Archive for 'General'
CNNBC: “Glenn Beck Attacks Bob Williamson.”
Well as they say; if you don’t piss someone off every now and then – you just aren’t expressing your opinion!
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Posted: March 11th, 2010 under General.
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Time to step up the pace to BAN THE BAG.
On World Environment Day June 5th 2009 the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation with the help of its dedicated staff and all of you, launched the STOPlasticBags – Global action to Ban the Plastic Bag; forever. On September 26th 2009 we held the first ‘Say NO to Plastic Bags Day’. The petition is going strong with over [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: activism, petitions, plastic bags, plastic pollution, StoplasticBags
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Time to Choose: Elephants or Ivory?
In 5 days, 2 African governments will try to pry open the worldwide ban on ivory trading — a decision that could wipe out whole elephant populations and bring these magnificent animals closer to extinction.
Tanzania and Zambia are lobbying the UN for special exemptions from the ban, but this would send a clear signal to [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: activism
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Change in a changing climate
Drawing from the Loess Plateau experience in China, this documentary demonstrates that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, to restore ecosystem functions in areas where they have been lost, to fundamentally improve the lives of people who have been trapped in poverty for generations, and to sequester carbon naturally.
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Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Climate Change, General.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming
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Is there Life in a Sea of Plastic?
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment: Although this short 30 second presentation does not dwell on the toxicity of the plastic plague in our oceans, let us not forget that many of these plastics contain BPA now being recognised as a harmful carcinogenic toxin. We are now being warned about its effect, but who will warn the [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: plastic bags, plastic pollution, plastics, StoplasticBags
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Awakening with Nature
Over the coming weeks and months the Foundations very special guest contributor Lee Hiller, will share her rekindled love of all that makes our fight on Terra so essential that we win for future generations. The fragility of this ecosystem she is privileged to roam and share will inspire many. Thank you Lee!
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Posted: March 9th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: conservation groups, eco-systems, Nature
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Australia drops to its knees and weeps – A future without BEER?
In the book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions I deal in some detail with the future issue of water scarcity, so this article in Techeye.net caught my attention ‘Beer threatened by climate change’. In the book I point out – excerpt Fosters Group openly and transparently in their “Sustainability report for 2007” details global operations water usage [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Climate Change, General.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, water shortages, water wars
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Dire water supply outlook for Western Australia
Australia’s top scientific research organisation says climate change is responsible for a sharp fall in Western Australia’s water resources and that the worst is yet to come.
The CSIRO has released a report showing significant climate change since the mid-1970s has impacted on surface and ground water yields and rainfall over that time has dropped by [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: Climate Change, science, water shortages
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Huge island of rubbish floating off California
Oceanographers have found that a vast floating island of rubbish in the Pacific has doubled over a decade and is now nearly six times the size of Britain.
The giant waste collection, known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” lies between California and Hawaii and has been gradually growing for 60 years.
It contains everything from plastic [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: Pacific Gaia, plastic bags, plastic pollution
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Beached whales killed by ingesting plastic
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Although this incident occurred in December 2009 it came to our attention recently via a contact in the United States. As many will know we are endeavouring via the STOPlasticBags campaign to highlight how our profligate consumption of plastic bags impacts on our world. This is another stark example of [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature.
Tags: activism, natural systems, plastic bags, plastic pollution, plastics, StoplasticBags
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