If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Majora Carter is a powerful and dynamic visionary voice in city planning who views sustainable urban renewal through the experience of why it is necessary. The South Bronx native draws a direct connection between ecological, economic and social degradation. [...]
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World Rainforest Week - October 13-19, 2008
October 13th, 2008 · No Comments
World Rainforest Week is an annual holiday created by Rainforest Action Network with the goal of highlighting and celebrating the importance of rainforests to the health of people and our planet.
As tropical forests around the world continue to be endangered by illegal, unsustainable logging practices, as well as new threats like climate change and the [...]
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EPA - Environmental Protection Apathy
September 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Our Favorite government agency, The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there’s no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country. (Just like there is no need to have rigorous environmental testing of toxic chemical like IMD and fipronil, when a simple Section 18 [...]
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Water Pollution
September 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Following up on a water pollution story from a few days ago on drugs in the water - on Thursday this week while many people were wondering if financial apocalypse was upon us, pollution experts were making their case in Washington.
They are asking for a new national approach that monitors the country’s waters more broadly [...]
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Drugged Waters & Ecotoxicity
September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Have you ever wondered what hospitals and other medical facilities do with unused pharmaceuticals that have passed their use by date? It is coming to light now that in America they often just flush them down the drain adding a crazy chemical cocktail to the water supply. The Associated Press is investigating, and here’s some [...]
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Latest On The Global Warming Hockey Stick
September 1st, 2008 · No Comments
If you have seen Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth you have seen the hockey stick graph. It shows the northern hemisphere’s temperature over the last thousand years, or does it. The problem is that it is only relatively recentlly that such temperatures have been measured. Various ‘prxy’ data was used from thousands of different samples [...]
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McCain Is Not A Sustainable Choice
August 29th, 2008 · No Comments
WASHINGTON– Senator John McCain just announced his choice for running mate: Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. To follow is a statement by Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund.
“Senator McCain’s choice for a running mate is beyond belief. By choosing Sarah Palin, McCain has clearly made a decision to continue the Bush legacy [...]
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