Image by Charles Cook / Creative Commons With Google recently investing a hundred million dollars into the world’s largest wind farm, alternative energies continue to be a hot topic amongst environmentalists, businesses, corporations, governments…
The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute recently had its first US meeting in Pittsburgh. They’re a group who wants to speed development of carbon capture and storage technology – essentially, while we can’t stop CO2 from existing, we can corral it and trap it somewhere harmless.
The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds is a new and unique field guide that replaces conventional content illustrations with stunning digital photography and more.
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Producing transportation fuel from Canada’s tar sands is more destructive, polluting, and carbon intensive than other ways of producing transportation fuel. With the help of ForestEthics, 15 large businesses and one US city have publicly announced actions they have taken to reduce the environmental and social impacts that come from fossil-fueled transportation. Will Walmart be next?
If you live in California and your children ride a school bus, Governor Jerry Brown took away state funding for such transportation this week in his “trigger” budget cuts. As an educator, I recognize the particular challenge already facing financially strapped California schools to try and continue such services to children out of their [...]
2011 has seen a huge increase in drilling permits for the Marcellus and Utica deposits in Ohio. One permit was issued for Utica in 2009, and two were issued in 2010 – as of December 4, 131 permits had been issued. The Marcellus deposit has seen a little less action, with ten permits issued between 2006 and 2010 and another ten permits issued this year.
One hundred economists agree: we can create more jobs by improving our public lands’ infrastructure and creating more parks and monuments. Economists involved with Headwaters Economics, an independent research group, wrote a letter to President Obama outlining how paying more attention to public lands can improve our economy, too.
I am in love with Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins. The illustrations by Vicky White are top notch! Amazing compositions and detail, that is what attracts me to this book so much. The text is filled with informative, yet developmentally appropriate information about endangered and extinct species. Tigers are pretty special — [...]
Thundersnow… if there’s a more awesome-sounding meteorological phenomenon, then bring it on! While the name “Thundersnow” is eminently suitable for a Marvel superhero, a WWE wrestler or a heavy metal band, it’s actually an easily explainable (though rare and unusual) aspect of wild winter weather.
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org The Environmental Protection Agency is cleaning house. Last week, Administrator Lisa P. Jackson released hundreds of chemical studies, which were formerly kept secret from the public as confidential business information. This week, National Public Radio reported that the EPA released information on pollution violations [...]
