Scientists are observing with increasing alarm that some very common hormone-mimicking chemicals can have grotesque effects.
A widely used herbicide acts as a female hormone and feminizes male animals in the wild. Thus male frogs can have female organs, and some male fish actually produce eggs. In a Florida lake contaminated by these chemicals, male alligators have [...]
Eighteen Madagascan pochards—the rarest duck on the planet—are exuding cuteness in a captive breeding center in Antsohihy, Madagascar. These adorable ducklings represent nearly a third of the entire population of their critically endangered species, signaling new hope that these birds can be saved from extinction.
Madagascan pochards were thought to be extinct until explorers rediscovered 22 [...]
Kevin Matthews reports:
Monsanto, the genetically modified food giant, has recently purchased Beeologics, a leading bee research firm. Borrowing a move from the tobacco companies’ playbook, Monsanto appears to have decided that if you do not like the scientific reports coming out about you, then you should just buy the labs.
Beginning in 2007, Beeologics has researched [...]
From Tony Barboza in the LA Times:
LOS ANGELES — A bill backed by House Republicans would stall plans to let sea otters reclaim their historical range off Southern California because of concerns that the threatened marine mammals would compromise commercial fishing and military training operations.
The Military Readiness and Southern Sea Otter Conservation Act, sponsored by [...]
First of three parts in the Sacramento Bee:
The day began with a drive across the desert, checking the snares he had placed in the sagebrush to catch coyotes.
Gary Strader, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, stepped out of his truck near a ravine in Nevada and found something he hadn’t intended to kill.
There, [...]
Robert Trigaux, of the Tampa Bay Times, reports:
The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale.
The rant of an antinuclear activist?
Hardly. It was the first sentence of an in-depth story in a conservative business magazine, Forbes.
In 1985.
Forbes‘ point then — that [...]
Is nuclear energy necessary in Florida? Environmental organizations and industry critics question Progress Energy’s plans to revive Crystal River’s aging nuclear facility (and to build an entirely new one in Levy County).
Ken Shefton is furious about what the government knew eight years ago and never told him — that the neighborhood where his five sons have been playing is contaminated with lead.
Their Cleveland home is a few blocks from a long-forgotten factory that spewed toxic lead dust for about 30 years.
The Environmental Protection Agency and state [...]
Large-scale use of forest biomass for energy production may be unsustainable and is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions in the long run, according to a new study.
The research was done by the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany, Oregon State University, and other universities in Switzerland, Austria and France. The work was supported by [...]
May 5th, 2012
2pm-10pm
$5-20 Suggested Donation
Kids recycled crafts activities
Kids recycling games
Live bands
Local sustainable businesses
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Please join Gainesville Compost and Grow Gainesville for a “Waste-to-Food Workshop” at Tempo Bistro to Go this Saturday at 1pm!
We will be demonstrating how we turn Tempo Bistro’s food waste into black gold for Gainesville gardens, including the vertical garden we are building for Tempo Bistro itself.
Come grab a soup, sandwich or beverage and get [...]
Old Gainesville Depot Tour!
April 26th, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Please come visit the rehabilitation of the old Gainesville Depot, a City of Gainesville/Gainesville CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) project. Project members will be available to talk about LEED elements including the recycling and sustainability features. Speakers will include the CRA project manager (Diane Gilreath); the [...]
The National Parks released the mitigation part of the agency’s climate change strategy:
Since its inception in 1916, the National Park Service (NPS) has been a world leader in protecting natural and cultural resources. The NPS has preserved many of the country’s greatest treasures and in the process has been a model of resource management. We [...]
EcoWatch reports:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn crop that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange.
On Feb. 22, just five days before the close of the [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
Greetings Green Drinkers and Cinema Verde Fans!
So March came in like a lamb and went out like a lion – a bit skewed from the maxim we employed in my childhood – and now summer is strangely here already. I don’t know why people act so mystified about [...]
Abrahm Lustgarten, a reporter for Pro Publica, and the author of “Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster,” calls for criminal prosecution in today’s NY Times:
TWO years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States [...]
Investigative reporter Greg Palast reports:
Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up—which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission.
Yesterday, Ecowatch.org revealed that, in September 2008, nearly two years before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, another [...]
I’m not sure if this seems good or bad – screwing around with nature usually gets us into trouble.. I wouldn’t want to eat plastic is i were a mushroom!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/more-mere-magic-mushrooms-154207424.html
While the true extent of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill was not known for about 4 years, as Al Jazeera notes in the video above, the repercussions of BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico may become apparent more quickly.
Discovering eyeless shrimp, lesioned fish and other mutated and underdeveloped seafood, fisherman [...]
The San Luis Obispo Tribune published opinions on opposite sides of the proposed seismic testing Pacific Gas & Electric wants to do to determine risks associated with earthquakes to its Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. Here they are:
By Lori French
There is a very serious threat to our fisheries and all marine mammal life looming in the [...]
Judy Molland reports for Care 2 Make a Difference:
A spectacular stretch of Northern California coastline that boasts six watersheds and more than seven miles of coastal resources, will be permanently protected from development under a landmark deal approved this week by the state Coastal Commission.
The 6,800 acres of undeveloped shoreline, wooded areas and farmland in [...]
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