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There have been several options bandied about as to how to stop oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. Some have suggested nuking the spill, while Hoda and Kathie Lee of the Today show have offered up even stranger solutions. Clearly, someone needs to get “titanic” on the Gulf. Enter James Camero...
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  Baoshan, China — On Sept. 30, 2009, Anne Castellina fielded an e-mail from Doug Morris, a fellow US National Park Service retiree. Did the former Alaska park superintendent, Mr. Morris wondered, feel like flying to China in November as a volunteer consultant? "Sure," Ms. Castellina said. ...
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As the BP oil spill cleanup continued last week, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) proposed new legislative action that would raise the BP's liability. Are we entering a new era of increased regulation?   Earlier this week, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) responded to the continuing Gulf oi...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
  Dear Family and Friends,              In six months I will be taking on the challenge of volunteering to help save the Leatherback Sea Turtles in Costa Rica, the largest sea turtle in the world. I will be joining scientist and oth...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Yesterday, I visited Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana -- one of the first places to feel the devastation wrought by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While I was here, at Camerdelle's Live Bait shop, I met with a group of local residents and small business owners. Folks like Floyd Lasseigne...
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  I’m writing this from New Delhi, thousands of miles away from the tragically polluted Gulf Coast, and I’m crying. This crisis has felt so far away from me over the past few weeks, as I’m sure the droughts of Andhra Pradesh and the water crises in Karnataka have felt far from people in Wa...
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NEW ORLEANS — Aaron Jones made his way through the crowd to the foot of the stage, chin raised. An oyster shucking contest was under way, and the master of ceremonies was going around distributing oysters to audience members as if giving Communion, dropping one in Mr. Jones’s open mouth. “Plump and...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
With 20 days to go to the G8 and G20 summits in Toronto, here are 20 reasons that the youth climate movement needs to get mobilized. Every day you can become increasingly motivated to get organize, get mobilized, and know just why we need to have our voices heard. The G8 and G20 are a self-select...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
The oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has steadily taken its toll on the waters of the gulf and surrounding coastlines. However, the prevailing currents will not allow the oil to be stationary. The Loop Current, which is a clockwise current in the Gulf that originates from Caribbean waters that flow ...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Don't worry about the oil spilling into the Gulf, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) says, because the worst spill in U.S. history is "not an environmental disaster," just nature taking its course. "This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again because it is a natural phenomenon...
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ON BARATARIA BAY, La. – The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pelicans struggled to free themselves from oil thick as tar that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crud...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill continued to washed ashore Florida's Panhandle on Saturday, stunning tourists and locals alike, as government officials said the amount of oil a makeshift containment cap is capturing from the ocean-bottom gusher is slowly increasing. BP's cap, initially put into plac...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
California, which has some of the nation's strictest environmental rules, may soon become the first state to ban plastic shopping bags. Its Assembly passed a bill Wednesday, by a 41-27 vote, to bar grocery stores from offering plastic bags beginning in Jan. 2012. The ban would extend to convenience...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
It has now been 45 days since the oil rig explosion in the Gulf began unloading oil and polluting our oceans and there’s only one man that can fix this problem – Mr. James Cameron. After countless problem solvers have come forward to help with the oil spill, what better solution than to have a hot-s...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
At present there is a large oil release in the Gulf of Mexico. It is not the first of its kind. Obviously one must try to confine it and then clean it up but what it is the right and effective way? What is a waste of time and resources and what works? Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drill...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
This is horrible. The amount of oil being spill is tremendous. This oil will cause mass devastation to the Earth. I think we are lucky it happened in America, any other country may have tried to ignore it and nothing would have been done. Something needs to be done to prevent this disaster from aff...
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The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf is in my opinion the giant back step that anyone who cares about the environment did not need. So what to do about this? Anybody with an answer please leave a comment.
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Tokyo, June 4, 2010 -- The Sanyo Electric Group, including Sanyo North America Corporation headquartered in San Diego, Calif., (SANYO) and the University of California, San Diego have announced a research collaboration agreement designed to lead to the next generation of solar energy systems and ene...
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Posted by on in Wind
  When the first unit train carrying wind turbine components leaves Duluth this week, it will signal the start of a new, “green” chapter in transportation logistics at the westernmost tip of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway system. The shipment of 24 Siemens wind turbine nacelles and spinn...
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Posted by on in Wind
German wind turbine manufacturer Siemens has won three wind farm maintenance contracts in Washington and Oregon.The company said the deals were worth a combined $55 million.Under a deal with San Diego-based Cannon Power Group, Siemens will provide warranty maintenance services for 114 of its SWT-2.3...
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