Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
For many Malays and Thais, the tourist income generated by bringing people to see animals in their natural habitat doesn’t trickle down as far and as fast as selling bush-meat, skins and organs for traditional medicines, which generates instant cash-in-hand at the expense of the animal population’s future stability.
Our environmental superheroes are at it again. This time doing what they can to help mother nature fight climate change.
National security is big business, and no one has benefited more than Lockheed Martin. Approximately $105 from each US taxpayer goes to Lockheed Martin. From defense contracts to supporting the invasion of Iraq, Lockheed Martin is in deep with US government’s priority of national security.
Recently, Lockheed Martin announced that increasing the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies is just as important to national security as building fighter jets.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson is expected to sign a memo terminating the National Environmental Performance Track program, a voluntary “beyond compliance” partnership designed to enhance environmental policy effectiveness.
The Strategic Forecasting Group has released a new report which details the environmental costs of warfare in the middle east.
Amid increasing calls for a global carbon tax to check carbon emissions, a new bill proposing a nation-wide carbon tax has been introduced in the US Congress.
An oil spill on Wednesday has left more than 40 miles of Australia’s Sunshine Coast in dire straits.
For all President Obama’s rhetoric of science being back in the White House spotlight, it sounds like much of America hasn’t quite gotten that message. A new poll from Gallup suggests that 41% of Americans think that the threat of Global Warming is exaggerated, the highest such number in a decade.
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