Chewing gum has long been the bane of teachers and street cleaners...and the love of dentists. Made of synthetic chicle, sugar and flavouring it causes cavities, and sticks to the pavement--costing millions in street cleaning.
2009 has been declared the Year of the Gorilla (YoG) in order to avoid the extinction of the largest living primate, by the UNEP Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Partnership (GRASP) and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA). After similar schemes for dolphins and turtles, "the Year of the Gorilla 2009 will place gorillas on a higher pedestal," says John Mshelbwala, U.N. Convention of Migratory Species expert. Gorillas, whose DNA is almost 100% identical to that of humans, are one of the most endangered species on the planet....
Photo Via Mr. Usaji
StubHub has launched a program in conjunction with the National Forests Foundation that will help restore national forests across the US through the sales of post-season football game tickets. ...
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The Brazilian government has tried to get serious about tracking and controlling the logging industry in their country. That includes switching from paper ledgers to computerized tracking systems that monitor quotas for logging companies.
(Very young) oil plantation photo: Rainforest Action Network
Amid all the news of financial demise, you may have missed two positive bits of news regarding at least two banks greening their activities.
Images via A Real Tree
A cool iPhone app called A Real Tree does something very practical for the earth entirely apart from your iPhone. When you purchase the app, you’re actually supporting the reforestation of countries around the globe. ...
photo: Don Stucke
The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, and NGO partner with Planet Green, has announced that have a new chairman of the board: Roger Milliken Jr, president and CEO of the Baskahgen Company.
Milliken had been a member of the Nature Conservancy board of directors since 2000, and a member of the Maine chapter’s board of trustees for over a decade. Regarding his new position, Milliken said,...
Poached ivory being burned in Namibia.
Photo: Jonathan and Angela
photo: Leo Freitas
A few months ago Brazil announced that rates of deforestation in the Amazon increased 3.8% over the previous year and that it would be taking steps to crack down on illegal logging, land clearing (sometimes by burning) and illegal settlements. The country also established the Amazon Fund to solicit international monetary donations to help fund anti-deforestation efforts.
photo:TRU Organic
All those parties, along with that sometimes trying time with your family can amount to some over indulgence. If you're gonna have a drink of two, why not choose a bottle that plants a tree for every purchase? ...
Greenpeace Finland protesters targeting the other end of the palm oil chain, photo: Greenpeace Finland
I’m not entirely sure that this is the type of civil disobedience Al Gore was talking about at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting back in September, but maybe I’m wrong...
photo: Martin
I don’t know about you but, as a writer and someone who likes to make lists, I keep a checklist of people who I’d just love to sit down with and not necessarily do an interview, but simply chat with about mutual interests. In the case of the following people, that interest would of course be the environment.
So here they are, the five people in the green movement whom I’d just love to have a couple of drinks with while chatting about the environment: Al Gore, Richard Branson, James Howard Kunstler, Vandana Shiva, and Prince Charles.
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