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What’s Up With the Rainforest: Chevron’s Cover-up of Gross Environmental Abuses in Eucador

March 21, 2010 – 3:21 am

Too many times business leaders let their greed overcome them, making profit the most important factor in the decision-making process. But while this may skyrocket the company to superstar status, and make a handful of shareholders wealthy, the consequences of choosing money over people and the earth are severe. Unfortunately, the ones who suffer the [...]

By James Boyce | Comments (0)

Pro Traveller: 20 Destinations Threatened By Global Warming

May 18, 2008 – 12:26 am

ProTraveller has put together a list of 20 tourist destinations that face devastation if our current global warming trends aren’t reversed. It’s a travel-focused glimpse at the economic impact of continued climate inaction. Here’s an excerpt: In addition to those wine hot spots that will be economically destroyed when the weather warms up, there are [...]

By Francis Scudellari | Also posted in tourism, travel | Comments (1)

Action Alert: Protest Australia’s Continued Ancient Forest Logging

April 10, 2008 – 1:47 am

From Climate Ark and Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet: Australia’s new “climate friendly” government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end. Australia continues to industrially clear their last native ancient forests, even as their [...]

By Francis Scudellari | Also posted in activism, forestry, forests, logging | Comments (0)

Alliance for Climate Protection launches We Campaign

April 1, 2008 – 12:51 pm

The Alliance for Climate Protection has unveiled a new website called We can solve the climate crisis and is reaching out to a diverse array of groups to build broader awareness and support for solving global warming. They’ve also created this video to illustrate the importance of Americans taking leadership on the issue: Click here [...]

By Francis Scudellari | Also posted in climate change, global warming | Comments (0)

Tappening: the truth about bottled water

March 18, 2008 – 3:27 pm

By Francis Scudellari | Also posted in climate, plastic, water, water management | Comments (0)

Woolly Mammals

March 3, 2008 – 8:54 pm

My good friend and newly inspired poet Terry Feingold wrote the following poem that I think is worth a ponder … Woolly Mammals by Terry Feingold I sit, before me Loosely clothed of garments soaked, Well-read thoughts, some memories, Some doubtful. I lay, from within We speak of melting, Tomorrow knowing, today comes ghastly, Meteoric [...]

By Francis Scudellari | Also posted in climate, extinction, global warming, poetry | Comments (0)

Celebrating Roadless Forests

January 30, 2008 – 3:08 am

Ponderosa pines in Caton Lake Roadless on Payette NF, nine years after prescribed fire – Photo courtesy of John McCarthy/ TWS Last week, conservationists gathered in our nation’s capital to toast 10 years of Roadless Forests. They were marking the anniversary of a key piece of legislation that has helped to safeguard our public woodlands. [...]

By Francis Scudellari | Also posted in Politics, climate, environmental standards, forests, green | Comments (0)

How Far Will Bush Warm to Warming in His Last Year?

January 6, 2008 – 8:24 am

Climate Crisis Coalition  By Peter Baker, The Washington Post, December 29, 2007. “For years, Bush bristled privately at what he considered sky-is-falling alarmism by the liberal, elitist Hollywood crowd. The clatter over climate change, according to friends and advisers, seemed to him more like a political agenda than a rational response to known facts. But ever so [...]

By Deborah | Also posted in bush | Comments (0)

Wildfire Drives Carbon Levels In Northern Forests

November 10, 2007 – 8:23 am

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2007) — Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests – one of the largest ecosystems on earth – act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels. Forest ecologists at the University [...]

By Deborah | Also posted in carbon dioxide, pollution | Comments (0)

Global Warming or Not: The Debate Over California’s Wildfires

October 30, 2007 – 8:47 am

TreeHugger As was so succinctly put by Salon’s Andrew Leonard in a post about the controversy last week: “Nuance is a bitch”. Indeed, in the wake of the wildfires that ravaged large sections of Southern California, a debate that had largely remained on the sidelines – whether global warming was causing an increase in the [...]

By Deborah | Also posted in forest fires, global warming | Comments (0)