With so much at stake, corporate interests, bias media, revolving door politicians, and those who follow them are flooding the airwaves with false truths, and flat out propaganda to mislead and confuse the average person. And with almost unlimited funding via large corporate donors, they have made a relentless push to stop environmental action in [...]
Continue reading...22. September 2009
Although global warming is a worldwide problem, it now might be possible to localize it by showing where exactly excessive emissions are coming from. A project led by researchers from Purdue University uses a Google Earth map to show hourly carbon dioxide emissions across the United States. Using the fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions data [...]
Continue reading...8. September 2009
The President of Maldives – a large group of islands southwest of India – announced a new initiative to raise money by imposing a new tax on tourists. If passed by Parliament, the proposal will cost tourists about $3 per day they spend on the island, netting nearly $6.3 million annually, according to Reuters. The island [...]
Continue reading...2. September 2009
We hear on the news almost weekly now how glaciers are melting at an ever increasing rate, and that if action isn’t taken soon, many of the worlds glaciers will vanish in the next few decades. Sadly this falls on deaf ears for a large portion of society, who brush it off as not that [...]
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17. October 2009
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