Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speaks About Environment, Health and Democracy
Running Time: 58 min 47 sec
From: March 3, 2005
Location: UC Berkeley, California
Environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses the impact that changes in the environment can have on health, in the Seventh Annual Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Lecture in Health Policy at UC Berkeley. Series: “Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.”
Hunters Are Worried About Global Warming
Pulled from the SF Chronicle with Commentary from Matty Byloos for GEaP; April 9, 2008
Global warming could force elk and mule deer from much of the American West. Wild trout could disappear in lower Appalachian streams. Read the rest.
Aspen Environment Forum: The Word on Gray Wolves
By Lisa Hymas for GRIST; March 28, 2008
The gray wolf population in the northern Rocky Mountains is being dropped from the federal endangered species list on Friday. Read the full story.
Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why
By Tina Kelley for New York Times; March 25, 2008
Wildlife biologists fear a significant die-off in about 15 caves and mines in New York, as well as at sites in Massachusetts and Vermont. Whatever is killing the bats leaves them unusually thin and, in some cases, dotted with a white fungus.
I think recycling is like going to church — you show up once a week, it makes you feel good, and you’ve done your duty. Then you can get back to all the fun of sinning!
Let me ask you this: do you honestly know where all those newspapers go after you drop them off at the recycling center, or where you soda pop bottles end up after you put them in the blue recycling containers? Read the rest…
According to the press release, GreenIsUniversal.com is the new digital home of NBC Universal’s environmental efforts. Forward thinking? Pardon my cynicism, but I’d say enough of us have finally come forward, and coalesced into something worthy of pandering to. In other words, we’re being targeted as a block of consumers. My less more optimistic side says – whatever – maybe now that a major media corporation has gotten on the bandwagon, some heavy-duty changes can finally begin to take place.
All this remains to be seen. Hey – if environmentally-friendly products become more widely available, and some people’s consciousness shifts, then forget my judgment, all progress is good progress. When the website says Read the rest…
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