California’s Regulators Turn Blind Eye to Groundwater Pollution From Dairies
February 28, 2011 No Comment
Photo by US Department of Agriculture via eutrophication&hypoxia on Flickr Creative Commons California’s Central Valley is home to some of the state’s largest dairies, and we’re all quite familiar with how damaging dairy farms can be on the environment. It is responsible for about 4% of man-made GHG emissions , and in the Central Valley of California alone, cows generate the same amount of fecal waste as a city of 21 million people, much of wh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images Credit Dan Hoffman Architect William Yudchitz of Revelations Architects/Building Corporation designed EDGE to be an “experimental minimalist structure aims to meet basic human needs while still providing a qualitatively rich life”. Within just a 340 square foot footprint, it does a lot more than meet basic human needs. It looks rather comfortable…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Amur Tigers’ Effective Population Cut By More Than Half in Past Two Years, Drops to 14
February 28, 2011 No Comment
photo: Neil McIntosh / Creative Commons An update on the precarious state of Amur tigers : New figures have been released on the effective breeding population of Amur tigers (also known as Siberian tigers) which show that the genetic diversity of the wild population is so low that there are effectively less than 14 of them le… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: The Fairtrade Foundation Everyone from Starbucks to Cadbury’s chocolate seems to be going Fair Trade —so as Fair Trade Fortnight kicks off, it seems a fitting time to celebrate this movement for more ethical and equitable international trade. This year, the movement is asking people to “show off their label”—posting images of themselves with their Fair Trade products. But is there a danger… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: DesertNews Tim DeChristopher became an icon in the environmental movement in 2008, when he entered outrageously high bids for parcels of land being auctioned off for gas and oil development — bids that he had no intention of ever paying. Now, since his deed — and perhaps partly because of it — that entire auction was ruled illegitimate. It was part of a bum rush by the Bush administration to try to sell off public lands before Obama took office. Unfortunately, the felony ch… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Insulating Your Body Is Cheaper And More Effective Than Insulating Your Home
February 28, 2011 No Comment
Jimmy Carter in his Famous Cardigan Sweater Jimmy Carter was right; when it is cold, the first thing you should do is put on a sweater. He was ridiculed at the time, being Jimmy Carter and all, but the fact of the matter is, until very recent times, the best place to insulate was against your own skin. Kris De Decker of always wonderful Low Tech Magazine , looks at the issue of clothing as in… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The iconic E.T. ending scene. Image: Wikimedia . Last night, living rooms across the country tuned into the 83rd Academy Awards , and green wasn’t excluded from the red carpet, with stars everywhere contributing to green causes and environmental documentari… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Procsilas Moscas , used under Creative Commons license. A British official once famously stated that we should eat less meat to help slow climate change . Now the government has taken this rather politically-charged bull by the horns—if you’ll pardon the analogy—and openly stated that we should eat less meat for our health too. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Matthew Sparkes reported on TreeHugger before on how investments in cycling could save hundreds of millions in health costs . Others, however, are not so sure. A debate seems to be going on at the moment in the UK over whether cycling causes heart attacks. The tabloid Daily Mail newspaper reported that cycling is a major cause of heart attacks , while Matthew Sparkes (yup, the one and the same guy who reported here on health benefits) argues over at… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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