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Here’s hoping that 2010 is a year more focused on environmental issues and actual change rather than just empty promises and chatter. One way to achieve this might be to start adding lithium to our drinking water supplies. This year a study out of Japan has shown that areas with higher lithium content in their [...]  I am a big fan of lists. Grist has compiled a list of the top green stories of the last decade. They can be viewed here. I don’t mean to toot my own horn but it seems like this blog is pretty much on track with the list. Toxic Nasties: Check Climate Change: [...] Clean water-loving residents of NYC as well as nervous upstate property owners and dwellers won a small victory today as the New York City DEP published a study outlining their objections to natural gas extraction in the Marcellus Shale region. Regular readers of this blog know that the reasons for their worries are many: from [...] I hate to beat a dead horse but check out this tweet from Sarah Palin this weekend: Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature’s ways.MUST b good stewards of God’s earth,but arrogant&naive2say man overpwers natureEarth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chngI do not know where [...] Is it just me or was the hype leading up to Copenhagen much bigger than the actual reporting of the event itself? I see an article here or there but I was expecting it to make much bigger headlines. (Thanks a lot, Tiger Woods) The word is that everyone is waiting for Obama to arrive [...] A few weeks ago two of us bloggers went to hear RFK Jr. speak at an event hosted by the NRDC. Let me just say up front- this man is my hero. He does everything I want to do! He is a lawyer but he fights against big polluters and advocates on the behalf of [...] Last night I participated in a NYC tap water taste test given by ambassadors of Riverkeeper. I had to drink both NYC tap water and an unnamed bottled water. I then had to guess which was the NYC tap water. Surprise- I got it wrong!! I am a big advocate of NYC water so [...] Today is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal, India disaster. On December 3, 1984, a plant, owned by Union Carbide, that manufactured pesticides leaked methyl isocyanate gas. It is often cited as the worst industrial disaster in history. Approximately 8,000 people died and many people were sickened with illnesses that would plague them for the [...] |
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