Round Up Linked to Birth Defects →
Species Specific? HA! I think not.
Lawmakers Urge Obama To Pursue Energy Security Through Natural Gas →
No No No No No No no no no Niet no no… No. Do not be fooled by the allure of natural gas. While natural gas may burn “cleaner” than that of coal and oil, the process of getting it is a HUGE problem.
I dont know how many of you have heard of the whole situation with hydrofracking, but it’s pretty bad stuff. Billions of gallons of fresh drinking water are pumped into the earth in order to break the shale and release the gasses. This perfectly good drinking water is mixed with hundreds of chemicals, however, because Bush signed a law that excludes Gas and oil companies from environmental acts such as the Safe Water Drinking act and such, the exact list of chemicals used cannot be released. However, a few chemicals are already known (check the link in the text above highlighted “hydrofracking”).
I highly recommend the movie Gas Land for more info and some not-so-cool-but-kinda-cool footage of water that catches on fire when you turn on your faucet and light it with a match! You’d be surprised how many drinking wells and such are being polluted and no one is doing much about it!
Coca-Cola Plant Billboard Absorbs Air Pollution (PHOTO) →
Together with the World Wildlife Federation, on June 23 Coca-Cola unveiled a billboard in the Philippines that’s actually good for the city it inhabits.
The 60 x 60 foot living billboard in Manila is made of thousands of Fukien tea plants surrounding the iconic curvy shape of a silver Coke bottle. The project with the CO2-eating plants was created in conjunction with Coca-Cola Philippines’ Live Positively sustainability program.
Pots made from recycled bottles contain the 3,600 trees, which live off a mixture of organic fertilizers. Though they are currently in the first stages of growth, the plants are expected to grow quickly, completely taking over the billboard surface, absorbing a total of 46,800 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Steak made from human poop passes taste test
Would you eat a steak made from human sewage? Believe it or not, it’s already been taste-tested and approved.
So, if youre reading the first paragraph of this article, your’e probably thinking the same thing I am… “Wtf, yuck”. BUT! If you think about it, it’s kind of awesome. Human waste is a huge problem. So much of it, and not everyone wants to handle it. And for good reason! Poop is connected to many different environmental and health problems; Such as Nitrogen Eutrophication of lakes and transmission of diseases. However, maybe converting it to food isnt a bad idea. It’s perfectly vegetarian and guilt free, it might a solution to the world hunger crisis. So why not?
Daily chart: endangered species. Over 19,000 species of animal and plant are in danger of extinction, up from just over 11,000 in 2000, according to the latest “Red List of Threatened Species” from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Conserve!
We’re definitely getting hotter.
From my recent post at The Intersection entitled, “New science from the NCDC makes it more difficult to communicate climate change”:
Dan Satterfield is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, which means he has a background in atmospheric physics. This makes him a rare breed among meteorologists, a real scientist. Dan writes on his blog at the AGU Blogosphere, that the country is definitely getting hotter.
wwf:
A remarkable 1,060 new species have been discovered the island of New Guinea from 1998 to 2008, but poorly planned and unsustainable development - particularly from logging and forest conversion to agriculture - is putting many of these unique creatures at risk, a new WWF study finds.
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