published March 23, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Lin via flickr With the Department of the Interior making a loud and public commitment to developing renewable energy on public lands, some conflict over what land was too ecologically important was bound to happen sooner or later. In this case, sooner. California's Senator Dianne Feinstein has indicated that she will push legislation to make some 500,000 acres ...
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published March 23, 2009 and has No Comments
Images from EJF The Environmental Justice Foundation is a small organization with a big goal. They want to bring environmental injustice to international attention. In Brazil, Vietnam, Mali, Sierra Leone, Uzbekistan, Mauritius and Indonesia, they are working with individuals and grassroots organisations teaching film and advocacy training in order to document and expose abuses to the environment. EJF gives ...
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published March 22, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: JNovak The Rio Grande is home to an abundance of wildlife and it’s the life blood of both the American and Mexican economy. According to the World Wildlife Fund , however, the river has once again received the unflattering distinction of being one of the top ten most at risk rivers in the world. Why is the Rio ...
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published March 20, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via House.gov Anyone following the saga of the bill that would bring the biggest expansion of the Wilderness Preservation Act in 15 years—otherwise known as the Omnibus Land Bill --know that the it's had a strangely bumpy road. And just when it looked like it was finally ready to pass, and set to fast track its way through ...
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Chuck Coker via flickr TreeHugger has covered all sorts of plans to transform the US's energy mix towards far greater amounts of renewable energy over the coming years, Al Gore's generational challenge to repower America being perhaps the most prominent. Under than plan (really more a visionary proposal) the US would generate 100% of its electricity from renewable ...
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Buster Wants to Fish A bill designed to protect 2 million acres of American wilderness --which would be the greatest expansion of the Wilderness Preservation Act in 15 years--passed the Senate last January with relatively little trouble. The bill was on a fast track to sail through the House for easy passage when it was introduced there ...
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published March 9, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo: Flickr , CC Trouble's In the Middle A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society in Kenya shows that Coral reefs, and the fish that live there, are "healthiest in both the richest, most well developed areas and in the poorest, most under-developed ones." Right in the middle of the socioeconomic spectrum is where corals suffer most. Tim ...
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published March 6, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via robstephaustralia And they thought wind turbines were a pain . More than 80% of of the deaths in several bat populations in the northeastern United States and Canada have been caused by a fungus - indirectly. Scientists haven't figured out a way to stop it from spreading, but they have figured out a likely reason bats are ...
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published March 5, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via SanGatiche A short documentary called Tomorrow's Baja addresses the impact that tourism has on the unique and fragile ecosystem of the area. Among the many statistics that'll make your jaw drop is one that underscores what happens in areas taken over by tourism. A typical barrio family spends 20% of its income on water, but uses less ...
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published March 5, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: thingermejib via flickr Want to make the most out of your small-scale wind turbine plans? Or just see if the one you're planning on purchasing will ever generate enough electricity to pay back its embedded carbon emissions? Well, the Carbon Trust has launched an online tool to help you work out how much power that turbine could generate, ...
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