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Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

Sunday, February 12, 2012

UK Company Turns Electricity Bills into Windmills

This is an adorable short video from ecotricity, the world's first green electricity company, located in the UK, which I suppose explains how it begins - over morning tea.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Signs of Intelligent Life in the Murdoch Universe

Los Angeles Smog.
(Photo: Robert S. Donovan / Flickr)
Saturday 24 December 2011
by: Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout | Op-Ed

No one accuses The Wall Street Journal,
icon of the business world, of devoting
excessive column space to protection of
the environment or public health. On the
contrary, the WSJ has been an enthusiastic
part of the artillery in the conservatives'
war on science and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), which they
consider the epitome of evil, "job-killing
government regulation." So, I was startled
to read this subheading of a major article
in the WSJ on November 8. "Scientists Increasingly Link Vehicle Exhaust With
Brain-Cell Damage, Higher Rates of Autism."
Curiosity got the best of me, so I continued to read...   READ MORE

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Noam Chomsky | Marching Off the Cliff

Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "It's no secret that the US government is lagging on climate issues.... To gain perspective on what's happening in the world, it's sometimes useful to adopt the stance of intelligent extraterrestrial observers viewing the strange doings on Earth. They would be watching in wonder as the richest and most powerful country in world history now leads the lemmings cheerfully off the cliff." Read the Article

Friday, July 29, 2011

Why Does the Govt. Treat Peaceful Enviro Activists More Harshly Than Extremists Who Aim to Kill?


Author Will Potter explores how environmental and animal rights activists concerned with civil disobedience and property destruction are labeled domestic terrorists. READ MORE