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Wildlife ARE OUR Canaries in the Coal Mine

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Wildlife ARE OUR Canaries in the Coal Mine When they are endangered can we be far behind? Our challenge is learning a more enlightened approach to the human endeavor. Like it or not we are the most powerful species that has appeared on Earth. We are de facto ecological managers. Wildlife c...

Water, Water Everywhere - Not in 2012

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 19 March 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Water, Water Everywhere - Not in 2012Last year’s drought touched more than 80 percent of U.S. agricultural land. While the drought was most likely initially set into motion by the cooler-than-average water temperatures of La Niña in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which influences weathe...

Want to Save the Planet? Slack Off at Work.

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Want to Save the Planet? Slack Off at Work. View this email in your browser We are having ...

Air Pollution

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 04 February 2013 in Newsletter Archive

Air pollution, both indoors and outdoors, is a major environmental health problem affecting everyone in developed and developing countries alike. The 2005 WHO Air quality guidelines (AQGs) are designed to offer global guidance on reducing the health impacts of air pollution. The guidelines first pro...

Eco-friendly Thanksgiving

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Social Norming: Show Don’t Tell by Cindy Jennings (Earth Protect's latest Featured Blogger!) We have all lived social norming. If you’ve ever gotten into an elevator and turned around to face the door, this is a social norm. If you’ve ever given a dirty look to someone talking on his or her cell ph...

Election 2012

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 05 November 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Dear Earth Protectors, We realize you have many choices on who or what to vote for this election. We would like to tell you we have all the answers. The most important thing for you to do is VOTE for the environment first. We have been fielding blogs and news from around the county on the Hurricane,...

World Food Week - 2012

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 15 October 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Agricultural cooperatives are the focus of World Food Day 2012. The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), gives focus to World Food Day observances and raises awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hun...

2012 - Year of Sustainable Energy for All

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 01 October 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations: "Energy is central to everything we do, from powering our economies to empowering women, from generating jobs to strengthening security. It cuts across all sectors of government and lies at the heart of a country's core interests. Now more than ...

World Rhino Day- Sept. 22

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 23 September 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Today, there are perhaps 5,000 black rhinos and 20,000 white rhinos left on the continent, but even these numbers must be considered optimistic; the killing has reached such a frenzied pitch that the only thing that's certain is that the populations are in free-fall. The root causes for the slaught...

Award Winning Children’s Author and scientist Joins Earth Protect

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 16 September 2012 in Newsletter Archive

World Rhino Day- Sept. 22 Today, there are perhaps 5,000 black rhinos and 20,000 white rhinos left on the contine...

Algae. The Biofuel Wave of the Future.

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 02 September 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Algae. The Biofuel Wave of the Future. Algae were first explored as a fuel alternative in 1978 under President Jimm...

"Abrupt" Climate Change in the summer of 2012

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 16 July 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Notable climate anomalies began in March when more than 15,000 warm weather records across the country were broken. Many people are starting to ask the same question: As the climate changes, can we expect more of this? The average temperature for the contiguous United States during June was 2°F abo...

World Population Day

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 02 July 2012 in Newsletter Archive

World Population Day Socially Speaking We’re a social lot at Earth Protect. Join us on any or all of these social media channels. friend on FaceBook follow on Twitter conn...

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 10 June 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Rio+20 Socially Speaking We’re a social lot at Earth Protect. Join us on any or all of these social media channels. friend on FaceBook follow on Twitter connect on LinkedI...

May 2012 - Earth Protect on Food

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 30 April 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Earth Protect is proud to introduce Boulder Ice Cream to the green business directory Boulder Homemade creates ice cream and gelato just like you imagined it could be - rich all-natural and organic flavors of the highest quality. All of our products contain no artificial ingredients, and our milk ...

Meet Our New Partners

Posted by joeycello on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Send Us Your Documentaries, Your Short Films, Your Points of ViewWhat’s your favorite video about environmental or social responsibility and sustainability? Earth Protect wants to know – and to share those videos with our worldwide community. Get your point of view out into the world. Login to post ...

Earth Protect celebrates World Wetlands Day

Posted by joeycello on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Newsletter Archive

"Does your wetland need you?" FROM THE EARTHPROTECT BLOG ROLLSWorld and Nat’l Wetlands DayThe country joins in the global celebration of World Wetlands Day (WWD) today in commemoration of the day in 1971 when the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of...

Holiday Greeting

Posted by joeycello on Tuesday, 13 December 2011 in Newsletter Archive

We are thankful you are part of Earth Protect. Here's a fun video with some easy to do ways to green your Christmas. Together we are working to achieve a sustainable future.

UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, DECEMBER 10, 2011

Posted by joeycello on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 in Newsletter Archive

In 2011, people across the world took to the streets to voice their rights—from Tahrir Square to Arab Spring across the Middle East to Occupy Wall Street in the United States and Canada, it’s been an extraordinary year. Earth Protect supports the definition of sustainability from our partner Earth ...

USE LESS STUFF DAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Posted by joeycello on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 in Newsletter Archive

Robert Lilienfeld and William Rathje, authors of Use Less Stuff: Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are, are also the founders of Use Less Stuff Day, celebrated since 1994 on the Thursday preceding Thanksgiving. Both efforts are an effort to convince consumers to think about how they consume ...