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
The biggest take-away from day two of the summit is that much of what will happen in terms of global climate policy will happen at the regional level and through these kinds of regional and local agreements. President-elect Obama's message to the attendees yesterday committing to adopting California's ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Air Quality, Biofuels, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Economics, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Green energy, Health, Industry, Logging, Politics, Pollution, Population, Transport, Water (1 comment)
Tasmanian timber giant Gunns got another free pass from Labor at federal and state levels this month. Local NGO Environment Tasmania and three Tamar Valley landowners are seeking a Supreme Court order that the state government explain why its pulp mill legislation prevents the awarding of compensation in the event ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in October, about Industry, Logging, Politics (1 comment)
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago where endless, humid summer nights were punctuated by the flashing lights of fireflies. Also known as lightning bugs, there are more than 2000 species of firefly in the world, located in both temperate and tropical areas. They particularly thrive in marsh and ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant in September, about Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Logging (1 comment)
The Great Dismal Swamp is a wetland area on the Coastal plain of southeastern Virginia which extends into northeastern North Carolina. My family is lucky enough to live next to this unique wilderness area, which is one of the last large and wild areas remaining in the Eastern United States ... keep reading
Written by Michelle Schaefer in September, about Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Logging
The home of the Surui tribe in the western Brazilian state of Rondônia was once the centre of an enormous lush rainforest. Today, the 600,000-acre reserve is a small green island standing alone amidst a barren wasteland. In time, if nothing is done to prevent it, the Surui ... keep reading
Written by John P. in August, about Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry, Logging, Media (12 comments)
Earth's great deserts formed slowly, as lack of precipitation over areas with low vegetation resulted in vast swaths of arid land. Some of these dry places, like the Sahara, were once fertile grasslands and may become so again sometime in the far future. Deserts are major geographical features of ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk in July, about Agriculture & Food, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Logging
Remember the Earth Clock from a few months ago? Here is a more robust version with some additional stats. Again, the figures can't be taken as absolutely accurate, they are drawn from many sources, including the CIA World Factbook, The National Wildlife Federation, the UK Homeoffice, the US Census ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant in July, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Deforestation, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Health, Logging, Population, Weather
I’m not much for analysing polls, though I certainly admire the astuteness of those who are able to do so in meaningful ways. Citizen lobby group GetUp has just taken this poll looking at Australian attitudes to the ongoing clusterf&%k that is the Gunns would-be pulp mill project ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in June, about Deforestation, Logging, Politics
On a cold day in December 2002, the people of Canada's Grassy Narrows First Nation, 80 kilometres north of Kenora, Ontario, had had enough. After years of suffering from mercury contamination of their water and fish, the flooding of their sacred sites and sky-high unemployment, the drawn-out battle of ... keep reading
Written by Lauren Carter in June, about Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Industry, Logging, Politics, Protest
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