Having just come through an election in Canada in which I was a Green Party candidate, and in which the anti-science, anti-environment Conservative government was re-elected, gave me cause to wonder what happened to my pro-environment Canadians. "The environment" was the #1 concern of Canadians not so long ago - before ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon last month, about Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Politics (2 comments)
Guest Column by James Pew, Attorney for Earthjustice There are nearly 150 cement kilns operating in the U.S. In 2006, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - the federal agency required to protect us from harmful toxic air pollutants like mercury -estimated cement kilns pump nearly 12,000 pounds of ... keep reading
Written by James Pew last month, about Air Quality, Children and Families, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry, Pollution, Water
Good News Obama's EPA and Interior Department face high expectations in reversing Bush's war on the environment. US government backs away from oil and gas drilling near Utah's national parks. The EU is drafting the ground rules to minimize the impact of biofuels on forests, specifying which ... keep reading
Written by Alina Beloussova last month, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Politics, Water
No, some say, because the minute the economy gets rocky (as it is now), the cost of preserving the planet is seen as too expensive. Others say yes, arguing that these initiatives may contract and expand based on economic signals, but always deliver some benefit even in the worst of ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Air Quality, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Pollution
Running along Canada's Pacific coast from Vancouver Island to the southernmost point of the state of Alaska is a 19-million-acre swath of land that has never been improved, developed, exploited, earmarked or even fully explored. The fact undoubtedly has developers and energy company execs chomping at the bit, but ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Politics
At last week's Governors' Global Climate Summit, Governors from the U.S., Indonesia and Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to reduce forestry-related greenhouse gas emissions. It was an historic event and the first state-to-state, sub-national agreement focused on reducing emissions from deforestation and land degradation. There was ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Logging, Politics, Protest
No sooner was the Great Lakes Basin Compact approved in October of 2008 than wind turbine consortiums and manufacturers started talking about the potential of Great Lakes wind to deliver massive amounts of clean energy to the Upper Midwest. Their hopes and statistics are based on several wind distribution maps ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Clean Technologies, Environment & Wildlife, Green energy, Politics
First it was deformed frogs. Then it was bees, dying of a mysterious illness called Colony Collapse Disorder. Now, reports from environmental scientists warn of the deaths of thousands of bats along the east coast of the United States, in a plague researchers are dubbing ‘white-nose fungus'. Early in 2007 ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters (2 comments)
Last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced plans to make more than 190 million acres of federal land available for geothermal energy development based on the findings in the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). The land is in 12 western states - Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Clean Technologies, Environment & Wildlife, Green energy, Politics
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute After World War II, accelerating population growth and steadily rising incomes drove the demand for seafood upward at a record pace. At the same time, advances in fishing technologies, including huge refrigerated processing ships that enabled trawlers to exploit distant oceans, enabled fishers ... keep reading
Written by Lester Brown last month, about Agriculture & Food, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Politics, Water
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