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 […]

10 Tips to Help Improve Your Natural Search Engine Ranking

80% of internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Are they finding you?
Below are 10 tips to help you reach the 80% of internet users who use search engines everyday by improving your natural search engine ranking in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. There?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s more to it […]

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 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s 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

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 being sustainably harvested?
How about printing out a little Pocket Seafood Selector that tells you what fish are eco-best and eco-worst from […]

Business Blogs Are Catching On

Business blogs are catching on with more and more businesses. Traditional websites are beginning to add a blog component to their content.
Check out the latest report on business blogging on WebProNews
You can also search the site for blog articles. You will find a rather large archive that you can get lost in for days and […]

Traditional media eagerly eying blogs to boost revenues, profile

Originally published on Yahoo…
Yahoo links tend to disappear over time, so I posted the original article here.
Sun May 1, 5:23 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - Traditional media such as newspapers and radios are casting an increasingly covetous eye over the growing number of Internet blogs, hoping to cash in on a slice of the action.
With daily […]