The state of the polar ice-caps is a pretty good indicator of the warming effects of climate change on our planet. While the whole debate about human activity being a contributory factor for climate change rages in the scientific, political and business arenas, we are making steady progress towards irreversible ... keep reading
Written by Andy Chrysostomou this month, about Environment & Wildlife, Global Warming, Water
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. - The Independent keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts this month, about Global Warming, Water
Here's what I want you to do: Imagine me standing in your kitchen with my fingers in my ears, eyes closed and chanting la la la la la whilst closely resembling a 4 year old on a bad day. What I don't want to hear is that according ... keep reading
Written by Jessica Gottlieb this month, about Agriculture & Food, Consumerism, Economics, Health, Water
Let's face it -- grass lawns are nothing but green concrete. They serve no actual constructive purpose other than to look pretty. Grass has such a shallow root system that most of the water put onto them runs off. And if you placed fertilizers or pesticides on your lawn, then ... keep reading
Written by Rena Sherwood this month, about Architecture, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Philosophy & Religion, Water
In order to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to levels that would not further imperil earth's climate, the globe as a whole will have to spend $45 trillion dollars, according to the International Energy Agency's 2008 report. This expenditure would reportedly produce a 50% reduction of CO2 emissions ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne R. last month, about Architecture, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Finance, Global Warming, Industry, Nuclear, Politics, Population, Transport, Water
"...., and nary a drop to drink", wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A situation that seems eerily familiar today, as drought clutches Australia, divides China into southern haves and northern have-nots, sickens the horn of Africa, turns the Bundelkhand region in India into a wasteland ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne R. last month, about Environment & Wildlife, Global Warming, Politics, Water, Weather
Editor’s Note: Dr. Dickson Despommier is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He has come up with an idea to address the growing food, water and energy crises; the Vertical Farm. Today we run an essay by ... keep reading
Written by Dr. Dickson Despommier last month, about Agriculture & Food, Architecture, Health, Philosophy & Religion, Population, Water
Environmental Guru Paul Hawken wrote that we ought to “design a system where...doing good is like falling off a log" (Ecology of Commerce) When it comes to plastic water bottles our current economic and social systems are making doing bad as easy as falling off a log. I'm ... keep reading
Written by Eliav Bitan last month, about Consumerism, Health, Philosophy & Religion, Recycling, Water
Go ahead. Ask me what I remember about the Spring of 1977. So glad you asked. I remember the neighbors spray painting their lawns green. It was illegal to water them. Because of the drought we didn’t water lawns, wash cars or run through sprinklers that year. As a ... keep reading
Written by Jessica Gottlieb last month, about Consumerism, Events, Politics, Water, Weather
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Written by The Real News Network last month, about Politics, Water, Weather
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