Posted by in Environment on 03 14th, 2010 | No Comments
The Silly Season Is Upon Us: Fiorina Goes After Boxer on Climate Action
Doesn’t it seem like President Obama was just elected? Well, he was, but alas there is no offseason in politics. The 2010 mid-terms are heating up and California Republican candidate Carly Fiorina is wasting no time going after Senator Barbara Boxer. Her … Read the full story on TreeHugger...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
And Now For The Best Argument Against Global Warming . . .
And Now For The Best Argument Against Global Warming . . .
Image via SF Gate Over at the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Peter Gleick, the president of the Pacific Institute has come up with the most believable argument against global warming that I’ve yet encountered. And so, I’ll close out my Friday by sharing it…. Read the full story on TreeHugger...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Global Warming’s Evil Twin: Ocean Acidification - A Present And Measurable Danger
Global Warming’s Evil Twin: Ocean Acidification - A Present And Measurable Danger
Acid ocean “SOS.” Image credit: Alaska Marine Conservation Council US EPA has decided to consider ways that US states can, under already delegated authorities, curb pollutants that may otherwise add to the power of global warming’s evil twin: Ocean Acidification . (Note: many US States...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Massive Gap Widens Between Republican and Democrat’s Belief in Climate Change
Massive Gap Widens Between Republican and Democrat’s Belief in Climate Change
All charts and graphs via EnviroKnow I’ve written before about the ever-increasing politicization of climate change –the thesis that the scientifically backed consensus that human activity is warming the planet is now treated as a political belief isn’t a hard one to prove. But just...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Chinese Zoo Accused of Letting 11 Rare Siberian Tigers Starve to Death
Chinese Zoo Accused of Letting 11 Rare Siberian Tigers Starve to Death
Photo: CC The Food Was Too Expensive… Sad story of the day: 11 rare and endangered Siberian Tigers starved to death while confined to “cold, cramped metal cages” at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in China’s North-East. The deaths took place in the past three months, with...
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Posted by in Business, Eco, Environment on 03 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Lifestyle Adjustments, As Poverty Comes To The American Suburbs
Lifestyle Adjustments, As Poverty Comes To The American Suburbs
Food pantry. Image credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Laurie Skrivan/P-D) The era in which increasing numbers of people were willing to pay a premium for locally grown food or for ‘organic’ clothing appears to be ending. Poverty has become common in many US suburbs, triggered by ‘the...
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Posted by in Business, Eco, Environment on 03 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Pig Business Exposes the Grisly Inner Workings of the Pork Industry
Pig Business Exposes the Grisly Inner Workings of the Pork Industry
Image credit: Grist Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater. Second, and more significantly, the film has not been—and likely never will be—released...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Unilever & Solazyme Working On Algae Oil Process For Soaps And Other Personal Care Products
Unilever & Solazyme Working On Algae Oil Process For Soaps And Other Personal Care Products
World consumption of most common commodity triglyceride vegetable oils. Image credit: Wikipedia Certain plant oils, especially palm oil, have a reputation of being produced unsustainably. Many plant oils are low-cost commodities (see table above for recent global volumes). Certain of the commodity plant...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Big Oil Launches Campaign to Protect Gov Subsidies, Uses Stock Photos AGAIN
Big Oil Launches Campaign to Protect Gov Subsidies, Uses Stock Photos AGAIN
Guess who’ll pay for the new energy tax? the ad reads, in lettering right above four portraits of hardworking Americans. Perhaps it’s Getty Images, the stock photo company from which all four photos of supposedly ‘real’ Americans were taken? Or perhaps its actors and models,...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 11th, 2010 | No Comments
EU Says It Will Back Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban - And Then There Was Japan…
EU Says It Will Back Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban - And Then There Was Japan…
photo: Yusuke Kawasaki via flickr. The US has agreed to back an international ban on trade in critically endangered bluefin tuna , and now the European Union nations will do so as well, with Malta being the only dissenting vote. That still leaves us with Japan, which consumes about 80% of the world’s...
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