Environment / Green

Feeding Cleveland - great pictures of a city that grew it's way out of it's conundrums - harvesting improvements for city dwellers in times of greatest need...

350.ORG: MOST WIDESPREAD DAY OF POLITICAL ACTION IN HISTORY - 5,248 Rallies in 181 Countries to Support 350 ppm Climate Target.

The European and Japanese media have gathered in Taiji, Japan in anticipation of the annual dolphin slaughter that usually takes place there the first week of September. The people of Japan have never learned about the dolphin slaughter, because none of the media in Japan (with the exception of the excellent Japan Times) have ever sent reporters to the killing Cove and have kept mum.

Daring renovation and redesign for the future - McMansions Turned into Biofilter Water Treatment Plants - 1st Prize Winner for Re-Burbia Competition ~ What to do about all those older and not so liveable McMansions? Rip them down and build something newer and bigger? Or buy  them up and turn them into wetlands and natural water filtration systems in the middle of urban centers.

Today Germany’s historic Hamburg-Harburg Harbor announced the development of a sustainable

Effective sunscreens are crucial to public health and Environmental Work Group's investigation reveals that they may be hard to find: http://www.ewg.org/whichsunscreensarebest/2009report
An Environmental Working Group investigation of 1,607 sunscreens rates the season’s best — and worst.

Rally for Glacier Howser in Kaslo - You will remember learning a couple of weeks ago that Marine Harvest, the principal Norwegian fish farmer despoiling our waters and killing our fish, had filed their factum in their appeal against Alexandra’s Supreme Court Judgment and had not appealed the constitutional finding that only the federal government had jurisdiction over fis

Below are the results from a poll by Neil Cameron of the Courier Islander on their web page. Usually poll questions garner 100 to 200 responses.
Do you think fish farms are adversely affecting stocks of wild Pacific salmon?
Yes - 4,709
No  - 1,032

Rafe Mair at rafe@rafeonline.com

Open letter from Rafe Mair to Minister Gordon Campbell:

“How can your government deny that private power is overwhelmingly for export when it can only be produced in any quantity during Spring run-off when Hydro's reservoirs are full?