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President Bush to protect ocean reefs, fish and volcanoes
telegraph.co.uk — George W. Bush is planning to create the world's largest oceanic protected area in the Pacific as part of a bid to improve his record on the environment before leaving office.More… (Environment)
Dead People Will Provide Heat to Crematorium Facilities
cleantechnica.com — If you’re dead and worried about the carbon emissions created from your cremation, relax. The Swedish town of Halmstad has a solution. After an environmental review showed that Halmstad’s crematorium was pumping too much smoke into the air, the facility’s director decided to re-use heat from the cremations to warm up the crematorium’s buildings.More… (Environment)
True or False? The EPA Wants to Tax Cows
thedailygreen.com — In an early move to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from farms, was the EPA angling to tax livestock?More… (Environment)
Biofuel Development Shifting From Soil To Sea.
sciencedaily.com — Bell-bottoms… Designer jeans… Disco… Big hair… Gas shortages. Some icons of the 1970s are emblazoned in the memories of those old enough to remember. A few styles, to the dismay of many, have come back in vogue—oil-related crises among them. More… (Environment)
Inventor: Geo-Engineer a Worldwide Refrigerator Using Oceans
cleantechnica.com — Bailing out the entire human race might turn out to be cheaper than bailing out Wall Street: Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, suggests inventor Ron Acer in a patent petition for “a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier.”More… (Environment)
Architectural Wind: A Cleaner Way to Keep the City Running
nytimes.com — A new building with affordable rents in the Bronx will be powered partly by 10 wind turbines, which should cut its utility bills for common areas in half.More… (Environment)
Remember all that "NONTOXIC" coal ash sludge?
cnn.com — When it comes to big money industry disaster spills, the media takes a "safe until proven toxic" attitude contrary to common sense. The coal ash sludge which has devastated the Tennessee River now shows to have elevated levels of arsenic. EPA says water safe, but arsenic at levels "considered harmful to humans"... so the H2O is safe but harmfulMore… (Environment)
Lead for car batteries poisons an African town
msnbc.msn.com — First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared. Then it took the children.More… (Environment)
Arnold Schwarzenegger - CA Leads Climate Change Fight watch!
Vatican Blames Mens Infertility On Female Urine
theage.com.au — The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, according to a report in a Vatican newspaper. The pill has had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of the female hormone oestrogen into nature through female urine.More… (Environment)
The Carbon Footprint of Nuclear War
guardian.co.uk — A recent US study that compares the environmental costs of developing various power sources found that almost 700m tonnes of CO2 would be released into the Earth's atmosphere by even the smallest nuclear conflict.More… (Environment)
Coffee Beans As The Next Great Auto Fuel?
consumerenergyreport.com — Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno, researching the prospect of extracting oil from used coffee grounds report that the process is not that difficult.More… (Environment)
Coral growth in decline at Great Barrier Reef
msnbc.msn.com — The rate at which corals absorb calcium from seawater to calcify their hard skeletons — and thus grow — has declined dramatically in the last two decades and signs point to manmade greenhouse gas emissions as the culprit, according to a study of samples from Australia's Great Barrier Reef.More… (Environment)
California delta islands may be lost
sfgate.com — Fewer structures have been more critical to California's development than the 1,100 miles of earthen levees that help funnel water through the 1,300-square-mile confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. But the levees are in trouble, experts say. Rising seas, earthquakes, subsiding land and floods pose dire threats.More… (Environment)
Green Inc.: Offsets in the Air in San Francisco
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com — This spring, travelers entering San Francisco International Airport will see a new type of kiosk at check-in -- one offering carbon offsets for those who wish to counter the greenhouse-gas emissions from their trip.More… (Environment)
