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NYT: Many polluters escape prosecution - The New York Times- msnbc.com - 0 views

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Supreme Court EPA Clean Water Act

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  • Thousands of the nation’s largest water polluters are outside the Clean Water Act’s reach because the Supreme Court has left uncertain which waterways are protected by that law, according to interviews with regulators. As a result, some businesses are declaring that the law no longer applies to them. And pollution rates are rising. Companies that have spilled oil, carcinogens and dangerous bacteria into lakes, rivers and other waters are not being prosecuted, according to Environmental Protection Agency regulators working on those cases, who estimate that more than 1,500 major pollution investigations have been discontinued or shelved in the last four years. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad heredap('&PG=NBCMSN&AP=1089','300','250');The Clean Water Act was intended to end dangerous water pollution by regulating every major polluter. But today, regulators may be unable to prosecute as many as half of the nation’s largest known polluters because officials lack jurisdiction or because proving jurisdiction would be overwhelmingly difficult or time consuming, according to midlevel officials.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 01 Mar 10
     
    The best "justice" money can buy via packing the Supreme Court with "conservatives" is bearing smelly, polluted fruit. Specifically, those "conservatives" are showing themselves to be "activist judges" in "watering down" conservation and public safety laws passed by Congress. Polluting "business" entities are apparently NOT to be considered to be within the oft-quoted and loved "conservative" limitation of the purview of the federal government to merely protect the populace from "enemies foreign and domestic". That this pollution kills and injures thousands (and poisons the environment for the countless of the "unborn") apparently doesn't matter (but if Al Qaeda was doing it, then complete suspension of all domestic rights would be justified to "fight" that!). Pictured: In 2007, a pipe maker was fined millions of dollars for dumping oil, lead and zinc into Avondale Creek in Alabama. A court ruled the waterway was exempt from the Clean Water Act. The firm eventually settled by agreeing to pay a smaller amount and submit to probation.
Bill Fitzgerald

The benefits of conservation tillage - 0 views

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  • Bill Fitzgerald on 18 Jan 10
     
    At the Fourth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture in New Delhi, India, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization stressed the importance of moving away from the conventional intensive farming methods in use today. Shivaji Pandey, Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization stressed the need for change
Jack Travis

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  • Jack Travis on 26 Jun 13
     
    There are many energy conservation tips taken to have the green power in your surrounding region. Also the charges for the fossil fuels are increasing a lot and creates harm for the environment too.
Joshua Sherk

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  • Joshua Sherk on 15 Dec 08
     
    Water saving resources.
Maluvia Haseltine

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Parenting HomeSchooling Sustainability

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  • Maluvia Haseltine on 19 Jul 09
     
    Green parenting is economical, conserving of resources, and by its nature, encourages children to love the earth.
Maluvia Haseltine

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GreenTechnology Sustainability

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  • Maluvia Haseltine on 05 Jul 09
     
    BCIL delivers ecologically sustainable living solutions and believes conservation is possible in the urban context.
Benno Hansen

Sleepwalking to extinction  |  Policies  |  Environment  |  Conservation | Eu... - 0 views

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  • the pace of destruction shows no sign of abating
  • Some species, such as the Iberian lynx and the Mediterranean monk seal, face extinction.
  • The United Nations has declared 2010 to be the ‘International Year of Biodiversity'
Maluvia Haseltine

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AlternativeEnergy Sustainability

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  • Maluvia Haseltine on 14 Feb 10
     
    Plans, tools and information to do renewable energy and conservation projects.
Steve Stearns

The Most Profitable Company in US History - 0 views

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Go electric eclectric vehicles Gas prices

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  • Steve Stearns on 28 Apr 11
     
    Can you guess who earned the most profits last year? If you guessed Exxon you are right! You and I are funding these profits be paying higher gas prices at the pump.

    While you're pinching every penny to feed your family and cutting back to conserve they pocketed 39.5 billion and assured their pla
Jon Snow

Dolphin Tangled in Fishing Line Approaches Divers for Help (Video) : TreeHugger - 0 views

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  • Jon Snow on 23 Jan 13
     
    Un dauphin mal en point aidé par des plongeurs
Benno Hansen

Google-Style Rankings for Ecosystems: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 24 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Allesino’s formula gives importance to a species if it supplies food to another. And, if that species serves as food for several organisms, it climbs up the rankings. Higher ranked species, says Allesino, should become the focus of conservation efforts.
Benno Hansen

Proving the 'shifting baselines' theory: how humans consistently misperceive nature - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 24 Jan 10 - Cached
  • what we see as pristine nature would be seen by our ancestors as hopelessly degraded, and what we see as degraded our children will view as ‘natural’
  • two different types of shifting baselines: generational amnesia and personal amnesia
  • Generational amnesia is when knowledge is not passed down from generation to generation.
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  • National Parks are often view by Americans as the emblem of nature—even with roads running through them clogged with traffic.
  • The evidence for personal amnesia comes from an analysis of the responses of those people who thought that the bird fauna of the area had not changed
  • evidence of “generational amnesia
  • Personal amnesia is when people forget how things used to be during the course of their own lives, for example they may not remember that things which are rarely sighted now were once common
  • over one-third of participants had a static view
  • “If we don't realize what we are losing we stand the risk of sleepwalking through the destruction of the natural world without taking action to remedy the situation,”
  • in the western United States wolves have been locally extinct for so long that no one remembers when they were plentiful. As far the community is concerned wolves are not a part of the natural environment
  • The problem is especially exacerbated when scientific data is not available regarding past conditions of an ecosystem
  • human perception of nature is subject to all sorts of failings, due to short life spans, poor communication (generational amnesia), and unreliable memory(personal amnesia)
Jean Peterson

Synthetic Grass: Green and Economical - 2 views

GreenPlanetGrass did not only beautify our lawn but also helped me do my part in conserving precious water by cutting my water consumption to an amazing 60%! Thanks to their synthetic grass, we wer...

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Arabica Robusta

Pambazuka - 'The real enemy is humanity itself' - 2 views

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  • the first “Earth Summit,” was held in Rio, leading to the Agenda 21 “blueprint for a sustainable planet,” UN conventions on climate change and biodiversity, and the creation of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNSCD). Since then, an entire ecosystem of global, national, governmental and non-governmental organisations has emerged to advocate and implement the closer integration of human productive life with knowledge about the environment: to observe the “limits to growth.” The most notable of these is the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), under which a global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions is being sought.
  • There is vast disparity between what the advocates of political environmentalism have claimed and reality. So why are world leaders set to meet next month in Rio at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development?
  • The 1972 Stockholm meeting discussed the “need for new concepts of sovereignty, based not on the surrender of national sovereignties but on better means of exercising them collectively, and with a greater sense of responsibility for the common good.” In other words, the world can be fed, clothed and housed at the cost of autonomy. This surrendering of autonomy is a price worth paying, according to its advocates, whose argument has been reduced to a neat little slogan: global problems need global solutions.
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  • For instance, while trying to understand why scepticism of climate-change policies seems to correspond to a conservative persuasion, the Guardian’s Damian Carrington recently opined: “The problem is that global environmental problems require global action, which means cooperation if there are to be no free-riders. That implies international treaties and regulations, which to some on the right equate with communism.”
  • James Lovelock, has distanced himself from the more extreme implications of his hypothesis. Where Lovelock once predicted “Gaia’s revenge,” he has reflected in a short interview for MSNBC.com on his alarmist tome, and criticised others such as Al Gore for their over-emphasis on catastrophic narratives. This is a remarkable volte face in itself, but reflects a broader phenomenon: the coming to fruition of environmentalism’s incoherence.
  • The idea that there are too many people, or that the natural world is so fragile that these things are too difficult for normal, democratic politics to deliver, flies in the face of facts.
  • The truth of “sustainability,” and the meeting at Rio next month, is that it is not our relationship with the natural world that it wishes to control, but human desires, autonomy and sovereignty. That is why, in 1993, the Club of Rome published its report, The First Global Revolution, written by the club’s founder and president, Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider. The authors determined that, in order to overcome political failures, it was necessary to locate “a common enemy against whom we can unite.”
  • Arabica Robusta on 26 May 12
     
    On one level, the critique of the "managerial ethos" is commendable.  On another level, the author seems content with presenting arguments that range perilously close to the James Inhofe "climate change is a hoax" camp.  This is fine, but it is not enough to claim that sustainability is all about politics.  One should offer good arguments in support of this, and in response to strong arguments from opposing perspectives.
  • rextag on 17 Mar 17
     
    If humanity don't act in time it could be the end of our lifetime soon natural gas report.
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