Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Podcast Interview: Corporate Biotech - Poisoning Our Babies?
The Cornucopia Institute has just released a potentially damning report that paints a disturbing picture:
Replacing Mother — Imitating Human Breast Milk in the Laboratory, details research questioning the alleged benefits of adding “novel” omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, produced in laboratories and extracted from algae and fungus, into infant formulas. The report presents disturbing research […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Industry, Health, Podcasts by Doug Snodgrass
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Evolving a Stop Button
Book review: Enough - Breaking free from the world of more, by John Naish
There are plenty of books about consumerism, and they all have their scapegoats. Usually it’s the capitalists’ fault. Other times it’s advertising, or television. Sometimes it’s low self esteem. Everyone has their theory about our over-consumption, their explanation for why we can’t […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Consumerism, Green Philosophy by Jeremy Williams
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Vitality of the Sun - Organic Agriculture in Egypt
Editor’s Note: Joe Turner, our newest writer, is based in the UK, and has a strong background in soil science, green clothing, fair trade and more. Joe is off to a great start with this interesting profile of a very successful project in Egypt. Welcome Joe!
How does sustainable agriculture look in developing countries? Do local […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Agriculture & Food by Joe Turner
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
City Sues Man for Canceling Trash Service
A while back we ran a post on a guy in the U.S. who was investigated by his utility company for dramatically reducing his power bill (by changing bulbs and applying several other conservation techniques). The power company assumed he must have tampered with his meter. Understandable, I guess, and a great encouragement for us to do the same. But, what would happen if the power company went further, and sued him for reducing his energy consumption? You’d object, obviously.
Yesterday the Examiner ran a story on Eddie House, a guy that, through concern over the environment, managed to reduce his household waste to next to nothing through recycling, giving scraps to his dog, etc. Where it gets screwy is that the local refuse collection service has now sued Mr. House for no longer requiring their services.
41 Comments » - Posted in Industry, General by Craig Mackintosh
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Population Bombs
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist (Wikipedia), United Kingdom
I cannot avoid the subject any longer. Almost every day I receive a clutch of emails about it, asking the same question. A frightening new report has just pushed it up the political agenda: for the first time the World Food Programme […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Population by George Monbiot
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Greener Gadgets Conference
This Friday in New York City, leaders in enviro-gadgetry will meet to talk, network and share their ideas on greening the consumer electronics industry with students, the media, companies and interested techno-heads. The Greener Gadgets conference is put on by Inhabitat and Marc Alt + Partners to showcase technology that considers environmental impact in the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Consumerism, Industry, Alerts - Events by Kristy Arbon
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Toilet to Tap
Orange County, California, has just proudly inaugurated its brand new $490 million water purification plant. In the face of Southern California’s water shortages, this particular plant has the ability to turn 70 million gallons of treated sewage into drinking water, every day.
The “Groundwater Replenishment System”, unofficially nicknamed “toilet to tap”, is the world’s largest, most […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Water by Alina Beloussova
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Coca Cola to Pay for Refuelling of Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Vessels
Editor’s Note: In an ideal world, this kind of thing would happen… My first sentence obviously wasn’t clear enough, so I’ll scratch it and try again…. Coca Cola has not offered refueling assistance, and if they did, should it be accepted? Comments on Reddit were very interesting, with some even keen to purchase Coca Cola as […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Environment & Wildlife, Industry by TypingIsNotActivism
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
This Week, America’s Youth Will Outshine Bush, Part II
Yesterday, I posted an article about the Bush Administration’s Major World Economies meeting on climate change in Hawaii this week (are you as jealous as I am?), where expectations for action are extremely low. Today I’d like to contrast that with the American youth climate movement, which is holding its own events at the same […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics, Global Warming Action by Shayle Kann
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Unless Someone Like You Cares… About Renewable Energy
by Steve Clark, Founder of Citizens for Clean Energy 1989 (changed to the singular “Citizen” when no one seemed to care during the ’90s), and still a renewable energy advocate in Boulder, Colorado
We as a species face some very real challenges. The environment is under stress from human activities. The main environmental problem, which some […]
No Comments » - Posted in Coal & Oil, Politics, CleanTech - Wind, CleanTech - Solar, CleanTech - Ocean, Energy, Global Warming Action, Cleantech - Geothermal by Steve Clark
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Japan’s New Plan for a “Cool Earth”
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, centre
The World Economic Forum wound up in Davos, Switzerland yesterday. An annual event, many of the world’s most powerful people get to hang out in a ski resort, sipping fine cognac by a roaring fire in an old-wood (read unsustainably harvested) lodge, this year perhaps kidding Sven about how he broke […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics, Industry by Rachael Neile-Mcgrew
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
An Outdoors Child is a Healthy Child - and Possibly a Future Environmentalist
Editor’s Note: With this post we welcome Riley Smith to the writing team. Riley is based in North Carolina and will be focusing on issues related to energy, education, deforestation, transport, and sustainability. Welcome Riley!
As I was home for the holidays, one of the more significant green agenda items began to take shape for me. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Consumerism, Education by Riley Smith
Monday, January 28th, 2008
This Week, America’s Youth Will Outshine President Bush, Part I
The Bush Administration and the U.S. youth climate movement are both holding major climate change-related events this week. In fact, they’re holding events on the same days. This Wednesday and Thursday, January 30-31, we will see the capstone meetings for Focus The Nation, the voice of American youth environmental activism, and the Bush administration’s climate […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics, Global Warming Action by Shayle Kann
Monday, January 28th, 2008
The Vanishing of the Bees
Photo credit: Adam Makarenko
An Interview with Maryam Henein, Co-Producer and Co-Director
Maryam Henein is a renaissance woman. She is an investigative journalist, documentary and television producer and on-air talent. She has worked with documentary heavyweights including Morgan Spurlock of SuperSize Me and 30 Days fame, and Robert Greenwald, perhaps the biggest thorn in the side of […]
