmental education and communication program for children in villages, India

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 29 July 2009 in General Environment

I. Introduction Recent times have witnessed a global concern for the environment. Protection of environment has posed not only a major challenge but also a social and moral responsibility in the present society. In point of fact, the subject of environment has interested the general public and caug...

Greenpeace Goes Guerilla in its War with HP

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 29 July 2009 in Clean Technology

Greenpeace has started a war of sorts. Ironic? Not really, considering its adversary, Hewlett Packard (HP), and the two organizations’ history of contempt. By Sarah Harper | July 30th, 2009 The eco activist network has taken on HP, which Greenpeace claims is producing hazardous chemicals and not m...

Plastic Left Holding the Bag as Environmental Plague

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 in General Environment

Nations around world look at a banby Joan Lowy Imagine a world without plastic shopping bags. It could be the future. There is a growing international movement to ban or discourage the use of plastic bags because of their environmental effects. Countries from Ireland to Australia are cracking down...

My Home Town First to Ban Plastic Bags!

Posted by ekeith on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 in Environmental Heroes

An article in the Seattle Times about my home town of Edmonds. Which is the first city in Washington State to ban plastic bags. Way to go Edmonds! Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009555416_bagban29m.html?cmpid=2727 Edmonds has become the first city in the state to ban plastic...

MANATEE - Do we want speed boats or this unique sea mammal?

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 in Animals

All over the world more than 10,000 animal species are in danger. Some are in danger because their homes are being destroyed. Many are in danger because people hunt them. Among these are the manatees. Manatees are gentle creatures that some call Sea Cows. Their Falling Numbers!!Florida Manatees ar...

Million trees LA

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 in Sustainable Development

1. WHAT IS THE MILLION TREES L.A. INITIATIVE?Mayor Villaraigosa is committed to making Los Angeles the largest, cleanest, and greenest city in the United States. The Million Trees L.A. (MTLA) Initiative will accomplish this through public-private partnerships that will plant one million trees throug...

TenHabits.org

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 27 July 2009 in General Environment

Right now you can do one thing – to celebrate Earth Day, to change your life and to make our world greener. It’s simple and you don’t have to spend money or wait for other people to get their act together. Go to www.tenhabits.org and pledge to change one habit for six months. You’ll see ten straigh...

Shark-infested wedding for Singapore activists

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 27 July 2009 in Animals

A Singaporean couple has tied the knot in a shark-infested tank to highlight the plight of the animals which die to fulfill the increasing Chinese taste for shark-fin soup. "We wanted to do something different and help raise consciousness of the environment," said the bride, Juliana Khoo, after she...