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Consilience Productions - EarthConsilience Productions - EarthConsilience Productions wants to connect topics that might seem mutually exclusive at first, but are, in fact, associated in one way or another. The EARTH blog comments on the green environmental movement and the sustainable consumption market. Articles
Global Warming Deniers
2007-08-20 00:00:00 Newsweek recently ran a very comprehensive article detailing the staying power of the global warming deniers. If you think those who have long challenged the mainstream scientific findings about global warming recognize that the game is over, think again. Yes,... More About: Global Warming , Global , Ming , Armin
Factory Farm Map
2007-08-14 00:00:00 Humans have been eating animals since the beginning of time. What's happened in the past 50 years is that the machine of capitalism has devised a method by which these animals are "processed" for human consumption. Goodbye idyllic farm, hello... More About: Factory , Farm , Tory , Actor
New York City's tap water is still #1!
2007-08-07 00:00:00 Tap water here in New York City was recently declared to be pure enough that special filtration techniques won't be needed for at least another 10 years: Federal environmental officials announced recently that New York's drinking water was so pure... More About: Water , New-York
Is it worse than we've expected?
2007-07-28 00:00:00 Rising levels of ozone pollution near the ground are damaging the ability of plants to take up carbon dioxide, reducing their potential to act as a counterbalance to greenhouse gas accumulation, scientists said Wednesday. Remember that all the models we...
Citgo found guilty of breaking Clean Air Act Law
2007-07-22 00:00:00 Bobby Kennedy Jr. of GoLeft TV and Air America's Ring of Fire talks with Suzie Canales, the director of Citizens for Environmental Justice about the recent Citgo trial in Texas, where Citgo was found guilty of environmental abuses: Citgo was... More About: Clean , Breaking , Guilty , Brea , Breakin
Container Recycling Institute
2007-07-16 00:00:00 Here's a cool site that sets out to "educate policy makers, government officials and the general public regarding the social and environmental impacts of the production and disposal of no-deposit, no-return beverage containers and the need for producers to take... More About: Recycling , Container , Institute
Live Earth! Live Music! Save the Planet!
2007-07-09 00:00:00 Check out all the concerts - both live and recorded. Do your part to save the climate from overheating...... More About: Music , Earth , Planet , Live Music , Live
Eco-fashionable Consumption
2007-07-05 00:00:00 From the Prius to hemp sheets, it's finally become "cool" to be eco-conscious (if your well off financially): Stroll from the bedroom in your eco-McMansion, with its photovoltaic solar panels, into the kitchen remodeled with reclaimed lumber. Enter the three-car... More About: Cons , Fashionable , Consumption , Fash
Honda takes the "Green" prize...again.
2007-06-23 00:00:00 The Union for Concerned Scientists, the leading science-based non-profit working for a healthy environment, conducts a survey each year trying to determine which automaker manufacturers the "greenest" automobiles. And for the fourth year in a row, the winner is....ta-da...HONDA! Honda ... More About: Green , Onda
First, Cure Malaria. Next, Global Warming
2007-06-13 00:00:00 Here's a profile that could have easily been filed in our Money section, but since it mentions curing malaria and global warming, it's right at home here: Amyris Biotechnologies has almost finished developing a cheap cure for malaria that could... More About: Global Warming , Global , Cure , Ming , Mala
Coal to liquid: One of the worst ideas ever.
2007-06-13 00:00:00 TerraPass has a recent article on the folly of converting coal to liquid fuel: One fact that sometimes goes unappreciated is that it takes energy to make energy. Or rather, it takes energy to deliver energy in a usable form.... More About: Ideas , Coal , Liquid
China rejects mandatory caps on greenhouse emissions
2007-06-06 00:00:00 China released it's first national strategy on Climate Change, choosing to focus on improving energy efficiency but rejecting mandatory caps on greenhouse emissions: The 62-page plan, two years in the making, served at least partly as a rebuff to separate... More About: China , Emissions , Greenhouse , Sion , Mission
Alaska's Permafrost is Disappearing
2007-05-27 00:00:00 To those who are still in denial that our beloved mother Earth is heating up, this article is quite disturbing: The earth beneath much of Alaska is not what it used to be. The permanently frozen subsoil, known as permafrost...is... More About: Erma , Perm , Afro , Disappear , Frost
The CO2 Sink is Full.
2007-05-19 00:00:00 Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide is likely to rise much faster than anticipated because the major recipient of CO2, the polar seas in the Antarctic, seem to be full: It was assumed that, as human activities released more CO2 into the atmosphere,... More About: Full
Support your local Green Biz with dollars.
2007-05-08 00:00:00 There are many banks, credit card companies, internet service providers, and phone services out there that donate some or all of their profits to green causes. For instance, Working Assets (long-distance services) donated $5 million last year for various causes... More About: Green , Support , Local , Dollars , Doll
Know Your Plastics
2007-05-02 00:00:00 Currently, there are seven different types of plastics on the market (#'s 1-7), each used for different purposes and each having different effects on the environment and the human body - both for the consumer and the worker in the... More About: Plastic , Know , Plastics
April 22nd: Earth Day 2007!!
2007-04-26 00:00:00 April 22, 2007: Earth Day was created in 1970 to spark a revolution against environmental abuse. Global warming is real and we're part of the problem. Now, we need to become part of the solution: * Innovate - Recycle Bank... More About: April , Earth Day , April 2
Putting a price on a tree.
2007-04-20 00:00:00 Now here's a perfect story to exemplify why we named this site and production company after the word Consilience (The Unity of Knowledge): Maybe Only God Can Make a Tree , but Only People Can Put a Price on It It... More About: Rice , Putting
Congestion pricing which could lead to free mass transit.
2007-04-12 00:00:00 Now here's a brilliant idea from Theodore Kheel, president of Nurture New York's Nature,* a labor lawyer and mediator from New York City who's ideas back in 1965 finally came to fruition: It was 1965. Robert Moses' New York Triborough... More About: Free , Congestion , Trans , Mass , Lead
Supreme Court Rebukes White House on Global Warming
2007-04-04 00:00:00 Finally...by only a hair's breadth: In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act. Today's ruling has far-reaching implications for broader efforts to address the urgent problem of global... More About: Global Warming , House , White House , White
No Impact Man
2007-03-26 00:00:00 This dude from New York is conducting an awesome experiment: For one year, my wife, my 2-year-old daughter, my dog and I, while living in the middle of New York City, are attempting to live without making any net impact...
Preserve Antibiotics for Sick Animals Only
2007-03-18 00:00:00 As we're all aware by now (hopefully), the industrialized farm industry pumps antibiotics into livestock unnecessarily in order to keep them as healthy as possible as they live and grow in the most unhealthy of environments. Antibiotic feed additives are... More About: Animal , Animals , Anima , Antibiotics , Only
Earth Institute of Columbia University
2007-03-18 00:00:00 If you're unfamiliar with Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute of Columbia Univ ersity , you might want to check out all the impressive things he's doing up there (video, books, etc). He recently sent out an email: We've entered an...
Unhappy Meals - NOT coming from the Earth
2007-03-18 00:00:00 Michael Pollan, a journalist who has written extensively on the industrialized food industry and author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," recently published a pretty amazing article in the New York Times Magazine, where he discusses "nutritionism," or the ideology of nutrients... More About: Earth , Happy , Meals , Ming , Meal
New Report from the I.P.C.C. at the United Nations
2007-03-18 00:00:00 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its fourth assessment since 1990 on the state of the global environment: * Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since... More About: United Nations , The United Nations , Report , Port , United
Exxon Cutting Ties to Global Warming Skeptics?
2007-03-18 00:00:00 Could it be true? Is Exxon actually going to mend its ways and get on board the Global Climate Change Train? Exxon in 2006 stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit advocating limited government regulation, and other groups that... More About: Global Warming , Skeptic , War
Refurbished = Earth-Friendly
2007-03-18 00:00:00 It's in articles like this one where environ-friendly choices meet up with the bottom line: As the information technology director of the Center for a New American Dream, a small environmental group, Jared Seltzer wanted to buy a computer that... More About: Earth , Friend , Urbis , Friendly , Bish
Kyoto Protocol is leading to ridiculous profits for a few...
2007-03-18 00:00:00 A recent article in the NY Times, "Outsize Prof it s, and Questions, in Effort to Cut Warming Gases," details an unhealthy outgrowth of the Kyoto Protocol : Under an obscure UN-backed program, businesses in wealthier nations of Europe and in Japan help... More About: Roto , Profits
Huge arctic ice break discovered
2007-03-18 00:00:00 Scientists have discovered that an enormous ice shelf broke off an island in the Canadian Arctic last year, in what could be sign of global warming. It is said to be the largest break in 25 years, casting an ice... More About: Break , Cover , Over , Huge , Disco
Declare your independence from Junk Mail!
More articles from this author:2007-03-18 00:00:00 This awesome site by New American Dream sets you up to set you free from the ridiculous amount of junk mail served up to us consumers each year. They've set up an automated form letter to help you get off... More About: Mail , Your , Independence , Junk , Epen 1, 2, 3 |
