Save the environment!

[paenggoy]

"What makes heatwaves more dangerous for urbanites"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...rous-urbanites

"Price to save coral reefs is 'one year of GDP growth'"

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-price-c...-year-gdp.html

[paenggoy]

"More Amazon extinctions looming unless action is taken: study"

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-amazon-...ng-action.html

[paenggoy]

"Sir David Attenborough: 'This awful summer? We've only ourselves to blame...'"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...e-7942405.html

[paenggoy]

"Americans Least Green—And Feel Least Guilt, Survey Suggests"

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...nsumers-world/

[paenggoy]

"Mercury Treaty Legitimizes Increased Mercury Pollution"

http://ipen.org/hgfree/inc4/

[paenggoy]

"WWF deposes Juan Carlos"

http://www.smh.com.au/world/wwf-depo...722-22i7k.html

[naturecrawler]

"WWF deposes Juan Carlos"

http://www.smh.com.au/world/wwf-depo...722-22i7k.html

The WWF says it took the action because the monarch's recent elephant hunting safari was incompatible with the group's goal of conserving endangered species.

[naturecrawler]

Considering how Las Vegas casinos dole out drinks, it's nice to think that something positive is being done with all those beer bottles emptied on the Strip. We can rest assured that's the case for at least 500,000 of them, which were collected, crushed, and formed into a composite building material to produce the world's biggest building made from glass bottles. The recently completed Morrow Royal Pavilion is a regal building that fits right with the rest of Sin City.

The building material is called GreenStone, designed by Scott McCombs, the founder of Realm of Design, a company that produces architectural elements (think gazebos, fountains, balustrades, etc.). The Pavilion is modeled after England's Swarkestone Hall Pavilion (where the Rolling Stones did a famous photo shoot for their compilation album Hot Rocks).

This is the first building Realm of Design has made from GreenStone, and it's actually a new manufacturing center for the company. The half million bottles kept 290,000 pounds of glass out of the landfill. They are crushed and mixed with fly ash to produce a building material that can take the place of concrete and eliminate its massive carbon footprint.

Alex Davies
www.treehugger.com

[naturecrawler]

Piecing the Puzzle Together on Dolphin Deaths

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/...olphin-deaths/

[naturecrawler]

The Perils of Plastics: Two New Perspectives on Seabirds and Marine Pollution

http://blog.bird-rescue.org/index.ph...ine-pollution/

[naturecrawler]

Bag It

Is you Life too Plastic?





This is the first three minutes of documentary film BAG IT. This film examines the impact of plastics on the environment, marine animals and human health.

[paenggoy]

"GEOLOGIST: Here Are 5 Truths About Fracking That Are Not Up For Debate"

http://www.businessinsider.com/frack...s-shale-2012-7

[paenggoy]

"Dozens of wild peacocks die in Pakistan desert"

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Do...esert_999.html

"Tiny Beetles Take a Large Bite Out of the Forest"

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78677

[princereyn]

Warning: Graphic content


A Vietnamese soldier has been thrown out of the army after posting photos of the torture and killing of rare monkeys, newspaper reports there said.


After investigating, authorities have identified the soldier as Colonel Nguyen Van Quang, 20, a resident of Ha Lam town in Thang Binh district. He posted images in social networking site Facebook of the monkeys being forced to smoke cigarettes.


Read more...

[paenggoy]

"Extinction threat 'a call to world leaders' at Rio Earth Summit"

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/19/wo...ies/index.html

"Special Report: Brazil backslides on protecting the Amazon"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8720GP20120803

[paenggoy]

"Global air pollution disaster on the cards if emissions aren't dramatically slashed, new study predicts"

http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER...58c4&RCN=34903

[paenggoy]

"Terrifying Study of Planetary Collapse"

http://theautomaticearth.com/Earth/t...-collapse.html

[cretinous00]

"GEOLOGIST: Here Are 5 Truths About Fracking That Are Not Up For Debate"

http://www.businessinsider.com/frack...s-shale-2012-7

Not impressed. The risk is when you do fracking near or right at a settled area. How populated are the surfaces of oil shale deposits, anyway?

[paenggoy]

Not impressed. The risk is when you do fracking near or right at a settled area. How populated are the surfaces of oil shale deposits, anyway?

From what I know, the surface doesn't have to be populated in order for communities to be affected.

[paenggoy]

"Study predicts imminent irreversible planetary collapse"

http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media-release...-collapse.html