Environmental News
It is confusing to me how a large group of Republicans can be so vehemently pro-life yet so anti the environment. Either these people don’t understand that protecting the environment from major polluters and pollutants keeps all life (humans included) free of unnecessary toxins and carcinogens (SEE LINKS BELOW), or… Read the rest
With environmental-cartoon topics ranging from Michelle Bachmann to Tim DeChristopher, Breastfeeding to Big Coal, it was an interesting year in environmental cartoons.
Follow this link and spend a few minutes looking over what were my eleven most-viewed cartoons of 2011.
Happy New Year!
Joe Mohr (aka “Mean Joe green”)
Joe’s … Read the rest
This cartoon was inspired by the Washington Post article, “Energy industry shapes lessons in public schools“
Big Coal may be molding our youth with pro-coal propaganda, but worry not, Big Coal also offers a “green” video to teachers called “The Greening of Planet Earth,” which says that “our world is… Read the rest
More on the U.S. public opinion on Climate Change
From Grist: The frog and the polar bear: The real reasons Americans aren’t buying climate change
From PlanetSave: UN Climate Negotiators Wrestle for an ‘Ideal’ Plan that Will Completely Screw Us
From Ecopolitology: Republican Presidential Candidates on Climate Change
Another cartoon:… Read the rest
Trout Unlimited is venturing far south of the U.S. border in partnering with Patagonia Sur, a for-profit company whose focus is purchasing and protecting fish and wildlife habitat in Chilean Patagonia. Trout Unlimited, whose mission is “to conserve, protect and restore North America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds,” will be… Read the rest
This compelling video tells a succinct version of the dirty coal story.
For more info visit powerpastcoal.org… Read the rest
More on Fox News and their passionately misinformed legion of followers
From ThinkProgress: Fox News Viewers are the Most Misinformed: A Seventh Study Arrives to Prove It — and Vindicate Jon Stewart!
From HuffingtonPost: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don’t Watch Any News: Study
From PlanetSave: Fox… Read the rest
Both the county and city mayors of Salt Lake City, along with the US Forest Service, have recently voiced their opposition to a proposed Utah ski lift, which would link two Salt Lake City area ski resorts, The Canyons and Solitude.
Management from the two resorts met this past fall… Read the rest
If you’ve passed through a pine forest west of the Continental Divide you’ve no doubt seen the devastation the pine beetle has wrought. In British Columbia the government went all out in its fight against the scourge, but has created another through salvage logging. In an effort to stop the… Read the rest
The first wolf trapping season in the lower 48 since the species’ reintroduction into the Rocky Mountain states opened last week in northern Idaho. The season, running from November 15 to March 31, will allow previously protected wolves to be caught and killed with metal foothold traps. Ranchers and cattlemen… Read the rest
