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Why the best world-changing ideas begin in your neighbourhood... Posted in Ecosystems, Indoor Environment on 05 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

Your ideas for changing the world may be desperately important. But if you can’t find a way to engage the interests of the people around you they may never take off, argues John-Paul Flintoff. The environmental movement has often been guilty of making people despondent, either by talking...

Charting a new environmental course in China... Posted in Ecosystems, Environmental Economics/Politics, Environmental Issues, Living Green on 05 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) works in more than 30 countries and has projects in all 50 of the United States. The Conservancy has over one million members, and has protected more than 119 million acres of wild-lands and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide. TNC has taken an active...

The Fall of the Reef Shark... Posted in Ecosystems, Living Green on 05 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

Sharks have a reputation of being apex predators of the sea. But even they have their weak points. Many shark populations have plummeted in the past three decades as a result of excessive harvesting – for their fins, as an incidental catch of fisheries targeting other species, and in recreational...

Study links fungi to early vascular plants... Posted in Ecosystems, Environmental Issues on 05 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

Cooperating with fungi didn’t just help the earliest plants spread across a barren, rocky landscape; it also played a decisive role in the rise of more complex plants with roots and leaves that make up most of today’s flora. That’s the conclusion of a recent study, which used...

Is "Wine on Tap" a More Sustainable, Drinkable Alternative?... Posted in Indoor Environment on 05 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

An innovation in wine drinking is emerging in California restaurants: wine on tap. Wine served from a keg is not a new concept; it has a long-standing history in Europe. But here in the United States, wine on tap has been brought to the market and failed – more than once; first in the 1970s,...

G8 Leaders Agree to Act on Climate, Air Pollution... Posted in Ecosystems, Environmental Economics/Politics, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment on 05 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

At the Camp David meeting last week, G8 leaders agreed to act on climate change and air pollution by focusing on methane, black carbon (soot), and hydroflurocarbons (HFCs). Original post: G8 Leaders Agree to Act on Climate, Air Pollution Read More →

Leaf ’stamp’ could detect crop diseases... Posted in Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment on 05 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

Crop diseases could be detected earlier and more easily if a new method that stamps a leaf with a color-changing biosensor is successful. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded US$100,000 to Hideaki Tsutsui of the University of California, Riverside, earlier this month (9 May) to develop...