Industrial giant General Electric (GE) last week introduced a new credit card that encourages consumers to offset the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their spending through the purchase of carbon offsets with reward points called the GE Money Earth Rewards Platinum MasterCard.
Environmentalists declared a pyrrhic victory last week when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it would revisit eight cases of Endangered Species Act listing decisions in light of evidence that disgraced former Interior Department official Julie MacDonald exerted "inappropriate influence" over the science behind them.
It’s not easy being green, moans Kermit the Frog. Poor li"l fella. Your heart aches for him, singing in his plaintive old voice. Turns out, it’s not easy being a "green" journalist, either. That is, if you report on something as controversial as the Cape Wind offshore project slated for Nantucket Sound.
Muggles around the world have already rejoiced at the final release of J.K. Rowling’s insanely popular series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which hit the shelves July 21. But this book will leave another legacy besides its literary one—16 countries across the globe, including the U.S., will be printing it on recycled paper.
The Sierra Club joined ranks last week with 12 of the nation’s largest counties—representing 17 million Americans across 10 states—in announcing the creation of the Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration. The participating counties pledged to reduce their global warming emissions 80 percent by 2050.
Two non-profit conservation groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, filed a formal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week to grant protected status under the Endangered Species Act to the dwindling numbers of loggerhead sea turtles
A grassroots coalition of environmental, religious, and activist groups launched a campaign last week targeting the Fox News Network for spreading misinformation about global warming.
Live Earth likely inspired many concertgoers and viewers at home to making individual lifestyle changes to slow global warming. But the operations of the New Jersey concert I attended were unbelievably wasteful and retroactive to the day’s overall message, and the focus on saving the human race as opposed to saving important ecosystems and animal species missed the mark completely.
A recent study in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems shows that organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming in both developed and developing countries.
Forget about listening into the conch shell to hear the sounds of the ocean, right now one of the best ways to learn about current news in the marine world is by tuning into Blue Frontier Campaign’s Blue Notes.
