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Uncategorized, May 18th, 2013,
Species: Tehuantepec jackrabbit (Lepus flavigularis) Status: Endangered (EN) Interesting Fact: The Tehuantepec jackrabbit has impressively long ears which can measure up to 12 centimetres in length. The Tehuantepec jackrabbit is considered to be the most endangered hare species in the world. Like other hares, it is characterised by its long legs, large hind feet, huge ears and superb running ability. This species is active at night or at dawn and dusk, sheltering in cover during the day. Like most hares, it does not dig burrows, instead relying on its camouflage and speed to escape predators. Young Tehuantepec jackrabbits, known as leverets, are well developed at…
Uncategorized, Mar 12th, 2013,
The Natural Gas website thenaturalchoice.com.au is the effort of Australian energy provider Jemena, along with natural gas appliance manufacturers, sellers and installers, to promote natural gas as an energy source in Australia. First of all, the site is clear, easily navigated and informative without being wordy. It is straight and to the point with its message: Natural Gas is more affordable and environmentally friendly than electricity. The graphics are nice enough, although the small thin grey text on a bright white background produces a bit of a glare and might not be that easy on some people’s eyes. The “Natural…
Tags: natural gas australia, natural gas the natural choice, natural gas vs electricity
Uncategorized, Nov 8th, 2012,
BORNEO, the third largest island in the world and 4th most populous, is divided up between Indonesia, Malaysia and the tiny nation of Brunei. Malaysian Borneo occupies around 26% of the island, containing the states of Sabah and Sarawak. Of Sabah’s 3 million plus inhabitants, divided officially into 32 ethnicities, the largest indigenous groups are the Kadazan-Dusun, Murut and Baja. The first two are hill tribes, which are comprised of many sub tribes, while the Bajau are a nomadic sea-faring people who live throughout the Maritime (island) region of Southeast Asia. The state of Sarawak is geographically larger than Sabah, but…
Tags: borneo's tribal cultures, Sabah, Sarawak
Uncategorized, Aug 31st, 2012,
Kuching – Explore the narrow streets filled with Chinese shophouses, the Astana and Fort Margherita in Sarawak’s most beguiling city. The most populous city and capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Kuching is a beautiful and clean city with an intriguing history and a captivating character. Known as “Cat City” due to the similarity of the city’s name with the Malay word for cat (kucing), Kuching residents have embraced their home’s feline association, with several cat themed sculptures and even a cat museum. Malaysia’s historical multicultural character is alive and well in Kuching, with…
Tags: colonial heritage, kuching
Uncategorized, Aug 27th, 2012,
Though by no means an ancient city by old world standards, the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur has a fascinating history combining Malay, Islamic, Chinese and colonial British influences (among others). The birth of Malaysia in 1963 saw an end to the Federation of Malaya and of British colonial rule, which began in the early 1800s and left behind some impressive examples of colonial architecture, mostly clustered around Kuala Lumpur’s Old Town. The multi-ethnic character the city had from the beginning is reflected in what remains of its colonial buildings. Since Kuala Lumpur experienced its real boom after British rule,…
Tags: colonial, kuala lumpur, Malaysia, tourism
Uncategorized, Aug 7th, 2012,
The hackney carriage, better known as a black cab, has been synonymous with London for around 100 years. Though they’ve changed design over the years, becoming less spacious in the process, black cabs are still recognizable. Now they’ve gone electric. A Nissan electric black cab, which looks a bit like a mix between a soccer mom’s minivan and a traditional black cab (4 door saloon car), is set to hit London streets as early as next year. From the Guardian: Nissan has promised that its new London taxi, a van-like vehicle, can eliminate 20% of the capital’s exhaust pollution caused by…
Tags: black cab, electric, london
Uncategorized, Sep 28th, 2011,
Being an enthusiastic science fiction fan, when I saw there was a new post-apocalyptic/dystopian series on the way I was typically stoked. The involvement of Steven Spielberg and a couple of guys from the Star Trek franchise gave me moderately high hopes. However, Spielberg’s recent alien invasion series, Falling Skies, didn’t. I was weaned on low-budget sci-fi films and TV from the 80s, which in hindsight usually weren’t very good (see Cherry 2000 or Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone for evidence). Still, these grim, if silly, visions of the future fed my imagination and dominated playtime: I’d be a…
Tags: future, sci-fi, Spielberg, Star Trek, Terra Nova
Uncategorized, Sep 26th, 2011,
Throat cancer has claimed the life of one of Africa’s and indeed the world’s luminaries of environmental and human rights activism. Wangari Maathai, Kenya’s founder of the Green Belt Movement, has died from throat cancer at the age of 71. The Green Belt Movement combined ecological causes with social justice issues and planted 20-30 million trees on the African continent. In 2004 Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism on behalf of the environment, women’s rights and political transparency. She also served as a government minister and Member of Parliament in her…
Tags: activist, Africa, Kenya, Wangari Maathai
Uncategorized, Mar 4th, 2011,
Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? describes a darkened, post apocalyptic future where the majority of mankind has left Earth to settle colonies on other planets. Animals are either endangered or extinct, giving way to a burgeoning industry in artificial life. Both android animals and humans have become so life-like that it is next to impossible to differentiate them from the natural life forms they mimic. For a novel written as early as 1968, Dick seems to have envisioned, with much social commentary and metaphor, many developments that resemble what has already come to…
Tags: Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, environmental, film, Harrison Ford, new, Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott
Uncategorized, Oct 20th, 2010,
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Tags: ad, controversial, flying, Plane Stupid, polar bear
Uncategorized, Sep 17th, 2010,
The Right Livelihood Award is a prize to honor, fund and promote those working against environmental damage, human rights violations and underdevelopment throughout the world. It is not a prize you would expect a head of state from a large country, which is currently at war, to win. The award began 30 years ago after founder, German-Swedish publicist Jacob von Uexkull, attempted to get another category for environmental protection added to the Nobel Prize. After being turned down by the Nobel Committee, von Uexkull founded the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, which gives out three prizes per year of €50,000 each….
Tags: alternative, environmental, German, Nobel, prize, Right Livelihood Award, Swedish, von Uexkull
Green living, Recycling, Uncategorized, Sep 15th, 2010,
The City of Cleveland is spending $2.5M to equip recycling bins with microchips in an attempt to become more green. The municipality is going to give each household two different garbage cans: one for rubbish, one for recyclables. Each will have a micro-chip inside. This is all part of a new automated trash collection system. Micro-chips will be placed in both your recycling bin and your waste bin. Each chip generates a report that tells the city how efficient their waste collection services are. But it will also tell them if you’re using your recycling bin. Click here to read more about…
Tags: bins, Cleveland, environment, Green, Recycling
Politics, Pollution, Uncategorized, Sep 7th, 2010,
The European Union (EU) established the REACH system (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals) and the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) an integrated system for Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals and establishing a European agency for these products. This system requires companies that manufacture and import chemicals to assess the risks arising from their use and take the necessary measures to manage any risk to be identified. The burden of proof with regard to the safety of chemicals manufactured or sold is on the industry. The regulation aims to ensure a high level of protection of human health…
Tags: alogen, bfr, environment, Europe, government, Pollution, research, TOXIC
Nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 30th, 2010,
Environmental and animal-welfare groups are urging the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to persuade the World Health Organization (WHO) to act against the eating of whale meat. These groups say that whale meat is highly contaminated with mercury and should not be eaten. But whaling nations say they already have health guidelines in place. For the past weeks, anti-whaling activists have been trying to draw attention on the issue of consuming meat of smaller whales and dolphins, known as small cetaceans. Small cetaceans, like tooth whales and pilot whales, are among those mostly contaminated and therefore a lot more toxic compounds…
Tags: environment, Europe, water, Wildlife & Flora
Uncategorized, Jul 18th, 2010,
A False Killer Whale – a member of the dolphin family – leapt out of its tank during a performance at an aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Video, taken by an American visitor at the aquarium, shows the dolphin first attempting to leap over the barrier and then falling back into the tank. It then successfully jumps out onto the concrete surrounding the tank, where trainers rush to roll it onto padding and keep it wet by spraying it with hoses. Dolphin activist and former trainer Rick O’Barry – who claims in the documentary film The Cove that he witnessed one…
Tags: aquarium, dolphin, False, japan, jump, Killer, O’Barry, tank, whale
Climate Change, Nature, Uncategorized, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 23rd, 2010,
Flooding and mudslides in the northeast of Brazil have resulted in the deaths of at least 44 people, with as many as 1,000 more missing. Torrents following heavy rains over the past three days have swept away some 40,000 homes in the region, displacing 180,000 people. From an Al Jazeera English report: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president, has called a crisis cabinet meeting on Tuesday and said the government would make federal funds available to help the homeless. The death toll is feared to rise in the Brazil’s northeastern states of Alagoas and Pernambuco, where the flooding is most severe….
Tags: Alagoas, Brazil, death, displace, flooding, floods, northeast, report
Uncategorized, May 17th, 2010,
A recent study claims that 20% of lizard species could be extinct by the year 2080, due to the effects of climate change. The research shows a correlation between rising temperatures and lizard extinctions since 1975. As more species become extinct, entire eco-systems will be thrown out of balance. From an article in the Telegraph: The drop in the lizard population could cause an explosion in the numbers of insect they normally feed on as well as devastating creatures higher up the food chain which rely on them for food. The international study is clear that climate change is at…
Tags: Climate change, extinct, lizard, lizards, species, study, temperature
Climate Change, Uncategorized, Weird Stuff, Apr 25th, 2010,
Now that the Iceland volcano event has died down, lava has cooled and ash has blown far away enough allow Europeans to fly more or less wherever the hell they want, we can only sit back and feel nostalgic for that bygone week when the skies were quiet and sort of tinged with brown. ‘Those were the hazy halcyon days of the spring of 2010,’ we might say one day with a wistful look in our eyes. ‘Sure there was more soot, but there was less pollution‘. In the meantime we can look back by searching through countless images on…
Tags: Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland, images, Northern Lights, photos, volcano
Uncategorized, Apr 14th, 2010,
A series of earthquakes – the largest having a magnitude of 6.9 – struck a Tibetan region of western China today, killing at least 400 people according to an AP report. A further 10,000 were injured as houses collapsed and many remained trapped under fallen buildings – particularly schools – in Qinghai province. From a Wall Street Journal report: The quake hit shortly before 8 a.m. local time Wednesday, jolting Yushu prefecture, part of the Chinese province of Qinghai near the edge of the Tibetan plateau. About 97% of the population in Yushu is ethnically Tibetan. Many earn their living…
Tags: 400, China, dead, earthquake, earthquakes, Qinghai, Tibetan, Western
Uncategorized, Feb 27th, 2010,
A British government adviser has warned that major changes in land management are necessary to deal with the effects of climate change and a growing population over the next 50 years. Professor John Beddington, who is chief scientific adviser to the UK government, warned of ‘competing issues’ that without proper management – including an integration of policies – could cause problems such as water shortages and a decrease in biodiversity. Principal issues named in terms of quality of life for Britons were the preservation of urban green spaces and the availability of affordable housing. Other pressures on land use include…
Tags: British, Climate change, government, green spaces, Guardian, land management, population, pressure, UK, water
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