Archive for September, 2009

• Açaí: Examining the Environmental Impact and Worker’s Conditions

  Photo credit: iateapie It’s amazing to see just how much power some celebrities hold over the masses. They can create the latest trends and sway public opinion with just a few sentences. In the case of Oprah and her sidekick …

• How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian

  Photo credit: woodleywonderworks While certainly a topic of perennial and vehement debate, most nutritionists and studies agree that the human consumption of animal meat is part of a balanced diet. The proteins found in animal meat and fat contain all …

• Nicholas Stern endorses 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target”

  This week Nicholas Stern, the British top climate economist and academic who is probably most known for the Stern Review, endorsed 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target.” 350 ppm, as in parts per million, the level scientists have …

• UK Foreign Secretary warns that the UN climate talks could fail

  Foreign Secretary in the UK, David Miliband, doesn’t seem to have much hope on the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (Cop15) this December in Copenhagen, Denmark. Miliband even warns that the climate talks are in “real danger” of failing, the …

• Back to School: Healthy, Stylish and Green

  Photo credit: busymommy Breakfast: good for you and the planet! Many teens either skip breakfast or grab something starchy and sugary on the way to school. However, from a nutritional point of view, breakfast is the most important part of …

• Environmental and human rights groups condemn attacks on Van Jones, green jobs leader

  In the aftermath of Van Jones’ abrupt Labor Day weekend resignation as the Obama administration’s special advisor for environmental jobs, human rights and environmental organizations are expressing outrage at the barrage of attacks against the green jobs leader by Fox …

• Atomkraft? Nein danke! 50.000 people protest against nuclear energy in Germany

  This past weekend around 50 000 people from around Germany protested in Berlin against nuclear energy. The demonstrators protested against threats from the current right wing government to extend a deadline for the country’s 17 nuclear reactors. “In Berlin an …

• Cuba shows that planet Earth can be saved with the help from environmentally sustainable socialism

  Photo credit: Deivis During a recent visit to Cuba, we stopped by an agricultural cooperative on the outskirts of Havana. Its farmers and cooperatives across the country are part of what’s widely acknowledged as the world’s largest organic farming experiment. …

• Going Green: How Tomorrow’s Cars Will Be Kinder to the Environment

  Photo credit: lammersch The car industry is currently undergoing a green revolution, with a number of exciting new technologies vying to challenge the predominance of petrol and diesel and put an end to the internal combustion engine’s negative effects on …

• Climate Racist White Australia threatens Developing World with Climate Genocide

  “Pro-coal, pro-pollution Australia is essentially committed to business-as–usual (BAU) in the face of the climate emergency and to maintaining its world-leading per capita GHG pollution position.” Australia has had a notorious history of imposing invasion, occupation, holocaust and genocide on …