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Sustainability

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 17, 2013

How Private Companies are Key to Saving Brazil’s Other Forest

Big Business and Biodiversity When the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral first reached the coast of present-day Brazil in April 1500, he found a paradise. Waiting ashore was a vast…

Energy

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 15, 2013

Offshore Wind: An Answer to Our Energy Needs

President Obama made a historic speech on Tuesday June 25th, 2013, which laid out a climate action plan for the country that is aimed at decreasing carbon pollution and slowing…

Animals

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 12, 2013

Global Bird Populations Increasingly Threatened

West Coast Sea Bird Endangered? The coastal waters and offshore islands of sunny California is home to the ashy storm-petrel – a small gray seabird who specifically hangs out in…

Animals

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 12, 2013

South Africa Community Plants Forest To Save World’s Rarest Parrot

To save the only parrot endemic to South Africa, local communities are planting trees critical to the iconic bird’s survival. National Geographic featured the plight of the South Africa’s Cape…

Sustainability

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 12, 2013

Car Free Mackinac Island

Do you know a place where driving your car on the road is illegal? Well now you can say you do because nestled in between Michigan’s peninsulas is a small…

Environment

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 5, 2013

Iconic Oceans Are Also Maritime Accident Hotspots

The South China Sea, Black Sea, the British Isles and east Mediterranean are only some of the world’s most iconic oceans at the most risk from shipping accidents. This is…

Sustainability

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 4, 2013

Colony Collapse Disorder: Past, Present, Future

Past Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) started popping up in the news around 2006. Not many people knew what the problem was attributed to back then, but a lot of people…

Green Technology

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 3, 2013

The Disappearing Package Project

A box of soap that dissolves in the shower? A pod of detergent you can toss in the washing machine? While big brand names are trying to make their product packaging…

Green Technology

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 2, 2013

The New Electric Vehicle Race

Back in 2009, auto blog Gas 2.0 published a fun little rivalry between former mayors of San Francisco and Portland who each declared that their city would be the EV…

Animals

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 1, 2013

Book Review of Mad Sheep

A Fine Line Between Safety and Panic: A Sheep Story My grandmother’s first husband died of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, otherwise known as mad cow disease, years before my grandmother married my…