Articles tagged “Climate Change”

Focus on Focus Earth: Inauguration Wrap-Up

By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth Jan 23 2009

After a long campaign, an exciting election night, and months of bated enthusiasm, the much-anticipated moment, when Barack Obama would move into the White House, finally came this week. Beginning the preceding weekend, crowds flooded into Washington, DC, reaching an... + READ MORE

What Environmental Challenges Await President Obama?

By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect Jan 20 2009

Just minutes ago, Barack Obama took the oath as the 44th president of the US. We turned to Planet Green?s non-profit partners to see what they think Obama?s biggest environmental challenges are and what he will need to do to meet them with success. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Bush's Environmental Record

By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth Jan 16 2009

On the last business day of the Bush administration, many people are looking forward to the promises and challenges of the next administration. Still, most are also speculating on how George W. Bush will be remembered. When it comes to... + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Landfill Gas

By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Jan 15 2009

According to the US Energy Information Administration, ?Municipal solid waste contains significant portions of organic materials that produce a variety of gaseous products when dumped, compacted, and covered in landfills. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Old Growth Forests

By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 12 2009

An old-growth forest is "a forest stand usually at least 180-220 years old with moderate to high canopy closure; a multilayered, multispecies canopy dominated by large overstory trees; high incidence of large trees, some with broken tops and other indications of old and decaying wood (decadence); numerous large snags; and heavy accumulations of wood, including large logs on the ground." + READ MORE

By Team Planet Green IN Supper Club Jan 1 2009

AKASHA RICHMOND - Akasha Richmond is the healthy chef to the stars, spending nearly 20 years creating vegetarian and vegan recipes for her famous clients. As the chef and owner of Akasha - one of the most eco-friendly restaurants in... + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Top Environmental News Stories of 2008

By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth Dec 31 2008

From the economic crisis to the United States presidential election, new signs of climate change to record oil prices, 2008 was an eventful year filled with news. Choosing the top stories, those that have the greatest significance, represent the most... + READ MORE

Focus Earth: January 3, 2008: Top Environmental News Stories of 2008

By Team Planet Green IN Focus Earth Dec 31 2008

This week, Focus Earth takes a look at the challenges faced by marine animals and those who work to protect them before rounding up the top environmental news stories of 2008. First, Focus Earth talks with Jeff Boehm of the... + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: The Changing Lives of Reindeer

By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth Dec 24 2008

It's the reindeer, we imagine, that makes Santa's whirlwind tour around the world possible. Because of this, children across America wait anxiously in their beds on Christmas Eve, hoping to hear the clopping of hoofs on their roof. The story... + READ MORE

Focus Earth: December 27, 2008: The Changing Lives of Reindeer

By Team Planet Green IN Focus Earth Dec 24 2008

This week, Focus Earth features a special episode hosted from the North Pole, Alaska. Bob Woodruff and the team take a look at holiday related issues from Barrow, Alaska, where melting ice is altering the landscape and ecosystem, to Norway,... + READ MORE

Green Glossary - Ecotone

By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 23 2008

An ecotone is a ?transition area of vegetation between two different plant communities, such as forest and grassland. It has some of the characteristics of each bordering community and often contains species not found in the overlapping communities. + READ MORE

Meet Jill Palermo of I'm Organic and We Add Up

By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Dec 22 2008

Though she studied architecture and art in college in Pennsylvania, it was a move to the mountains of Oregon—where she lived and worked in an organic farming eco-villageM—that shaped Jill Palermo into the environmentalist she is today. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Sandcastle

By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 22 2008

When I read this at ABCNews.com: "Scientists have discovered extraordinarily precise data on rainfall in the Mediterranean region from 200 B.C. to 1100 A.D. which suggests that the fall of the Roman and Byzantine empires may have been partly caused by climate change," I immediately thought: Sandcastles. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Mindfulness

By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 18 2008

Mindfulness, in the Buddhist/meditation sense, is defined as "concentrated awareness of one's thoughts, actions or motivations." In greener terms, it might be best described as recognizing and accepting accountability. As Noam Chomsky reminds us, we are "responsible for the predictable consequences of our actions." + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Obama's Green Team

By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth Dec 12 2008

Since the election, environmentalists everywhere have been waiting to see who will be chosen to fill Barack Obama's administration. Finding the right people to fill key positions is critical to developing successful solutions to pressing environmental issues but knowing who... + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Cap and Trade Delay

By David DeFranza IN Focus Earth Dec 12 2008

According to the EPA, "Cap and Trade" is a "market-based policy tool for protecting human health and the environment." Under such a plan, a strict emissions limit, or cap, is set and each source, be it a farm, factory, or... + READ MORE

Focus Earth: December 13, 2008: Cap and Trade Delay & Obama's Green Team

By Team Planet Green IN Focus Earth Dec 12 2008

This week, Focus Earth covers the latest developments in the formation of President-elect Barack Obama green administration and investigates delays in his proposed "cap and trade" proposal. In other economic news, the Big Three automakers continue to lobby for government-bailout... + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Green Fakers

By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Dec 10 2008

Sure, this is the kind of post that might generate controversy but let's face it, not all that glitters is green. Plenty of the celebrities jumping on the eco-bandwagon aren't first checking to see how many miles per gallon that bandwagon is getting? + READ MORE

Stuff Happens Episode: Sports

By Team Planet Green IN Stuff Happens Dec 9 2008

Science guy Bill Nye explores the surprising impact that sporting activities have on the environment. Did you know that golf courses suck up two and a half billion gallons of water A DAY? That ski slopes disrupt fragile Alpine ecosystems... + READ MORE

Sites We Love: Ecoscraps: All the News, None of the Reading

By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect Dec 8 2008

Every Monday, we spotlight our Site of the Week, a fresh green website that tops our list of favorites. Visit our Blogroll to learn about more sites we love. + READ MORE