Environment

Please secure your own carbon offsets before assisting others

I fly all the time and am usually engrossed in a book or asleep by the time the flight attendants go through their safety rigmarole. I will admit, however, that sometimes I sneak a peek during the oxygen mask portion. I've seen a gazillion times but s ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 29 2009 - 9:14am

Ancient Rainforests Laughed At Climate Change

A research team led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway, University of London, analyzed spectacular discoveries of 300-million-year-old rainforests in Illinois coal mines and came to a conclusion that won't surprise most- Mother Nature is res ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2009 - 5:01pm

How A Small Archipelago Is Leading The Way In Energy Saving

What a difference a bulb makes? On the 6 th of November the 2100 inhabitants of the Isles of Scilly- a small British archipelago just off the mainland – will be asking this and a little more, by switching off for 24 hours all unused electrical apparatus, ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 1 2009 - 5:39pm

Reduviasporonites- Ancient Fungus Shows World Forests Were Once Wiped Out

Reduviasporonites were tiny organisms that covered the planet more than 250 million years ago. According to new research in Geology, they appear to be a species of ancient fungus that thrived in dead wood and the researchers believe that the organisms we ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2009 - 7:53pm

Think Outside The Box By Thinking About The Box

By thinking about packaging size and shape, major environmental gains can be made, says Renee Wever, who will defend his thesis on this topic at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) on Monday 5 October. This is a different focus than recyclin ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2009 - 8:53pm

To Save Forests, Think Blue And Not Just Green

'Blue haze' is a natural occurrence over heavily forested areas around the world but natural does not always mean good. Still, while blue haze may be formed by natural emissions of chemicals, human activities can worsen it to the point of affect ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2009 - 12:08pm

Conservation Conundrum- Discouraging Sportsmen Has Meant Less Money For Conservation

There is a subset of people in the environmental conservation movement who hate their fellow man- they like nature but don't think anyone outside of their companies should enjoy it, they should just pay companies to raise money for advocacy. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2009 - 9:41pm

To casket or not to casket? That is the (green) question

When thinking about burial, most people think of caskets or cremation. But there are two options that, while seeming a bit odd at first, could be considered part of the green revolution: "beetleized" and "promession." From an ecology po ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 9 2009 - 8:52am

Squid as the Ultimate Weeds

Pick your favorite environmental concern, or better yet, tally them up together: pollution, habitat destruction, overfishing, climate change. No matter how bleak the picture, there are some creatures (besides humans) who seem able to conform, adapt, even t ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 14 2009 - 7:15pm

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