China to reduce water consumption by 60% in a decade

Chinese water resource ministry is planning to cut water use by 60% by the time year 2020 comes around through more careful water management measures. Currently, ensuring adequate water supply is a problem for...

How to help the Environment and Make Money too!

No, this is not a spam article designed to get my grubby little hands on your hard-earned dollars or euros by getting you to buy phony bio products (of which there are more and more, unfortunately), but a quick way...

Oilsands link to Fort Chip cancer rates?

As officials try to play down the raised cancer rates amongst aboriginal people in Fort Chipewyan others are pointing a finger towards oilsand plants that sit higher up the water courses that feed Fort Chip. For a...

Report attacks Canada for failed green projects

A new report by Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development suggest that the Canadian federal government has not got a clue if the amount of money it is spending on green projects are...

Global Warming

Given Technology vs Global dominance as to Power there have become too many variants  in assessing the reality of matters. Add to that Weather Modification Companies working for Govs and Insurance...

Could Concrete Help Lower Carbon Emissions?

The production of concrete, a hardened mix of cement powder, aggregate, and water, has increased almost 400 per cent since 1970 and its manufacture is resource-intensive and polluting. The cement industry is...

Large fish farms off Gulf seem likely to go ahead

Fish farms off the Gulf of Mexico will likely receive approval to become the first ocean large-scale fish farm in the United States. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will vote next week on whether to...

Cleaner air means Americans live longer

The cleaner the air - the longer you will live - makes sense right? Well in over 51 US cities, reduced air pollution over a period of twenty years, has added five months to the average persons' life expectancy. ...

Lose Your Illusions (Jan 20, 2008)

Mark and Krystyn are joined this week by Tragically Hip frontman and co-applicant Gord Downie for a look back at the Lafarge Alternative Fuels Project case in Bath, ON.  After being denied leave to appeal,...

Jaxport and city fail to honor public access to river

The city's idea and Jaxports balance is obviously very different to that of thousands of signatures collected along with Mayport residents who oppose the cruise terminal development in the village, I like to point out some of the more obvious flaws in their arguement. The...

Pope Benedict says Pollution could destroy world's future

On this Epihany Day, Pope Benedict XVI warned that the world's pollution could destroy the future of our planet, and that people need to take the issue of world climate change more seriously. " Benedict is...

Two-stroke Engine Pollution Solution

Cities across the South choke on the pollution made by the small two-stroke engines (http://www.howstuffworks.com/two-stroke.htm) powering motor scooters, motorcycles, auto rickshaws, tuk-tuks and other vehicles....

China opens road tunnel under Yangtze River

The first tunnel under the Yangtze River is now open to traffic in central China, under a three month trial. The tunnel is 3.6 km long and is part of an effort to not only relieve traffic congestion, but also to...

Is one of our national treasures soon to be trashed

Can we stop our country's historic Village of Mayport from being paved over?  The City Council of Jacksonville, Florida, may be about to destroy our nation's FIRST settlement seeking religious freedom, and...

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