Image credit: Recharge News Germany is already a global leader in solar power, but that’s just a start as far as Germans are concerned. It’s already been shown that Germany could produce 100% of its electricity from renewables by 2050. Now the country’s environment agency is arguing that it should. Could it be that some [...]
Image credit: Courtesy of David Shale In the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, researchers recently discovered, dozens of rare species proliferate. Among the craggy under-sea peaks and large, dark valleys, strange creatures thrive in spite of the darkness and lack of food. Among them, are several rarely seen elsewhere — more than 10 potential new [...]
Image credit: Mark Moffett If we never grew up and stopped playing in the dirt, says Mark “Dr. Bugs” Moffett, we’d never lose our fascination with ants. Alas, most of us have lost touch with the insect friends of our childhood. Mark Moffett is one of the world’s leading explorers and a biologist with an [...]
Image from Foyle’s This such a delightful idea. The Conservation Foundation has launched its Green Corners Awards which celebrate the unusual, unexpected, witty and beautiful corners of London. The corners have to be green, and do their bit for the birds and insects as well as the passers-by who enjoy them. Anyone can enter and [...]
New turbines on Maine’s Kibby Mountain. Image credit:Wikipedia. Kennebec Maine Journal covered a recent anti-wind power protest, which involved several arrests and someone chaining herself by the neck “to a truck carrying a turbine blade.”. A sort of a Green Tea Party, it sounds like. Go EF! Between this and Joe Barton apologizing to BP [...]
Image: WWF 3% of Russian to be National Parks by 2020 Some good news out of Russia, a country that hasn’t always been very good at protecting its ecosystems. The Russian government is establishing 9 new nature reserves and 13 national parks covering a total area of over 3.8 million hectare by 2020. It’s also [...]
Image: Greencolander, Flickr In April 2009, it became illegal to sell or apply pesticides for cosmetic lawncare in Ontario, Canada. It seems like a no-brainer risk versus benefits analysis: the benefit is …hmmm, just cosmetic…while the risks are real, documented, and pervasive. But somehow the allure of a green, weed-free lawn keeps conquering rationality. A [...]
Image via the AP The BP Gulf spill has no doubt brought plenty of scrutiny and debate to the practice of offshore drilling. But it still manages to be shocking when a figure like this emerges: according to an AP report, there are a staggering 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells throughout the Gulf of [...]
Image via the Telegraph Of course, nothing will convince the most determined climate deniers that ‘ClimateGate’ was an overblown non-scandal, and that the research done by the scientists at East Anglia University is sound. Not even news that the third major independent investigation into the so-called ClimateGate scientists’ work, which was just completed, and has [...]
Image via Coroflot We love smart packaging design, especially when the packaging turns into something useful once the product is opened. With a new concept for iPod packaging, designer Sverre Wiik Øberg came up with a box that no consumer in their right mind would throw out, mainly because they’d be throwing out the very [...]
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