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It is pretty insane how a basic idea can turn into so much more than that. TGLC is a great example of this. And here’s another one: Simple Shoes. Simple Shoes is a company that lovingly manufactures 100% sustainable shoes and bags. Read more…
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On Sunday, Southern California celebrated the Easter holiday and felt the tremors of the Baja California earthquake, while on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Australians are trying to clean up the mess that could seriously damage the world’s largest coral reef. Read more…
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I remember telling my college advisor that I was thinking of being an environmental studies and music major. Music and the environment seem like two completely different ways of life to me, but today I discovered a link between the two. When I look at an instrument, I don’t usually think of the tree that it came from. Now I will. Read more…
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Last December, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the findings of its investigation on the harmful effects of greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases not only drive the climate change we are experiencing which is causing freak weather and the endangerment of the few all natural habitats left in the earth, but, more close to home, the EPA found that the climate change that greenhouse gases drive can cause heat waves that are a danger to people prone to strokes and the ground-level ozone pollution can be linked to respiratory illness. Read more…
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Is money all it takes to overturn a government’s regulatory laws? Independent oil company Veneco Inc. is certainly trying to prove it with its attempts to amend regulatory laws in Southern California.
Veneco Inc. owns a large oil storage facility in Carpinteria, California, a charming beach town just outside of Santa Barbara. In 2005, it first proposed the Paredon Initiative, with plans to install an oil deck next to its storage facilities and do an offshore drill for oil in the ocean. The project would sit right next to several residential areas, which could cause many health and environmental issues for the residents and disturb the coastal habitat. Since this project is illegal in Carpinteria, negotiations ensued and an environmental review was conducted. 11 “significant and unavoidable impacts” were identified. Read more…
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March 1 is a very important day in the world for the future of harvesting wind for energy in the United States. March 1 marks the deadline for the Mashpee Wampanoag of Cape Cod, the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Martha’s Vineyard, and project management company Energy Management to compromise on the construction of a long awaited, long debated wind energy farm in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts. Cape Wind, the name of this project consisting of 130 wind turbines, each 440 feet tall, covering approximately 24 square miles offshore of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket, has been receiving opposition ever since its conception in 2001. Read more…
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Over the years, vegetarian groups and environmentalists have advocated the policy that “less meat= less heat.” However, that is not necessarily always the case. In the past, cows, other livestock, and their consumers have been cited as environmentally detrimental because of the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from housing the livestock, and the livestock themselves. In 2006, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported that 18% of the world’s man-made greenhouse gas emissions comes from livestock. Cows especially take the fall because they are fed more energy-intensive feed than other livestock and emit more methane than other livestock. Read more…
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The holidays always turn out to be a mad dash for the latest, greatest in presents for family and friends. Among the clothes, video games, and gift cards is the recently and widely coveted e-reader. E-Readers are not only a convenient way to carry hundreds of books with you, they are also extremely environmentally friendly. Read more…
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