Check Out This Amazing Premiere - Tomorrow Night!
Naturally SavvyTomorrow evening, youre invited to the interactive world premiere of the new documentary Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge And Climate Change. This is an amazing opportunity to discover a completely different view of climate change and explores how it is actually affecting the human rights of the Indigenous people. Its the worlds first Inuktitut language film that sheds light on how the warming...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesOctober is Walk to School Month
Naturally SavvyDo your kids walk to school? If they do, theyre among just a fraction of children who hit the pavement each morning, Monday through Friday. Were well into the new school year and I have to admit, Im feeling a little frustrated. I often wonder what percentage of parents drive their children to or from school when walking is so much simpler and greener. I understand it isnt always possible to...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesWi-Fi in Schools: Do We Need Precautions?
Naturally SavvyWi-Fi is facing a lot of opposition from parents and teachers in Ontario. Last week, Lloyd Alter was critical of parents claims that Wi-Fi may pose a health threat to students at elementary schools, and he made some valid arguments. But there are preliminary studies that indicate micro wave technologies may adversely effect human health, and even the World Health Organization (WHO) admits ...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesUrban Decay's Vegan Eyeshadow Palette
Naturally SavvyBeing vegan can be tough if you love cosmetics. Finding animal-free eyeshadows and mascaras isnt easy to begin with, and then theres the issue of being able to find the colors you want. Weve talked aboutUrban Decayscruelty-free policy and their increasing number of vegan productsbefore, but this year theyre bumping their vegan cred up a notch with the recently releasedVegan Palette. The Ve...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesReforestation Stores More Carbon Than Industrial Tree Farms
Naturally SavvyAustralian researchers examining environmental restoration projects have found that reforesting damaged rainforests captures carbon more efficiently than softwood industrial monoculture plantations or big tree farms planted with a single species. The research, which was published in Ecological Management Restoration, throws a wrench into the long-held belief that monoculture plantations...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesWorld Crude Oil Production Projected to Peak in 2014
Cara SmusiakAlternative energy efforts received a bit of a boon earlier this month from a study published in the American Chemical Society's journal Energy & Fuels, which revealed conventional crude oil production might peak in 2014—a decade sooner than other predictions have indicated. The study, from scientists in Kuwait, is based on a modified version of the Hubbert model, which accurately predic...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesRadioactive Leaks at Nuclear Power Plants
Cara SmusiakWould you like a little radioactive tritium with your water? As far fetched as it sounds, the Associated Press recently reported that at least 27 of 104 nuclear reactors across the United States are leaking potentially dangerous levels of tritium into the groundwater around the plants. The scope of the problem surfaced after the recent discovery of a leak at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Acc...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesAfrican Soccer Team Jerseys by Puma Will Promote Biodiversity at World Cup
Cara SmusiakWhat do you get when you mix soil samples from Ghana, Ivory Coast, South Africa, and Cameroon? Well, you get the color of the jerseys and shorts in Puma's Africa Unity Kits, which will be used by African teams in the football events (what some call soccer) Nations Cup (through January 31 in Angola) and World Cup (June 2010 in South Africa) when they're playing against a team whose color...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesU.S. Gov Hires Kansas to Track Enviro Hazards
Naturally SavvyWhile many scientists suspect or believe environment plays a key role in chronic health issues, there is little comprehensive data from the general public to draw accurate correlations. But that is changing thanks to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) program that has just added another state—Kansas—to its list of states that are tracking both environmental hazards and health probl...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesSociety of Enviro Journalists Awards
Naturally SavvyCue the horns! The Society of Environmental Journalists has announced the winners of the 2008–2009 Awards for Reporting on the Environment. The honorees have produced a bevy of shocking, personal, and illuminating stories in the U.S. (plus one from Canada). The prestigious Rachel Carson Environment Book Award went to Canadian Andrew Nikiforuk for Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent...
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Take Responsibility—Get Informed
Martine CarlinaGetting the news isnt as easy as it used to be. You might think that is absurd, considering all of the venues, including the good old newspaper, radio, t...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesChina: World’s Top Polluter?
Martine CarlinaThe magnitude of China’s growth as an economic power can be seen through the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions. In 1950, China’s greenhouse gas emissions ...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesNobel Nods at Gore, IPCC on Climate Change
Martine CarlinaAl Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. With the award, Gore, former Vice President and ...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironmental IssuesEco-Entrepreneur Passes On
Martine CarlinaAnita Roddick, the gutsy entrepreneur who mothered the global success known as The Body Shop, died in September from a sudden brain hemorrhage. She was 64 years...
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