Archive for May, 2005

Global warming will increase world hunger-U.N.

It’s really amazing as to what comes and goes on Yahoo. They will post stories on Michael Jackson and a woman who ran away to Vegas because she got cold feet, but articles like the below will disappear faster than you can say, “where’d the rainforest go?”
Many scientists fear rising temperatures, blamed mainly on heat-trapping [...]

Surfrider’s new leader, Jim Moriarty

As per SurfLine…
Surfing’s biggest environmental organization, the Surfrider Foundation, has been looking for a new executive director for nine months. Last Thursday, they announced their new fearless leader: Solana Beach surfer, activist, entrepreneur Jim Moriarty. While Jim doesn’t take office till June 1st, we figured it was time to check out surfing’s new, most visible [...]

Atlantic Primed for Heavy Storms

Meteorologists in Tampa, Florida announced, “…conditions in the Atlantic again were ripe for spawning tropical storms that could slam into Florida or other parts of the Eastern U.S. or Gulf Coast with potentially devastating and deadly consequences.”
Now is it me, or has extreme weather worsened in the past 10 or 15 years? Or has technology [...]

No Hummer Left Behind

For the last, 3 years or so, there have been countless stories published on Yahoo regarding the many assaults on the environment. But lately, nothing. It just, well, stopped.
So besides wondering who is influencing the media to run stories about a bride who got cold feet before they touch on why the cancer rate [...]

Bush’s Social Security

Here’ s a nice flash animation on a different kind of green I thought you’d all enjoy
As per MoveOn…
President Bush has now embraced massive benefit cuts in order to privatize Social Security. Today, we’re announcing the winner of Bush in 30 Years?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùa grassroots contest to find the best online animation to explain the Republicans’ Social [...]

Common Myths About Recycled Paper

MYTH: All paper is recycled now, there is no need to ask for it.
FACT: Even at the height of its success, recycled paper only had about 10% of the printing and writing paper market and even those papers contained mostly virgin materials. Now distributors, printers and paper mills say that demand is dropping because buyers [...]

Best & Worst Seafood Choices

Polluted, mercury fish. It’s something we should all avoid.
Have you ever found yourself sitting at the restaurant, pondering what to order from the fish selection? What fish is high in mercury? Which species is being over fished? Which fish is considered sustainably harvested seafood?
How about printing out a little Pocket Seafood Selector [...]