“There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.”
— Herman Daly, the father of ecological economics. (via liberalsarecool)
(via eddyizm)
April 25, 2012
April 13, 2012
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
— Henry David Thoreau (via sirmitchell)
March 16, 2012
“Deep in the desert of southern California sits one of the worst environmental sites in America—a former tourist destination that has turned into a toxic soup: the Salton Sea.
“The sea was born by accident 100 years ago, when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal; for the next two years the entire volume of the river flowed into the Salton Sink, one of the lowest places on Earth. The new lake became a major tourist attraction, with resort towns springing up along its shores. Yet with no outflow, and with agricultural runoff serving as its only inflow, the sea’s waters grew increasingly toxic. Farm chemicals and ever-increasing salinity caused massive fish and bird die-offs. Use of the sea for recreational activities plummeted, and by the 1980s its tourist towns were all but abandoned.
“The skeletons of these structures are still there; ghost towns encrusted in salt. California officials acknowledge that if billions of dollars are not spent to save it, the sea could shrink another 60 percent in the next 20 years, exposing soil contaminated with arsenic and other cancerous chemicals to strong winds. Should that dust become airborne, it would blow across much of southern California, creating an environmental calamity.”
OH GREAT.
(Source: marjoree)
February 27, 2012
(Source: posters-for-good, via mikefoley2)
February 07, 2012
Burning for two weeks, American oil company Chevron denies that this oil rig explosion is causing environmental damage in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
The company says that the leaked and burning oil poses no risk to human health or the environment. There seems to be no concrete plans to stop the fire, which has been burning since about January 23rd.
Chevron is paying off a nearby village with food, and activists are being stonewalled by the company.
Why are oil companies not forced to have emergency systems in place?
What is the meaning of all this rubbish???!!! Have these oil companies completely lost it???!!
BIG OIL. I so desperately wish I could afford an electric car.
January 26, 2012
December 30, 2011
Word.
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December 28, 2011
(via 60 Years After Leaving, Porpoises Again Play In SF Bay : NPR)
“After the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, the bay’s water quality began to improve. But it took time for the food web to come back. San Francisco State University whale researcher Jonathan Stern says maybe the porpoises had to rediscover the bay…
“It’s one of those very few good-news environmental stories. And it’s in our backyard. It gives one hope,” Stern says.”
December 27, 2011
“We criticize corporations for being environmentally destructive, but as long as we’re buying their products we have no leg to stand on. We have to realize that each one of us does have a responsibility in our own lives.”
— INTERVIEW: Primatologist Jane Goodall | Green Global Travel
October 24, 2011
Mark Ruffalo w/ Frack Action @ OWS (by frackaction)
