Another active mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia, photo: Jake Wellington / Creative Commons Some great news for opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining: This morning the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has vetoed a disposal permit at West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal operation, Mingo-Logan Coal Company’s
Continue reading …Mainstream Media Has Accurately Portrayed Sea Level Rise Projections For Past 20 Years
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photo: Woodley Wonderworks / Creative Commons Think mainstream media exaggerates how bad sea level rise might get, pays too much attention to it? Well, a new media analysis published in Environmental Research Letters finds that by and large in the past two decades decade mainstream media in the US and UK have accurately portrayed scientific reports on
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Photo by Robert S Donovan via Flickr Creative Commons We’re quickly approaching 7 billion people on the planet. And as the number of people goes up, the amount of fresh water we have access to is on the decline. The water sector is one area where intelligent use of technology will go a long way in helping us maintain stable supplies. We know that s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images credit Hans Kalliwoda Shipping containers don’t make very good houses, but they are very good at carrying things all over the world. Artist Hans Kalliwoda solves this problem by filling his container with everything one needs to survive, including a big deployable shell that creates an additional thousand square feet of space. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Michael Cannon , used under Creative Commons license. When I asked whether vegans can eat carrots grown with manure , some commenters found the question despicable. But my intention was not to question anyone’s commitment, nor to lessen the very real benefits of limiting our reliance on industrial animal agriculture. I merely want to ensure that the models we advocate for are truly sustainable in the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Farmer picks organic cotton in Africa. Photo: Textile Exchange Despite the recession, manufacturer demand has helped grow global organic cotton production by 15% in 2009-2010. According to a new report by sustainable textile non-profit Textile Exchange, formerly known as Organic Exchange . The Organic Cotton Farm and Fiber Report reveals that India, Syria, and Turkey are the leading organic cotton producers in the world… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo by eutrophication&hypoxia via Flickr Creative Commons Marine protected areas, MPAs, are needed badly across the planet to help ocean ecosystems recover from decades of abuse. And as a global society, we’re making progress in creating them. However, sometimes practical human issues take precedence over the science that would make a protected area worthwhile. For instance, last summer we learned how conservation efforts around co… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Film Review: To Buy, To Throw Away, To Buy; the Secret History of Planned Obsolescence
January 13, 2011 No Comment
Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called ” comprar, llençar, comprar” , meaning “to buy, to throw away, to buy” in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the documentary in Spanish on RTVE (Spanish national TV). It tells the secret history of plann… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …USA Only Nation With Legal Definition Of Overfishing And Political Will To Enforce Quotas…For Now.
January 13, 2011 No Comment
Fish fry. Image credit: Wikpedia , by Jon Sullivan. As all you corporate types know, for a business to succeed over the long term it must have define – up and down the value chain – how ‘progress’ will be measured: going far deeper than ROCE, cash flow, or profit. Having a supply chain metrics are equally or more important for maintenance of shared natural resources such as timber or marine fisheries. (see Tragedy of the Commons for background). The optimistic view. On… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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