1118148309479. We're creating a guide to resources for teaching about Hudson Valley women past and present.
If you have related programs or materials, please let us know by September 10 so we can tell everyone what you've got! Let us know about ... programs or toursartifacts, photos, or exhibitslessons or classroom ideasstaff expertiseprofessional development opportunitiesspecial eventsgrants or awardsbooks or other printed material E-mail details for each category you want to share, e.g., names of programs or resources, any limits on availability, appropriate age range(s), who to contact, fees, and anything else you think is important. And, of course, be sure to include the basics like the full name of your site or group, URL, e-mail address, physical location, phone number, and contact person. The Earth First! Direct Action Manual is Ready to Order! The DAM thing is done!
Direct Action Manuals (DAMs) are now for sale here. Frances Jones. China strengthens environmental laws. Chinese legislators have passed the first amendments to the country’s environmental protection law in 25 years, promising greater powers forenvironmental authorities and harsher punishments for polluters.
The amendments, which the Standing Committee of National People’sCongress passed on Thursday after two years of debate, will allowauthorities to detain company bosses for 15 days if they do notcomplete environmental impact assessments or ignore warnings to stoppolluting. The new law will come into practice on 1 January. Since China’s environmental protection law was passed in 1989, thecountry has become the world’s second-largest economy and its biggestcarbon emitter; decades of breakneck economic growth have left many of its rivers desiccated and its cities perennially shrouded in smog. Dob in your tweeting mate at work? So much for free speech.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement. The main problems are two-fold: Want everyone else to buy into environmentalism? Never say “Earth” For over three decades, David Fenton has played an unusual role in the environmental movement: marketing it.
The company he founded, Fenton Communications, has worked with everyone from Nelson Mandela to MoveOn.org. It recently managed an anti-fracking campaign for Yoko Ono (fracking, it promised, would ruin New York’s groundwater, and therefore its bagels and pizza). To many environmentalists, what Fenton does — with all the celebrity chefs and celebrities, period — is … a little bit simplistic. To his opponents, he’s the Great Satan. If you find an article about him online, it’s probably a hit piece. “People working in the nonprofit world sometimes have trouble adopting a marketing mindset,” Fenton Communications wrote in a 2009 report.
21 reasons why forests are important. Forests cover a third of all land on Earth, providing vital organic infrastructure for some of the planet's densest, most diverse collections of life.
They support countless species as well as 1.6 billion human livelihoods, yet humans are also responsible for 32 million acres of deforestation every year. The United Nations declared March 21 the International Day of Forests in late 2012, part of a global effort to publicize both the value and plight of woodlands around the world. It was first celebrated March 21, 2013, nestling in between the U.N.'s International Day of Happiness on March 20 and World Water Day March 22.
British publisher catalogues Tony Abbott's failings on the Australian environment. Coal ash is a dangerous mess. Why isn’t it better regulated? I got the same civics education that most American kids got — a chalkboard outline of how a bill becomes a law.
No mention of, say, how a bill sometimes becomes a law with insufficient regulatory funding, or how a bill becomes a law that makes it difficult for the EPA to take regulatory action. A Peek Into The Astonishing Future Of Wind Power. By Ari Phillips "A Peek Into The Astonishing Future Of Wind Power" “What if you could scoop the air?
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Delivery Jun 2014 A$50 + Reward. ARRCC. Getting warmer: the State of the Climate in five charts. Five charts from State of the Climate 2014 published this week by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, the third report in a biannual series monitoring long term trends in Australia’s climate Click to download State of the Climate 2014 Number of days each year where the Australian area-averaged daily mean temperature is above the 99th percentile for the period 1910–2013 Change in ocean heat content (in joules) from the full ocean depth, from 1960 to present.
Shading provides an indication of the confidence range of the estimate Global mean greenhouse gas concentrations Distribution of monthly maximum temperature in Australia Time series of anomalies in sea-surface temperature and temperature over land in the Australian region The Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO contribute significantly to the international effort of weather and climate monitoring, forecasting and research. Young forests threatened by fires, logging. Forest fire. Photo: AFP THE cumulative effects of bushfires and logging are killing Australia's alpine and mountain ash forests, experts say. Forests more valuable for carbon: former Treasury official - RN Breakfast. A former senior Treasury officer has waded into the heated debate about the future of Australia's native forests. Dr. Frances Perkins worked as an economist in Canberra for 30 years for Treasury, the Department of Foreign Affairs and at the ANU.
Dr. Perkins has launched a stinging critique of the economics of native forest logging ... saying that the forests are more valuable for carbon credits than logged timber. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator Richard Colbeck, disputes the findings, which will be discussed tomorrow at the 3rd Annual Forests and Climate Action Forum at the Australian National University. In “The Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert reports from the frontlines of a dying world.
The New Yorker writer and acclaimed author Elizabeth Kolbert has a penchant for depressing topics. Her 2006 book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, helped push climate change into the mainstream (with bonus points for not mincing words in the title). Now that climate change is safely keeping most of us up at night, Kolbert turned her pen to another big bummer: the sixth extinction. We’re currently losing species at a rate of 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than unassisted nature wiping out the occasional newt.
While humans weren’t responsible for the last five mass extinctions, our fingerprints are all over this one. Yep: We collectively have the force of an asteroid when it comes to erasing species (high five, guys!) Global Forest Watch. Global Forest Watch. News - New online tool tracks tree loss in 'near real time' 21 February 2014Last updated at 07:17 ET By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News Highlighted in red, the new tool can show the scale of tree cover loss between 2000 and 2012. Willful Blindness, Margaret Heffernan. Global warming: Google Earth maps out the warming planet.
Could This Glass Orb Be The Future Of Solar Energy? By Emily Atkin "Could This Glass Orb Be The Future Of Solar Energy? " CREDIT: Rawlemon. Viewcontent. The world's mad obsession with unlimited growth. The Great Barrier Reef. Stretching for more than 2300 kilometres along Queensland’s coast, the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest living thing and largest reef system, including fringing coastal reefs and lagoons, estuaries, beaches, outer reefs, open ocean and 900 islands.
What makes the Reef special? George Draffan ~ Endgame Research. Logging increases but revenue drops. The pope is writing a big green manifesto. US District Court: Citizen Journalists Have Same Rights as News Media. IEA World Energy Outlook Highlights Energy Sector Trends, Predicts 3.6°C Temperature Increase. IEA World Energy Outlook Highlights Energy Sector Trends, Predicts 3.6°C Temperature Increase.
One Guy With A Marker Just Made The Global Warming Debate Completely Obsolete. Toolangi State Forest. Grassroots and environmental groups directory. Great story telling is vital to winning the green debate. Global Forest Change. Global Forest Change. How to rescue the Leadbeater’s Possum from extinction. What A Year: 45 Fossil Fuel Disasters the Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About. Protesters in Hodgman's sights. Wildlife bioscan uncovers unique alpine creatures in Victoria - Bush Telegraph.
Victorian National Parks Association / Nature Conservation / Parks protection / Alpine cattle grazing – it’s a park, not a paddock. Fears the Government is ignoring the plight of the Eastern Quoll. Category:Green political parties. Senate Committees.