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Breakthrough in the Macondo Mystery: BP Admits to New Activity at Deepwater Horizon Site | Stuart H. Smith
Finally, some answers. After months of trying to make the fresh oil surfacing at the Deepwater Horizon site a “nonissue,” BP has finally copped to what’s really happening at ground zero of last year’s massive oil spill – where just last week, flyover surveillance footage captured a small fleet of large “oil-related” vessels working the waters. It’s hard to hide those ships the size of football fields, even in the Gulf of Mexico. In a bombshell revelation that’s going viral, BP has admitted to conducting a study to “track oil from seabed to surface” in the Macondo Prospect. Sounds to me like they’ve found a leak.
The Fuss Over Fracking: The Dilemma of a New Gas Boom - Video - TIME.com
In northeastern Pennsylvania, natural gas from shale rock promises clean, abundant energy for the U.S. and the world. But locals worry about the environmental and social costs.
The process of hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, has recently been linked to earthquakes in Ohio , and fracking chemicals were confirmed in Wyoming groundwater just a month ago. photo: Alberta Surface Rights Group With news today out of Alberta and Ohio, the controversial project may be under even further scrutiny. On Friday afternoon, The Calgary Herald reports , fracking at one oil well in Alberta caused a blowout at another oil well a kilometer away. Fluids blasted deep into the earth under high pressure appear to have intersected underground with the second well, forcing oil up through the well bore at explosive rates. A witness saw what appeared to be oil and chemicals spewing into the air.
Well Blowout, Toxic Water: Fracking Disasters on the Rise | Common Dreams
China's economic boom means its city-bound children have little experience of nature. But efforts are afoot to change that We all met by the roadside before setting off for the nature camp. It was a clear, early-spring morning and several of the children played on a dusty patch of ground next to a run-down factory.
How children in China's urban jungle are reconnecting with nature | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Author of the book No Impact Man, Colin Beavan, visited NAU. (Photo by: Daniel Daw) In 2007, American non-fiction writer Colin Beavan and his family embarked on a year-long experiment in which they attempted to live in New York City while having no impact on the environment. The rules of the project entailed producing no trash (excluding compost) and purchasing no produce, except for what is grown within 250 miles, as well as using no carbon-based transportation and no paper products. Beavan and his family eliminated products in packaging, cars, toilets and the purchase of new goods.
An interview with Colin Beavan, environmentalist and author of the book, “No Impact Man”
Environmental Ethics
Worldchanging: Bright Green
It's been seven years in the making, but the new Worldchanging book is finally here. Now we need your help this week getting this young book on its feet. Not only do initial sales often determine how other booksellers treat the book (spurring bookstores to put the book in more visible locations, for instance), but initial buzz about a book...
Beginning October 31st, Edward Abbey admirers will have the opportunity to purchase a piece of literary history. Ed Abbey's 1975 Eldorado Convertible Cadillac will be auctioned on eBay, and SUWA will receive a portion of the proceeds. 'Green Gurus': BBC radio show In this series of 3 programmes Julian Pettifer looks at three very different gurus of the Green movement and assesses their influence both on activists and on society as a whole.
Edward Abbey
Steve Jobs Understood Something About Emotions That The Green Movement Too Often Ignores : TreeHugger
photo: Thierry Ehrmann / CC BY Going through all the Steve Jobs commentary this morning I came across actor-comedian-proud technophile Stephen Fry 's commentary on BBC News . Fry and Jobs have apparently been friends for a while and the whole thing is worth a listen. But there's one passage that really jumps out at me as being something the environmental community, particularly those involved in politics and those trying to motivate people to become more environmentally aware, should pay close attention to.Fry says, Steve Jobs has always understood that, as human beings, our first relationship with anything is an emotional one. ...
English • Português • Español • Français • Deutsch **UPDATE: We joined forces with a powerful coalition of organizations, and unveiled our combined number of signatures ( 618,428!!) at the White House on September 3** If y ou've already signed the petition please Post it on Facebook , Share It On Twitter , and send a solidarity message and photo to people protesting in DC. It's time to take a stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, a dangerous and destructive project that would pump over one million barrels of dirty "tar sands" oil from Canada to the USA every day.
Stand in Solidarity - Stop the Tar Sands!
Watch the Full Documentary Film John Muir in the New World | American Masters | PBS
A lover and champion of the American wilderness, Muir believed that it was our responsibility as citizens to protect our natural surroundings. Through his tireless advocacy and his writings, Muir helped preserve the Yosemite Valley, led the fight against the Hetch Hetchy dam – the first nationwide battle of the environmental movement – and was the force behind the creation of the National Park Service. John Muir in the New World explores the influence of his Calvinist father, Daniel; the writings of Alexander von Humboldt and Ralph Waldo Emerson; his friend and mentor Jeanne Carr; marriage to Louie Strentzel; and friendship and work for Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of The Century Magazine ; to illustrate how Muir developed his ideas about nature and became a respected scientist, writer and “publicist for nature” during a critical period in U.S. history. NOTE: Information you supply on this page will only be used to send this email.Gardening
Nature is no wiser than technology, and claiming adherence to nature's laws is an attempt to bypass the messy business of ethics and values. Carbon-sucking trees . Mirrors in space . Biochar . Some of the proposed solutions to climate change seem better suited to the annals of science fiction. Geo-engineering -- along with nanotechnology and bioengineering -- belongs to a class of scientific innovation that many fear will threaten the integrity of life as we know it.
The Breakthrough Institute: Buddhism, Nihilism, and Deep Ecology
Herpetology
chemtrails
The world has a critical need to see itself as one interconnected whole rather than disparate countries, cities, tribes, cultures, religions or special interests. Because of the interconnections of science, technology, economy, culture, environment, problems and options— and the intertwined fate of all life on-board “Spaceship Earth,” there is an urgent need for a tool similar in purpose and function to a vehicle’s dashboard. The Earth Dashboard benefits and empowers people by enabling everyone, regardless of language or culture, to have access to an easy-to-understand current condition report of their “ship’s” resources, problems, solutions, crew, and passengers. This pressing need can be immediately met through the Earth Dashboard’s capabilities, with an on-site high-resolution display installation, interactive technologies, expansive networks and resources, and compatible website
Earth Dashboard
During the Revolutionary War Philadelphia served as one of America's first capital cities. These days, however, Philadelphia could be considered the capital of toxicity, since the city and its environs ranked No. 1 on our 2011 Most Toxic Cities list. One big reason: The sprawling Philadelphia- Camden - Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), including parts of four states ( Pennsylvania , New Jersey , Delaware and one county in Maryland ), is pocked with more than 50 Superfund sites -- areas no longer in use that contain hazardous waste.
America's Most Toxic Cities, 2011 - Yahoo! Real Estate
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Bees - Colony Collapse Disorder