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Last Friday, June 11th, was the one-hundredth birthday of late ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau- hence the ocean-themed Google logo that you might have seen if you visited Google’s website last Friday. His name is associated with the ocean, conservation, and his famous ship, the Calypso, but what exactly makes this man and his message so memorable?
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“The dream of many scientists in both developed and developing countries has been made a reality”. How? A green light was recently given to move forward on the formation of a global “science policy” panel on ecosystem and biodiversity services. The Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), set to be endorsed in 2011, will attempt to close the gap between scientific research and political action in hopes of putting a halt to biodiversity loss. Read more…
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In the midst of the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, news of proposed electric vehicle charging stations all over California comes, at the least, as a relief. The oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has sparked more debate on a national scale about the use of renewable energies and the potential environmental effects of such drilling. Read more…
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As scientists, engineers, politicians, and BP executives “work” tirelessly to come up with solutions to impede the flow of toxic oil throughout the gulf, a community in Magnolia Springs, Alabama has come up with their own answer to protect the area they call home. They took an approach that often goes by the wayside these days, common sense, and the result looks promising. Read more…
How many times in the past years have you heard just how terrible livestock is to the Earth? Polluting the atmosphere, overgrazing the grasslands, and destroying ecosystems with their vast presence. But emerging voices are arguing this long standing belief that livestock are the bane of the worlds environmental problems, and instead reminding us that indeed it’s bad agricultural practices that are killing the Earth, and livestock can be our solution.
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Just as the American oil industry will forever remember 2010, the American nuclear industry hasn’t forgotten 2002. That year a nuclear reactor at the Davis-Besse plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio had a leak, causing corrosion that could have been cataclysmal. The American nuclear industry is poised to start new construction projects for the first time in 30 years and is now coming face to face with the same operating problem. Read more…
Seventy percent of firms with revenue of $1 billion or higher are set to increase spending on climate change initiatives in the next two years. The global survey conducted by Verdantix included companies from Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Japan, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States across a wide variety of industries. Read more…
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Once again, California is setting the trend. This time, the state is becoming the first to place a ban on the use of plastic shopping bags. In a 41-27 vote last Wednesday, the Assembly passed a bill that would prohibit grocery stores from offering plastic bags starting January 2012. Instead, shoppers will either have to bring in their reusable bags or be charged 5 cents (or more) for a recycled paper bag. The bill, AB 1998, still needs state Senate approval. Read more…
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The puncture in the earth’s surface a mile deep into the ocean has been spouting essentially unchecked for six weeks now. BP’s initial strategy to plug the hole through a “top kill” (stuffing it with mud) has failed. Plan B involves sending down robots with diamond cutter saws to sever the pipe, and fit a containment cap over it. Why exactly robots with diamond plated saws was not BP’s first move begs another question entirely. Should this maneuver fail there is a risk of increasing the plume of oil billowing into the Gulf. In this event relief wells would have to be constructed placing the approximate date of containment somewhere in, AUGUST. Read more…
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The Pascua and Baker rivers of Patagonia run through the remote South American wilderness. Few people have visited these waters and we now stand the chance of losing them. That’s because the Pascua and Baker rivers are being threatened by a massive hydroelectric project that would contain the waters with five dams by 2020. Read more…
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