I wrote about wetlands in Today Is World Wetlands Day 2011. In that post you can find out more about wetlands, why they’re important and what their role could have been in preventing some of the destruction and sorrow during Hurricane Katrina. Below is the World Wetlands Destruction infographic detailing the current state of our […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to make this graphic after reading some of author Neil Evernden’s The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment. This quote made so much sense to me. One of the reasons we Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Artist Chris Jordan, whose work we’ve shown in 5 Things You Need To Know About Plastic Bottles Or You’ll Die Twice has a well shot new film in production called Midway. Midway is an island in the North Pacific that was the site of a battle widely regarded as the most important naval battle of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lumbini is a popular pilgrimage site for many Buddhists– WWF wants to secure the area’s cultural ecology. The birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, more commonly known as Buddha, is honoring the memory of the great religious leader, ascetic and enlightened being. The Sacred Garden in Lumbini has achieved its goal of planting 108,000 trees in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah, Reverend Billy. He’s not really a Reverend…or is he? Description: “Reverend Billy’s Freak Storm” episode 4 on the tornadoes in Joplin, greenwashing, and ironies of the Weather Channel.” Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
The Geometrid Moth is amongst the species adapting to higher temperatures. Different species might be more in-tune with the environment than originally conceived. Researchers are realizing that both animals and plants are shifting their natural home towards cooler poles three times faster than original believed. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Are you ready for some satellite disruption? Solar storms are. Our Solar System’s Sun is currently an extremely busy star. The Sun goes through cycles of activity ranging from periods of minimal to middling solar activity and eventually entering ‘solar maximums’. Our Sun is currently at a grand solar maximum and has been since 1920. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You raise your consciousness to the point where you must do the right thing. -Wangari Maathai Wangari Maathai died on Sunday after a long struggle with cancer at the age of 71. The Right Livelihood Award winner also became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1977, she organized rural women […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a guest post from Amanu Kaiju on the environmental messages in the work of African American science fiction writer Octavia Butler. Octavia Butler was a prophet. Look around, the evidence is evident and growing everyday. Only the extremely foolish, extremely uniformed, or the extremely corrupt can doubt climate change and the rise of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In episode 5 of Reverend Billy’s Freak Storm, Rev. explains that we cannot make the Earth an enemy because we are the Earth! Maybe we all consciously think we wouldn’t make an enemy of the Earth but many of us do with our actions. It’s a war that’s being sold to us like so many […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
