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Inferno on Earth: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
November 20, 2009 10:19 AM - Earth Policy Institute
"Future firefighters have their work cut out for them.," says Janet Larsen, Director of Research for the Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, "Inferno on Earth: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise".
Conservation Organizations Join Legal Effort to Protect Endangered Blue Whale
November 20, 2009 10:13 AM - Center for Biological Diversity
SAN FRANCISCO— Friends of the Earth, Pacific Environment, and the Center for Biological Diversity, national and international conservation organizations with a combined membership of more than 120,000 people, today joined a notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service (submitted by the Environmental Defense Center in August) for the agency's failure to implement the 1998 Blue Whale Recovery Plan. Among other actions, the recovery plan mandates that the Fisheries Service identify and implement methods to eliminate or reduce blue whale mortalities from ship strikes. The agency has failed to take this required action for more than a decade, despite the ship-strike deaths of at least five blue whales in Southern California in 2007, and two additional ship-strike mortalities along the California coast in October 2009.
New Earthcast: An Economy Fit for a Low Carbon World — The Pre-COP Earthcast
November 18, 2009 11:56 AM - EARTHCAST
Free, live and interactive web event!
- Can economies be redesigned for a low-carbon future?
- What opportunities does the financial crisis present?
- Is a constructive agreement likely at Copenhagen?
Lawsuit Imminent Over Water Diversions Killing Salmon and Steelhead
November 18, 2009 10:25 AM - Center for Biological Diversity
San Francisco— The Center for Biological Diversity, Northern California River Watch, and Coast Action Group today sent notice of intent to sue California's State Water Resources Control Board for authorizing water diversions that harm federally protected salmon and steelhead trout in the Russian River and Gualala River watersheds.
Lawsuit Challenges Uranium Mine That Threatens Water and Wildlife of the Grand Canyon
November 17, 2009 09:34 AM - Center for Biological Diversity
Flagstaff, Ariz.— Monday the Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust, and Sierra Club filed suit in an Arizona federal court challenging the Bureau of Land Management's approval of the restart of a defunct uranium mine just north of Grand Canyon National Park.
100% Renewable Jet Fuel Receives
Popular Science’s Best of What's New Award
Featured in December Issue of Magazine, on Stands Now
November 16, 2009 05:37 PM - Energy & Environmental Research Center
GRAND FORKS, North Dakota — 100% renewable jet fuel developed by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota and the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has won the Best of What's New Award from Popular Science Magazine in the aviation and space category. The awards are announced in the December issue of Popular Science, which is on stands now.
It's time to re-think economic growth for advanced nations
November 13, 2009 10:44 AM - EarthScan
LONDON - In Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, published by Earthscan this week, Professor Tim Jackson raises fundamental questions about the economics needed to tackle climate change. Jackson argues that, faced with the limits imposed by carbon sinks and the scale of ”˜de-carbonization' of the world's economy required to stay within them, continued economic growth in the already affluent world does not offer the solution; it represents the problem.
Rainforest Alliance President Pushes for Coffee's Green Revolution
Tensie Whelan Urges Coffee Industry to Commit to Sustainability
November 13, 2009 10:32 AM - Rainforest Alliance
San Jose, Costa Rica - "Imagine a 21st century green revolution for agriculture that, unlike its 20th century forerunner, does not depend on petrochemicals, deforestation and enormous inputs of water to fuel its growth, but instead focuses on something that has largely disappeared from the world—extension—or training farmers in good practices," said Tensie Whelan, president of the Rainforest Alliance, during her remarks at the Sintercafe annual coffee conference in Costa Rica today.
Nominations for the 2010 Globe Awards Now Being Accepted
November 13, 2009 09:50 AM - GLOBE-Net
For the past eight years, the prestigious GLOBE Awards for Environmental Excellence have recognized extraordinary Canadian companies and industry groups who have managed to balance competitive business strategies with outstanding leadership in environmentally sustainable practices.
Coalition Files Suit to Restore Legal Protection to Endangered West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel
November 13, 2009 09:38 AM - Center for Biological Diversity
WASHINGTON- A coalition of conservation groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of Blackwater, Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society, and Wild South, filed suit Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to overturn a Bush-administration decision stripping the West Virginia northern flying squirrel of protection under the Endangered Species Act.