Let the New Environmentalism Be Unfurled
Region: District of Columbia
Victor Davis Hanson writes in his just-published essay "A New Environmentalism" that it is "time to re-evaluate domestic oil production in environmental -- and moral --terms. The question is no longer simply whether we wan... more
Views: 1572Video: Urban Waste
Region: Kyrgyzstan
The biggest urban waste field in the country located right outside of Bishkek, the capital. more
Views: 1832Video: Radioactive Waste
Region: Kyrgyzstan
A stock of radioactive waste just buried outside the city of Kara-Balta. Dumped in the 50's, the radioactive emissions are way above normal rate. With us are Nurbek and Munarbek Kuldanbaev specialistes in radioactive waste... more
Views: 2041Southeast Asia: Rising Price of Rice
Region: Thailand
by Mong Palatino Rice is the staple food in Southeast Asia and in many parts of the world. Asia 2008 notes how rice is valued in Indochina: “In Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, saying &lsq... more
Views: 3449Blue Green Alliance Teams with Gore to Create Green Jobs and Solve Climate Crisis
Region: United States
- by James Parks The Blue Green Alliance (BGA), a strategic partnership between the United Steelworkers (USW) and the Sierra Club, has joined with the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonpr... more
Views: 1233Four Nations Ready to be ‘Guinea Pigs’ in the Fight Against Climate Change
Region: Norway
Guinea pigs because it hasn’t been tried ever before - an entire country going carbon neutral. Obviously the risk related to such an exercise are much greater than actually perceived since it is a completely new idea... more
Views: 1869Dhaka second dirtiest city in the World & Earth Award 08 to BD Environmentalist
Region: BangladeshDhaka second dirtiest city in the World & Earth Award 08 to BD Environmentalist As I reported before http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangla_ict/message/5403 Dhaka gets the dubious distinction of being the... more
Views: 2943Why the United States Will Not Withdraw From NAFTA
Region: United StatesSenator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton caused a stir with recent promises to rust belt voters that the United States would unilaterally withdraw from NAFTA unless certain environmental and labor concessions are a... more
Views: 2727Climate Change now affects Philippine Archipelago
Region: PhilippinesIt looks like that rainy season have set in this early of the year in big portion of the Philippines wherein continues rains have affected the Eastern Visayas, the Bicol region, Baguio City and the neighboring Beng... more
Views: 2022Carbon Offsetting
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)“Be a hero! Save the world from global warming!” reads a Google ad on a webpage about carbon offsetting. As much as we might all like to think of it that simply, the reality is i... more
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