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ECHS Softball Team Mobilizes Green Practices!!!

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 04 April 2009 in Recycling

Being green is not something you only do at home or at school, but EVERYWHERE! On Saturday March 28, the softball team played proud and hard in the Westminster Tournament. After a long day, during their snack time, the girls had Gatorade bottles and orange peels left over. Practicing being Green A...

CWC invites you to Walk on the Wild Side

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 31 March 2009 in Animals

Please join hundreds of wildlife advocates who are walking to support our native animals on Sunday, May 3 at Zuma Beach, Malibu. The money raised from CWC Walk on the Wild Side® will go directly to funding the free services and programs CWC provides, including paramedic rescue and rehabilitation fo...

Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 30 March 2009 in Climate Change

April 2009 (CNN) -- Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remains divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility. Against a backdro...

Al Gore Refuses To Dignify Debate "It's Not a Matter Of Theory"

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 30 March 2009 in Climate Change

Former Vice President Al Gore must not have been too surprised when it happened, but a well-known climate skeptic confronted him at the Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics forum in Santa Monica. The skeptic, Bjorn Lomborg, is a favorite of conservatives who would rather not spend on the environment. D...

The State of American Birds

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 in Animals

20-03-2009 A new report based on 40 years of data analysed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, state government wildlife agencies, and non-governmental organizations including Audubon (BirdLife in the USA), shows that birds are sending an important and troubling message a...

The Season of Killing Baby Seals has Begun

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 22 March 2009 in Animals

Amidst worldwide protest and controversy, Canada’s shameful annual massacre of 300,000 baby harp seals began today. Mass killings are underway in the Saint Lawrence Gulf and will soon expand to Newfoundland. Canada’s seal hunt (if you can call bludgeoning defenseless baby animals to death “hunting”)...

Eco-fugitive Caught

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 14 March 2009 in Earth Violators

Authorities in Florida shot and critically wounded one of the US's most wanted environmental crime fugitives, Larkin Baggett. Baggett pointed a gun at police. He is owner of Chemical Consultants Inc. and has been charged in federal court in Utah with dumping chemicals down drains, into paved alleys ...

Amphibians disappearing from Yellowstone Park

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 14 March 2009 in Wildlife Conservation

Source ABC, October 29, 2008Frogs and salamanders are disappearing in Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming. These amphibious indicators of the environment are the kind of discovery that, for a Ph.D. candidate, can be the makings of a career. So,...

Sweden sets climate goals example for EU

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 14 March 2009 in Climate Change

From: WWFPublished March 12, 2009 The new climate and clean energy package proposed by Sweden should serve as an example for all EU countries ahead of crucial global warming negotiations, WWF says. If followed by other industrialised nations the deal could lead towards a low carbon future and help ...

Monkeys teach their young to floss

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 13 March 2009 in Animals

KYOTO (Japan) - THAI monkeys have been observed showing their young how to floss - proof that primates teach offspring to use tools, a Japanese researcher says. 'I was surprised because teaching techniques on using tools properly to a third party are said to be an activity carried out only by human...

Low-level ozone exposure found to be lethal over time

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 in Air Quality

L.A. Times - An 18-year study shows an increased annual risk of death from respiratory illnesses, depending on the pollution level. It goes beyond studies that linked brief ozone spikes to short-term effects. By Thomas H. Maugh IIMarch 12, 2009 Ozone pollution is a killer, increasing the yearly ri...

Bristol Bay - Pure Water is more precious than gold

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 08 March 2009 in Mining

Examples of Modern Mines that Damaged Rivers & Fisheries (Compiled by Mara Bacsujlaky for the Bristol Bay Alliance) The mines that are featured here are all mining operations whose main components were developed within the last 30 years, using “state-of-the-art”, modern hardrock mining technol...

Stingrays: Protect and Respect - Steve Irwin and Giants!

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 05 March 2009 in Animals

By Laura Tull Stingrays are fascinating animals, brought to the attention of the media by a true accident with the death of Steve Irwin, and by recent discoveries of Giant Stingray's in Thailand. Though related to the sharks they are not as aggressive and are not prone to attack humans. They are ne...

China Climate Change Profile Part 3

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 27 February 2009 in Climate Change

China must already grapple with some of the worst environmental effects of climate change, including severe air pollution, desertification, water scarcity, and flooding. Is there more to come? Air Pollution and Public HealthChina's reliance on its abundant but dirty coal has produced a number of ne...

Critical protection sought for Australia’s big blue backyard

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 27 February 2009 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

February 23, 2009 09:00 AM - WWF Perth, Australia - Nine out of 10 marine species found off Australia’s south-west coast are found nowhere else on earth but less than one per cent of this globally significant region is protected. A new report found a series of globally significant “hotspots” for m...

Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 27 February 2009 in Climate Change

The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen has one critical goal: a global treaty to help cut carbon emissions to levels that will prevent dangerous rises in global temperatures and catastrophic climate change. That deal must set goals for cutting global CO2 emissions: some say a 50 percent red...

Apple, Al Gore and Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 27 February 2009 in Climate Change

February 27, 2009 Apple Inc. had its shareholder meeting Wednesday and the media focused on the absence of its charismatic leader Steve Jobs. But there's an even more famous guy associated with Apple. Al Gore is one of my heroes. As a journalist, I covered him as a Senator 20 years ago in Washingto...

We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 26 February 2009 in Climate Change

By AL GORE It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we would still need to deal with the n...

Be a Hero: Bike to Work

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 26 February 2009 in Transportation

When it comes to saving our environment, we need to look at ourselves in the mirror. There are simple solutions, like bicycling to work, that could save money and lives. You’ve heard the arguments over and over. Cycling to work is not only good for you, but good for the environment. One would thin...

Shut Up, Grandma's Talking

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 23 February 2009 in General Environment

"When the wisdom of the Grandmothers is heard, the world will heal."--Native American Prophecy Whoever really listens to Grandma? Seriously. She doesn't email, she doesn't text, she certainly doesn't have a blog. If you tell her you have one, she'll probably suggest you get it off before it stains....