Climate Change is Not a Spectator Sport.
Several Alaska Native groups along with the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity are planning to sue the Department of Interior over what both organizations believe is a failure to address key concerns regarding 187,000 square miles in and around the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea. The Obama administration designated the ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in February 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
One of the best things about a truly global food economy is the availability of off-season produces in almost any supermarket in the world. In the U.S., we eat berries from Chile during the winter, while in the U.K. consumers are accustomed to buying salad vegetables from Spain ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in February 2011, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Consumerism, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Poverty & Development
According to a new analysis published in January by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), African nations are allowing investors access to large areas of land in deals that are often secret and biased heavily in favor of the investors. IIED Investigators analyzed 12 recent land leasing contracts ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in February 2011, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Poverty & Development (1 comment)
According to new research from a study led by University of Michigan climate researcher, Mark Flanner, the decreases in the snow and ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 30 years is reducing the ability of these glaciers and snowfields to reflect sunlight back into space much faster ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in January 2011, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Weather
A study making the misleading claim that catastrophic global warming and a huge worldwide food shortage could occur within the next nine years was promoted by an online news service and picked up by several international news organizations including the French news agency, AFP, the Press Trust of India and ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in January 2011, about Climate Change, Education, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior
On a federal level, any major progress on climate and energy issues in the United States, just getting to know its newly elected Congress, seems unlikely. On the other hand, the country continues to lead the push toward advancing renewable energy. A research report just released by Clean Edge, a ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in January 2011, about Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Smart Growth
While the aftereffects of the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are still being felt, one bright spot exists in the region. Scientists have discovered that naturally existing, deep-ocean bacteria have gobbled up the estimated 220,000 metric tons of methane gas—more than 100,000 ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in January 2011, about Coal & Oil, Design, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
Is renewable energy more cost effective than fossil fuels? Or is it more expensive? Well, a recent Los Angeles Times article reported that, according to the results of a draft report issued by the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in 2009, incoming governor Jerry Brown’s goal of 33 percent ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in December 2010, about Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Design, Energy Saving, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Smart Growth, Solar (2 comments)
Rain gardens, perennial plantings in shallow, manmade depressions large or small designed to catch and use rainwater runoff, are becoming increasingly popular among homeowners and cities. In several communities, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are working on ways to improve rain gardens to reduce runoff and filter ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in December 2010, about Children and Families, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Lifestyle & Behavior, Permaculture, Water, Weather
Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the biggest, fastest, and most prized fish in the sea, as well as one of the most overfished, is already endangered and could be on its way to extinction. A November 2010 meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) did not ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in December 2010, about Children and Families, Consumerism, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
