New Food Carbon Emissions Calculator Pinpoints Your Diet’s True Footprint
February 12, 2011 No Comment
Photo: Clean Metrics In the past it’s been difficult to dig to the bottom of your diet’s carbon footprint. It’s difficult to include all the data behind food production and transport in one calculator. While various carbon footprint calculators can give you a vague idea of your diet’s footprint, finding very specific information becomes more difficult. Until now. Clean Metrics has released a free tool that you can use to calculate your emissions so that you can pinpoint detailed changes that can positively alter your diet. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …2,000 Health Pros & 2,500 Scientists Ask Congress to Enforce New Clean Air Act Standards
February 11, 2011 No Comment
Image: Wikimedia Commons, Sudika , CC The EPA has been put through hell this week — first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air Act rules that would hold the nation’s biggest polluters to stricter standards. Then, the GOP announced its proposals for cutting the budget. And there, on the top of the chopping block,
Continue reading …
Namibia has long embraced the idea that tourism can fund conservation. It’s had some notable success with the strategy; the nation succeeded in stabilizing a once-endangered population of lions. Now, Namibia is upping the ante — it just designated its entire coastline a national park. The new park spans 976 miles, and protects an area roughly the size of all of Portugal. The Telegraph has the full story …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …
Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images If you’ve left your Valentine’s Day plans until the last minute (again), then Alicia Silverstone can help: The eco-minded actress took to her website, The Kind Life , to list some of her favorite ways to put a green spin on your celebration. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …
Photo via Wikimedia creative commons Sea cucumbers are admittedly one of those critters where you look at them ant think, “Exactly what is your purpose?” The nubbed blobs don’t seem to do much at first glance, other than maybe an easy snack, but it turns out they could be exactly what we need to stave off pollution from aquaculture. Because sea cucumbers act like the worms of the sea, cleaning up the sea bed and mixing marine sediments, scientists at Newcastle University in North East England are calling them the next miracle for marine pollution. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …
EPA Administrator receives boxing gloves as a gift from the Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference this week, then displays them as shespeaks to the crowd. Photo credit: Heather Moyer, Sierra Club. Tuesday was Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson’s birthday, but she sure didn’t have an easy week. Fortunately, she was ready for it after receiving a pair of boxing gloves as a birthday gift from the hosts of the Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference in Washington. In a hearing Wednesday morning before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Jackson faced an onslaught of questio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Would Millennium Consumption Goals Help Rich Nations Reduce Their Eco-Impact?
February 11, 2011 No Comment
photo: David Blackwell / Creative Commons I’ll assume you know what the Millennium Development Goals are and assume the same about how the ‘developed’ world consumes natural resources is grossly in excess of what is ecologically sustainable and e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Kristina Gjerde Explains How We Make Laws for Un-Owned Oceans (Interview)
February 11, 2011 No Comment
Photo Credit: John@lastocean.com Penguins/Killer Whales of the Ross Sea Kristina Gjerde is an expert on regulating the high seas. Or rather, as much an expert as anyone can be on a topic that is constantly questioned and changing. Regulating the open ocean is part of ensuring a sustained future for fisheries, whales, sea turtles, sharks, corals and countless other important species, let alone the natural systems like currents and pH balance that are impacted by global warming. Last year, she gave a
Continue reading …