For all of you eagerly awaiting those July 4 fireworks displays — including our Canadian neighbors doing likewise for their July 1 Canada Day celebrations — here’s a prospect for those light shows of the future likely to ignite a smile on Mother Nature’s face: A new generation of “green ... keep reading
Written by Michael Bernstein this week, about Air Quality, Art & Culture, Children and Families, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
As a follow up to last year’s “Urban Tumbleweeds” art installation at Burning Man, this past weekend, as a part of FIGMENT, New York based design studio MSLK has assembled a new eco-art project entitled Watershed. Watershed is composed of 1,500 plastic water bottles (the number of bottles ... keep reading
Written by Ruben Sun last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Art & Culture, Education, Food, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
One of the near-casualties of the Bush 43 era was the Clean Water Act, which has its origins in the 1972 Nixon administration. Now, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has approved the Clean Water Restoration Act, which will go to a full Senate vote. No surprise here, the ... keep reading
Written by Doug Snodgrass last month, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Water
The End of the Line premiered at Sundance Film Festival, and is the first feature documentary to focus on the impacts of overfishing on oceans. Filmed over two years, it follows author and reporter Charles Clover as he explores the extinction of various marine species, and confronts politicians and restaurateurs ... keep reading
Written by Kate R. last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Consumerism, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
It once was the case that because natural gas is lighter than air, getting it out of the ground was as easy as drilling into the formation and collecting the gas as it rose to the surface. However, as less conventional techniques are being used to develop natural gas from ... keep reading
Written by Timothy B. Hurst last month, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water (1 comment)
Courtesy Off-Grid.Net: Europe’s electricity grid is unable to distribute the renewable energy capacity that governments have committed to building by 2020, according to a report from Europe’s leading science academies. And Europe’s ageing grid infrastructure is likely to fall 30% short of demand by 2011. Europe ... keep reading
Written by Jo Hooper last month, about Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Solar, Water
Scientists and hydrologists tell us that the world is running out of water. This is true from Arizona and Bangladesh to Vietnam and Zimbabwe, because even though every drop of water on the planet remains in some form or other, much of it has been redistributed via global warming or ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Lifestyle & Behavior, Poverty & Development, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water, Weather (2 comments)
What better place to raise awareness of the critical water issues facing the world than at a music festival in southern Tennessee in June? Approximately 75,000 hot and thirsty music fans have once again converged on the small Tennessee town of Manchester to enjoy the musical stylings from over ... keep reading
Written by Timothy B. Hurst last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Art & Culture, Celebrities, Events, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Water
For most people, it's hard to be sympathetic toward sharks, especially after the likes of such films as Jaws, a shark trilogy that left its negative imprint on the psyches of many Americans young and old. In spite of that, sharks are an essential aquatic species. Think of them ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
Two studies from the Environmental Defense Fund as well as the Center for Energy and Environmental Security suggest that the vast majority of the world's largest businesses are giving no consideration to potential impacts of climate change on their business operations. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S ... keep reading
Written by Doug Snodgrass last month, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Environment & Wildlife, Water (1 comment)
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