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.
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October 6, 2006
Rising tides of untreated sewage and plastic debris are seriously threatening marine life and habitat around the globe, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned in a report Wednesday. The number of ocean "dead zones" has grown from 150 in 2004 to about 200 today, said Nick Nuttall, a UNEP spokesperson.
"These are becoming more common in developing countries," Nuttall told IPS from Nairobi, Kenya.
Dead zones can encompass areas of ocean 100,000 square kms in size where little can live because there is no oxygen left in the water. Nitrogen pollution, mainly Read more
"These are becoming more common in developing countries," Nuttall told IPS from Nairobi, Kenya.
Dead zones can encompass areas of ocean 100,000 square kms in size where little can live because there is no oxygen left in the water. Nitrogen pollution, mainly Read more
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October 4, 2006
CHENEY, Washington, October 4, 2006 (ENS) - Treated sewage sludge sold to householders to spray on their lawns and gardens as fertilizer may be adding pharmaceuticals, flame retardants and other chemicals to the land, according to research by Chad Kinney, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Eastern Washington University.
Nine different biosolid products, produced by municipal wastewater treatment plants in seven different states - Washington, Arizona, Wisconsin, Kansas, Colorado, Texas and Iowa - were analyzed for 87 different organic wastewater contaminants. Read more
Nine different biosolid products, produced by municipal wastewater treatment plants in seven different states - Washington, Arizona, Wisconsin, Kansas, Colorado, Texas and Iowa - were analyzed for 87 different organic wastewater contaminants. Read more
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October 3, 2006
Banking giant Wells Fargo announced yesterday that it has bought
renewable-energy certificates to offset 40 percent of its current
electricity usage over the next three years. Amounting to 550 million
kilowatt hours of wind power a year, it is the largest-ever corporate
purchase of renewable energy in the U.S., beating out previous
record-holder Whole Foods Market's purchase of 458 million
kilowatt-hours earlier this year. The country's fifth-largest bank
estimates that it will be preventing 380,000 tons of carbon dioxide
emissions a year. "The more you can help produce renewable energy Read more
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October 4, 2006
In the United States, the clearest signs of climate change so far have been stern words from Al Gore and a few hotter-than-normal summers.
In Greenland, by contrast, global warming has sparked a revolution -- at least, when it comes to agriculture. A recent article in the German magazine Der Spiegel explores the dramatic new opportunities arising for the island's farmers. The article opens with a man tending his potato Read more
In Greenland, by contrast, global warming has sparked a revolution -- at least, when it comes to agriculture. A recent article in the German magazine Der Spiegel explores the dramatic new opportunities arising for the island's farmers. The article opens with a man tending his potato Read more
News
October 2, 2006
Lead exposure levels long considered safe for adults have been linked
to higher death rates from stroke and heart attack, says cheery
research in the medical journal Circulation. The Occupational
Safety and Health Administration suggests that safe blood lead levels
for adults are up to 400 micrograms per liter, but the study -- which
tracked 13,946 subjects for 12 years -- found increased risk of
cardiovascular death at levels of 20 mcg/liter. The results were steady
across socioeconomic classes, ethnic and racial groups, and gender.
U.S. citizens' exposure to lead has dropped Read more
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A team of Canadian scientists has found the most direct evidence yet that baby salmon pick up fatal infections of sea lice while swimming past salmon farms in British Columbia's Broughton Archipelago, and that the more salmon farms the more baby salmon die.
"Before we knew there were potential problems," said Martin Krkosek, a doctoral student at the University of Alberta who was lead author of the study released Monday by the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Now it is very clear we have severe problems here."
In Read more
"Before we knew there were potential problems," said Martin Krkosek, a doctoral student at the University of Alberta who was lead author of the study released Monday by the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Now it is very clear we have severe problems here."
In Read more
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September 29, 2006
Here's some straight talk on recycling that you're unlikely to hear anywhere else. Once a week in my neighborhood, all the neighbors pull out their recycling bins and place them by the curb where recycling trucks can pick them up. Everybody talks about how recycling is good for the environment, but we never really talk about what's inside those bins. Have you taken a look at what's in there? People are recycling old cardboard boxes from laundry detergent made with toxic ingredients and chemicals that wash down the drain and pollute the streams, groundwater and, ultimately, the ocean. They're Read more
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