Group goes after 'plunderers' wiping out Pacific stocks at unsustainable rates
Times (UK) Apr 23, 08 6:51 CDT
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The world's tuna stocks are in danger, and Greenpeace is taking matters into its own hands, reports the Times of London . Faced with little action from regulators and boosted by success in tackling Japanese whalers, activists have vowed to continue to "interfere" with boats they say are plundering Pacific tuna at an unsustainable rate.
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Cardboard caskets, natural burial sites catch on in US
Associated Press Apr 20, 08 5:35 PM CDT
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Greenies who bought organic in life can become more organic in death, the AP reports. Brits have enjoyed the eco-friendly funeral for years, but now cardboard coffins and natural fibers for corpses are catching on Stateside. "People are trying to think about what's the best way to live and with that, what's the best way to die," one funeral director said.
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Artist/architect wages war on 'antisocial' front yards
Men's Vogue Apr 20, 08 5:18 CDT
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A renegade architect/artist has declared war on an unlikely enemy: the suburban front lawn. To improve what he sees as an “actively antisocial space” which consumes resources and serves no definite purpose, Fritz Haeg is looking to transform lawns into food gardens, reports Men's Vogue . His first four repurposed lawns are the subject of a new book, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn .
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Eco lobby partners
with the pulpit to get through to Congress
Politico Apr 15, 08 11:56 CDT
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How much carbon would Jesus use? Not much, say the religious communities now teaming with environmentalists to lobby Capitol Hill. As a carbon-capping bill approaches the Senate, eco-advocates hope that church partnerships will re-frame the debate, and religious leaders rail against the desecration of divine creation and the suffering of the poor coping with energy costs and food shortages.
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Helping rainforest
also helps hotel
chain's bottom line
Washington Post Apr 8, 08 3:37 PM CDT
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Marriott is making a big environmental push, helping to protect Brazilian rainforests and implementing lower energy consumption and more recycling in many of its hotels worldwide, the Washington Post reports. And although consumer demand is one reason for the changes, the primary drive seems less altruistic. "We've got a lot of beachfront hotels," says the CEO. "We don't want two feet of water in the lobbies."
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Developers can destroy if they create others elsewhere; environmentalists dismayed
Associated Press Mar 31, 08 3:46 PM CDT
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The Environmental Protection Agency today issued new wetlands-protection rules with a focus on “mitigation banking”— creating marshes elsewhere in compensation for those destroyed by development, the AP reports. The EPA argues that mitigation banking ensures the most overall wetlands protection because wetlands are often irrevocably damaged by construction, rendering on-site measures to offset the loss useless.
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Calif. man forced to cut down redwoods so neighbor can tap sun's energy
ABC News Mar 26, 08 5:43 PM CDT
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A dispute between California neighbors pitting trees against solar panels has gone to the panels, KGO-TV reports. Following a seven-year battle over whether one should have to cut down trees in his backyard that shade the other’s solar panels, Richard Treanor today chopped two redwoods after he was found guilty of violating the Solar Shade Control Act of 1978.
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Controlled deluge may help rebuild vanishing sandbars
Associated Press Mar 5, 08 6:27 PM CST
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Government officials sent a flood of water surging through the Grand Canyon today in a bid to mimic Mother Nature and rebuild sandbars and other natural habitat for endangered fish. The deluge will continue for three days, increasing by about four or five times the usual flow from the Grand Canyon Dam.
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Environmental activists gain access to roof, drapes banners from landmark
Guardian (UK) Feb 27, 08 6:53 CST
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Environmental protesters broke onto the roof of London's Houses of Parliament this morning and unfurled giant banners decrying the government's plans to build a new runway at Heathrow airport. Five activists, representing a group called Plane Stupid, eluded security to hang banners reading "No third runway" and "BAA headquarters," a reference to the company that runs Heathrow.
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When gov't enacted 33-cent tax, usage dropped 94% in weeks
New York Times Feb 6, 08 12:13 PM CST
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"Paper or plastic?" is perhaps the last question you'll hear on the Emerald Isle, thanks to a 33-cent tax on each plastic bag that cut Irish consumption by 94% within weeks of its 2002 enactment, reports the New York Times . Cloth bags have become downright fashionable since, but strong manufacturer and merchant opposition has hindered similar efforts in Britain and LA, and laws elsewhere have met mixed results.
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Logging and development would
overturn Clinton-era 'roadless rule'
Washington Post Jan 26, 08 5:32 PM CST
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Greenies are hoping to stop President Bush from opening Alaskan woodland to logging and road construction, the Washington Post reports. Bush unveiled plans yesterday to let developers tackle 2.4 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the nation's largest national woodland. But angry environmentalists and the Alaska Forest Association have vowed to block the scheme in court, the AP reports.
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Dems weigh in as local issue goes national
Bloomberg Jan 16, 08 12:57 PM CST
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Yucca Mountain’s future as a nuclear waste burial ground is central to US energy policy—but first, the site north of Las Vegas has a key role in Saturday's Nevada Democratic primary. Despite environmentalists’ newfound respect for nuclear fuel, candidates are required to pledge opposition to the 30-year-old plan, Bloomberg reports, which would store spent fuel in an extinct volcano.
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OPINION
Pundits rush in before polls even close
National Review Jan 15, 08 5:39 PM CST
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With Great Lakes State voting booths not quite closed—and polls tied—pundits are already writing post-mortems on the two-Republican race, and giving Mitt Romney the campaigning edge. The New Republic ’s Jonathan Cohn and Henry Payne in the National Review agree that Mitt hit his stride, convincing Michiganders he’s the man to inject optimistic business sense into the flailing auto industry.
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Hunt for 1,000 whales disrupted in sea chase
Sydney Morning Herald Jan 14, 08 4:04 CST
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The Greenpeace pursuit of Japanese whaling ships continued yesterday after a ship operated by the environmental group earlier chased down and scattered a fleet of six Japanese whaling vessels in the waters off Antarctica. The Japanese fleet plans to hunt down 1,000 whales in what operators call a "scientific" expedition, but Greenpeace officials consider a thin cover for commercial whaling.
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