photo via AP Actress Betty White has had an usual career renaissance, with a starring role this year on “Saturday Night Live” and a couple guest spots in recent films. Now she’s taking on a new role: Defender of Forests. White, once the star of “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” is now an honorary forest ranger, a job she dreamed of as a girl…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Organic Beer Must Be Brewed With Organic Hops (Because it Wasn’t Before)
November 13, 2010 No Comment
Photo: izik The USDA has announced after much grassroot support for the change, that organic beer most be brewed with organic hops, according to a story on EcoCentric . One would beg to question why beer , which is traditionally made of j… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Though endangered, the green sea turtle is widely distributed throughout the world’s oceans. Photo credit: Jose Calvo / Creative Commons In Madagascar, the endangered green sea turtle is protected by law. A new study, however, has found that artisanal fishing in remote regions could be responsible for as many as 16,000 turtle deaths each year. With bans on hunting clearly not working, it’s time, resea… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols Find Perfect Harmony, Ted Danson vs. Oil Drilling, and More
November 12, 2010 No Comment
Photo: Jason LaVeris/Getty Images “One Tree Hill” actors Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols — who talked to Planet Green about the personal impact of trip to the post-oil spill Gulf Coast with Global Green — have been vocal about their support for the region. Now they’ve come up with another way to help…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Vassilis Online / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Smith Raynor, a teacher at Hunter Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina. Stay in line. Hands to yourself. No talking. Eyes on your own work. These are the messages that our children hear every day in every school in the country. Necessary messages, for sure…but hardly ones that empower children to create change . But The Hunter Ecoheroes, a group of kindergart… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: GM When GM announced an “Eco” version of its Chevrolet Cruze tweaked for fuel efficiency, it said that it was aiming for an EPA rating of 40 MPG on the highway, a respectable figure for a car that isn’t particularly small, that meets modern safety standards, and is rated under the stricter EPA methodology (don’t compare it to your 20 years old Geo Metro, please). But now that the EPA rating is out, the Cruze Eco actually does better than what it was aiming for, with 42 MPG highway/28 MPG city…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Leaking Underground Carbon Storage Schemes Could Contaminate Drinking Water Aquifers
November 12, 2010 No Comment
photo: the_tahoe_guy / Creative Commons Add another important concern to the those surrounding carbon capture and storage schemes: A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology , done by scientists at Duke University , shows that CO2 stored deep underg… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Global Coal Burning Stagnates For First Time in 10 Years! But China’s Use Still Climbing…
November 12, 2010 No Comment
photo: Duncan Harris / Creative Commons Worldwatch Institute ‘s latest report on global coal use seems encouraging on one hand–for the first time in the past 10 years, global coal use stagnated–but discouraging on the other–demand for coal in India and China (in parti… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: The Story of Stuff Project “Why Designed for the Dump is Toxic for People and the Planet” There’s a new addition to the series of short animated films made by The Story of Stuff Project , Annie Leonard’s brainchild. If you’re not familiar with it, check out this great overview post that Chris wrote a few months ago. The latest installment in the series is about electronics; how they’re designed, made, used, and disposed of,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Natural Disaster Damages to Triple by 2100 – Not Counting Climate Change
November 12, 2010 No Comment
photo: Smanewerkende Hulporganisaties / Creative Commons A new report by the UN and the World Bank throws some more stats on the pile: By the end of this century, financial loss caused by natural disasters alone will rise to $185 billion every year, even without fa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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