Article Archive for May 2008
Posted in Campaign, Endangered & Extinction, Video on 15 May 2008
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Greenpeace Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods – it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy of corruption at the heart of Japan’s government-backed, sham scientific whaling [...]
Posted in General on 14 May 2008
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emagazine Berkeley has long been an environmental innovator, and the city is again taking the lead with a plan to loan residents the money they need to go solar. Homeowners will be able to tack the annual loan payments onto their property tax bill. The proposal eliminates the two major financial hurdles to installing solar [...]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Endangered & Extinction on 2 May 2008
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http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/ The release of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere by power plants and agricultural activities is making seawater more acidic, especially in coastal waters, according to a study published September 2007 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Acid rain isn’t just a problem of the land; it’s also affecting the ocean,†[...]
Posted in Coral Reefs, General on 2 May 2008
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reefrelief.org The Florida Legislature passed a bill yesterday to end a decade’s old practice of dumping poorly treated sewage off Florida’s southeast coast. The House of Representatives passed the Wastewater Disposal Bill (HB 7139), created earlier by the Senate (SB 1302), with just two days left in the session. : The bill requires all facilities [...]


