Environment & Climate
The Organic Revolution: Change the System, Not the Climate
What if there were an organic technology that could cut greenhouse emissions in half and literally suck down and sequester carbon dioxide in living soil - bringing the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere down to 350 ppm - the level scientists warn us we must acheive in order to avert a climate catastrophe?
Cook Organic, Not the Planet. Boycott Factory-Farmed Foods.
Actually he is. It's just a campaign of a different sort.
When he arrives in Seattle today, for the second time in two months, the man who narrowly missed becoming president in 2000 is coming in a new role: elder statesman and itinerant preacher about the dangers of global warming.
Just this year, Gore has been on the covers of Vanity Fair and Wired magazines. In March, more than 500 people at Seattle's Benaroya Hall saw a computerized slide show about climate change Read more
Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
Overall, 16,119 animal and plant species are in danger of extinction, including 1 in 8 birds, 1 in 4 mammals and 1 in 3 amphibian species. Since records began, 784 species have been declared extinct. From the poles to the deserts, "biodiversity loss is increasing, not slowing down," says IUCN director-general Achim Steiner.
The main cause, as ever, is people, as humanity impacts the Read more
That historic cyclone happened during a record-shattering hurricane season that produced 28 storms and occurred only weeks after Katrina swamped New Orleans, causing $80 billion in damage.
The ferocity of last year's season gave ammunition to a growing chorus of voices that says humans and their greenhouse gas-spewing cars and factories could be making hurricanes more Read more
LONDON, UK, - Greenpeace today accused McDonald's of destroying the Amazon rainforest. Using satellite images, aerial surveillance, previously unreleased government documents, and on-the-ground monitoring, Greenpeace says it has traced soya grown on land that once was rainforest to an animal feed producer whose chickens are processed into Chicken McNuggets and other McDonald's products.
To dramatize their claim, this morning dozens of seven foot tall chickens invaded McDonald's restaurants across the UK and chained themselves to chairs. Scores of McDonald's around the
Read moreGREEN LIVING: CONSUMER NEWS
For financial, political and environmental reasons we may soon reach the peak of oil production, after which fossil fuels will get increasingly expensive vehicles and (mainly in the Northeast) for home heating.
Biodiesel emits 78 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions than petroleum diesel, according to the National Biodiesel Board, but it's not necessarily squeaky green. According to Kathryn Phillips, manager of Environmental Defense's California Clean Air for Life campaign, it actually increases nitrous oxide (NOX) emissions, which react
Read moreVIENNA, Austria, April 4, 2006 (ENS) - Large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane will be released into the atmosphere in the near future, according to a Dutch scientist speaking today at the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2006) meeting in Vienna. He said global warming could lead to melting of the arctic tundras, setting free large volumes of methane, which would in its turn increase global warming.
Methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide said Dr. J. (Ko) van Huissteden of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He explained that methane fluxes from the arctic
Read moreWhat a week it has been for the giant oil companies! Billions in record quarterly profits rushing into their coffers. An even bigger round of quarterly profits coming up. Gargantuan executive pay bonanzas. And a pile of "forces beyond our control" excuses to publicize in response to the empty outrage of Washington politicians and the real squeeze on consumers and small businesses.
Oil man Bush, atop his administration marinated with ex-oil executives in high positions, keeps saying there is little he can do. It is the market of supply and demand. Only fuel cells and hydrogen
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Rachel's Democracy & Health News #852
"Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide?"
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The Environmental Movement Isn't Dead, It Just Needs More Friends Recently the National Association of County and City Health
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Tony Blair's "Africa Commission" declaration last year that Africa should encourage development by growing Biofuels, is evidently starting to take root with a recent announcement in Zimbabwe about the growing of GM to produce biodiesel (see Gaia Mailout "African Biosafety Laws May Fail to Protect Countries" 19 April 2006)
Although thought by many to be an environmentally and economically sustainable alternative to the coming oil and climate change crises, a closer look at the true implications of biofuels is
Read moreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn its plan to approve a highly toxic fumigant for strawberries and other high-value crops after California officials, labor unions, environmentalists and others objected that nearby residents and farmworkers could be in danger.
The new pesticide, methyl iodide, is designed to replace methyl bromide, which is banned under an international treaty because it damages the Earth's ozone layer.
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