How One Big Earthquake Triggers Another

Every so often, one large earthquake can trigger another. These "earthquake doublets" might happen because the first quake shifts stresses around in the Earth’s crust, triggering the second temblor, scientists say.

[source]

February: Events Around the City

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, is an author and world renowned for her successful environmental stewardship. They meet at the Aziz Art Studio which is surrounded by an inspirational natural setting. ...

[source]

Current Publications from CVM January 2008

JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH-PART A-CURRENT ISSUES 2007;70(22):1929-1935. Sepulveda MA, Bartheld JL, Monsalve R, Gomez V, Medina-Vogel G. Habitat use and spatial behaviour of the endangered Southern river otter (Lontra ...

[source]

Taylorville Energy Center Receives Final Air Permit, Environmental ...

TAYLORVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a critical milestone for the development of clean coal technologies, the US Environmental Appeals Board denied the Sierra Club.

[source]

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts

According to the EPA, consumer electronics accounted for almost 1.5 percent of 250 million tons of trash in 2006, and according to a report from the International Association of Electronics Recyclers, in 2006, 15 to 20 percent of ...

[source]

Pervasive environmental sensing a possibility

The program will develop pervasive environmental sensor networks to collect data on parameters such as air and water quality from many sources, and use this data to provide accurate, [...]

[source]

GSPI Has Acquired A License For Next Generation Algae To Biofuels ...

Today, Green Star Products, Inc. (OTC: GSPI), announced that it has acquired a license to utilize a breakthrough processing technology to convert algae biomass to feedstock oil and cellulose sugars for the production of biodiesel and ...

[source]

Pro Sports Go Green

When the Philadelphia Eagles launched its Go Green campaign in 2003, it was the first pro athletic team to implement a major environmental initiative. Over the next five years, other teams joined the eco-friendly bandwagon. ...

[source]

Hermit crab in a glamorous glass shell

I always wondered how this creature fits inside...

[source]

Increased Hurricane Activity Linked To Sea Surface Warming

"We created a statistical model based on two environmental variables – local sea surface temperature and an atmospheric wind field - which replicated 75-80 per cent of the variance in tropical Atlantic hurricane activity and frequency ...

[source]

Safety Supervisors / Coordinators (Career Trend Pte Ltd)

Perform site inspection in compliance with company’s Health, Safety and Environmental System, Workplace Safety and Health Act and Environmental Public Health Regulations Assist project teams to identify and conduct risk assessments ...

[source]

Harmful pesticides found in everyday food products.

Chensheng Lu's study was published this month in Environmental Health Perspectives (ehponline.org), a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science. It was funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and used ...

[source]

Hermit crab in a glamorous glass shell

I always wondered how this creature fits inside...

[source]

Environmental Inequalities

... as a synthesis and dissemination of the above topics. There are also pages outlining cross-cutting themes related to environmental inequality, and links to other environmental justice resources (key readings and case study examples).

[source]

Obviousness Hinders Your Persuasion Ability

In other words, an environmental organization that seeks to engage new, uninvolved people in their movement should hire someone who used to be an uninvolved person. Someone who needed to be persuaded, as then they can employ the same ...

[source]

Environmental Resources and Community Forest Commission

February 6, 2008. 6:00 PM at Fairfield Community Arts Center.

[source]

SUBSCRIBER - Environmental Consultant (Oil & Gas) , Western

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008 Expires: Tuesday, April 01, 2008.

[source]

Ascendant Copper Loses Mining Concessions in Ecuador

Ascendant Copper accused the government of leftist President Rafael Correa of bowing to pressure from environmental groups. John Haigh, Ascendant's investor relations chief, said that the Ecuadorian government’s actions were ...

[source]

Baffled Experts

Alan Hicks, a bat specialist with New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation, called the quick-spreading disorder the “gravest threat” to bats he had ever seen. Up to 11000 bats were found dead last winter and many more are ...

[source]

Environmental Associate

Washington, District of Columbia Mestel & Company Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:52 -0800.

[source]

Avoid Air Travel, Forget Face-to-Face and Go Green

We live in a sea of communications options. So why do people still hop on cross-country flights for two-hour face-to-face meetings instead of using rich collaboration technologies like video conferencing, VOIP and virtual worlds? Save your money and the environment!

[source]

WSJ Online Launches Environmental Blog

The Wall Street Journal Online today launched “Environmental Capital,” a new blog designed to break and analyze news about businesses and investors and what they’re doing in the new “green” world. ...

[source]

Desert Solitaire

Desert Solitaire. Issues:. 1. Abbey’s concepts of wilderness, culture, and civilization. WILDERNESS:. Wild, and chaotic. Natural. A place to escape. Completes civilizations. Etc…. CIVILIZATION:. Destroys the wild. Houses the masses ...

[source]

Blair to Advise ZFS on Climate Change

Tony Blair said that he will advise Zurich Financial Services on climate change and political issues, Business Week reports. As part of the agreement, Blair will advise Zurich’s CEO, James J. Schiro, and provide general guidance on ...

[source]

Wal-Mart gets nod in Suisun

The commissioners voted 7-0 that they were satisfied that the environmental documents associated with the proposed store on Walters Road near Highway 12 sufficiently addressed any concerns they had. The City of Suisun City Council now ...

[source]

New power generation: Alternative energy sources

Read the full story in the Independent. Solar reflectors could one day make petrol from thin air, and algae may provide all the diesel we need. Simon Usborne reports on the race to perfect energy sources for the future.

[source]

Global Credit and Environmental Issues affect smaller developers ...

Bangkok at night Small and medium-scale property developers in Bangkok are being forced to sell their projects to larger developers as they start to face difficulties in obtaining financial support for construction. ...

[source]

Global Warming

To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV’s mission is to advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies. ...

[source]

The sham of public consultation

A panel of three from the National Energy Corporation gave a lovely, if jargon laden, power point presentation summarising the findings of their environmental impact assessment for the project, speaking casually of minor to major ...

[source]

Put your hands up or I'll pump you full of GREEN!

New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation is switching from the lead-based bullets that its 464 environmental conservation officers and park rangers use in firearms training to "green" bullets that are lead-free and have ...

[source]

Active Environmental Scientist

As an environmental scientist and an Officer on the US Army Health Care Team, your knowledge of biology, environmental health and industrial hygiene will help prevent illness and injury. You'll plan an important role on a team that ...

[source]

USA. Polar Bears need urgent protection says WWF expert

WWF’s Director of the Bering Sea Ecoregion and Russia Projects Margaret Williams will testify before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works at a hearing entitled “Examining Threats and Protections for the Polar Bear” on ...

[source]

JOURNAL CLUB FIND: DIVORCE IS IN THE AIR

Its causes, dynamics, and socioeconomic impacts have been widely studied, but little research has addressed its environmental impacts. We found that average household size (number of people in a household) in divorced households ...

[source]

Hi, I’m Other - Plastic #7

You have to look hard to actually find something labeled as a plastic #7. When it comes to resin identification codes, #7 is reserved for materials made from mixed plastics - or “other.” That’s why it is so rare to see a #7 in the wild ...

[source]

Managing Environmental Law and Regulation in Shipping

K&L Gates partner, Barry Hartman, will be a speaker at the "Framework of International Regulation - Environmental Regulation of Shipping in the US" session.

[source]

Hi, I’m Other - Plastic #7

You have to look hard to actually find something labeled as a plastic #7. When it comes to resin identification codes, #7 is reserved for materials made from mixed plastics - or “other.” That’s why it is so rare to see a #7 in the wild ...

[source]

Daily Bulletin - Wednesday Jan 30, 2008

Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Environmental Control Technology, Graphic Arts, Labor Studies, Machine Technology, Media Communication, Photography, Welding Technology, Wood Technology, and more? If so, you ...

[source]

Project Ideas- Alisha

Organic Supermarkets and whether they are as eco-friendly as they claim; Bioregions (also called ecoregions); Biodynamic Farming; Industrial Tourism; Dams in the Pacific Northwest and their effect on salmon and other life forms.

[source]

Want to Stop Climate Change? Leave Your computer On.

We all know that leaving your computer on 24/7 will release up to 1,500 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. But if you absolutely must leave your computer on, here's a way you can make up for it...

[source]

EU nanotechnology R&D in the field of health and environmental ...

EU nanotechnology R&D in the field of health and environmental impact of nanoparticles Compiled by Pilar Aguar and Jose Juan Murcia Nicolas Unit G4 Nano and converging Sciences and Technologies European Commission, Research DG Version: ...

[source]

Prince Charles And Camilla Enjoy An Afternoon Of Environmental Theatre

I believe it was Billy Shakes who once said, “To be or not to be sustainable, that is the question.” Prince Charles and wife Camilla, the Duchess Of Cornwall (you gotta love a good Duchess), spent yesterday afternoon enjoying some ...

[source]

The Nuclear Resurgence and Reasonable Expectations

The power industry must invest approximately $1 trillion by 2020 to upgrade and expand our electricity infrastructure – new power plants, efficiency programs, transmission and distribution, environmental control technology – at a time ...

[source]

A Different Kind of Bath Safety

The article quoted David Steinman, head of environmental publishing company Freedom Press. Apparently Steinman commissioned an independent lab test on various products and found some of them to be at or above the FDA recommended limit. ...

[source]

Powell River Transit Buses Make Environmental Sense

The Powell River Regional Transit System is now fuelled with five per cent biodiesel in five conventional transit vehicles.

[source]

Smile with Nature

The flower hid within it a smile; so honeyed and innocent,. It blushed at the bumbling bee that tried to alight on it. It sang a song with its sister-flowers and rejoiced with the laughing stream,. It shared some of its happiness with ...

[source]

environmental protection company

Hong Wu3 San Nian2, rise Hangzhou, river's west, Yan mountain, green state four Weis is all a Wei and reply to place the river south environmental protection company, Xian, too original, martial Chang four all Wei. ...

[source]

Environmental engineer: Utilities didn’t take precautions

DENVER - An environmental engineer took Colorado Springs Utilities to task Monday for misreporting the causes of sewage spills and for failing to take adequate safeguards.

[source]

Growing the economy to help the poor and other myths

I’ve been reading the 2007 groundWork report, which is entitled Peak Poison: The elite energy crisis and environmental justice. It’sa brilliant synthesis of our current and future energy predicament from an environmental justice ...

[source]

Pregnancy: - Is Diabetes Linked To Environmental Pollution?

Scientists are advocating additional research into the little understood links between environmental pollution and type 2 diabetes. Some recent research has demonstrated a very strong relationship between the levels of POPs in blood, ...

[source]

Anti Smog Architecture: A Catalyst for Cleaner Air in Paris

Architect Vincent Callebaut’s latest project balances public galleries, meeting rooms and gathering spaces over canals and abandoned railroad tracks in the 19th Parisian district. The prototype uses green technologies and techniques but is more than just an example of sustainable design.

[source]

Nations Ranked by Environmental Benchmarks

The 2008 Environmental Performance Index from the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia University was released last week. The index ranks nations based on “broadly-accepted targets for environmental performance and ...

[source]

Increase in eczema worldwide for reasons unknown

When children are already genetically predisposed to getting these conditions, environmental factors can certainly help increase their risk. Typical triggers of eczema are pollen, mold, and excessive heat — yet this alone does not ...

[source]

Ecology (Cain, Bowman, and Hacker)

Unit I. Organisms and Their Environment. 2. The Physical Environment 3. The Biosphere 4. Coping with Environmental Variation: Water and Temperature 5. Coping with Environmental Variation: Energy 6. Evolution and Ecology ...

[source]

4) The GenoType Diet by Catherine Whitney

GenoType 4: The Explorer--Muscular and adventurous, the Explorer is a biological problem solver, with an impressive ability to adapt to environmental changes, and a better than average capacity for gene repair. ...

[source]

Berkeley Daily Planet: Judge Affirms Order for Stadium Evidence

Attorneys for the City of Berkeley and neighborhood and environmental groups challenging the university’s plans had contested the order, which had been supported by the university’s lawyers. The litigation before the Hayward judge ...

[source]

Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon.

A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies, company officials said.

[source]

Environmental Groups Call for Protection of Coral Reefs as World ...

As 17 countries and 30 organizations launch the International Year of the Reef today, three major environmental groups – World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International – call on governments, businesses, ...

[source]

A DIFFERENT DRUMMER — Environmental groups challenge genetically ...

The Sierra Club, the Organic Seed Alliance, Earthjustice and the Center for Food Safety are concerned that the altered beets could pose an environmental risk by cross-pollinating with other plants, creating herbicide-resistant “super ...

[source]

A quick example of the perils of ignoring substitution effects

From CNN.com:. The world's rush to embrace biofuels is causing a spike in the price of corn and other crops and could worsen water shortages and force poor communities off their land, a UN official said Wednesday. ...

[source]

Green, But With A Big Black Smear

There are tons of inconsistencies in the environmental movement such as plugging an electric car into an outlet that connects to the grid where the electricity is supplied by coal-burning, greenhouse gas emitting power plants or driving ...

[source]

Caves or Caving News: DOE to conduct Environmental Study on Salt ...

The original plan called for draining the smaller Leaf River, which feeds into the Pascagoula River headwaters, to hollow out the giant salt cavern in Perry County...

[source]

Tiny Choices Survey: Michelle

The employee noted the environmental choice I made…granted she said something along the lines of saving a tree, but still for general purposes, she knew why I was doing it without me saying a word! What is the one environmental Tiny ...

[source]

Environmental Program Manager

Our Client is a national environmental, health, safety, and engineering firm providing a variety of services to our clients nationwide. We are a Zweig White HOT FIRM 2005 - 2006 - 2007 and have been recognized as an ENR Top 200 ...

[source]

Butterfly Effects and Environmental Impact Statements

The Honolulu Advertiser reports that the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii is advocating in favor of a bill limiting the "use" of a state or county road as a trigger to chapter 343 environmental review: ...

[source]

Quantifying the direct social and governmental costs of illegal ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2007.10.007. Abstract: Illegal logging is a major threat to the long-term sustainability of the forest resources of much of the Amazon Basin. This threat affects the ability of companies to manage ...

[source]

Reserve Environmental Scientist

Your knowledge of biology, environmental health and industrial hygiene will help prevent illness and injury. When you become an environmental scientist and an Officer on the US Army Reserve Health Care Team, you'll work as part of a ...

[source]

Maureen Masterson-Pulia: In her own words

... Communications System in the Western Suburbs; and, received the Administrator’s Award for Contributions to Environmental Improvement of Municipal Solid Waste through Recycling from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. ...

[source]

Emerging Innovations in Environmental Strategy

Across industry sectors, companies are increasingly motivated to reexamine their core business practices and reduce their environmental footprints. Resource scarcity, emerging environmental regulations, and consumer consciousness are ...

[source]

College of Charleston Joins Hundreds of Universities in RecycleMania

Also during the week, students, faculty and staff will have numerous opportunities to get involved in environmentally oriented activities, including an all-day trip to Columbia to lobby South Carolina legislators on environmental issues ...

[source]

The Next Generation of Conservatives?

My six year old son is a big fan of Senator Obama and does not particularly like Senator Clinton. These impressions were based on seeing both of them on TV. He also once had a snack at the UC GSB with Austan Goolsbee and he thinks that ...

[source]

SustainabilityEnvironmental Consultant (jobsin)

This is an excellent opening for a Sustainability / Environmental Consultant to join one of the top engineering design consultancies Due to continuing growth our client, a leading international consultancy have a requirement for an ...

[source]

Postdoc positions at TINT

---The relations between environmental economics, ecological economics, and environmental studies more broadly, both in theory and policy application If you think you have the interest and competence - or think you know someone with ...

[source]

David Beckham: world's biggest environmental threat?

Here.

[source]

Text of Letter from Gov. Schwarzenegger and 13 other Governors ...

Johnson regarding the recent US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) decision on greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles: January 23, 2008 The Honorable Stephen L. JohnsonAdministratorU.S. Environmental Protection Agency1200 ...

[source]

COT ISLAND

Envirosax® reusable shopping bags are spreading the environmental message with style! Design-led, in-expensive and colourful, Envirosax® environmental eco friendly shopping bags will carry the environmental message to a world ready to ...

[source]

US Chamber BCLC Calls for Nominations for Inaugural “Siemens ...

... announced a new recognition program that rewards communities for their proficiency in economic planning, ability to attract new business, and capability to successfully take on 21st century challenges like environmental stewardship. ...

[source]

IPCC QUIETLY ADMITS GROSS ERROR But other deceptions remain ...

News of a January 31 “teach-in” on more than 1000 college campuses nationwide strikes me of just one more example of the growing desperation of the environmental movement that has bet its credibility and influence on global warming. ...

[source]

Environmentally-friendly development: Rust Belt to Green Belt in ...

You know the rest of the story: by the 1980s most of the factories went out of business or downsized, leaving behind thousands of unemployed workers decaying buildings and environmental contamination. Even if you’ve never been to ...

[source]

Hong Kong vet fights for dog rights

The fight started when Hong Kong's Food and Environmental Health Department denied Pets Central to open a café at their flagship clinic. www.SO-U.TV's Pet Channel was at the press conference organised in December by Peter de Krassel, ...

[source]

Section event: Pro Bono Opportunities in Environmental Law

For those interested in pro bono opportunities in environmental law, the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Section invites you to an exciting panel discussion.

[source]

True, but….

It infuriates an Indian environmentalist I know when New Zealanders boast of their environmental record. They are very happy to import at low cost, vast quantities of consumer products that were produced in ways that incur very ...

[source]

Reusable Bags at Local Grocery Stores

Are you becoming obsessed with plastic bags yet? I am. The bag phenomenon is everywhere. I mean, I’m hooked on my own canvas bag. Jen is blogging about becoming the “crazy bag lady”, and the other Jennifer started a project that gives ...

[source]

Environmental Science: Working With the Earth (Wadsworth Biology ...

This concise introduction to environmental science uses basic and easily comprehendible scientific laws, principles, and concepts to help students understand environmental and resource problems and possible solutions to these problems. ...

[source]

Bad timing and sustainability

... when we learned that New Zealand had been ranked the 7th most sustainable country in the world (and more importantly, miles ahead of Australia and the US) according to the World Economic Forum's 2008 Environmental Performance Index. ...

[source]

How Much to Stabilize our Climate?: A Review of Recent Estimates ...

http://www.rff.org/rff/Events/HowMuchStabilizeOurClimate.cfm. A recent study by the US Climate Change Science Program updated scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions and concentrations. Three modeling teams (from the Massachusetts ...

[source]

Pagans and Environmental Issues

That in the simple acts of reusing newspapers, or canning instead of buying tin cans were all environmental correct. I listened as my Great Grandmother told me every tree we planted, and flower we grew and even every stock of corn, ...

[source]

What makes an expert?

There are a lot of environmental issues out there, and sometimes they are in conflict with one another. We saw this very clearly in the variety of thoughtful comments we got when we discussed veganism as an environmental statement. ...

[source]

UN Warns of Biofuels' Environmental Risk

The world's rush to embrace biofuels is causing a spike in the price of corn and other crops and could worsen water shortages and force poor communities off their land, a UN official said Wednesday.

[source]

I love sushi - buyer beware!

Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection ...

[source]

Blogging Davos, Gazans Pour Into Egypt, Poor US Environmental ...

For G8 countries, the US ranks lowest in terms of environmental performance. Amidst chronic drug-related violence in Mexico, the US and the Mexican government step up their cooperation in the War in Drugs. Wonder if that'll work… ...

[source]

North Carolina company wants neighbors to help pay for pollution ...

AVX Corp. says in a proposed complaint filed in federal court that federal laws require shared liability for environmental contamination. Cleanup of the property, which is contaminated with the chemical trichloroethylene, ...

[source]

Environmental Risks

A survey completed for NetRegs identified that more SMEs are starting to address environmental issues, but those that aren’t will pay the price for their lack of action. What’s happening?

[source]

The Tiny Choicing, it’s contagious

Full disclosure: I painted my entire apartment with Sherwin Williams paint a few years ago - and I chose their low-odor/no-VOC Harmony paint, which is, actually, a pro-environmental choice. And while I was looking up the type of paint I ...

[source]

To travel or not to travel

However the inconvenient truth has demanded me to explore the environmental impact of our travel plans – how much CO2 will our family of four generate by traveling 12000 miles round trip by plane? 6000 miles are fairly standard for ...

[source]

Environmental construction

新しいプロジェクトに向けての環境構築。 ソフトウェアのインストールに時間がかかるのでその合間を利用してBlog投稿。 yosuke.

[source]

High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi

Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection ...

[source]

Re: minority indigenous women rights and environmental issues

2008-01-22 23:42 GMT -0500.

[source]

Whole Foods to end plastic bags by Earth Day

Whole Foods will be ending its use of disposable plastic grocery bags in all of its 270 stores by Earth Day, April 22.

[source]

My response to a “Diamond Insider”

I oppose drilling in ANWR, even though many claim it could be done with minimal environmental impact. My stance is this: leave humans out of the world’s remaining wilderness. Do not bring industry to northern Canada. ...

[source]

Environment damage of rich countries on poor

Roger Highfield, The Telegraph 21 Jan 08; A study has revealed the extent to which poorer countries are trampled by the huge environmental footprints of the rich. The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately ...

[source]

Environment: China's Environmental Problem Is a Political One

Can China clean up its environment without cleaning up its politics?

[source]

Land Rover launches website to show off green initiatives

Gaydon, Warwickshire 17 January 2008 - Land Rover is today launching its Our Planet communications campaign which sets out the progress the company has made in improving its environmental performance and a commitment to maintain the ...

[source]

PV news

A team including MMA Renewable Ventures, SunPower Corporation, and Nevada Power Company will join public officials in recognizing the United States Air Force for its commitment to national security, energy independence and environmental ...

[source]

Down on offsets

There is also the distinct possibility that a project will determine it can already profitably minimize environmental impact, then sell offsets on environmental savings that would have been realized anyway. Any environmental gains are ...

[source]

IWU Joins Global Warming Teach-In

Leslie Morrison, a senior environmental studies major and co-president of the Sierra Student Coalition, a student organization dedicated to environmental sustainability on Illinois Wesleyan’s campus, expresses the importance of ...

[source]

More on keynote speakers

He’s currently working on an environmental art exhibition called “re|THINK” (got your “re” in there, Lisa!) to encourage visual artists to design posters to encourage Carolinians to care about and protect the environment. ...

[source]

Morris Udall Foundation Scholarship for Environmental Policy ...

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS IMPORTANT: Student nominees need not be environmental studies or science major. The key requirement is a demonstrated interest in environmental issues, particular policy issues. Representative major have included ...

[source]

Dark side of a hot biofuel

As symbols of environmental change, orangutans are hard to beat. But their struggle is more than a tale of paradise lost. It is also – through the logging of Indonesia’s great rain forests and the resulting massive release of carbon ...

[source]

Unsafe at Any Price: Building the New "People's Car"

Such plans have are keeping some in the environmental community awake at night. Transportation has the fastest growing carbon emissions of any economic sector and automobiles are largely to blame with more than 600 million passenger ...

[source]

Black breast cancer is different Leftists have a religious belief ...

Michael Kleinman, professor of community and environmental medicine at UC Irvine, and Dr. Constantinos Sioutas, professor of civil and environmental engineering at USC. Researchers found that mice exposed to ultrafine particles ...

[source]

Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into climate change responses

The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is currently involved in an inquiry into climate change and local, regional and devolved government.

[source]

Jamaica joins the biofuels debate

Marolyn Lucy Gentles, a geographer and chair of the National Environmental Education Committee (NEEC), while not disputing that there were benefits to be gained from producing biofuels locally, said perhaps the island would be better ...

[source]

Environmental post January 2008

Here are some environmental sites, pages and stories that I noticed over the last month. Watch a cool Youtube video about a bike that cleans water as it is ridden. AquaDuct bike. Will shiny plants help us to beat global warming? ...

[source]

UFOs in Texas: The environmental implications of aliens

But the real question is: what does the mean for our planet? If aliens can fly all the way here in super-sleek, impossible-to-detect intergalactic orbs, surely they have the technology to power their lives without spewing greenhouse ...

[source]

Environmental post January 2008

Here are some environmental sites, pages and stories that I noticed over the last month. Watch a cool Youtube video about a bike that cleans water as it is ridden. AquaDuct bike. Will shiny plants help us to beat global warming? ...

[source]

University of Waikato climate change expert awarded top European ...

A renowned University of Waikato expert on environmental plant stress resulting from climate change has been awarded the prestigious European Society for Photobiology (ESP) Medal for her outstanding contribution to the field and to the ...

[source]

Jampro Environmental Solutions

Jampro Environmental Corporation is an Environmental Engineering company that specializes in Air Quality Management.We pride ourselves in being a leader in Environmental Engineering by offering a diverse cross-section of technical ...

[source]

The determination of pesticide residues and metabolites using ...

Source: TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 16, Issue 6, June-July 1997, Pages 351-369 Valérie, Camel Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) has become a promising alternative technique in the recent years for solid and semi-solid ...

[source]

Green Sites

I like how it’s divided up into the different main environmental aspects, from climate to agriculture to green lifestyles. It’sa compilation of stories from different green Web news sites and newspapers, and I get most of my ideas from ...

[source]

The IT Challenge of the Future: Energy and Cooling - and ...

Today a new element has to be added to that mandate - environmental responsibility. According to IDC, energy and cooling expenses will grow eight times faster than the amount of money spent on purchasing new servers through 2010, ...

[source]

How to write a short story - by throwing away a short story

The story would focus on an unpopular environmental battle, an attempt to save a place called “the zone.” (dumb name, yes yes, I was going to make it more specific and sexy later). The main character would be a sloppy, graying hippie ...

[source]

Race to the Moon or Race to Mars

However, the Goddard Space Flight Center and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will all gain with an increase in space environmental-monitoring goals. ...

[source]

Thoreau Influenced Greats…Like Martin Luther King Jr. and Others

Experts call Thoreau the father of the environmental movement. The founder of the environmental group named “Sierra Club”, John Muir was moved by Thoreau’s words. Yet, we seldom if ever hear mention of his name. ...

[source]

New Website, Showrooms For Green Energy Shoppers

OneWorldEnergy has teamed up with CarbonNeutral Company, Greenhelpline and Ethical Supermarket to create a new website that encourages consumers to go green. The website is being billed as a one-stop shop for environmentally-friendly ...

[source]

U.S. Abandons Endangered Species to Build Border Fence

The US has abandoned plans to create a recovery program for the endangered jaguar, allegedly due to concerns that it would create a roadblock to their construction of a fence along the Mexican border.

[source]

With construction on the rise, town gown relations could strain

Now, there is another: Four months ago, the Bethlehem planning commission voted to allow the university to build a new environmental science building in front of Maginnes Hall as part of the university's Science, Technology, ...

[source]

Upcoming Public Meetings for Namakan Hydro Project

The Project is subject to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s Environmental Screening Process for Electricity Projects, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Water Power Program Guidelines and the Canadian Environmental ...

[source]

U.S. Abandons Endangered Species to Build Border Fence

The US has abandoned plans to create a recovery program for the endangered jaguar, allegedly due to concerns that it would create a roadblock to their construction of a fence along the Mexican border.

[source]

The Right Avenues for Environmental Graduate Jobs

The enlarged interest in environmental defense and management in the past decade has caused a glut of environmental graduates in schools throughout the world. There are plenty of jobs available for environmental graduates though it ...

[source]

Environmental Federal Regsiter, January 21, 2008

Monday, January 21, 2008. Federal Register. Subscribers & Readers Note: There is no Federal Register being published today, Monday, January 21, 2008, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (c)Waste Information & Management ...

[source]

U.S. Abandons Endangered Species to Build Border Fence

The US has abandoned plans to create a recovery program for the endangered jaguar, allegedly due to concerns that it would create a roadblock to their construction of a fence along the Mexican border.

[source]

Huge 'Ice Cathedral' grotto found under Norwegian glacier

Glacier experts have described the ice grotto as "fantastic," with "extremely blue" colors and large icicles hanging from its ceiling. Researchers have been worrying about the melting of Norway's glaciers for years. Now they've found what some call an "exclusive" side-effect of the melting activity.

[source]

Nominations Sought for Governor's Environmental Stewardship Awards

The Department of Environment and Conservation is inviting Tennesseans to submit nominations for the Governor’s 2008 Environmental Stewardship Awards. The awards recognize Tennesseans who go above and beyond to protect the state’s ...

[source]

Huge 'Ice Cathedral' grotto found under Norwegian glacier

Glacier experts have described the ice grotto as "fantastic," with "extremely blue" colors and large icicles hanging from its ceiling. Researchers have been worrying about the melting of Norway's glaciers for years. Now they've found what some call an "exclusive" side-effect of the melting activity.

[source]

Democratic Candidates For Lt. Governor Debate in Asheville

Dan Besse certainly came across as the environmental candidate by repeatedly listing his experience on various environmental boards and commissions as well as the progress he's made in Winston-Salem as City Councilman there. ...

[source]

Behavioural and environmental correlates of soaring-bird mortality ...

Department of Applied Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Seville, Spain. Journal of Applied Ecology (2004) 41, 72–81. Download “Behavioural and environmental correlates of soaring-bird mortality at on-shore wind turbines”

[source]

Japan to offer environmental technology to Africa, Asia

Under the plan, Japan will help countries in Africa and Asia “cultivate environmental leaders” in charge of taking measures to protect the environment from water pollution and global warming, the mass-circulation daily said. ...

[source]

Lessons in Renewable Energy from China

As we reported in November, the environmental impacts of hydroelectric dams built on the Yangtze River have been severe, including population displacement, species extinction, and water pollution. The environmental consequences of the ...

[source]

CaesarStone Quartz Surface Manufacturer Receives the Good ...

The countertops are also ISO-certified with UKSA Environmental Management, showing its commitment to solid ecological management systems. In addition, because CaesarStone is non-porous, it is approved by the National Sanitation ...

[source]

NASA Creates Gigantic Vibrator

NASA is working to solve a huge problem in its next generation launching rockets. The Apollo 6 lunar mission launches. The new rocket, called the Ares 1, has a serious vibration issue. Engineers believe the solid rocket booster could ...

[source]

Global Warming

Author: John Nilson. Global Warming. ""With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes than he who enacts or pronounces ...

[source]

Loans For People With Bad Credit Suitable For All Budget

The increased interest in environmental protection and management in the past decade has caused a glut of environmental graduates in schools throughout the world. There are plenty of jobs available for environmental graduates though it ...

[source]

Boosting your Fertility: Protect yourself from environmental and ...

The cause of many infertility cases (up to 30 per cent) remains unexplained. Some experts believe that low level exposure to toxins may be the culprit. To read the rest of this article and for more information on ‘Natural News for ...

[source]

Manager 2 - Environmental Services / Custodial

Unit Description: Stanford University Medical Center is seeking a Manager 2 of Environmental Services who will be responsible for managing the daily scheduling and activities of 30 full time employees on the day shift within the main ...

[source]

Well-placed URLs as Advertising, Assisted

This environmental message was only on the outside cup; the one that represented an unnecessary waste and the one that tipped the whole situation onto the side of more-hazardous-than-styrofoam. Mere kismet, or serendipity? ...

[source]

2 Types of Environmental Anxiety

The very first entry on this blog was about Environmental Anxiety. Basically it’s the anxiety experienced from being in a foreign environment. In this post I’m going to elaborate on it some more. There are some people that have been in ...

[source]

The Secret History of the War on Cancer, by Devra Davis

The book that asks why we know so little about the environmental basis for cancers. Davis, an epidemiologist, actually thought of this book many years ago, but was persuaded to set the idea aside or risk her own career. ...

[source]

The Sixth Extinction Is Underway

More than a decade ago, scientists claimed that humans were demonstrating a capacity to force a global catastrophe that would lead to a shift in climate, an intolerable destruction of natural habitats, and an extinction event that could eliminate 50% of all living species by the middle of the 21st century. Now those predictions are coming true.

[source]

Fazlun M. Khalid

Fazlun Khalid has established for himself a world wide reputation as an indefatigable advocate of environmental protection rooted in religion and traditional beliefs and is now recognized as one of fifteen leading eco theologians in the ...

[source]

Romney Wins Nevada, Clinton Leads

Romney had a large turnout in the Mormon community and whooped the field in Nevada. Hillary leads by 5% with 35% reporting--not sure if the Vegas Strip caucuses are in that total. Edwards is at 5% and his camapign is kaput. ...

[source]

January BG Redevelopment Commission Meeting

The commission approved a contract with Quality Environmental Professionals, Inc. (QEPI) to test the clean fill dirt being dumped on the old landfill property located at Emerson and Subway and prepare a final environmental report on ...

[source]

Kelowna and Area Cycling Coalition (KACC)

To raise the profile of cycling with the government and the public consistent with its health, recreational, environmental and economic benefits. To work toward a greater recognition of cycling as a part of the transportation network ...

[source]

The Sixth Extinction Is Underway

More than a decade ago, scientists claimed that humans were demonstrating a capacity to force a global catastrophe that would lead to a shift in climate, an intolerable destruction of natural habitats, and an extinction event that could eliminate 50% of all living species by the middle of the 21st century. Now those predictions are coming true.

[source]

Placing the environmental lobby

What I wish to draw attention to here is that many of the social and intellectual aspects of the environmental movement are far from new. Seventeenth century radicals grouped themselves into communes and opposed the government’s use of ...

[source]

The Sixth Extinction Is Underway

More than a decade ago, scientists claimed that humans were demonstrating a capacity to force a global catastrophe that would lead to a shift in climate, an intolerable destruction of natural habitats, and an extinction event that could eliminate 50% of all living species by the middle of the 21st century. Now those predictions are coming true.

[source]

Environmental concerns

My suggestion to own behavior and safety poster is as serious as life itself. House warming ? I have got to look at this deal. - Career/business human, you need to get a focus on the big picture , like now! ...

[source]

(Day 1) Diving In: Flight 3482

Note: This is the first installment of a small series of posts that I’m going to try to see through on my experiences with the Student Environmental Action Coalition National Council Winter Retreat in Washington DC. ...

[source]

You’re Using Energy Even When It’s Turned Off

You don’t use these devices, but still get billed for the energy use plus contribute to global warming, pollution and other environmental issues. How can we avoid these “phantom loads”? The best was is to unplug all electronic devices ...

[source]

(Day 1) Diving In: Flight 3482

Note: This is the first installment of a small series of posts that I’m going to try to see through on my experiences with the Student Environmental Action Coalition National Council Winter Retreat in Washington DC. ...

[source]

You’re Using Energy Even When It’s Turned Off

You don’t use these devices, but still get billed for the energy use plus contribute to global warming, pollution and other environmental issues. How can we avoid these “phantom loads”? The best was is to unplug all electronic devices ...

[source]

Plasma converter della startech environmental plasma selezionati ...

I plasma converter della startech environmental plasma selezionati dalla autorità per i servivizi di smaltimento del ministero della difesa del regno unito wilton, connecticut, startech environmental corp. (sigla titolo in borsa: sthk), ...

[source]

The Sixth Extinction Is Underway

More than a decade ago, scientists claimed that humans were demonstrating a capacity to force a global catastrophe that would lead to a shift in climate, an intolerable destruction of natural habitats, and an extinction event that could eliminate 50% of all living species by the middle of the 21st century. Now those predictions are coming true.

[source]

All About Plant Conservation

We do not know all of the vital plant life that has been expunged due to human destruction of habitat and environmental pollution. We do know, however, that a significant portion of pharmaceuticals were originally modeled from plants. ...

[source]

How to be environmental friendly——少吃肉少购物多骑单车

研究发现，每生产1公斤肉类，就会排放出36.4公斤的二氧化碳。饲养和运输1公斤牛、羊和猪肉所需的能源，可以让一个100瓦的白炽灯泡亮三个星期。 每生产1公斤肉类，就会排放36.4公斤的二氧化碳；与其坐汽车行驶500米，不如骑单车或步行；要只买真正需要的 ...

[source]

Environmental racism of Indigenous Peoples reported to United Nations

Environmental Racism in the United States affects all aspects of Indigenous life ways and their survival as Peoples. It affects our health and well being and the health and well being of our future generations, Their major means of ...

[source]

In case you missed them … recent stories of note

Local Environmental Groups Sue to Halt the Poseidon Desalination Plant at Carlsbad. The local chapters of Surfrider and the Planning and Conservation League have filed a lawsuit Monday, January 14th, to block the construction of a ...

[source]

Re: Two Matters: The Environmental Crisis As An Economic ...

An anonymous email correspondent has asked why I don’t post on environmental matters. The truth is that, for whatever reason, the environment is not my bag. But I do have one idea which never seems to be mentioned. ...

[source]

Google.org Announces Core Initiatives to Combat Climate Change ...

Rapid ecological and social changes are increasing the risk of emerging threats, from infectious diseases to drought and other environmental disasters. Google.org is initially focused on Southeast Asia and tropical Africa. ...

[source]

big week for environmental art

Cheers to Graziano Cecchini, the (infamous) Italian artist who orchestrated half a million colored balls bouncing down the Spanish steps on Wednesday. You may remember him as the man who dyed the Trevi fountain red this past October, ...

[source]

A Christian's Concern...

"The Christian's concern should never only be for the Church and for God's future kingdom, but also for natural life and the world. Our concern should include good government, equal opportunity, justice, values that ennoble the human ...

[source]

Smart vs. Intelligent and hydro-justice

It’s the liquid version of environmental justice. Hydro-injustice, then, refers to political or economic decisions that boost the cost of water for people who can least afford it, or decrease availability to people based on borders, ...

[source]

A Christian's Concern...

"The Christian's concern should never only be for the Church and for God's future kingdom, but also for natural life and the world. Our concern should include good government, equal opportunity, justice, values that ennoble the human ...

[source]

Environmental Terrorism and the Price of Oil - HUMAN EVENTS

Make no mistake about it, you are paying exorbitant prices at the gas pump solely because the environmental terrorists and their Democrat allies in Congress have all but shut down our domestic oil production while refusing to allow the ...

[source]

WooHoo! New regulations on invasive species in Great Lakes

New regulations requiring all ocean-going ships to flush out ballast tanks with saltwater before entering the Saint Lawrence Seaway should help stop the introduction of new invasive species in the Great Lakes, environmental groups said. ...

[source]

Contacting your council online can help save the planet

In a world first, the department commissioned an independent study report by the award winning environmental specialists Best Foot Forward to discover how big a contribution councils could make to tackling climate change by encouraging ...

[source]

Canada's Oil Sands Report Card

Oil sands mines were ranked on 20 different environmental indicators in five categories: environmental management, land impacts, air pollution, water use, and management of greenhouse gases. Companies were invited to complete the survey ...

[source]

Environmental Education assignment!!!! HELP!!!?

Resolved Question Environmental Education assignment!!!! HELP!!!? Guyz n gals can u plz tell me the names of at least 10 products with unnecessary or over- packaging??ev.

[source]

Environmental Regulations Prop Up NA Markets For Environmental ...

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled North American Analytical Instrumentation and Services Markets in Environmental Testing provides an overview of the trends currently affecting the market, an analysis of the key challenges, ...

[source]

The Government of Canada announces $2.3 million for additional ...

The Government of Canada will invest an additional $2.3 million to complete environmental remediation work at the Stephenville Airport. This announcement was made today by the Honourable Loyola...

[source]

Yokohama To Launch More Fuel Efficient Tire

Yokohama Rubber Company is set to release its DNA Earth-1 automotive tire series on February 1. Compared to the DNA ECOS, the flagship tire in its Eco DNA tire range, Yokohama says that the new DNA Earth-1 tires feature 21 percent lower ...

[source]

Environmental issues and the race to the White House in 2008

Over the past few months I have been researching candidates views and interviewing experts in the environmental field. I was lucky enough to contact the Director of the Department of Ecology for Washington State Jay Manning, ...

[source]

Workshops: environmental management in farming, fisheries and ...

The EU-funded project 'Environmental management reform for sustainable farming, fisheries and aquaculture' will hold two workshops in Bremen, Germany, on 9 February. The first workshop will provide an overview of standards, regulations,

[source]

Elephants and Giraffes Key To Ant-plant Teamwork

Researchers report that elephants, giraffes and other large plant-eaters spur Acacias to "hire" and support ants as bodyguards, and without the mammals, the trees slash their investment in ants, opening both to other attackers. One irony of the findings is that the trees have developed their mutualistic relationship with the ants to protect

[source]

Call for Papers: Reason, Activism, and Change at Windsor, Canada

The Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy invites philosophical papers from diverse academic areas, including logic & argumentation, environmental philosophy, epistemology & metaphysics, philosophy of science & technology, ...

[source]

Broadband Services-Economic & Environmental Benefits

These technological changes result in productivity benefits and measurable savings to consumers and businesses, but they also produce clear, though largely invisible and unnoticed, environmental benefits. Potential benefits are immense, ...

[source]

Housewares Market Cashes In On Green

A biodegradable dish rack made out of corn starch. Bamboo bowls and tableware. A harvested cork cutting board and a temperature controlled butter dish that doesn’t use batteries. The houseware products industry is going green, ...

[source]

Fighting pollution - the power of peer pressure

MapEcos, which is an effort by a team of Harvard academics, is a mashup that maps environmental performance of US industrial sites. The emission information comes from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The mashup also includes ...

[source]

Relax, this is no big deal

And those troublesome environmental impacts? Not to worry, folks. There are plenty of fish (and eggs and larvae) in the sea. Killing a few hundred million of them each year won’t put a dent in the supply. And pumping 28 million gallons ...

[source]

Recycling number one priority of vinyl roofing industry

With its European counterparts blazing the trail, the North American vinyl (PVC) roofing industry announced a new phase in its commitment to environmental sustainability through recycling. The Vinyl Roofing Division of the Chemical ...

[source]

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 12, January 17, 2008

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplement to the Hawaii Range Complex Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS/OEIS) for a Proposal To Enhance Training, Testing, and Operational Capability ...

[source]

As the time moves on…..

Dear Readers,. In the last posing I have tried to point out the possibilities of the Robot Culture in the near future. We might one day even end up with a society as shown in the Doctor Who series, with new religions like Microsoft, ...

[source]

Environmental extremism must be put in its place in the climate debate

Many people are starting to realize that much of what they’ve been told about climate change by governments, the United Nations and crusading celebrities is simply wrong. Not surprisingly, the assertion that “the science is settled” in ...

[source]

On Wal-Mart Making Positive Environmental Motions?

Wal-Mart to open stores that use less energy. Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, said on Tuesday it will open four stores that use 25 percent less energy than its supercenters that were in operation in 2005. ...

[source]

Winter Sports In A Warming World

With global temperatures rising, the world of winter sports is getting hit hard, according to this expose from AlterNet, which discusses how the world of winter recreation is affected and how it is coping. ...

[source]

Dalkia CarbonCare

Dalkia CarbonCare is a consultancy which advises businesses and public sector organisations on how to reduce the environmental impact of their activities. It has worked with Tesco, Heinz and North Somerset Council. ...

[source]

Melchin denies climate change, Stelmach denies environmental costs ...

Well today was a strange day filled with strange admissions, weird denials and enough greenwashing to fill a conference centre. Yes the oil sands summit met in Calgary, our Premier went to Washington and I got to sit in a room with 400 ...

[source]

Blue Eyed Koala - Product of Environmental Changes? (GALLERY)

Makes one wonder if environmental changes in Australia didn't cause this anomaly. Frankie lives at Dreamworld, the Gold Coast Theme Park. The nine-month old koala baffled the staff with his Frank Sinatra hued eyes (…

[source]

Introduction to Max Seigal

I was born in Boulder, Colorado and have lived there for most of my life. I went to high school in Colorado Springs (I went to a boarding school called Fountain Valley) and during my junior year I spent a semester studying ...

[source]

Experts Are Having Second Thoughts About Vaccines

The article’s author, Dan Fagin, is an award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. He writes: “There is no universally accepted optimal level for ...

[source]

Introduction to Max Seigal

I was born in Boulder, Colorado and have lived there for most of my life. I went to high school in Colorado Springs (I went to a boarding school called Fountain Valley) and during my junior year I spent a semester studying ...

[source]

Celebrity News - Highlights of Toyota’s Environmental Progress

Highlights of Toyota’s Environmental Progress CSR Wire - Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Orlando Bloom, Salma Hayek, and Morgan Freeman were among the celebrities who arrived at the red carpet in Toyota Prius hybrid cars and ...

[source]

MGM files for environmental permit for $5B. casino project

To build the casino, MGM must obtain a Coastal Area Facility Review Act permit from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. In filing for the permit, MGM noted that it is one of the first requirements for major ...

[source]

Indicted Terror Abettor is Former GOP Congressman.

Not sure if it was ideology, money or something more sinister: WASHINGTON (AP) - A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than ...

[source]

GLNPO Request for Applications - Great Lakes Collections of ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes National Program Office is requesting applications for an estimated $175000 in funding for 8-10 cooperative agreement grants which would mobilize citizens and communities to collect ...

[source]

Lake Land College to host Alternative Energy Conference

Lake Land College will host an Energy Innovation Conference on Feb. 27-28 on its campus in Mattoon, Illinois. The first annual event will feature a keynote address by Jack Schultz, chief executive officer of Agracel and author of ...

[source]

San Diego Nonprofits Receive Largest Set of ‘Green’ Grants Awarded ...

San Diego nonprofits working to improve the environment are the recipients of the first and largest set of environmental grants provided by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation in California since announcing its $20 billion ...

[source]

Trade Versus The Environment: Biofuels PPMs

Environmental groups say the developments are endangering wildlife like the orangutan and the Sumatran tiger, and putting pressure on indigenous peoples who depend on the forests. This all calls to mind the paper by Stephanie Switzer ...

[source]

Space Environmental Effects Knowledgebase

Abstract: This report describes the results of an NRA funded program entitled Space Environmental Effects Knowledgebase that received funding through a NASA NRA (NRA8-31) and was monitored by personnel in the NASA Space Environmental ...

[source]

Mystery surrounds Bundoran oil spillage

Despite numerous efforts to contact various bodies including the Environmental agency, HSE and council, I was unsuccessful. It seems that unless environmental issues occur between Monday to Friday your calls will fall on deaf ears.” ...

[source]

Creating the Necessary Conditions for a Sustainable Future

November 12, 2007, IHCMD - Creating the Necessary Conditions for a Sustainable Future.

[source]

KENYA IDPs: HIV+ Angela: “My children need to start school but we ...

Photo: Richard Etienne/IRIN Angela is HIV positive but managed to find a centre in Jamhuri to top up her supplies of ARVs NAIROBI, 15 January 2008 (IRIN) - Angela, in her thirties, who did not wish to be identified, was born in the vast ...

[source]

Insurers Launch Green Products

Two major insurers, Fireman’s Fund and Lexington Insurance, a member company of AIG, are launching green insurance programs that allow homeowners to reconstruct property with environmentally-friendly materials, reports the Houston ...

[source]

Israel Naturally: Photographic Tour of Israel’s Diverse ...

Travel and environmental writer Michal Strutin will also weave in how Torah and its commentaries taught concern for nature, and will touch on how modern-day Israel is working to honor those concerns. Book sales and signing will follow ...

[source]

China: Hundreds Protest Shanghai Maglev Rail Extension, Dozens ...

The country is grappling with an acknowledged rise in unrest, driven by anger at illegal land grabs, corruption, environmental woes and a rising rich-poor gap, though large scale protests in big cities are rare. ...

[source]

links for 2008-01-16

#Collective flow: balanced interpersonel, cultural, economic, social and technological growth #Environmental flow: balanced environmental growth.” (tags: design productdesigndesign productnarratives criticaldesign sustainability ...

[source]

China: Hundreds Protest Shanghai Maglev Rail Extension, Dozens ...

The country is grappling with an acknowledged rise in unrest, driven by anger at illegal land grabs, corruption, environmental woes and a rising rich-poor gap, though large scale protests in big cities are rare. ...

[source]

links for 2008-01-16

#Collective flow: balanced interpersonel, cultural, economic, social and technological growth #Environmental flow: balanced environmental growth.” (tags: design productdesigndesign productnarratives criticaldesign sustainability ...

[source]

Environmental Services Tech (housekeeper)

Overview:
Come join us in beautiful Colorado! Greeley is a community of approximately 80000 with a home town atmosphere. We have a desirable climate with a spectacular view of the Rockies, and easy access to a wide variety of ...

[source]

University of Minnesota receives gift to establish environmental ...

The University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology has received a gift from chemical engineering alumna Rose Ling to establish the Joseph T. and Rose S. Ling Chair in Environmental Engineering.

[source]

Trendsetter

After struggling for years to help pass environmental bills on Capitol Hill, former communications consultant Diane MacEachern wondered if it would be easier to change how people spend the bills in their wallets. ...

[source]

Pink & Green Parenting: Lost in the Plastic Rainforest: Greening ...

There are two reasons to minimize our consumption of plastics: environmental and health-related. The environmental problems plastic creates are numerous and well-documented. Plastic is hard to recycle efficiently; most plastics are ...

[source]

Spacecraft Electronics Engineer

Successfully completed actions spanning the entire design cycle from initial requirements capture, system design and iteration, manufacturing, module level testing and environmental verification, launch support and finally inorbit ...

[source]

Assistant Editor for Environmental Magazine

Nonprofit publisher of scholarly journals seeks full-time assistant editor for respected bimonthly magazine on environmental science and policy. Duties include substantive editing, working closely with authors, writing and rewriting, ...

[source]

EcoPinion Survey Points To Negative Customer Perceptions of Green Tech

Read the press release. EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency focused on energy and the environment and an affiliate of DEFG LLC, today released the results and findings of the second EcoPinion survey on customer perceptions of green ...

[source]

Knowledge Zone : Environmental impact of GRP?

Author: fards Subject: Environmental impact of GRP? Posted: 15/January/2008 at 09:25 grp could be shredded and used as packing/filler material when it's used its current life out.

[source]

Tracking Down a Critical Halo Mass for Killing Galaxies through ...

We examine the predictions of semi-analytic models for the DGR and find that neither the magnitude of its environmental dependence nor its evolution is correctly predicted in the models. Red-sequence DGRs are consistently too high in ...

[source]

Meat Wagon: Factory farms milk the government

In the business section of Sunday's New York Times, reporter Andrew Martin shined a bright light on a USDA program called the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, or EQIP. Funded through the conservation title of the farm bill, ...

[source]

Nuclear Games and Satellites

In September 2007, Israel bombed a Syrian site. The reasons for the strike have been unclear. Israel has been silent about the reasons for the attack while there is widespread speculation that the site was an under-construction facility ...

[source]

PECO Opens Bids for Green Energy

PECO, a Phildadelphia-based electric and natural gas utility, is calling for alternative energy producers to submit bids to sell green energy credits. This move is in attempt to help PECO fulfill renewable energy requirements recently ...

[source]

Warning on environmental damage

Financial Times: The UK government's support for biofuels risks failing to deliver significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and could be environmentally damaging, the Royal Society, the UK's leading scientific academy, ...

[source]

US EPA Fines Guam Water Authority $39000

(US Environmental Protection Agency) The US Environmental Protection Agency today fined the Guam Waterworks Authority $39000 for failing to fully...

[source]

Coal power goes on trial

In federal and state courtrooms across the country, environmental groups are putting coal-fueled power plants on trial in a bid to slow the industry's biggest construction boom in decades. At least four dozen coal plants are being ...

[source]

Conservationists suing federal government over NB refinery review ...

Environment Minister John Baird has said there was no need for both the provincial and federal governments to duplicate their reviews of the project, leaving it to the New Brunswick government to do a wider environmental assessment. ...

[source]

“Warm is Not Cool” Set for Toquet Hall Tuesday

“Warm is Not Cool,” an environmental awareness campaign, comes to Westport’s Toquet Hall Tuesday thanks to a group of Weston teenagers who call themselves “Zero O Out.” Warm is Not Cool T-shirt. Contributed photo ...

[source]

Magazine Heaven

I was surprised at how great its discussion of religion was; and the varied approaches to environmental themes and to loving food. I'd pick it up again, even if it were not the food issue! I may even subscribe. Next issue? ...

[source]

Bacterium-inspired Robots for Environmental Monitoring

Researchers at the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Southern California took this concept to reality by developing Bacterium-inspired Robots for Environmental Monitoring. Using the behavior of bacteria to ...

[source]

Visiting Assistant Professor or Instrusctor, Environmental Studies ...

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE Environmental Studies/History and Environmental Science (two positions) Applications are invited for two one-year faculty appointments as Visiting Assistant Professor or Instructor, beginning in ...

[source]

Ethanol - No Answer To Global Warming (Official)

“We have seen that the environmental problems caused by biofuels and also the social problems are bigger than we thought they were. So we have to move very carefully…..We have to have criteria for sustainability, including social and ...

[source]

Fighting Environmental Obesity

Several recent studies, papers and a popular weight-loss book argue that eating is an automatic behavior triggered by environmental cues that most people are unaware of — or simply can’t ignore. Think of the buttery smell of movie ...

[source]

Clean Tech: An Agenda for a Healthy Economy

Read the full report [PDF, 32 p.] Abstract: Massachusetts can be a leader in the global shift to a clean tech economy. While clean technology activity is robust in many parts of the world, the only country that has developed an overall ...

[source]

Environmental groups invited to meet visiting writer to discuss ...

Forwarded at the request of Steve Rust, Executive Director, Fayetteville Economic Development Commission Kei Izawa is a correspondent for a high-end Japanese lifestyle monthly magazine called Sotokoto. He and his photographer wife ...

[source]

Green Cross

To foster this change, Gorbachev and the Green Cross have created the Earth Dialogues to provide a forum for the examination of the connection between ethics and development, supported international environmental and development pacts ...

[source]

Swedes Using Body Heat to Heat Stockholm Train Station

Move over sun and wind power… the next frontier in renewable energy is people power! And no, we don’t mean soylent green, but rather to use the energy generated from large numbers of pedestrians moving through an occupied space. Plans are now afoot to channel human body heat to heat an entire train station in Sweden

[source]

Low Maternal Cholesterol Tied To Premature Birth

Factors contributing to premature birth include maternal genetics, fetal genetics and environmental components, such as nutrition, stress, and infection. In their study of 1058 South Carolina women and their newborns, researchers found ...

[source]

Risk For Coronary Artery Disease And New Genetic Variants ...

Environmental and genetic factors influence a person’s blood fat, or lipid levels, important risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD). While there is some understanding of the environmental contribution, the role of genetics has ...

[source]

Toyota To Make ‘Eco’ Indicators Standard In All Vehicles

Toyota plans to make vehicle efficiency indicators standard in all of its vehicles, hybrid and non-hybrid, reports Green Car Congress. Toyota claims in a blog post that it’s doing so because it has found that “when hybrid drivers use ...

[source]

‘08 NAIAS - Jeep Reveals the Renegade Hybrid Concept

This environmental care in designing the Renegade’s interior is aligned with Jeep’s “harmony with nature” philosophy. “The Jeep Renegade concept’s interior — actually the entire vehicle — is designed to minimize the number of parts ...

[source]

Mendocino County’s Jackson State Forest

At the same meeting, the Board also approved the supporting Environmental Impact Report for the management plan. The vote was 8 in favor, 1 opposed. This EIR had been in process since July 2003, when the previous EIR was declared ...

[source]

Engines of Progress

Even as the world’s automakers try to outdo each others’ environmental claims, their dealerships remain stocked with smoke-spewing internal-combustion engines. Marketing and research, it seems, are pointing toward a gas-free automotive ...

[source]

The Environment: A Global Overview

An increasing number of countries are using environmental costing which increases the price of energy thereby increasing the financial attractiveness of high efficiency products. European countries have been using such carbon taxes for ...

[source]

BuildDirect - Environmental Benefits of Bamboo Flooring

In an age of growing environmental concerns, bamboo flooring is the most preferred choice for consumers looking for green building materials. Bamboo flooring is the one of the most environmentally friendly flooring options you can ...

[source]

Suggestive Authors on Our Current Ecological Crisis

We are in the starts of the crisis of our era, our degradation of our social and environmental framework. A large part of my personal education rotates around the sustainability movement. In one of my courses, I dissected different ...

[source]

Environmental Careers

Here are some websites to help you look for an environmental career. If you know of other useful sites, please comment on this article. www.sustainablebusiness.com/jobs/. www.ejobs.org. www.ecojobs.com/index/php. idealist.org ...

[source]

Honda CR-Z Hybrid and FCX Clarity Fuel Cell Vehicle Introduce ...

The Honda CR-Z, a lightweight sports hybrid concept vehicle, and the FCX Clarity, a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle set to begin limited retail marketing in summer 2008, are bringing some of the most advanced environmental technologies from ...

[source]

Juggernaut China Wreaks Environmental Havoc in Small Nations

China says that as a poor nation of 1.3-billion people, it is entitled to pollute and spew greenhouse emissions to alleviate poverty. But with its middle class projected to leap from less than 100 million to 700 million by 2020, ...

[source]

Fairfield Replaces Its Environmental Watchdog on a Big Project ...

There’s an interesting conflict going on in the town of Fairfield, when the First Selectman has brought in a consultant to make sure that environmental regulations are being adhered to by a big development, because the people who should ...

[source]

Principal Environmental Manager | GHD

The list continues to impress and each month GHD sees a project launched that is as spectacular and exciting as the last, as a result we are seeking a Principal Environmental Manager to join our Dubai office to lead the development of ...

[source]

News - Damages over A500 ‘not automatic’

In a statement, Nuttall said: “In cases where the damage complained of was found not to be attributable to Nuttall construction activities these residents were advised environmental insurance liability. ...

[source]

Principal Environmental Manager | GHD

The list continues to impress and each month GHD sees a project launched that is as spectacular and exciting as the last, as a result we are seeking a Principal Environmental Manager to join our Dubai office to lead the development of ...

[source]

Bloc Party + Feist + of Montreal + Others = Environmental Awareness

of Montreal, Bloc Party, Feist, Muse, and others will make appearances on a compilation being made for environmental benefits. Profits will go to the Energy Action Coalition (EAC). EAC is seeking for awareness of our environment. ...

[source]

Why Engaging EU Voters is Important

Ken’s environmental stance matches the interests of many Europeans, as does his support of the London Living Wage campaign, transport policy and Safer Neighbourhood policies. The Labour Party and Ken Livingstone’s campaign in particular ...

[source]

ON DEADLY GROUND

Posing as an environmental story about a corrupt oil company owner called Jennings, who will stop at nothing to open a new refinery in Alaska, this is just an excuse for another action film. Fists, feet, bullets and bombs galore as ...

[source]

California Fire News

"The Forest Service, throughout these proceedings, evidenced a strategy of circumventing, rather than complying with," the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, he wrote. "The apparent pattern suggests a ...

[source]

environmental toxicology

Environmental Toxicology Toxicology Toxicology is the science that studies the harmful effects of overexposure to drugs, environmental contaminants, and naturally occurring substances found in food, water, air, and soil. ...

[source]

Local: Capitol Notebook: Counties try to meet clean-air standards

COLUMBUS Last week, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said Stark and 20 other counties have too much microscopic pollution in the air to meet federal standards. But meeting those standards is a...

[source]

Rees Miller Estate

Environmental concerns are at the centre of the Rees Miller philosophy. In 2007 Rees Miller became certified as a biodynamic property and ever since they produce biodynamic wines. The prejudice, that organic wines are more expensive ...

[source]

WWF, Abu Dhabi unveil plan for world’s first carbon-neutral, waste ...

“ Masdar City ” to be flagship of WWF One Planet Living Programme.

[source]

Environmental Testing Engineer

... familiar with the latest environmental testing techniques, the associated test equipment and plant, the control systems and instrumentation Responsibilities To ensure that responsibilities with regard to the Company’s Environment, ...

[source]

Nuclear power: still jam tomorrow

The most authoritative, drawn by the government’s environmental advisors, the Sustainable Development Commission, concluded that a combination of increased energy efficiency, renewable sources and clean coal could meet future energy ...

[source]

WWF, Abu Dhabi unveil plans for sustainable city

Through the “One Planet Living™” programme, a global initiative launched by WWF and environmental consultancy BioRegional, WWF will work with Masdar to ensure the city meets standards of sustainability which include specific targets for ...

[source]

Stuff to read and watch

Environmental writer Stephen Leahy reports on Danny and his polar cities idea. In email, Danny told me he’s serious, but on some level is also “kidding, in a kind of guerilla theater public awareness wake-up call kind of way. ...

[source]

The environmental dilemma: Bringing African-Americans into the fold

... around for whites to invite us to get involved in the movement," said Charles Jordan, a nationally known conservationist and the first African American to head The Conservation Fund, one of the nation's top environmental nonprofits. ...

[source]

Sacrifice and Global Warming

... many green types was not just because of the inflammatory nature of much of the book, but also because their critique and message was already being absorbed by environmental organizations and advocates, and even by their critics. ...

[source]

Internships on campus with Intercultural Management Institute

INTERNSHIP POSITIONS FOR SPRING 2008 The Intercultural Management Institute (IMI), of the School of International Service at American University, is currently offering 4 (four) intern positions for SPRING 2008 open to both undergraduate ...

[source]

Risk of Childhood Cancers Associated with Residence in ...

Source: Environmental Health Perspectives. Our study results showed statistically significant increased risk estimates for many types of childhood cancers associated with residence at diagnosis in counties having a moderate to high ...

[source]

Global Warming Engineered By Chemtrails?

Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium Lousiana Department of Environmental Quality Maryland Department of the Environment Mass. Dept. of Environ. Protection Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Mgmt. Association New Jersey Dept. of Envir. Prot. ...

[source]

Risk of Childhood Cancers Associated with Residence in ...

Source: Environmental Health Perspectives. Our study results showed statistically significant increased risk estimates for many types of childhood cancers associated with residence at diagnosis in counties having a moderate to high ...

[source]

Coastal development under scrutiny

J. Crayton Pruitt's project was poised to receive a critical vote of approval this week from the Suwannee River Water Management District - until Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Sole personally intervened. ...

[source]

Job Vacancy at UWATEC BATAM as QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER

This role is accountable for the Quality, Environmental, Health, and Safety and Regulatory compliance for the Batam facility. Responsibilities: * Ensure all plant supervision and personnel operate in a safe and environmental safe manner ...

[source]

Environmental researchers propose radical ‘human-centric’ map of ...

Ecologists pay too much attention to increasingly rare "pristine" ecosystems while ignoring the overwhelming influence of humans on the environment, say researchers from McGill University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County ...

[source]

article 78

With China's growth at double digit rates into the first half of the year, the environmental concerns and pollution problems are escalating as quickly as the economy, with an estimated 76 reported pollution incidents in the past 8 ...

[source]

Going nuclear

But his vocal support for nuclear power and genetically modified foods has led to tensions with environmental campaigners. … His book prescribes a barrage of technological measures based on nuclear energy, wind power, cutting emissions ...

[source]

Iranian Couple Cycles the World for Peace and Conservation

One young Iranian couple, determined not to leave their country’s public relations to others, is bicycling around the globe to spread a message of peace and environmental conservation. Somayeh Yousefi, 28, and Jafar Edrisi, 29, ...

[source]

Bernice Johnson Reagon - ‘Coalition Politics: Turning the Century’

But when you bring people in who have not had the environmental conditioning, you got one group of people who are in a strain—and the group of people who are feeling fine are trying to figure out why you’re staggering around, ...

[source]

Kalutara Beach, Sri Lanka Before, After, During the Tsunami

[source]

Racking up the Food Miles

In this way, “food miles” is more than a number; it is a simplified metaphor to convey to consumers the relative environmental and social costs of our increasingly global food system. In the same way that nutritional information on ...

[source]

Draft EIS/EIR for Proposed Sunrise Powerlink Project Released

Notice of Availability of Draft Environmental Impact; Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) and Draft Land Use Plan Amendments/for the Proposed Sunrise Powerlink Project. AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ...

[source]

EHS and Societal Issues Addressed in NNI Strategic Plan

One of the four primary goals highlighted in the Strategic Plan is to "support [the] responsible development of nanotechnology," which NNI breaks down into two sub-components: (i) environmental, health and safety (EHS) research; ...

[source]

Environmental Print in Libraries

The idea behind “environmental print” is as old as kids reading the back of a cereal box at the breakfast table. Once children become aware, at the age of 3 or 4, that there are letters and words everywhere around us - on signs they see ...

[source]

ADM, Bayer, Daimler Team Up On Jatropha Biodiesel

Read the full story in the Environmental Leader. Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bayer CropScience AG and Daimler AG have announced plans to explore jointly the potential for a biodiesel industry based on Jatropha. ...

[source]

31 Horses Dead of Neglect, Survivors Resort to Cannibalism

If you want to find out all the latest news on animals, why not subcribe to our RSS feed, we’ll even throw in a free album. Graffiti Artists: we are developing an app that’ll revolutionize environmental news! Why not sign up for a sneak ...

[source]

Travel Picks of the Week - 01/11/08

Environmental causes, warring regimes and uncontrolled tourism have led to the endangerment of ancient monuments and natural expanses. Askmen.com has put together a list of ten most endangered locales which include Babylon, ...

[source]

Tata ‘People’s Car’ - environmental disaster?

When people saw that the car is meeting environment and pollution norms, the last thing that came to their mind is - Is TATA Motors going to make money out of it. Don’t worry, Mr.. Tata is not a fool. He is into market to make money. ...

[source]

The Bali Conference and The Road Ahead

Moreover, in recently concluded Bali Conference, delegates of 187 countries and many environmental groups , met together to agree to a road map for a new climate change treaty over the next two years. Under the Bali road map deal, ...

[source]

Environmental Trends In Elearning Reviewed

This environmental trend in elearning opened up the opportunity to study at the college level to many more students. Technical colleges, for example, are home to many nontraditional older students. These students have full time jobs, ...

[source]

Google Modify

Please keep reading to find out more about Google’s broader environmental endeavors, going beyond the transportation sector, which makes up just 20 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s nothing to sneeze at, ...

[source]

US Environmental Protection Agency Daily Digest Bulletin

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to establish shared service centers in three locations, beginning in June 2008, to process personnel and benefits actions for the agency's 17000 employees. ...

[source]

Environmental issues...

Just read from TODAY newspaper that Canberra will ditch the use of plastic bag in shopping centres by the end of the year. I feel that Singapore should also adopt this strategy, cos after all, it is still the responsibility of us humans ...

[source]

9 Environmental Tips to Help Lift Depression

In fact, if I want to feel sorry for myself (which will lead me into depression), all I have to do is listen to and sing with sad songs, fill my days/nights with constant sound, and messy up the place. What environmental depression tips ...

[source]

Portland, Ore., Acts to Protect Cyclists

By WILLIAM YARDLEY Published: January 10, 2008. “Ghost bikes,” riderless and painted white, were placed at two busy intersections in Portland, Ore., last October, makeshift memorials to two bicyclists killed when they were hit by trucks ...

[source]

New Administration Filling In

Barry Frederick Scott Director, Risk Management Barry Scott has more then 25 years of experience in the field of risk management, occupational safety and environmental health. Mr. Scott formerly served as Deputy Director of Finance for ...

[source]

FTC Asks if Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent

Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million in 2007 on carbon offset credits, but where exactly is that money going? See also: FTC Holds First Workshop on Green Advertising from the Environmental Leader.

[source]

Global Warming - Who Might Get Sued

A number of companies are leaving themselves vulnerable to shareholder lawsuits regarding their carbon emissions, but a CNNMoney article claims the companies most vulnerable are some less obvious firms.Corporate Library, a corporate ...

[source]

Worker’s Compensation and Illegal Immigration

Environmental Management Services the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that illegal immigrants are eligible for worker’s compensation if they are hurt on the job. In that case Curiel, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, ...

[source]

Exactly Who is the Global Warming Villain?

And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral ...

[source]

Environmental Technician III

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICIAN III If you are a team player with a great attitude, join the Environmental Services team at Carolinas Medical Center- NorthEast in Concord, NC. Full-time. Must be able to stay on feet for an extended period; ...

[source]

Environmental conservation

More information about Environmental conservation can be found here.

[source]

Will Olympic hype lead to Olympian depression?

An American environmental consultant has just published a study claiming that the main reason the city has been able to meet environmental targets linked to the coming Olympics is because of “irregularities” in the accounting system. ...

[source]

Use Your Cat To Determine Environmental Pollution

How do we save the planet? One of the ways we could try would be to decrease emissions. This may sound trite and simplistic, but it could certainly work. Some observers say that if you want to see how much your household appliances use ...

[source]

NA: Bob Cleek: Novato can’t beat freight trains, might as well ...

While Novato spends hundreds of thousands, if not eventually millions, dithering about the minutiae of environmental impact reports, the federal government has committed what will be hundreds of millions to dredging the Port of Humbolt ...

[source]

Safety & Environmental Engineers

Job Criteria: Monitor project construction activities and provide recommendations to ensure the compliance to Factories/Environmental Act and other applicable regulatory requirements To Perform daily site inspections for safe and at ...

[source]

Chemical pollution control should be as PCBs

“National Environmental Protection” 11th Five-Year ”Plan” recently Electrolytic capacitor introduced its pollution prevention is the top priority. With particular reference to the POPs control. Thus, 12 kinds of human health and the ...

[source]

Shoppers: It’s BYO bag in China (AP)

“While plastic shopping bags provide convenience to consumers, this has caused a serious waste of energy and resources and environmental pollution because of excessive usage, inadequate recycling and other reasons,” the statement said. ...

[source]

Sunspot is harbinger of the new solar cycle

SWPC is one of NOAA's nine National Centers for Environmental Prediction and is also the warning agency of the International Space Environment Service (ISES), a consortium of 11 member nations. NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic ...

[source]

SafeNano Scientific Services to Help Companies Minimise the ...

The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) based in Edinburgh has launched a range of new services to help companies minimise the environmental and health risks of working with nanomaterials. Co...

[source]

Environmental Coordinator (Permitting)-Grade 15

*** THIS POSITION IS NOT OPEN TO EXTERNAL RECRUITERS *** At Equitable Resources, we focus on a few things and do them exceptionally well. With an ultimate goal to renovate and reinvent mature energy businesses, we have transformed ...

[source]

CNNF litigation and advocacy

The Environmental Law & Policy Center is working to get the US Forest Service to protect this treasured resource through negotiations and lawsuits in Federal Court. Here’sa summary of the action to date: ...

[source]

A brief background on Sustainability issues

It analyses the environmental performance of products and services through all phases of their life cycle: extracting and processing raw materials; manufacturing, transportation and distribution; use, re-use,maintenance; recycling, ...

[source]

Innovative Bottled Water Tax Stirs Up Controversy in Chicago

In 2007, the image of bottled water in the public consciousness underwent a huge shift. What had been largely seen as a healthy lifestyle choice had, quickly become recognized by many consumers as an eco-sin. Now, a controversial new eco-sin tax, the first of its kind, has shined an even bigger spotlight on the ubiquitous bottled water.

[source]

Notes from New Orleans: End Run?

Early Saturday, I received via email a copy of a draft environmental assessment that had been completed on November 20 for the New Orleans Veterans Administration medical complex, which the city wants built in the Mid-City National ...

[source]

Humans Have Caused Profound Changes In Caribbean Coral Reefs

“This new study moves from the traditional localized study of threats to a region-wide scale, while simultaneously analyzing contrasting socioeconomic and environmental variables,” he added. The study monitored coral reefs, ...

[source]

Sustainable Sneakers

Whether companies manage to make real strides towards sustainability, or if the new environmental and equitable policies are merely window-dressing to appease protesters remains to be determined. So, all that said, I took a look at the ...

[source]

The "servant" of the ground...

... despite the popular translation in Genesis C2v15 being 'till' the usual meaning of the Hebrew word used here is serve. In this way we reflect the position of Jesus, God in human form, who had dominion and yet came to serve. ...

[source]

Surge in Traffic Causes Environmental Problems in Helsinki

According to Finland's Environmental Administration, the main environmental problems are the worsening of air quality, noise pollution, and an increase in carbon emissions caused by traffic.The review examined expert views on the ...

[source]

US Environmental Protection Agency Daily Digest Bulletin

8, 2008 ) The nation's leading cell phone makers, service providers, and retailers have teamed up with the US Environmental Protection Agency to answer America 's call for easy cell phone recycling. As part of EPA's Plug-In to eCycling ...

[source]

Environmental researchers propose radical ‘human-centric’ map of ...

Ecologists pay too much attention to increasingly rare "pristine" ecosystems while ignoring the overwhelming influence of humans on the environment, say researchers from McGill University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County ...

[source]

Recent advances in fuel cell technology at Ballard

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2007.08.071. Abstract: This paper presents an overview of some of the key challenges and issues that need to be overcome in the area of performance and durability to achieve commercial-viable PEM ...

[source]

Summary of a Scandal

David Vincent, contract with Noble Environmental since December 29, 2006 (paid $27090). 5. James Otis, continuing member, foreman for a sand & gravel company doing a brisk business with Noble Environmental on Noble’s current Clinton ...

[source]

The World's Coolest Solar-Collecting Building?

Sanyo in Japan has constructed an amazing solar-collecting building that embodies both clean-energy ideals and awesome architectural design strategies. The so-called Solar Ark has over 5,000 active solar panels generating over 500,000 KWh of environmentally friendly energy.

[source]

Apocalyptic Environmentalism on the Streets of San Francisco

"Going Green" has obviously caused advertising executives to see green, hence the proliferation of environmental slogans designed to make consumers feel good about themselves while consuming. But apocalyptic environmentalism's true ...

[source]

“Prince George’s Environmental Knowledge Web” project

“Prince George’s Environmental Knowledge Web” project --Creating a database of substantive and tactical knowledge on land use, environment, and transportation to strengthen the participation by residents of Prince George’s County in ...

[source]

The professionals

Environmental Engineer – also getting out of hand, depending on your point of view. Often uses other words like “sustainability”. Take what used to be called an environmental health officer, baste them in nuclear waste for a week and ...

[source]

Climate Champion

Read the full story in Plenty Magazine. Fire insurance? Check. Climate insurance? Not yet. Nobel Prize winner Terry Root says it’s time for that to change.

[source]

The Biofuels Worse Than Fossil Fuels

In particular, sugarcane, US corn, Brazilian soy, and Malaysian palm oil may be worse overall than fossil fuels in environmental destruction, pollution, and damage to human health. The new study calculates the relative merits of 26 ...

[source]

400-Plus Coastal Zones are Dying

Carbon isn't the only global cycle all out of whack. Take a look at what nitrogen is doing. If you're a fish or coral or anything else that needs oxygen to live, it ain't pretty.

[source]

Requirement Forces Fed Agencies To Buy Green PCs

The US Government plans to require federal agencies to buy PCs and computer monitors that are energy efficient and include reduced levels of toxic chemicals, according to Computerworld. The Department of Defense, NASA and the General ...

[source]

Consumer Reports Car Brand Perceptions Survey names top brands

This CR's random, nationwide telephone survey focused on how consumers perceive and rank car brands in seven crucial areas, including safety, quality, value, performance, environmental friendliness, design, and technological innovation. ...

[source]

Your Compassion is Hypocrisy

If you can’t wrap your acculturated mind around the insane cruelty of animal-based diets, then consider the enormous environmental effect of factory farming. I may have written about this a time or two:. Boston Legal Exposes Truth About ...

[source]

(Approximately) 20 Ways To Recycle Your Running Shoes

Reuse-A-Shoe, part of our Let Me Play campaign, is one of Nike’s longest-running environmental and community programs, where worn-out athletic shoes of any brand are collected, processed and recycled into material used in sports ...

[source]

EnerTech Environmental, waste conversion company, takes $42M ...

Enertech Environmental is one of a new generation companies that promises to use waste matter and byproducts from municipalities to help create renewable fuel. The company’s patented process, called SlurryCarb, uses biosolids (a nice ...

[source]

Suit Filed Against Shell Oil

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has the duty to see that companies like Shell don't violate the law and pollute. But the Republicans running this state agency have not done a very good job. ...

[source]

News - Ex-Customs officer wins damages

Source News - Ex-Customs officer wins damages article A former customs officer who suffered serious injuries in a road accident has received 700000 in auto insurance liability. Alison Hutton, from Perthshire, was hit by a car as she ...

[source]

Rocky Anderson: The End of an Era

"Unless city residents have access to clean air and water and are protected from potential environmental catastrophes like global warming, our other efforts as a city count for little over the long term." — Jan. ...

[source]

Safe Disposal of CFLs

The UK’s Environment Agency wants to put warnings on CFL packaging about safe disposal, and what to do if a bulb is broken.

[source]

Data Center Virtual Solution Application, Released by 3PAR (InfTek ...

3cV offers combined benefits that enable customers to manage and scale their server and storage environments simply, allowing them to halve server, storage and operational costs while lowering the environmental impact of the datacenter. ...

[source]

Republicans for the environment

I’ma latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the ...

[source]

2008 Summer Environmental Internships!

Applications are now being accepted for the 2008 Pacific Internship Programs for Exploring Science based here at UHH. Visit our website for more information and to apply online. http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/uhintern ...

[source]

The Real Threat To National Security

The sense of societal collapse in evident not only with peoples worldwide but is ever evident in the increasing rate of environmental destruction. Historians have cited environmental destruction as a main factor in societal collapse but ...

[source]

UT - Kanab Field Office Draft Resource Management Plan Update

2) Please disclose the difference in management prescriptions between “non-WSA lands with wilderness characteristics” and WSAs in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). 3) The 1999 inventory found lands that contain extensive ...

[source]

January 2008 issue of Biodiesel Magazine

The January 2008 issue of Biodiesel Magazine is now available. Highlights include:. Biodiesel’s True Calling; A New Generation; Breeding Better Beans; Emerging Opportunities on Uncharted Grounds; Canola Waits in the Wings ...

[source]

The latest from RenewableEnergyAccess.com

The latest issue of Renewable Energy Weekly is now available. Highlights include:. Researchers Create Biodiesel from Chicken Fat; Inside Renewable Energy Podcast: 2007: A Brief Year in Review; France Sets Ambitious Renewable Energy ...

[source]

The Science of Toga Parties - Belushi and Animal House Are They To Blame?

Playing drinking games at a party leads to increased levels of alcohol in the bloodstream. An investigation revealedone of the more interesting findings was that young women drank more heavily than males at themed events. It is rare to find a situation where women drink more than men. These events tended to have sexualized themes and costumes.

[source]

Environmental Engineer-Mining

MWH is an employee owned company and a global leader in engineering, environmental, construction, technology, and management services. With more than $1 billion in revenue, our 6100 professionals located in 190 offices in 36 countries ...

[source]

The Science of Toga Parties - Belushi and Animal House Are They To Blame?

Playing drinking games at a party leads to increased levels of alcohol in the bloodstream. An investigation revealedone of the more interesting findings was that young women drank more heavily than males at themed events. It is rare to find a situation where women drink more than men. These events tended to have sexualized themes and costumes.

[source]

Australian Government Recommends Hitting Baby Kangaroos With Metal ...

What we are talking about here is responsible environmental management, because if we don’t do something you won’t have pastures and viable farming. We are trying to come up with something that is practicable to use across sometimes ...

[source]

CES excitement

Some of the earlier announcements are also arriving,with Hydropak water fuel cells looking interesting from an environmental point of view, and Netgear pushing for super-speed internet for all. It's going to be a fascinating time. ...

[source]

Australian Government Recommends Hitting Baby Kangaroos With Metal ...

What we are talking about here is responsible environmental management, because if we don’t do something you won’t have pastures and viable farming. We are trying to come up with something that is practicable to use across sometimes ...

[source]

Where's "Ellis Wyatt" when we need him?

BLM released its draft programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) for oil shale and tar sands resources on just under 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Where it occurs, oil shale development would ...

[source]

global warming arguments

The cooperation agreement is aimed climate change at technology and knowledge transfer and partnership programs to improve environmental protection. We will be looking at ways to make our data centers and our research-and-development ...

[source]

Peter Thomas Roth Environmental Repair Hydrating Gel (Perfume ...

Peter Thomas Roth Environmental Repair Hydrating Gel 2oz FREE Shipping. 115% Price Protection. An oil-free formulation with whole leaf aloe vera, liposomes and anti-oxidant micellized vitamin E and micellized vitamin A. ...

[source]

Model developed that predicts molecular response of living cells ...

The knowledge gained through the Environmental and Gene Regulatory Influence (EGRIN) model demonstrates that it is possible to discover how complex biological systems work and opens the door to more complex genetic engineering that ...

[source]

Key Advantages of Remote Power Management

Additionally, certain intelligent power products can also be combined with environmental monitoring devices, providing mission-critical protection by monitoring datacenter conditions such as amperage draw per circuit, humidity, ...

[source]

Cactus bandits v Mexican villagers!

Residents of the several municipalities in the area interviewed by El UNIVERSAL all complained of the complacency of the Federal Prosescutor for Environmental Protection, when it came to foreigners stealing cacti. ...

[source]

Toshiba Talks Up Their Third (And Final?) Generation HD DVD Players

Its products, including the third generation HD DVD players, meet Toshiba’s voluntary environmental standards and ongoing efforts to bring eco-conscious products to market and comply with the company’s strict environmental policies. ...

[source]

Vancouver - MDA - The Genetic & Environmental Contributors to Mood ...

MDA logo Understanding how heredity and the environment interacts and how it affects a person with a mood disorder is crucial to self management of their illness. Speaker: Dr. Jehannine Austin, Genetic Counsellor, VGH Research Pavilion ...

[source]

Feds Propose Greener Computer Purchases

The federal government has published a proposed rule requiring agencies to use the EPEAT environmental rating system on all purchases of desktop PCs, laptops and computer monitors. [Computerworld Breaking News]

[source]

Ridding the body of sickness

Given the high level of environmental toxins that can exacerbate chronic illness and Sickness Syndrome depression, it is clear that taking a holistic approach to treating Sickness Syndrome depression involves addressing environmental ...

[source]

safety10.jpg

Environmental health in emergencies and disasters. *Water and sanitation on ships and aircrafts. *Household water . MIDDLE-EAST CRISIS. Environmental health, especially drinking water and sanitation require serious attention. More . ...

[source]

Sunday Snippets

It consolidates a number of useful resources for researching federal environmental regulatory matters. Four industry groups filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court challenging the City of Chicago's new 5-cent tax on bottled water ...

[source]

AERE Publication of Enduring Quality Award

The 2007 AERE "Nobel Prize" was announced yesterday at the AERE luncheon:. Hammock, Judd and Gardner Mallard Brown, Jr., Waterfowl and Wetlands: Toward Bio-Economic Analysis, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. ...

[source]

Safety & Environmental Engineer(North East Scotland)

Safety & Environmental Engineer Salary £38000 - £43000 negotiable Location Aberdeen Brief Overview This is an opportunity to work for a multi-mi...

[source]

Diaspora Clicks In To Keep Kenya Talking

Photo: MamaMikes Mamamike’s web site NAIROBI, 5 January 2008 (IRIN) - The crisis prompted by Kenya’s 27 December elections has left large numbers of people stranded in various parts of the country due to insecurity on the roads and ...

[source]

The Roving Eye

Curated by the staff of the Environmental Design Archives and the Environmental Design Library, the exhibit includes highlights from these collections such as rare books, original sketches, and photographs. On view through March 31, ...

[source]

Improve Environmental Literacy!

Improve Environmental Literacy! Environmental Literacy Grants for Free-Choice Learning POSTED: 12/27/2007 FUNDING SOURCE: Dept. of Commerce ELIGIBILITY: IHEs, school districts, nonprofits, and governments $ AVAILABLE: $4000000 ...

[source]

CANADIAN BOREAL FOREST important shield against global warming

Conservation and economic development are often pitted as competing interests in the debate over environmental stewardship, said Innes. When oil hit $100 a barrel - when uranium, diamond and other kinds of mineral exploration are ...

[source]

Environmental Engineer USA USA Texas Houston

A recognized global leader in engineering design and planning has an immediate permanent position in the Houston Texas area for a Mid Level Air Quality Engineer Specialist This position will provid................

[source]

Enviromental Hypocrites

environmental impacts of Broadwater/Shell so that they may join the opposition to Broadwater. New York City and Long Island delegates are joining forces to urge the League of Conservation Voters to recognize that liquid natural gas is ...

[source]

2008 Legislative Session

Members of the environmental community announced their legislative agenda on Thursday at the state capitol, with solar energy, healthy rivers, and smart growth at the top of the conservationist agenda for the 2008 legislative session. ...

[source]

Schizoid Personality Disorder - Causes, Symptoms, Information with ...

Genetics and environmental factors both come into play of Schizoid Personality Disorder. Some mental health professionals speculate that a bleak childhood where warmth and emotion were absent contributes to the development of the ...

[source]

Can payments for ecosystem services secure the water tower of Tibet

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2007.05.005. Abstract: Tibet can be considered as the water tower of Asia and the protection of its water resources crucial. We show that a minimum data approach to model the supply of ecosystem services ...

[source]

oddities

They use minimal packaging as well, for environmental reasons. There is nothing else like it. I’m in love, but it can be a tad expensive, so definitely a luxury. I thought I would take you through my favorites. ...

[source]

BHP Billiton's interest in Rio Tinto raises environmental dilemma

BHP declined to comment on Grasberg Tuesday but appeared to leave the door open to keeping the Rio Tinto stake, pointing out its environmental policy applied to existing projects. "We have publicly committed not to pursue deep sea ...

[source]

Illinois EPA proposes new air rules to reduce VOM emissions

The Illinois EPA has filed new proposed air rules with the Illinois Pollution Control Board (Board). The Board has captioned the proposal In the Matter of: Proposed New 35 Ill. Adm. Code Part 223 Standards and Limitations for Organic ...

[source]

Are You A KEEPER?

Soon after its release, FL Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Sole announced that DEP would strengthen its penalty guidelines and would take a tougher stance against the most serious environmental violations. ...

[source]

Underground fares- no free ride for London

After seven years in office Mr Livingstone’s transport policy is not as effective, in environmental terms, as it was in 1981. Transport is a source of around a quarter of our carbon emissions so the benefits of an environmental ...

[source]

Environmental Study

Environmental laws are getting tougher, so it's wise to get the experts in to make sure you meet all the compliance requirements. A phase 1 environmentalstudy is the way to go if you have any concerns about the environmental ...

[source]

Volume 78, Number 11, November , 2007

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, Volume 78, Number 11, November , 2007. Loaded on 2007-11-13.

[source]

The Ten Most Viewed Articles of Awesome Engine of 2007

10) It’s Environmental Cartoon Week! - Smoggies - Mainly google traffic. Often people searching for “funny environmental cartoon”. Bookmark to: Add 'The Ten Most Viewed Articles of Awesome Engine of 2007' to Del. ...

[source]

Volume 78, Number 11, November , 2007

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, Volume 78, Number 11, November , 2007. Loaded on 2007-11-13.

[source]

Willingness to pay for mass screening for prostate cancer: A ...

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1442-2042.2007.01931.x. Abstract: We recently reported on the willingness to pay (WTP) for prostate cancer screening with prostate specific antigen (PSA) using the contingent valuation ...

[source]

David Keith: A surprising idea for "solving" climate change ...

Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat? As an emergency measure to slow a ...

[source]

Global Warming, or just more of the same old stuff?

I’ve read a lot about global warming, shifts in weather trends and environmental catastrophes (natural and man-made). I’m concerned about my environmental impact as well as that of my company. I do what I can to help; our city just ...

[source]

The Environmental Issue

Las posturas del gobierno de los Estados Unidos en temas ambientales siempre ha sido “light” y poco han hecho para avanzar en el tema, sobre todo en lo que se refiere a cambio climático, tampoco es un gran tema en los campañas ...

[source]

Weekly Governance Links: China

Finally, as mentioned above, environmental degradation has become a critical issue for Chinese governance, and one that is increasingly a driver of social unrest. The New York Times has been running a monster series of articles about ...

[source]

Yesterday’s Nostalgia, Tomorrow’s Word of the Year?

Environmental and urban change has always been a topic of literature where it has been handled in any number of perspectives. Blakes, “And did those feet” concerns a type of solastalgia. The implied narrator wonders how Jerusalem could ...

[source]

Scrap Setu project, develop MEZ — Dr. Swamy

According to earlier Supreme Court judgments, prior environmental clearance of State Government Pollution Boards is necessary before the project can be inaugurated. But in the SSCP case, the PM inaugurated it on January 2, 2005 when the ...

[source]

How Green Was My Candidate?

On the energy and environmental front, however, anyone following the presidential primaries today can make some fairly safe predictions about our sustainable future without even picking a winner from the thirteen major candidates. ...

[source]

HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative

Mathematics; Science (physical, environmental, computer); Engineering (electrical, computer, mechanical, environmental, materials); Information Systems / Information Technology. Proposals are due February 14, 2008. ...

[source]

Glenn Schleede's comment on - Terence Blacker: Nimbyism should be ...

In the US, the NIMBY term is often applied to people who oppose "wind farms," other electric generating plants, transmission lines, a variety of other facilities, and the adverse environmental, scenic, and property value impact ...

[source]

HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative

Mathematics; Science (physical, environmental, computer); Engineering (electrical, computer, mechanical, environmental, materials); Information Systems / Information Technology. Proposals are due February 14, 2008. ...

[source]

Austin Hopes To Go Zero Waste By 2040

Austin, Texas hopes to reduce the trash sent to landfills by 20 percent by 2012 and eventually achieve zero waste by 2040. The city recently hired the California firm of Gary Liss and Associates to spend half a year writing a plan to ...

[source]

What we waste without worrying.

The company became a leader among chip makers in pollution control — as an economic move, not just an environmental one. Prosaic and obvious, but germane: if gasoline costs $1.50 per gallon, you’ll use it differently than if it costs ...

[source]

News - Soho nail bomb victims drop claim

Source News - Soho nail bomb victims drop claim article Six victims of the Admiral Duncan nail bombing have dropped their High Court damages claim. The six alleged that Southern Inns Ltd had not done enough to enhance security at the ...

[source]

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 3, January 4, 2008

Good Neighbor Environmental Board 4. HAZ/Nuclear, TRANSPORT - PR/NMs. NRC. Transportation of Radioactive Material in Quantities of Concern 5. HAZ, TRANSPORT - ND. DOT/Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. ...

[source]

CU-Boulder Law School Launches Website Offering Environmental ...

From the press release: The Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School has created a new information series for The Red Lodge Clearinghouse, a Web site project that provides tools for individuals or ...

[source]

Riverdance

Where: Keller Auditorium SW 3rd & Clay Portland, OR 97204. What: RIVERDANCE, the thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance that has tapped its way onto the world stage thrilling millions of people around the globe, ...

[source]

CU-Boulder Law School Launches Website Offering Environmental ...

From the press release: The Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School has created a new information series for The Red Lodge Clearinghouse, a Web site project that provides tools for individuals or ...

[source]

Environmental Realities and Future of China

All Nations must be cognizant of their environment and fast growing nations like China are no exception...

[source]

Ecological and social aspects of biodiversity conservation on ...

Riikka, Paloniemi , Päivi M., Tikka In recent decades, the growing need for biodiversity conservation and the different means of achieving it have been defined in international and national procedures regulated by governments and ...

[source]

ecoartspace : creating opportunities for addressing environmental ...

Ecoartspace is an international organisation dedicated to addressing environmental issues through the visual arts. Founded in 1997 by Tricia Watts, the organisation aims to promote a variety of different styles of artworks, ...

[source]

Between Grass And Sky: Where I Live And Work (Environmental Arts ...

's voice rings with the ardent common sense of one who knows and loves the land, who appreciates the concerns of environmental activists but also knows the role that responsible ranchers can play in nurturing a healthy rural ecosystem. ...

[source]

New Environment Society of Taichung,TCNE

Assist government in promoting environmental activities. Hold environmental lectures to promote environmental awareness. Hold environmental tours to absorb knowledge. Foster environment advocators and volunteers to spread environmental ...

[source]

We Are Not Vegetarian

As for the environmental issues with eating fish, I am well aware of them and I try to only eat fish from responsible fisheries. Obviously, that’s not always going to be possible, and yes, I am contributing to that little bit of ...

[source]

Web Editor

A new online environmental magazine soon to be launched through Yale University is looking for a Web Editor/Web Producer to run the day-to-day operations of the Website. We are looking for a Web-savvy editor with a journalism background ...

[source]

Watanabe: Each Toyota model will have a hybrid option

The speech also mentioned that Toyota will respond to the automobile market expansion that countries such as China, India, Brazil or Russia are living through, as well as new environmental legislation that could arrive there and ...

[source]

Detroit 2008: BMW X5 xDrive35d and BMW 335d with BluePerformance

Now, introducing Advanced Diesel with BluePerformance as part of BMW EfficientDynamics, BMW seeks to continue the progress described in the Environmental Defense Report well into the future, with the same intensity and impact. ...

[source]

Bush plays Baker, part I

Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense is eager to provide the president cover. And "anonymous former adviser" (Rove?) seems desperate to burnish Bush's wretched legacy in his last year in office. (Just yesterday the Bush team sent around ...

[source]

RePEc's top papers in environmental economics

We find no evidence that environmental quality deteriorates steadily with economic growth. Rather, for most indicators, economic growth brings an initial phase of deterioration followed by a subsequent phase of improvement.

[source]

Thousands Exposed to Poison by Government’s Aerial Spraying

The newly designed Faroes Statement, the consensus of over 200 scientists, calls for a precautionary approach with respect to exposure of fetuses and children to environmental toxins. The consensus is that exposure of fetuses or ...

[source]

Observing the drought

P1010472 As promised, here are some pictures from Lake Lanier, north of Atlanta (Click each picture for a bigger view). Due to a Southeast drought, the lake is at near historic low levels--well at least since it was dammed. ...

[source]

Thousands Exposed to Poison by Government’s Aerial Spraying

The newly designed Faroes Statement, the consensus of over 200 scientists, calls for a precautionary approach with respect to exposure of fetuses and children to environmental toxins. The consensus is that exposure of fetuses or ...

[source]

Observing the drought

P1010472 As promised, here are some pictures from Lake Lanier, north of Atlanta (Click each picture for a bigger view). Due to a Southeast drought, the lake is at near historic low levels--well at least since it was dammed. ...

[source]

The Environmental Literacy Council - Soil

Topsoil. Home. 2007 Annual Meeting Dates October 18-20. Coal Counts Brochures. Safety is First in Kentucky Mines · Fast Facts About Kentucky's Coal Industry … continue…

[source]

Global warming: States’ rights for all the wrong reasons

California, joined by 15 other states and egged on by a gaggle of environmental groups, has decided to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for not allowing the Left Coast to set its own standards for automobile emissions. ...

[source]

Current Conditions from High School for Environmental Studies, New ...

Fair Temperature: 15.2 °F Humidity: 63 % Dew Point: 5 °F Wind Speed: 2 mph W Gusts: 16 mph NW Pressure: 30.33 " Rain Today: 0.00 ". More Observations Watch WeatherBug on TV with CW11 - WeatherBug.

[source]

Environmental Resources and Community Forest Commission

January 9, 2008. 6:00 PM at Fairfield Community Arts Center.

[source]

Environmental issues dominate discussions at POWER-GEN Int

This is the people who decide if the numbers are good or not talking about the various carbon reduction technologies, worth reading FWI. read more | digg story. ShareThis.

[source]

Oil spill disasters and Setusamudram — Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari

Singh a devastating storm in the southern Russian-Ukrainian Sea of Azov, leading to, as some are arguing, the worst environmental calamity in the region since the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986. 2. Severe storms had battered the Sea ...

[source]

Current Conditions from High School for Environmental Studies, New ...

Fair Temperature: 18.5 °F Humidity: 48 % Dew Point: 2 °F Wind Speed: 3 mph NNE Gusts: 29 mph N Pressure: 30.17 " Rain Today: 0.00 ". More Observations Watch WeatherBug on TV with CW11 - WeatherBug.

[source]

California sues the Environmental Protection Agency ’cause its not ...

Instead, it’s protecting the Bush administration and it’s auto-industry allies. The Governator lead CA and 13 other states to sue the EPA over it’s ability to regulate emissions standards in it’s own state. ...

[source]

Oregon law gives teeth to business sustainability

In a bill passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2007, businesses can state in their Oregon articles of incorporation they will operate with equal regard for environmental, social and shareholder impact. It appears Oregon is the first ...

[source]

EPA Denies California GHG Vehicles Emission Rule Waiver

The Agency said that the new energy legislation passed by Congress and signed by President Bush this week [See WIMS 12/14/07] provides a federal fuel economy standard that offers environmental benefits, energy security and economic ...

[source]

Rep. Lantos Has Cancer

Sad news today. Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA) revealed that he has esophageal cancer and will not seek reelection. Rep. Lantos is an amazing man: A native of Hungary, Lantos, 79, was elected to Congress in 1980. ...

[source]

Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn/Queens) Brings Home Some Funding

Hudson Raritan Estuary — Gowanus Canal, New York, Environmental Restoration Project: $214000 to continue the feasibility study for the environmental restoration of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. • Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development ...

[source]

Green Bank To Open In Austin

A new green bank, One Earth Bank, plans to open its first branch in Austin in June, The Austin American-Statesman reports. The financial institution will offer online banking nationwide. The bank will feature a green deposits program ...

[source]

Top Environmental Stories of 2007

Over at AlterNet, Grist’s David Roberts and Lisa Hymas have compiled a list of the top 15 environmental stories of 2007. Climate change is the dominant theme, with scientists and Al Gore sounding the alarm and politicians responding ...

[source]

Duluth woman creates treasures out of other people’s trash

Read the full story in the Duluth News Tribune. Where most see junk, Lisa Davis sees potential. The avid recycler finds new uses for old and discarded items and transforms castoffs into new creations.

[source]

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 1, Wednesday, January ...

Implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 8. HAZ, TRANSPORT - NM. DOT/Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Pipeline Safety: Workshop on Public Awareness Programs for Pipeline Operators and ...

[source]

Happy New January

... whose premature claims about the pipeline’s completion have now been exposed. They now face a challenge in Brussels to the safety and environmental risk assessment procedures used in the planning and construction of the pipeline. ...

[source]

The Potential Environmental Hazards of Windows Vista

windows_vista_and_environmental_hazards.pdf. The file discusses about the potential environmental hazards Windows Vista poses.

[source]

The One Environmental Issue

Times have certainly changed. It is not yet clear to what extent Americans are willing to grapple with the implications of any serious strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: more specifically, whether they are ready to pay higher ...

[source]

Hop on the “No Coal Express”

The Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP) is holding a public hearing in Ely on Wednesday, January 9 regarding the air quality permit being considered for the EEC. An environmental impact study has already been conducted ...

[source]

Regional Environmental Awareness

Title: Wave Agency: Naga DDB, Kelana Jaya, Malaysia Creative Director: Ted Lim Art Directors: Chow Kok Keong, Danny Chin Copywriter: Raymond Ng, Ted Lim Illustrator: CUE Arts Illustration.

[source]

My Top Ten Burning Issues of 2007

6) (More) Environmental Waste. Green is hot and that can’t be all good. People need to wake up and see the damage they are doing just by LIVING their “normal” lives. 7) Real Estate Bubble and Credit Crunch ...

[source]

Random Thought: Lunar Ejection Seat

Not only are there environmental factors such as micrometeors, radiation, etc. that make failures more likely. But the effects of those failure modes are more severe. There's a reason why most of the predicted risk for a lunar mission ...

[source]

Busy days.

Researching all the ways we can make changes to our environmental impact generally, right where we are, without only dreaming of moving or larger changes. Staying mindful and content right here. Experimenting with different grains and ...

[source]

Covalence Ethical Ranking 2007

... Emerging topics in 2007 have been: Environmental Impact of Production, Eco Innovative Product, Waste Management and Anti-corruption Policy, while the following criteria have lost importance: Social Impact, Social Sponsorship, ...

[source]

2008 - Is a backlash on the way?

The Observer piece quotes a MORI poll that found that while most people were convinced an environmental crisis was on the cards virtually none "were prepared to do anything about it beyond trying to reuse plastic bags and recycle some ...

[source]

Antarctica Wildlife: Whales, Penguins, Petrels & Albatross

Antarctica Wildlife Photos on Flickr: Whales, Penguins, Petrels & Albatross. I’ve organized photos in different sets including whales, penguins, petrels & albatross. Learn more about Antarctic wildlife in the coming days. ...

[source]

Chemical pollution control should be as PCBs

“National Environmental Protection” 11th Five-Year ”Plan” recently Electrolytic capacitor introduced its pollution prevention is the top priority. With particular reference to the POPs control. Thus, 12 kinds of human health and the ...

[source]

Illinois Radon Awareness Act effective January 1

The Illinois Radon Awareness Act (PA 95-210) becomes effective on January 1, 2008. This new law requires that sellers of residential real property must provide to potential buyers of the property:. An Illinois Emergency Management ...

[source]

Environmental Issues To Surface At Caucuses

Hurtte will be among hundreds of Iowans who are likely to be out on caucus night to argue for environmental causes at the state's first-in-the-nation presidential candidate contest. Statewide environmental groups are encouraging members ...

[source]

Green bullets

“Green ammo” will soon be issued to the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s police and forest rangers. On the firing range, the department’s 464 law-enforcement personnel will begin training with lead-free ammunition, ...

[source]

07:00:00 PM :: Monday, Jan. 14

Meeting: Kingston Environmental Advisory Forum (KEAF) (CONFIRMED)

[source]

Pollution without borders : Report, The Electronic Intifada, 1 ...

Experts on the issue, including people such as Gershon Baskin of the Israel/Palestinian Centre for Research and Information, and Nader al-Khatib of the Palestinian Water and Environmental Development Organisation, say the problem lies ...

[source]

Diet vs. Cleanse - Healthy Weight Loss

Detox or cleansing is a way to clean out all the toxins, environmental pollutants, and wastes from all the drugs, toxins and chemicals ingested into our bodies. Think about all environmental poisoning from just the pesticides, ...

[source]

Food of the Underworld

But much like everything else in the modern world, commercial fishing has refined environmental devastation to an art form. Nets are dragged across the ocean floor, sweeping up all in their path, and once the edible fish species have ...

[source]

World Peace Day 2008: Peace and the Environment

... uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances. ...

[source]