When Mike Brune, executive director of RAN (the Rainforest Action Network) says “I can’t remember a more charged atmosphere,” you know it must be bad. Brune has been arrested dozens of times and has faced off with lumberjacks, oilmen and multinational corporate behemoths alike. But there is a general feeling from everyone I’ve spoken to about the protest [...] [...]
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#3 CLIMATE BILL.. VICTORY OR DEFEAT? While most environmental groups are hailing the passing of the ACES (aka Waxman-Markey) climate bill, some like Greenpeace gave up and called for a “no” vote. Here are the details. #2 BATTLEGROUND WEST VIRGINIA Daryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and RAN director Mike Brune were arrested while protesting a Massey Coal [...] [...] #3 JELLYFISH INVASIONS Oceans have been hard hit by human impacts the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, shark hunting, coral reef collapses (check out last weeks show) and the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. Obama called for an emergency task force to come up with plan to protect the oceans this summer: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/obama-ocean-protection-plan.php Read about the jellyfish invasion taking [...] [...] Using high gas prices as an excuse, Big Oil convinced Congress to abandon a 20-year moratorium on new offshore drilling rigs. Now they’re working to get access to these newly opened areas. Tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, “Keep Big Oil from going in for the drill!” [...] Sign our petition to keep California State Parks open! [...] When I was in Switzerland I had the chance to see stunning works from the Altana collection in Baden Baden at the Museum Frieder Burda (designed by Richard Meier). The goal of the exhibit of 80 paintings and sculptures was to showcase how artists are working to see past the romanticized and overly idealized description [...] [...] I’ve been wanting to post on this great exhibit at the Japan Society — the first of its kind to feature bamboo as a sculptural medium. The exhibit assembled 23 artists who have come up with ingenious ways to use one of the strongest and most readily material in the world: Ranging from ethereal, computer-designed filigrees, through [...] [...] Photo: James Tworow/Flickr Depending on how old and how large your TV is, your analog beast could be toting around eight pounds of lead and other heavy metals such as barium, cadmium and chromium (let’s assume four pounds per set is average). If you multiply all that lead by 100 million (the estimated number of analog TVs in current [...] [...] Photo: Samuel Mann/Flickr . It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last May’s Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic. Now another high school student [...] [...] When I was at EVO, I was tasked with creating a comprehensive environmental impact model, one that went WAY beyond the regular carbon calculator drill and incorporated a wide array of impacts — land use, waste, water and toxics. Several months of number crunching later, the Total Environmental Impact was born. For ease of reference, I’ve [...] [...] |
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