Eco-Logical: A Group for Environmentalists

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Eco-Logical: A Group for Environmentalists

Eco-Logical is a group for anyone who cares about clean air, drinkable water, a sustainable economy, and environmental justice.

Location: The Irreplaceable Earth
Members: 329
Latest Activity: on Friday

Welcome to Eco-Logical: A Group for Environmentalists

 

Note: Sylvain Duford, the group's creator, has left A|N. I am acting as moderator of the group in his place. Please contact me if you have any questions. - Dallas the Phallus.

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Biochar-producing cookstove: win win!

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by TNT666 on Friday. 5 Replies

Countries at most risk from Climate Change

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on Thursday. 20 Replies

Methane, more scary than we thought

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on Thursday. 13 Replies

Seagrass decline worldwide

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner May 17. 0 Replies

Legal assault on EPA

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner May 17. 2 Replies

Greenland melt rate doubling

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner May 17. 0 Replies

Good news

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner May 17. 23 Replies

CO2 levels today will give us forest in the High Arctic

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Joan Denoo May 11. 3 Replies

Why Climate Change isn't an environmental issue

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Joan Denoo May 9. 3 Replies

We'll blow past 400 pp, CO2 in May 2013

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 30. 3 Replies

From consumer to conserver society

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Grinning Cat Apr 29. 1 Reply

Arctic Sea ice nosediving

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 29. 8 Replies

New Measure for Hurricanes

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 27. 0 Replies

Earth's tipping point moved forward: 2025?

Started by Sentient Biped. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 20. 20 Replies

Thermohlaine Circulation faltering in Southern Hemisphere!!!

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 20. 13 Replies

Greenland accelerated melt

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 18. 0 Replies

Natural gas worse for climate than oil or coal

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Joan Denoo Apr 15. 5 Replies

Turn plants into hydrogen fuel

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Idaho Spud Apr 9. 5 Replies

Climate Denial Crock of the Week

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Comment by Rose Fox on July 29, 2009 at 8:12pm
I loved these videos and can't believe that these kids are so talented and involved in promoting this important global issue. Wow. My sons are great on the computer, so maybe next year I'll convince them to take on this challenge. What a great project. Thanks for posting.
Comment by Nate on July 19, 2009 at 9:16am
The guy has a huge heart and comes across as very sincere and reasonable. I really respect his approach. Thanks again, Sydni.
Comment by Nate on July 19, 2009 at 8:43am
Thanks very much for sharing the No Impact Man blog, Sydni.
Comment by It's just Matt on July 17, 2009 at 3:26pm
Does this movie, No Impact Man, have anything to do with the article I read a few months back where a man stored all his family's trash in the basement for a year?

After my last trash collecting adventure at my local park, I thought, if only every other person would pick up the careless slack of others, we would negate most of the harm done to our own home.
Surely it would be best if everyone used their brain and thought of the consequences of their actions, but I'd settle for every other person being, "The good guy"...We do not need to say we do more for our earth, because you selfish people can already see that.
Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 16, 2009 at 6:05pm
@Sydni: I just got to watch the No Impact Man trailer. That looks good. I guess since it is HD, it will just be available online?
Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 9, 2009 at 12:11pm
This is a couple of years old, but I just watched it last week on DVD. As you can imagine, it is kind of depressing, but still informative nonetheless. I watched the 2007 DVD, but it looks like they have a second season for 2008.


Planet in Peril

"Planet in Peril" examines the environmental conflicts between growing populations and natural resources. A worldwide investigation by Anderson Cooper and chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 9, 2009 at 11:14am


A Literary Treat for Tree Huggers

Trees of all sizes loom large in the world of Linda Underhill, the author of the new book The Way of the Woods: Journeys Through American Forests (Oregon State University). Underhill’s writing is clear, crisp literary journalism, moving with an understated grace as she covers specific types of forests, from rainforests to urban woodlands to the threatened hemlocks of Appalachia. Her writing on old-growth forests displays her deft touch:

Compared to tree plantations or woodlands managed for growing a certain kind of timber, the old-growth forest is an incoherent prayer, devout but disorganized, oblivious to any demands but its own growth and decay. This sacred chaos holds the key to natural processes scientists are eager to study, but there are few places left where people have not already altered their rhythms or otherwise destroyed the evidence of creation at work. The valuable timber in old-growth forests, where trees grow hundreds of feet tall and many feet around, has proved irresistible to those who know the price such wood can bring. But an old-growth forest also offers something less easy to price in the marketplace. It invites us to witness the miracle of creation and change the way we look at our own short lives. The tall trees inspire a reverence equal to any of our own great cathedrals, and they belong only to themselves. Chopping down old-growth trees and hauling them away seems akin to scattering the stones of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and selling them off as souvenirs.

I read the book last week while camping for a few days in the Midwest: first under a giant oak in the Mississippi bottomlands, then beneath the canopy of a maple forest, and finally under a small grove of black walnuts. My copy is a bit dog-eared, having been dripped on by rain-soaked maples and showered with pollen-filled oak catkins. But somehow I suspect the author wouldn't mind.
Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 9, 2009 at 10:21am
Tell Secretary Salazar to protect the Grand Canyon and Colorado River
Since 2003, the number of mining claims within five miles of Grand Canyon National Park has increased from 10 to more then 1,100.

Send the email below urging Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to protect this national treasure.

Speak up to end our exposure to rocket fuel chemicals
EPA should protect Americans from perchlorate -- a toxic chemical in rocket fuel that contaminates drinking water in 28 U.S. states and territories and has also been found in powdered infant formula.

Send the email below to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to ask her to set a legally enforceable limit on perchlorate pollution that will help reduce our children's exposure to the chemical.

Tell Energy Star: lower the mercury content in CFLs
On December 2nd, 2008 Energy Star set a maximum mercury standard of 5 mg for CFLs. But the technology is way ahead of the government: U.S. manufacturers voluntarily implemented this mercury level a year prior, and EWG identified 7 bulb lines with significantly less mercury than the rest.

The Energy Star program began in 1982 and is a key tool to drive innovation for low energy products. But the Energy Star program has missed the opportunity to reduce mercury risks from CFLs by setting a low standard for mercury. So low in fact that industry already achieved it.
Comment by Dallas the Phallus on June 25, 2009 at 2:05pm
Pesticide Action Network - North America

Pesticides are hazardous to human health and the environment, undermine local and global food security and threaten agricultural biodiversity.

Yet these pervasive chemicals are aggressively promoted by multinational corporations, government agencies, and other players in this more than $35 billion a year industry.

Our mission: Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN North America, or PANNA) works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens’ action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable society.
Comment by Dallas the Phallus on June 25, 2009 at 2:03pm


Hillary's choice: clean energy economy or dirtiest oil on earth

Right now, while the United States is working to move into a clean energy economy, a stealth dirty oil mega project is sneaking across the border.

It's up to us to stop it.

The mega project is called the Canadian oil sands, a.k.a. Alberta tar sands, and it's quietly making its way into the U.S., pipeline by pipeline, refinery by refinery, permit by permit.

Now only one person has the power to stop the dirtiest oil project on earth: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

A major piece of this single, massive, Big Oil project -- the Alberta Clipper pipeline -- is up for approval by the U.S. State Department. As if greenhouse gas pollution were not bad enough, it will also result in the wholesale destruction of Canadian boreal forest, a vital carbon sink and global bird nesting grounds.

Secretary Clinton has the power to protect the national interest from more dirty tar sands oil pumped in on pipelines from Canada. She can help secure a clean energy future that will create jobs and reduce the effects of climate change.

Click here to let Secretary Clinton know that we want clean energy jobs, not more dirty oil.
 

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