Category Environment

The Pangea Day Event

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A great event!! Check out the video and winning entries

There are many events all around the US. Google Pangea day for your area and join in. This is a world event for everyone!

If you can’t get to an event host your own.  Check PangeaDay.org for details

 

The Pangea Day Event

Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person’s eyes. Details on the Pangea Day films can be viewed here.

The program will also include a number of exceptional speakers and musical performers. Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova are among those taking part.

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America’s dirty little oil secret: Plastic Bottles and Bags

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America consumes 31.2 billion water bottles a year taking 17.6 million barrels of oil to create them. Enough to fuel 1.5 million cars for a year. America consumes 100 billion plastic bags a year taking 12 million barrels of oil. World figures? 154.3 billion water bottles and 500 billion – 1 trillion bags=147.4 – 207.4 million Bottles n bagsbarrels of oil a year. Hey, let’s just stop drinking out of those plastic bottles, do without plastic bags, pick em up and dispose of them properly! I know you do 🙂

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Technological Breakthrough In Fight To Cut Greenhouse Gases

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Scientists at Newcastle University have pioneered breakthrough technology in the fight to cut greenhouse gases. The Newcastle University team, led by Michael North, Professor of Organic Chemistry, has developed a highly energy-efficient method of converting waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemical compounds known as cyclic carbonates.

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Earth in crisis, warns NASA’s top climate scientist

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NASA Scientist James Hansen

I just read this and really thought this to be of great importance. It is not that we didn’t know it, rather that it is being stated against the fossil fuel industries. Please take a look at the whole article.

Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA’s top climate scientist says.

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What’s New on “we can solve the climate crisis”

more info at wecansolveit.org

Together we can solve it!

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You may have seen the TV ads from wecansolveit.org. 

Here is a little from their site that should be of interest to us all:

The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection — a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. Our ultimate aim is to halt global warming. Specifically we are educating people in the US and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.

I have joined up and started to tell my friends. I believe this is one way we can all make a difference. Please chack it out and ask all your friends to take a look. Together we can make a difference. Let’s sign and show that we do have a voice!!  Check out wecansolveit.org

Thank you and let’s make it happen, 

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Excavation starts at Stonehenge

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The first excavation inside the ring at Stonehenge in more than four decades gets under way on Monday. Stonehenge

The two-week dig will try to establish, once and for all, some precise dating for the creation of the monument.

It is also targeting the significance of the smaller bluestones that stand inside the giant sarsen pillars

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Ten Things You Can Do to Help Save the Earth

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Going green is easier than you think. There are little things you can do every day to help reduce greenhouse gases and make a less harmful impact on the environment. Taking care of the Earth is not just a responsibility — it’s a privilege. In the spirit of Earth Day, HowStuffWorks came up with 10 things you can do to help save the Earth.

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