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Many people are prepared to pay a premium price for organic products for the extra reassurance that what they are buying is a more healthy, "humane" and environmentally friendly product. However, orga...
Here in Australia we had a government program in place that provided heavily subsidized insulation and installation to households throughout the country. The concept was great, with hundreds of thousa...
Have a fisherperson in your family?As an ex-pro fisherman turned somewhat treehugger, covering the subject of fishing with hooks is a sensitive one. I acknowledge in my article on greener fishing the ...
Back in May last year the state where I live, South Australia, implemented a ban on lightweight disposable plastic shopping bags. In my opinion the initiative has worked very, very well.Back in 2007, ...
I was thinking back to when I was growing up in the 70's and getting all nostalgic about our "garbos", an Aussie term applied to those stoic guys (and sometimes gals) who would hang off the back of ga...
Production from Alberta, Canada's "oil sands" is continuing to
expand and with it comes an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and other negative impacts on the boreal forest environment.
"Oi...
"Rip rip woodchip - turn it into paperThrow it in the bin, no news todayNightmare, dreaming - can't you hear the screaming?Chainsaw, eyesore - more decay"The above are lyrics from Australian sin...
I indulged in one of my guilty pleasures recently - a burger from a fast food chain. I have no valid excuse and I know a hamburger's environmental footprint is pretty hefty, but darn it, the cravings ...
To most of us, the following might not seem important, but it's a Very Big Deal indeed.Glyphosate is an important agricultural chemical - it's a broad spectrum herbicide. As far as synthetic herbicide...
HTML clipboardFrom the time a hamster is born until it reaches sexual maturity, it doubles its weight each week; then growth levels off.
That makes very good sense given that it exists on a finite p...
We shouldn't have a knee-jerk reaction to this - India is an amazing nation bursting with many good, hardworking people whose livelihoods depend on its
organic cotton industry - but something...
Most of us look to others for leadership and politicians, love them or hate them, are often among that group. It's all well and good for our elected leaders to tsk, tsk about issues affecting the envi...
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The fears regarding increasing amounts of food crops being turned into
fuel, or farmlands once used for the production of food switching their focus to fuel stock prod...
I used to be quite dubious of people who depend on the stock market, particularly stocks in oil companies, for income; but I really shouldn't "tar" them all with the same brush these days.Socially res...
Like many people, I've been watching with increasing horror the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake disaster. It reminds me so much of the tsunami a few years back that ended hundreds of thousands of li...
"According to an Environmental Protection Agency report released Monday, nationwide recycling efforts eliminated more than 50 million tons of guilt in 1996."
That type of statement could only...
Note from Michael. The following article was contributed by Cassidy
Turner, a high school senior. Thanks Cassidy! Cassidy can be contacted via
turnercassidy@gmail.com
Living environmentally a...
If we're ever going to break our addiction to the car, public transport certainly needs a shakeup in many areas - in fact we really need to rethink the whole concept of the daily commute.The San Franc...
A US biologist noticed that in the chaparral canyons outside San Diego, a greater diversity of birds survived where coyotes were present. Why? It was discovered that more coyotes meant fewer cats, whi...
I remember hearing whispers a while back about a massive increase in the suicide rate among farmers in India - thanks in part to the irresponsible promotion of GM (genetically modified) crops; particu...
HTML clipboardUsually if you mention soy beans to people, hippies and vegetarians tend to spring to mind.
It turns out that only around 10% is consumed directly as foods such as tofu and
mock...
According to an upcoming UK Government food strategy document covering the next 20 years, the acceptance of GM crops
is needed in order to create a "sustainable and secure food system for 2030".
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The United Nations has declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity.What is biodiversity?Biodiversity refers to the variety of life and ecosystems on Earth; the result of billions of yea...
A couple of days ago, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a series of actions on four common chemicals raising serious potential health or environmental concerns, including phthalat...
GLT reader Melinda W. wrote to me this morning about a product from Colgate - the Wisp - a single use, disposable toothbrush. It seems that it's been around for quite a while and has been heavily prom...
Wherever people settle, decimation of local plants and animals often follows; but from time to time some native species thrive thanks to human activity - and it's not always a good thing.A great examp...
While the focus of Copenhagen conference was on climate change; there was something else of interest afoot; well, underfoot.The carpet at the Bella Center where most of the major events took place was...
"We have woken giants" says Dorthe Dahl-Jensen of the Centre for Ice and Climate at the University of Copenhagen. Out of all the things I have read coming out from the climate conference in Copenhagen...
I've been cutting back further on pork lately, not only because of the environmental impact and other issues connected to factory farm meat, but after coming face to face with a pig recently and disco...
I've been contacted a few times in recent weeks to comment on the private emails of scientists engaged in climate change research that were published after a hacking foray; the contents of which are c...
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