A Catalogue of Extinct Experience: Renewing Our Disappearing Connections to Nature
Monday, July 6th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffNominated by the TerraPass. team Our experiences shape our consciousness: who we are, who we become, the choices we make about how we spend our lives. But our range of experiences — from drinking from a clean, ...
China Reports 66 Percent Drop in Plastic Bag Use
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments Offby Ben Block A strict Chinese limit on ultra-thin plastic bags significantly reduced bag-related pollution nationwide during the past year. The country avoided the use of 40 billion bags, according to government estimates. Plastic bags are commonly ...
China Reports 66 Percent Drop in Plastic Bag Use
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffA strict Chinese limit on ultra-thin plastic bags significantly reduced bag-related pollution nationwide during the past year. The country avoided the use of 40 billion bags, according to government estimates. Plastic bags are commonly found in ...
U.S. Vows Tighter Controls Over Mountaintop Mining In Appalachia
Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe Obama administration will impose tougher controls over the controversial practice of mountaintop coal mining, the environmentally damaging practice of shearing off the tops of mountains in Appalachia to exploit the coal below. Administration officials vowed ...
Aviation Industry Outlines Ambitious Climate Goals
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe global aviation industry pledged on Monday to halt the overall growth in aviation-related greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The International Air Transport Association, which represents more than 90 percent of international air traffic businesses, announced a ...
Closing The “Climate Gap”
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffBy Anna Fahey Climate change will pick winners and losers unless lawmakers intervene. A new report out today reveals a real and urgent problem related to the impacts of global warming. It's what the report's research team from ...
Satellite Eye On Earth: Submarine Volcanic Eruption
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffNasa's Aqua satellite captured this image of volcanic activity near Tonga in the South Pacific. The following day a submarine volcanic eruption occurred. The area around the eruption appears bright blue-green, likely resulting from ash and ...
Satellite Eye On Earth: Submarine Volcanic Eruption
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffNasa's Aqua satellite captured this image of volcanic activity near Tonga in the South Pacific. The following day a submarine volcanic eruption occurred. The area around the eruption appears bright blue-green, likely resulting from ash and ...
U.N. Raises “Low” Population Projection for 2050
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe United Nations has raised its optimistic "low" estimate of world population growth due to an increase in childbirths in some industrialized nations. In a biennial report released last week, the U.N. Population Division increased slightly a ...
U.N. Raises “Low” Population Projection for 2050
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe United Nations has raised its optimistic "low" estimate of world population growth due to an increase in childbirths in some industrialized nations. In a biennial report released last week, the U.N. Population Division increased slightly a ...
How to prepare ports and waterfronts for climate change?
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffWhich coastal cities are planning most effectively -- and most realistically -- for climate change? We know now that the seas are rising much faster than expected and that our existing climate commitment is likely to ...
“Avoided Deforestation” Plan Gains Support
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffEconomist Nicholas Stern urged U.S. leaders to contribute to a Brazilian fund for conserving the Amazon during a visit to Washington, D.C., last week. While visiting the White House and Capitol Hill, the former World ...
“Avoided Deforestation” Plan Gains Support
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffEconomist Nicholas Stern urged U.S. leaders to contribute to a Brazilian fund for conserving the Amazon during a visit to Washington, D.C., last week. While visiting the White House and Capitol Hill, the former World ...
The Politics of Respecting Humans and Protecting the Oceans
Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffGiven our recent focus on the state of the oceans, our attention was piqued this morning by this article published by The Economist. The issue at hand underscores our call for an international oceans agreement. An ...
More Provinces May Agree to Protect Boreal Forest
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffPhoto credit: International Boreal Conservation Campaign Original and remaining intact forests of the world - the Boreal Forest in Canada contains 25% of the world's last intact forests This summer, after receiving an insistent letter from ...
Deeper in Debt: Two-Planet Lifestyle by Mid-2030s
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffNew figures show that we are barreling toward a two-planet global society. Simply put, the worldwide demand for resources will soon require the equivalent of two Earths to sustain. Earlier today, our allies at the Global ...
New Perspectives from The Atlas of the Real World
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe Daily Telegraph published a handful of cartograms yesterday from The Atlas of the Real World, the latest book from big-picture focused professors and worldmapper.org creators Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman and Anna Barford. The Atlas of ...
Book Review – An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffAn Atlas of Radical Cartography, edited by artists Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat (Amazon USA and UK) The editors say: An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues ...
Book Review – An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffAn Atlas of Radical Cartography, edited by artists Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat (Amazon USA and UK) The editors say: An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues ...