greenreach // Unofficial observations from green expert members of greenREACH.*
greenreach // Unofficial observations from green expert members of greenREACH.*
The following is from a 2006 article. Which means it's much worse now.
"With habitats crashing, the animals that call them home are succumbing too. In Alaska, salmon populations are faltering as melting permafrost pours mud into rivers, burying the gravel the fish need for spawning. Small animals such as bushy tailed rats, chipmunks and pinion mice are being chased upslope by rising temperatures, until they at last have no place to run.
And with sea ice vanishing, polar bears are starting to turn up drowned. "There will be no polar ice by 2060," says Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation. "Somewhere along that path, the polar bear drops out." [read more here]
That is, unless you do something about it.
And yes, I'm using a cute animal photo to get through to you, as it seems that nothing else will.
Eight weeks after BP's oil rig explosion in the Gulf, the House Energy Committee grilled cheif executives from Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips, Chevron Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc about their own contingency plans. And all of them came up seriously wanting...and millions of years outdated:
Markey pressed the CEOs on why their safety plans for a Gulf spill described the effects on walruses [Editor's note: Walruses have not lived in the Gulf for at least 3 million years.] Two of the companies also incorporated contact information for a Florida marine researcher who died in 2005, Markey said.
...“It’s unfortunate that walruses were included, and it’s an embarrassment,” Tillerson said.
Read the article here.
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"One of the dilemmas I've noticed coming out of the environmental disaster that is still roiling the Gulf of Mexico is the interconnectedness of our economic system with toxic policies.
"By "toxic policies" I mean programs or planning that will lead to eventual destruction of human life on this planet, if not in the immediate future, than within several generations."
They've got a point, you know. Click here to do something about it.
Believe it or not, there is a living bird under all of that oil. But he won't be alive for long.
Our addiction to oil fuels needless deaths like these. Click here to learn how to get off the junk.
A recent sexology study of porn revealed the following:
Read more here.
A picture is worth...well, you know the rest. Click here for contest rules & details.
The Beehive Collective is a group of Maine-based artists / systems-thinkers / radical activists / visionaries who meld political, social and natural systems of inter-connectivity into one gorgeously horrifying take-the-green-pill matrix of images and symbolism. The mural is then printed onto wall-long sheets and presented in schools with an equally engaging narrative context.
This image is a sample of their latest work depicting the processes, dependencies and damages that a coal-dependent world promotes.
Click here for a full image of the portable mural.
