Climate Change is Not a Spectator Sport.
Due to the recent tragedies in Japan and particularly the disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant I’ve been asking myself a series of questions that many of you may be asking: What is radiation poisoning/sickness exactly? How much radiation does a person have to be exposed to ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in March 2011 (1 comment)
Almost 1 year after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico officials in New Orleans are baffled by the appearance of another massive oil slick, possibly 100-miles wide, spotted in the Gulf over the weekend. Though the oil sheen is close to the site of the Deepwater Horizon ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in March 2011, about Coal & Oil
In a historic ruling Chevron Corp. has been ordered to pay $9.5 billion in damages and cleanup costs for oil drilling contamination in a Rhode Island sized section of Ecuador's northern jungle. Handed down by an Ecuadorean judge on Monday the ruling eclipses the $5 billion in damages ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in February 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
According to retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen and former Alaskan Lieutenant Governor Fran Ulmer the United States is woefully unprepared to deal with a major oil leak off Alaska’s Northern Coast. Allen, who led the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, reported that only ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in February 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
Hope may be on the horizon for the endangered bluefin tuna as a worldwide ban on trade gains momentum. A number of countries including France, Italy and Australia are considering or implementing bans in the catch and trade of the sushi staple approaching a critical vote during the Convention on ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in February 2011, about Children and Families, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
If Eben Bayer has his way the evil that is extruded polystyrene foam, generally referred to as Styrofoam, will be replaced by mushrooms in the next few years. Polystyrene is in everything: packaging materials, coffee cups, takeout containers, insulation, even flotation devices. Made in part from petroleum, polystyrene is basically ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in December 2010, about Clean Technologies, Consumerism, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior
Last week an unbelievably complex movie set rose out of what use to be the Ballona Wetlands in Los Angeles, CA. The production team of Transformers 3 built one floor of an office building. Utilizing cranes and huge hydraulics they tilted and lifted the floor at odd angles. As the ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in November 2010, about Celebrities, Clean Technologies, Consumerism, Design, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media
Inspired by mushroom lovers and TED speakers Paul Stamets (a mycologist) and Eben Bayer (a product designer) I thought it might be a good idea to investigate the ways mushrooms might save the world. First up – Mushrooms as Fuel. It was news to me, that besides being delicious wrapped in ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in October 2010, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Design, Industry & Business (2 comments)
American children are “guinea pigs in an uncontrolled experiment,” according to Senator Frank Lautenberg D-New Jersey who spoke to the Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health on October 26th. Among the many shocking facts shared at the hearing was that only 1 percent of the 84,000 ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in October 2010, about Air Quality, Children and Families, Consumerism, Education, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution
California’s Global Warming Solutions Act 2006 (aka AB 32), which brought $10 billion in clean energy investment to the state, could be repealed by Proposition 23 in the upcoming November 2 elections. AB 32 requires that by 2020 the state’s greenhouse gas emissions be brought down to 1990 ... keep reading
Written by Raegan Payne in October 2010, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Economics, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
