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November 26, 2007 The recent World Conservation Union (IUCN) report that 75 per cent of the world's bear species are facing extinction got us thinking: What does a bear need to get by these days?
Posted by Jenny Silver at November 26, 2007 November 21, 2007 You want to do the right thing, buy responsibly, vote with your wallet. A lot of companies know that. Some are trying just as hard as you are to be environmentally responsible. Others are not. But how do you know which is which? How can you tell a genuinely eco-friendly product from one that's just pretending to be? The people at TerraChoice have done the research and sorted out the good guys from the cynical exploiters.
Posted by Justin Smallbridge at November 21, 2007 November 20, 2007 What were once habits are now vices. That's a twist on the title of an old Doobie Brothers record, "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits." "Black Water," the band's first number one single, came off that album. (That's the pre-Michael-McDonald Doobies, the guitar-hero outfit, not the super-slick, blue-eyed soul "Steely Dan Lite" it became with McDonald at the helm.)
Posted by Justin Smallbridge at November 20, 2007 November 21, 2007 By urging British Columbia’s Agriculture and Lands Minister Pat Bell to protect the mountain caribou, you helped safeguard Last month, Minister Bell announced his plan to restore the mountain caribou population to pre-1995 levels of 2,500 animals throughout their existing range in B.C. The provincial government has also promised to provide $1 million per year for three years to support the management, implementation and monitoring of the plan to determine if, and how, the strategy might need to be modified to meet its goals. Although this plan is a major accomplishment, it is essentially an emergency measure to rescue a critically endangered population. Over the last decade, a quarter of the planet’s remaining mountain caribou have been lost due to degradation of their old-growth habitat. The plan still does not deal with the larger issue of timely habitat protection for BC’s threatened plants and animals. This announcement emphasizes the urgent need for a single enforceable endangered species law in BC - a project the David Suzuki Foundation is currently working on. Let’s keep the momentum going! Contact the Minister, congratulate him on the plan and call for comprehensive endangered species legislation now. Click to take action Posted on behalf of Michael Millman
Posted by Jenny Silver at November 21, 2007 November 19, 2007 It's New York Times science and environment reporter Andrew C. Revkin's blog. Its subtitle is "Nine billion people. One planet." And that's a very concentrated way of explaining everything the blog covers. That "nine people people" is what the earth's population is forecast to be in 2050. "One planet" is obvious. Revkin's focus is what the six billion people are doing that to that one planet now, and what that will mean for the plant and the anticipated three billion more people in the future. It's thorough and wide-ranging and updating so frequently that it should probably be among everyone's bookmarks.
Posted by Justin Smallbridge at November 19, 2007 November 19, 2007 The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change convened in Valencia, Spain, over the weekend. It's likely you saw some coverage of it this weekend -- it made a number of front pages. In case you missed it, here's the New York Times's coverage. Among the more sobering findings: climate change and its effects are faster and deeper and more widespread than thought, and that accelerating instability makes it all a lot tougher to predict what'll happen next. Among the fallout: a direct request that China and the United States do a lot more about climate change than they are currently.
Posted by Justin Smallbridge at November 19, 2007 November 15, 2007 The New Yorker. Yes, The New Yorker. That used to be the line in a television ad for the magazine, back when it was edited by Tina Brown. The line gets repeated in the movie "Adaptation" by Chris Cooper's character. The New Yorker's been doing some solid environmental reporting recently. there's been kind of a run of environmental stories, in fact. The first one, a couple of weeks ago, and still on their website, is Raffi Khatchadourian's profile of the Sea Shepherd Conservancy's Paul Watson and his efforts to stop whaling. Watson's tactics divide people. Some think he goes too far and that ramming whaling vessels and other methods do his cause more harm than good by alienating potential supporters. But as controversial as Watson's methods are, his commitment is plain. The web version of the story includes video, as well as an audio interview with Khatchadourian about what it was like to report the story.
Posted by Justin Smallbridge at November 15, 2007 November 01, 2007 David Pogue writes about technology for The New York Times. He also reports on the subject for CBS News. With technology's increasing importance for solutions to environmental problems, Mr. Pogue writes about the environment more and more. Today, all that combines in a blog post about an upcoming story he'll be doing for CBS this weekend (it's scheduled, and if it doesn't get bumped, it'll run) about students finding new ways to make houses as energy-efficient as possible.
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