Interactive Website Shows How "Acoustic Smog" Is Killing Whales (1)
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Image: Sons de Mar website (LAB) From the drone of a yacht to the sonar blast of a warship, the deafening noises of the military and commercial shipping industries have reached a point where it is seriously threatening whales, said scientists at last week’s World Conservation Congress. Already, the proliferation of these anthropogenic sounds in the ocean’s waters have impacted whales’ abilities to feed, mate and migrate on their long-established routes – resulting in increased ...
AlertMe warns of energy vampires, kills them remotely (2)
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Filed under: Household In-home power consumption monitors are trendy pieces of kit lately, with a new one popping up every few months. But, while they're all happy to just kick back and tell you what a wasteful pig you're being, a new service from UK security company AlertMe could actually make you more efficient. Subscribers to the company's monitoring plans, which start at about $260 plus another $17.50/month, will be able to purchase Smart Plugs ...
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The Failing Business of Conservation (1)
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This week at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, James Kanter takes note of a singular sentiment running through the participants: Conservation is failing because it has not embraced the fundamental tenets of business management.
Sonar use linked to whale strandings (1)
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Sonar is killing more whales than we realise, says a whale expert who has been tracking the patterns of mass whale strandings around the world for the past eight years. In a paper entitled “Navy Sonar and Cetaceans: Just how much does the gun need to smoke before we act?”, Professor Chris Parsons of George Mason University in the United States strongly argues for stricter environmental policies related to the use of sonar in the ...
Ted Turner's Green Restaurant Revolution—His Top Ten Ways to Green The Restaurant Industry (1)
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Click on image to view Ted Turner's podcast. photo: Ted's Montana Grill It seems that whatever Ted Turner puts his little paws on turns to gold, in this case, green. With the Green Restaurant Revolution, he has now taken to traveling the country with green restaurateurs to turn the green movement into more than a passing fad. Check out his suggestions for greening an industry that uses more than five times as much water as ...
Publications en français sur la préservation numérique (1)
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Le projet européen DPE (Digital preservation Europe) annonce la traduction en français de plusieurs de ses publications ("briefing papers" - comment traduire ça ?). Dans la liste on trouve : - La conservation numérique et les archives en accès ouvert. Un accès permanent aux fonds numériques en accès ouvert - L’évaluation des documents scientifiques : Une gageure - Préservation du contenu de l’Audio visuel numérique - LOCKSS: Rétablir les bibliothécaires en tant que dépositaires du ...
ER Project House: Testing Low Flow Shower Head | EcoRenovator.org (2)
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I recently picked up a low flow shower head from my parents. However, I wasn’t sure of the flow rate of my current shower head. Was it worse, or better? Well, this is how I found out. Here are the two shower heads. Original shower head. It says 2.5 gpm max on it. Low flow shower head. It says 2.0 gpm max on it. To carry out the testing, I took an ice cream bucket ...
Crested Ibises Return To Japan's Skies (3)
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(Photo: Nikkei.co.jp) Crested ibises have been released into the wild today on Sado Island, marking the return of the birds to Japan's skies for the first time in 27 years. Prince and Princess Akishino joined local residents on Thursday to free the birds who slowly flew over a rice paddy area on the island in the Sea of Japan. The 10 crested ibises (5 male and 5 female) were bred at the conservation center on ...
Endangered Chimpanzees Could Get Respite In Rwandan ‘Forest of Hope’ (1)
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Though much of the talk at last week’s Clinton Global Initiative meeting was about improving the lives of our fellow human beings, Rwandan president Paul Kagame was in attendance, seeking support for a historic conservation corridor in his country, which it is hoped will provide relief for endangered chimpanzees in the region. The Gishwati Area Conservation Program is being promoted in conjunction with the Great Ape Trust of Iowa and Earthpark is being billed as ...
Video: Turning Illegally Logged Wood Into A Walmart Toilet Seat [Walmart] (2)
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This week's New Yorker reports on how illegally logged Russian wood is smuggled over the border into China, where it's turned into all sorts of products. In this video that accompanies the article, you see it end up as toilet seats for sale in U.S. Walmart stores. It's hard to think of an object that isn't made of wood or packaged or encounters wood at some point in its journey through the economy. Any number ...
Coin Lamp Has an Inevitable Future Date With a Hammer [Coin Lamp] (3)
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Coin Lamp has its heart in the right place, but I'm afraid the inevitable path that each of these concept lamps will take, given enough time, is into a garbage can. In pieces. Because your 401k just tanked, you're getting desperate, and you needed the $2.35 in change this simple little lamp contained something fierce. So, it was Coin Lamp, meet hammer, and you could afford your small latte at the expense of not being ...
Urban Sites Are Important for Birds, Too (1)
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BirdLife has just announced an urban nature reserve in Argentina as an Important Bird Area.The reserve comprises 350 hectares of lagoons and pampas vegetation and is home to over 300 species of birds. It was founded in 1985 and one million visitors each year enjoy walking its paths and watching the wildlife.“Urban nature reserves provide an essential link between birds and people. They are the only contact that many people get with the natural world ...
Energy Star Coming to Computers (1)
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Image: handolio For the eco-minded, buying a new computer is one of the most annoying things around. Sure, you want to get a computer that has the least impact possible, but how do you know which computers have toxic chemicals and are only 1% recycleable. What’s more, how do you know how much energy that laptop or desktop will consume? Most of already know that laptops tend to consume less natural resources and less energy, ...
Rollercoaster Rips Through ‘Museum of Nature’ (1)
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In his series of “Museum of Nature” photographs, Finnish artist Ilkka Halso blends nature with aspects of man-built life. The serenity of such an infrequently touched oasis of nature interrupted by an apparatus we all associate with arm-waving, screaming, raucous amusement? Halso’s series presents a number of such thought-provoking conundrums. via: Ode Magazine
BofA Launches Eco-Deduct Program (1)
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Bank of America announced the launch of Eco-Deduct, a new environmental rewards program for cross-border US dollar wire transfers. Under the program, the bank will reward new or increased volumes of U.S. dollar commercial wire transfer payments by making a 25-cent donation per transaction to the Nature Conservancy. It is free to participate in Eco-Deduct, with the [...]
Prefab is Not The Answer to Affordable, Modern & Green Homes (3)
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This article was written by Chad Ludeman, President of Philadelphia-based postgreen and developer of the much talked about 100k House. Make sure to come back after visiting his websites ... Prefab homes seem to be showing up more and more in the media these days, especially with two large exhibits in Philadelphia showcasing their history this year. Like many, I hoped that prefab would be the answer to bringing modern architecture to the masses in ...
Washington Tests 4-day Workweek (1)
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In order to cut costs,Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire is trying out four-day workweeks for a few hundred state employees and implementing energy savings measures, AP reports. The shorter workweek will be tried for everyone at the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, and the Office of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises. Selected offices at seven [...]
Old-Growth Forests in New York State Protected Under New Legislation (1)
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Somewhere beyond that forest clearing in the Adirondacks could be some old growth forest. Photo: Stacy Lynn Baum. When most people think of old growth forests in North America, and I include myself in this, they think of some majestic stand of timber in California, the Pacific Northwest or in British Columbia. Well, that’s only part of the picture: Though obviously not contiguous, New York has nearly 350,000 acres of old growth forest. The good ...
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