Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The American coffee shop chain Starbucks has been accused of wasting more than 23 million litres of water each day because staff are told to leave taps running non-stop. ... It means that 23.4 million litres of water - enough to fill an Olympic ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts yesterday, about Environmental Disasters, Industry, Water (1 comment)
Editor's Note: the following is an excerpt from the introduction to Van Jones' new book, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, published by HarperOne and available starting today. Van Jones is a environemental and social justice activist, and founder of Green ... keep reading
Written by Van Jones yesterday, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Energy Saving, Green energy, Philosophy & Religion, Politics (1 comment)
Things are bad. Even organized religion says so. Although some not-so-organized spiritual traditions like Paganism and aboriginal spirituality have been preaching the green gospel for centuries, now Christians want to get in on the act. Pope Benedict XVI wants Catholics to change their wasteful ways. At least, that's the ... keep reading
Written by Rena Sherwood yesterday, about Climate Change, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Philosophy & Religion
Almost a quarter of all mammals face extinction, according to the 2008 IUCN Red List, published today. 1,141 of the 5,487 known mammals are now under threat. The figures were revealed today in the latest report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, who's Red ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams yesterday, about Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters
It seems the height of irony that the original size of the Wall Street bail out, $700 billion (ballooned to a mere $840 billion before it passed Congress) is about the same dollar amount as what we spend on oil in the United States in a year - 20 million barrels ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant this week, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Economics, Finance, Green energy, Politics
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Stewart Barr, of Exeter University, who led the research, said: "Green living is largely something of a myth. There is this middle class environmentalism where being green is part of the desired image. But another part of the desired image is to fly ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts this week, about Climate Change
Editor's Note: Today's guest post comes to us from Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club National Coal Campaign Director If you watched the television ads before and after the last Presidential Debate, you probably noticed something.Coal. A lot of it. In an attempt to buy public approval and confuse ... keep reading
Written by Sierra Club this week, about Coal & Oil, Media, Politics
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced the launch of its list, called Carbon Offset List, of approved carbon offsets on September 10. EDF says it created the list to fill the need for unified standards in the rapidly growing market for offsets. It touts the list as the "first of its ... keep reading
Written by Gina-Marie Cheeseman this week, about Carbon Trading, Pollution (1 comment)
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The Millennium Seed Bank is facing a funding shortfall that could force it to halt operations. Scientists at the seed bank need to raise more than £100 million in little more than a year to safeguard the facility’s future. Failure to secure ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts this month, about Agriculture & Food, Economics, Finance
By Peter Montague of Rachel’s Democracy & Health News [Rachel's introduction: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants." -- Al Gore]Most of my friends want to deny it, but the evidence is compelling: the ... keep reading
Written by Peter Montague this month, about Carbon Sequestration, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Philosophy & Religion, Politics, Protest
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