Archive for May, 2010
Since 2007, Barefoot Wine has spent its summers cleaning beaches coast to coast through the Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project… Read the rest. This year, with the help of their partners at the Surfrider Foundation, the project will head to Portland on Saturday, August 7th. They will be cleaning the banks of
When President Obama took office, he rightly stated that in a speech before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “For more than three decades, the Endangered Species Act has successfully protected our nation’s most threatened wildlife, and we should be looking for ways to improve it — not weaken it.”… Read the rest
On May 22, 2010, the University of California San Diego Triathlon Team will host the 2nd annual Grove Run, a 100 percent Sustainable 5k Run and Walk. In 2009 the Grove Run was honored to be one of the most sustainable races ever documented, and was also the first certified… Read the rest
The 7 Most Ridiculous Things Rush Limbaugh Has Said About BP’s Oil Spill
Limbaugh: ‘When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?’
Why the End Times Might Reek of Methane… Read the rest
If this video doesn’t make you sick (or make you cry) then you might want to check your pulse. Our plasticized world needs to be cleaned up–now.
Start by checking the Surfrider Foundation’s website under the section about how we (and future generations) are to go about the solution to… Read the rest
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has their work cut out for them: For the next three years, the group will spend their time clearing contaminated mining waste from the slopes of the Great Divide Ski Area.
The slopes in front of the ski area’s base lodge are contaminated… Read the rest
A trail plan proposed by the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Massachusetts has raised concern for conservation groups over expanded trail access for mountain bikers. Though the plan is part of a yearlong assessment of the Fells trail system and the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to suppress the ongoing… Read the rest
Henry David Thoreau would be so proud of Concord, Massachusetts’ decision to become the first U.S. town to ban bottled water. Now it’s time for the rest of the U.S. to follow suit!
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Concord, MA to be First U.S. Town to Ban Bottled Water
Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau… Read the rest
It used to be quite simple. Throughout much of human’s history, the people were separated in two camps. On one side, there were the country people, and on the other, the city people. The ones who lived in the country were generally more in touch with nature. They worked the… Read the rest
