I recently received an email from a group calling themselves: Adopt The Sky Organization. They are a group committed to cleaning the air quality up for us and our children and our children’s children.
This email read as follows:
• Eric Husband wrote:
Sick of breathing dirty air?
We just launched a new kind of eco website for Earthjustice, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pollution’
Breath of fresh air
March 16th, 2010
Posted by: sh3lly
AB32 repeal update: Texas oil companies throw money behind overturning clean air
March 5th, 2010
Posted by: victoria
A few weeks ago I posted about the attempts large polluters and several politicians are taking to repeal California’s landmark AB32 anti-air pollution act by disguising their repeal as a “California Jobs Act”.
This is a pretty big deal. If AB32 is repealed (or suspended until the CA jobless rate hits a rate it only has [...]
Link Sunday
February 28th, 2010
Posted by: victoria
Here’s a roundup of our favorite stories from the past week:
1) CA cities required to use a carbon calculator for state funds? Plus check your own footprint.
2) The latest on the hormone disrupter found in everything from canned food to ATM receipts– BPA– and the hope (legislation) on the horizon…
3) Po River [...]
Categories: link share
Tags: blobfish, bpa, Carbon, Climate Change, DIY, green lifestyle, Green Wedding, Link Sunday, oil spill, pollution, shipping
AB32: We can have jobs and clean air
February 17th, 2010
Posted by: victoria
In 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwartznegger made headlines by signing into law a landmark bill that established the world’s first comprehensive program of regulatory and market mechanisms to achieve real, quantifiable, cost-effective reductions of greenhouse gases.
This bill is known as AB32, or the Global Warming Solutions Act. And in this year’s election season, certain forces [...]
Categories: Climate Change Uncategorized Tags: AB32, air pollution, air quality, california, climate, environmental quality, Jerry Brown, Kyoto, Meg Whitman, pollution
Beluga whales towards extinction?
February 9th, 2010
Posted by: oceans4life
A great article posted yesterday discusses the “re-ignited” issue of ocean pollutants causing cancer in marine mammals.
This issue first emerged in the 1980s when scientists proposed that the beluga whale population along the St Lawrence river was declining due to ocean pollutant-caused cancer.
A University of Montreal study notes that: “Between 1983 and 1999, University of [...]
Categories: whales Tags: beluga, cousteau, environment, marine mammals, ocean, pollution, species, st lawrence, toxins, whales
Target and Safeway move to provide sustainable seafood
February 6th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
Driven by consumer demand, more corporations are adopting sustainable business practices, Retailers carrying food products are particularly engaged in this process.
Recently, Target and Safeway announced that they would discontinue carrying farm-raised seafood and switch to wild caught. Environmentalists have been pushing for this, criticizing that net-pens salmon farms, which release pollution, chemicals and parasites into the [...]
Categories: Making a Difference Sustainability Tags: conservation, ecosystems, environment, environmentalists, oceans, pollution, salmon, Sustainability, sustainable
Chemicals; the Good, the Bad, and the Harmful
January 24th, 2010
Posted by: growgreenkids
In the early 1900’s scientists from different backgrounds, labs and companies were experimenting on their various products. One would pick up on the compounds of another and add or take away a chemical or two and by the 1950’s the fantastic product that we know today as plastics had evolved and was on earth to [...]
Categories: Green Living Nature Pollution control eco system environment Tags: bisphenol A, Center for Wildlife Information, chemicals, environment, good chemical compounds, greener alternatives, News National Geographic, ocean pollution, plastics, pollution, polystyrene, styrene trimer
Spongy Glass – an environmental and technological breakthrough
January 17th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
Cleaning up pollutants and spills in waterways is no easy feat. A new discovery by Dr. Paul Edmiston called “Osorb” may well be the breakthrough that makes the difference.
Called spongy glass, as this new material swells up to eight times its dry weight, it soaks up liquids, binding with gasoline, chlorinated solvents and pollutants. Since it won’t bind to [...]
Environmentalists outraged at prospect of mining in Bristol Bay, Alaska
December 29th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
The proposed Pebble Open Pit Mine - which would be the largest North American copper and gold mine – has outraged environmentalists who see Bristol Bay, Alaska as a “vital ecosystem” for salmon and other species.
The threat puts the headwaters of the two most famous salmon producing river drainages in Alaska –the Mulchatna/ Nushagak River drainage and the [...]
Categories: Nature Tags: china, Ecosystem, environment, environmentalists, EPA, pollution, salmon, toxic
MTA Ungreening the Environment
November 19th, 2009
Posted by: Michael
I remember awhile back MTA was having this going-green campaign, urging people to take public transportation instead of driving their own car, refilling their metrocard instead of getting a new one every time the old one ran out, etc. However, as I was sitting down to wait for the bus at the waiting area the [...]