Archive for October, 2006

Ocean dead zone off Oregon dissipating

At first this sounds like it could be a good thing.
As you read on you come to find:

This year’s dead zone off Oregon ran for 17 weeks, compared to the previous high of six weeks in 2004, and saw oxygen readings near zero that left the ocean bottom littered with dead crabs, sea stars and [...]

Global warming could cost trillions of dollars

That doesn’t sound good at all.
Let me get this straight. Global warming is going to COST money. And going green MAKES money buy employing sustainability. Go figure.
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WWF says. Humans living far beyond planet’s means

Did you ever hear the saying, “You can’t get blood out of a stone!”.
For our purposes, let’s think of blood as water, air, food, trees, fish, soil, and everything else we need to live. Let’s think of the stone as this big rock that we spin on every day, a.k.a. the planet Earth.
Now according [...]

Whaling already hurting tourism to Iceland

How many times have you heard, “Good for you, good for the environment, good for business”?
It’s true. I was recently at an event where publishing and sustainability were discussed and it looks like that he idea of sustainability has hit the mainstream. Wal-Mart, Time Inc, JC Pennys and more have incorporated sustainability heavily into their [...]