Archive for August, 2008

• The League of Conservation Voters Hails Joe Biden

  The Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate and Vice President. But how green is really Joe Biden? Well, it seems he is green enough for the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) to applaud …

• When Being Lazy is Good for the Planet

  I used to be one of those people who would weed and weed and weed. I liked there to be so much space between plants that you could easily see how hard I had worked on that weeding! I liked …

• Browse a little “greener” with the Flock eco-edition web browser

  The Flock browser is based and built on from Mozilla, the same engine that powers the popular browser Firefox. But even so the two web browsers are very much different. Flock’s slogan is “the social web browser.” And that is …

• Climate expert says sea levels could rise 4 meters this century

  Professor Will Steffen, head of the climate change unit at the Australian National University and science adviser to the Federal Government in Australia, says that sea levels around the world could rise by 4 meters this century. He also claims …

• Climate Change Demonstration in Denmark

  The polar bear to the left holds a sign where it says “Homeless”. Photo by: Mimo. Last week the climate organisation Klimax (climax) held a large demonstration in central Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The demonstration was the first of …

• The dead zones in our oceans are spreading, according to new research

  Research by the University of Gothenburg shows that more than 400 marine zones around the world has such “a great lack of oxygen in soft seabeds that fauna and fish have been harmed.” The research made by the Swedish University …

• Green Forum: Interesting topics for week 34

  I hope you haven’t missed our environment forum where you can interact with other like-minded people and discuss everything imaginable. We also plant trees for every hundred members that sign up for a free forum account. So really, there is …

• Get Ready for Blog Action Day

  On October 15th the second Blog Action Day will occur. Last year bloggers united for the environment. This year’s topic will be poverty. The new campaign was launched last Friday but already now over 2000 blogs with an audience of …

• Knowing Your Bioregion: A First Step to Stewardship

  Ask me where I am from, and more than likely, I will say Lake Erie. Or the Great Lakes. I love Pennsylvania, for sure, but I feel I have more in common with someone from Toronto or Chicago than someone from …

• Science Programme Launched by Bush Himself Says Humans Cause Climate Change

  The US Climate Change Science Program was created by the climate change denying Bush administration back in late 2002 “to review the validity of climate-change science before making policy decisions.” The science program was criticized by environmentalists for being used …