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FUNDING APPEAL: Please Help Ecological Internet Raise the Roof on Ecological Sustainability
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on November 4th, 2010
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People of Papua New Guinea Push Forward to Combat Climate Change
Posted by Newsblaze: None Given on November 4th, 2010
Newsblaze: Thank you very much and I am delighted to be here and to have this opportunity to see for myself the efforts that the government and people of Papua New Guinea are making to combat climate change and to protect this beautiful environment. I want to thank the Honorable Benny Allan, Minister of Environment and Conservation; Dr. Wari Iamo, Secretary for Environment and Conservation; Dr. Augustine Mungkaje, Acting Director of this research center and the Mangrove project; and I particularly want to thank...
Soft Jeans ->Water Waste?
Posted by NYT: LESLIE KAUFMAN on November 4th, 2010
NYT: All of the products we use have environmental costs that we take for granted.
Levi`s The new jeans logo.
Consider the manufacture of a pair of blue jeans. The average pair uses 11 gallons of water in the finishing process, where it undergoes 3 to 10 cycles in the washing machine to get that perfect texture. When you consider that about 450 million pairs of jeans are purchased each year in the United States alone, the implications for fresh water use are astounding.
Levi’s brand is announcing...
Alien plants invade River Lagan
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2010
BBC: River Lagan under attack from invading alien plants
Floating Pennywort can grow up to 20cm a day Continue reading the main story
The River Lagan, one of Northern Ireland's major waterways, has been attacked by a highly invasive aquatic plant. Floating pennywort has been discovered along its banks.
So far over five tonnes of the weed has been removed.
The plant is native to North America.
It was first brought into Ireland as a plant for tropical aquariums and ponds, but it has since...
How science is tackling Pakistan’s water shortages
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2010
SciDev.Net: Efforts are underway to preserve Pakistan's water supply as climate change, population growth and a stressed irrigation system take their toll.
Water availability per person has already fallen by more than 500 per cent since the 1960s and is likely to decrease even further to just 550 cubic metres by 2025 -- compared with the 9,800 cubic metres currently available in the United States, for example.
Around two thirds of the water for public supply is contaminated. Waterborne diseases lead to...
EPA denies petition to ban lead in fishing tackle
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2010
Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a petition by several environmental groups to ban lead in fishing tackle. The decision comes two months after rejecting the groups' attempt to ban lead in hunting ammunition.
The EPA said Thursday that the petition did not demonstrate that a ban on lead in fishing tackle was necessary to protect against injury to health or the environment, as required by the Toxic Substances Control Act.
In August, the EPA rejected the other part of the petition...
Canada: Gouged Earth: Big part of oil sands carbon footprint
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2010
Tyee: The carbon footprint of oil sands mining projects caused by land disturbance is greater than that of highly destructive bio-fuel projects in Indonesia, says a new study by U.S. and Canadian researchers.
While the clearing of tropical rainforest in Indonesia to grow palm oil for diesel production puts 3,452 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere per disturbed hectare, the destruction of boreal peatlands by oil sands mining industry creates nearly 3,600 tonnes of CO2 emissions per...
Corn vs. marshes: German wetlands are increasingly yielding to agriculture
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2010
Spiegel: Even as Berlin demands that developing countries preserve their rainforests, the country is doing little for biodiversity back home. Bogs and marshland in Germany are increasingly yielding to corn farming -- resulting in the release of huge quantities of CO2.
It's hard to tell just by looking at Rhinluch, a region northwest of Berlin, that an ecological drama is playing out here. Lush green vegetation stretches out toward the horizon and cranes glide across the sky. The countryside around the...
Log-jammed river disaster unfolding in Sarawak, Malaysia
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2010
Rainforest News: A major environmental disaster is unfolding in the state of Sarawak as kilometre after kilometre of logs and wood debris flow down the Rajang River. It was believed that heavy rain in the upper reaches of Balleh River – a tributary of the Rajang – had caused landslides at log ponds of a major timber camp and brought down the logs and wood debris.
Kapit businessman Tay Hock Joo, who telephoned The Star in Sibu yesterday evening, said nobody in Kapit had ever seen such an occurrence before. He said...
Focus Changes for Louisiana in Oil Cleanup
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2010
New York Times: Louisiana is scaling back and altering a project to construct sand berms along its coast to block and capture oil from the BP spill, the state’s governor, Bobby Jindal, said this week. The state will take $100 million from BP originally dedicated to building the oil-blocking structures and spend the money on coastal restoration instead, Mr. Jindal said. At the height of the spill in June, BP committed $360 million to build the berms, of which $140 million remains. Under a new agreement with the...