Disney promotes clean oceans
Ariel, Disney’s mermaid wonder, is reaching to out kids to promote cleaner oceans. Environmental Defense, The National Marine Sanctuary, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and PSA extraordinaire, The Ad Council, have teamed up with Disney to raise awareness about the health of our oceans. The ads are cute and feel like watching a …
Sustainable sushi
The British love sushi, and this is creating such a demand for bluefin tuna that many EU fishing fleets are breaking laws and catching far more tuna than they are allowed to. With demand causing the cost of tuna to reach over £1000 per fish, and traditional fisherman who have been fishing sustainably for tuna …
More plants make more rain
This is fascinating. A statistical study of satellite images has shown that the more plants you have, the more rain you have. Another good reason to preserve green spaces in dry regions. I won’t pretend to understand the science, so if you want to know more, read it here. Via: Nature.com
Fight global warming by increasing soil’s organic content
An Albuquerque, New-Mexico based, non-profit company called Holistic Management International (HMI) is recommending that farmers and ranchers increase the organic content of their lands to help fight global warming. And how do they do this? They employ animal grazing techniques developed 25 years ago by HMI. The results speak for themselves. Here are photographs of …
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Rediscovering the camping spirit with Huttopia
These guys are the very latest green directory listing at Eco Street, and an environmentally-minded camping enthusiasts dream. Huttopia (a eco-friendly cross between huts and utopia) is a French eco-tourism company with two beautiful campsites, one in Rille and one in Versailles. Huttopia have gone to great lengths not to disturb nature when setting up …
Calling all tree-athletes!
The TREE-ATHLON 2006 is a three-part event raising funds for tree planting in the bleaker parts of the UK’s cities and elsewhere in the world where trees are needed. To take part you need to run 5kms, tell the world what your urban tree wish is, and plant your own tree from seed. Registration is …
Questioning the UK’s environmental future
Leading scientists have come together to draw up a list of 100 leading questions facing the UK’s environmental future. The Guardian whittles these down to just eleven to cover the key issues for us. How long does the seabed take to recover from dredging, wind farm construction and oil and gas extraction? How does the …
Are we losing our green spaces?
This is something that has worried me for some time, it does seem that our remaining wildernesses are shrinking. Now a report from the Green Party is confirming my worst fears. Here is what Caroline Lucas’ office is saying: COUNCILS in the South-East are authorizing development on green belt sites in a bid to meet …