Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Interview with Ted Ning of LOHAS
Editor’s Note: With this post we say “welcome” to Leslie Berliant! Leslie is a partner at BLU MOON Group, a marketing communications firm that specializes in cause marketing and facilitating connections between corporations, nonprofits and public agencies around issues and causes that serve the public interest. She is a volunteer Regional Coordinator for MoveOn.org, an […]
No Comments » - Posted in Consumerism, Industry by Leslie Berliant
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Cypress Mulch - Grinding Up Trees for Your Garden
Planning on doing a little gardening this weekend? SaveOurCypress.org is asking you to reconsider your mulching choices, and to ask big stores like Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Lowes to do the same. Aside from the enormous value coastal cypress forests have in wildlife habitat, they also act as buffers against hurricanes and storm surges, as […]
No Comments » - Posted in Consumerism, Environment & Wildlife, Industry by Craig Mackintosh
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Friday Linkfest - Edition 8
Welcome to the return of Friday Linkfest. I have the pleasure of resuming this much loved Celsias tradition. Here you can find the good, the bad and the ugly interesting of this week’s environmental happenings. You might notice that corn is a staple of this week’s linkfest. I don’t know what it is but it […]
No Comments » - Posted in Friday Linkfest by Alina Beloussova
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Feeling Random?
There’s one thing about blogging that’s always a little sad - a lot of hard work goes into some of our posts, and before you know it, they soon drop out of view as new posts move them out of sight. Not any more!
Introducing our new ‘Select Random Post’ button (see top of sidebar at […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Alerts - Resources by Craig Mackintosh
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Introducing Distributed Generation
Editor’s Note: With this post we welcome Paul Sullivan onto the writing team. Paul is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and will be sharing insights and articles on technological advances in distributed energy generation, as well as case studies of successful D-G programmes in various countries. Welcome Paul!
On September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison flicked a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Energy by Paul Sullivan
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The Looming Global Water Crisis
History is littered with sordid tales of tribes and nations taking the best land and resources from others by force. These were in times where the population density was so low that greed, rather than need, was often the primary motivator. Two thousand years ago, for example, the world population was 3% of what it is […]
No Comments » - Posted in Water by Craig Mackintosh
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Introducing the JetPack Rating System™
Several months ago, fellow Celsias contributor Steve Caratzas had communicated his personal disappointment over the broken promise of personal jetpacks, the Sean Connery-era James Bond standard of cool. I admit that when I was a child I had also operated under the assumption that by the year 2000, the skies would be filled with jetpacks.
The […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Transport, Comedy Break by Doug Snodgrass
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
The Legacy of Climate Camp 2007
Climate Camp 2007 is over, but you can catch up with some of the action that took place via YouTube clips kindly uploaded by Calvin from Climate Change Action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XssWt9xVkiM
2 Comments » - Posted in Transport by Craig Mackintosh
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Who Owns Water?
by Maude Barlow (founder of the Blue Planet Project) & Tony Clarke, originally published September, 2002
Water - a need, or a right?
Water promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century: the precious commodity that determines the wealth of nations.
As the World Summit on Sustainable Development draws closer, clear lines […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Water by Maude Barlow
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Don’t Let Junk Food Run Away with the Farm Bill!
Every five years, the $70 billion Farm Bill gets rewritten. In the past, junk food makers have controlled the subsidies of the bill, wiping out small farmers, destroying the environment and making America fat. Foodbattle.org is the first step in a massive campaign to put the farm bill back in the hands of the people who pay […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Agriculture & Food, Politics, Industry by Craig Mackintosh
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Wind Turbines Spin a Web of Worries for Hawk Watchers
By Will Weber, Hawk Migration Association of North America, Hawk Migration Association of NA
Not every one sees wind turbines as clean, ecologically safe, energy machines. Some hawk watchers across North America fear wind turbines may be the biggest man-made threat to raptors, other birds and bats since DDT caused massive population declines in the 1960’s. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Environment & Wildlife, CleanTech - Wind by Will Weber
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Carbon Trading - a Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation & Power
3mb PDF (362 pages)
In the debate on the Kyoto Protocol few actors have expressed a critical view. - Editorial Note to Carbon Trading - a Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation & Power (3mb PDF)
In the last half of a previous post on international pollution trading, I shared several concerns over where we’re heading with […]
No Comments » - Posted in Carbon Market by Craig Mackintosh
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Carbon- & Nuclear-Free: A Detailed Energy Plan for the U.S.
A new report offers a blueprint for a U.S. energy system with no carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and no nuclear power plants, achievable within 35 to 60 years. The blueprint provides a solid platform for climate justice activism. Has your favorite Presidential candidate taken a position on this report yet?
‘Carbon Neutral’ was declared word of
the […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Alerts - Resources by Peter Montague
Monday, August 27th, 2007
An Ecovillage Existence
People everywhere have had enough. They’re taking off. They’re leaving the city, leaving the high-rises, leaving the 9-5 and they’re heading for something better, something many of them knew existed but had only dreamed about – an ecovillage.
Known as communes in the 60’s and later as intentional communities, ecovillages continue to thrive even after the […]
