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Animal Rights, Animals, Green living, Science & Technology, Feb 22nd, 2012,
Student of architecture, Andre Ford, has proposed a new system of mass chicken production, in which, according to wired.co.uk, the birds will no longer have the main core of their brains. This means they won’t be able to suffer the atrocity of being packed in vertical yokes in which they are to grow to eventually end up on our plates. The project, named The Centre for Unconscious Farming, is a response to the increase in chicken meat consumption and the cruelty associated with it that is so prevalent on factory farms. Unconscious birds, in a manner resembling growing plants, will be connected…
Tags: brain, chicken, cruelty, farm, project
Climate Change, Conservation, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 10th, 2010,
The Prince of Wales’ has launched the Size of Wales initiative, with the aim of protecting or reforesting an area in Africa the size of the country of Wales. Because he’s Prince of Wales, get it? The Size of Wales charity will raise money and send Welsh volunteers to help with deforestation programs. Climate change and deforestation have long been issues close to the future king’s heart. From an article in the Telegraph: The people of Wales will be the first in the world to mobilise such a national response to the problem of tropical deforestation and climate change. It…
Tags: Africa, Charles, Climate change, deforestation, Prince, project, rainforest, Wales
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Sep 6th, 2010,
This week leading climate scientists will meet in the UK to make plans for a project with the aim of creating an international weather databank and revolutionizing the way meteorological disasters are predicted. The project will entail the creation of a global network of weather stations that give daily readings, digitizing old sea logs, gathering weather information from all countries of the world, as well as forging co-operational relationships with web companies such as Google and Galaxy Zoo. We need to answer key questions such as whether the onset of the monsoon in India will be delayed, how the frequency…
Tags: climate, extreme, project, scientists, UK, weather
Green living, Politics, Jun 25th, 2010,
UNCIVILISATION – aka the Dark Mountain Festival – took place over the last weekend in May at Llangollen, a small town in northwest Wales on the edge of the Berwyn Mountains. I’ve written a couple of times about the polemical Dark Mountain Project, a post-environmentalist movement that has given up on mainstream environmentalism, activism and politics – but not life, as I’ve been assured by DM founder Paul Kingsnorth – in favor of establishing a new movement and new way of life in the ‘age of decline’, which does not depend on current established economical/political/cultural models. I did not attend…
Tags: Dark Mountain, environmental, environmentalism, festival, George, Kingsnorth, Monbiot, movement, Paul, project, uncivilisation
Climate Change, Nature, Pollution, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 19th, 2010,
Plastic is everywhere. It’s part of our dishes, part of our clothing, and part of our furniture. It can be found in our transportation, hospital medical equipment, and throughout our schools. It’s littered across our forests, polluting our waterways, and taking up a lot of unnecessary space in landfills. We’ve found it in trees, around animals’ necks or in their stomach contents. And the situation is only going to get worse. Plastic Century wants you to know how bad the situation was, is, and will become. How? They’ve created a special exhibit at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences to…
Tags: connection, exhibit, Jacques Cousteau, oceans, people, plastic, Plastic Century, Pollution, project, relationship
Climate Change, Green living, Nature, Politics, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 18th, 2010,
Sweden is sure making some interesting headlines this week when it comes to energy sources. First, there was the issue of the Greenpeace protest at a nuclear power plant. Now, however, I’m happy to report somewhat better news. This Scandinavian nation plans to build Europe’s largest wind park, which will contain 1,101 wind turbines. The Markbygden farm will cover an area more than 310 miles (500 square km) in size (or 5 times the size of Paris). How did they manage to swing such a project? It turns out most of the land is practically uninhibited. The project is headed…
Tags: Enercon, Europe, grazing, largest wind farm, Markbygden, project, reindeer, renewable energy, Sami people, Samis, Svevind, Sweden, upset, wind energy, wind farm, wind park
Climate Change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 3rd, 2010,
London-based Tenner Films is an independent documentary film company concentrating on subjects of environmental degradation and global justice. Their project, entitled ’13 short films about nuclear power’ brings together art, poetry, animation and documentary filmmaking around the nuclear question. The goal of Tenner Films is to encourage debate about nuclear power through social and human stories – in their own words, ‘to challenge, entertain and inform’. Some of the films – namely ‘Fifty Years’ and ‘Beyond’ – seem like they’d fit right in at an art exhibition, while ‘A Modest Proposal’, featuring poet Danny Chivers, is both humorous and informative….
Tags: documentary, film, human, minister, nuclear, power, project, Tenner Films, Tony Benn
Climate Change, Politics, May 12th, 2010,
A few days ago I wrote a bit about the Dark Mountain Project, a sort of post-environmentalist survivalist ideology with a lot of poetry thrown in. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand DM seem appealingly realist and anti-system. Yet at the same time it’s a prematurely pessimistic ‘the worst case scenario has already arrived’ kind of philosophy. The thing is, for the overwhelming majority of environmentalists, greens, etc. the fight is far from over. George Monbiot – who will be attending Uncivilization: the Dark Mountain Festival at the end of the month – clearly hasn’t given…
Tags: Dark Mountain, dystopia, environmentalist, George, hexayurt, Monbiot, project
Climate Change, Politics, May 3rd, 2010,
Everything’s not going to be all right. No matter what we do, things will not turn out OK. Accept it, deal with it. Life – but not life as we know it – will go on. For a while, anyway. This seems to be part of the message of the Dark Mountain Project, a new movement of intellectual and artistic post environmentalists who – I think – wish to set a new realist agenda vis-à-vis the environment, global culture and society. Their manifesto is at once refreshing, pessimistic, a bit too sure of itself and possibly pointless. Then again I…
Tags: Dark Mountain, environmentalism, festival, Kingsnorth, manifesto, Paul, project, realism
Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Apr 30th, 2010,
The Cape Wind project – planned to be located in the Nantucket Sound off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the United States – was given the go-ahead on Wednesday by the US government. From an article in the New York Times: Developers say that Cape Wind will provide 75 percent of the power for Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard — the equivalent of that produced by a medium-size coal-fired plant. It would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of taking 175,000 cars off the road, officials said, and provide 1,000 construction jobs. A bitterly contested…
Tags: Cape Wind, Nantucket, power, project, sound, US, wind, wind farm
Climate Change, Green living, Politics, Science & Technology, Apr 28th, 2010,
Indonesia is making a rather bold move in the realm of renewable energy. How bold? They’ve recently launched a plan to tap volcano power for geothermal energy purposes. Considering their vast island chain (an archipelago of 17,000 islands) holds hundreds of volcanoes and at least 40% of the world’s geothermal energy potential, this kind of move really makes perfect sense. However, they’ve only been able to tap a small portion of that power and the cost of it all is an issue they are still contending with. Currently, Indonesia relies on the dirty power of coal. This is mainly because…
Tags: coal, geothermal energy, greenhouse gas emissions, Indonesia, project, renewable energy, volcanic power, volcanoes
Nature, Politics, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 19th, 2010,
Plans for the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon have experienced some recent setbacks in the form of back and forth legal action as well as controversy over indigenous rights and environmental issues. As of Friday, however, bids for construction contracts are again set to move forward on the previously planned date of April 20th. The Belo Monte dam project, set to be located on the Amazon’s Xingu River, will be the world’s third largest hydroelectric plant of its kind. It is part of a Brazilian government initiative to fuel economic expansion and recovery while mitigating…
Tags: amazon, Avatar, Belo Monte, Brazil, Brazilian, Cameron, dam, energy, government, hydroelectric, indigenous, James, native, project, river, Xingu
Green living, Weird Stuff, Apr 12th, 2010,
Are you an artist? Do you love to create eco-friendly crafts? Have people ever told you that you have a real knack for creating neat works of art from recyclable products? If you said yes to any of those questions, then you might be interested in the Make It Green Contest. This contest is being held by Creative HomeArts Magazine—in particular, their club. They want you to send in photos of your best, most creative eco-friendly project. Any technique can be used to make your project or craft. Three Grand Prize winners will receive $750 (1st) $500 (2nd) and $250…
Tags: arts, contest, crafts, Creative HomeArts Magazine, creativity, eco-friendly, Green, Make It Green Contest, project
Green living, Health, Mar 7th, 2010,
The municipality of in the region of North Karelia in the east of Finland is home to a remarkably successful health program. Eastern Finland once had the highest death rate from heart disease in the world. In 1972 a Finnish government led project was launched in cooperation with the WHO to combat heart disease in Eastern Finland, starting in North Karelia. The North Karelia Project focuses on lifestyle factors in non-communicable diseases – primarily diet and exercise. By 2006 the annual mortality rate of coronary heart disease in North Karelia in the working age population had fallen approximately 85 %,…
Tags: disease, Finland, Health, heart, Karelia, NBC, north, project
Climate Change, Green living, Nature, Feb 4th, 2010,
To the disappointment of environmental and indigenous rights groups, the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest has been green-lighted by the Brazilian environmental ministry. The Belo Monte dam project on the Amazon’s Xingu River will be the world’s third largest project of its kind. The hydroelectric dam is part of a government initiative to fuel economic expansion while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Yet many see the Belo Monte project as destructive – both to the fragile and valuable ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest and to its indigenous inhabitants’ way of life. Roberto Messias, head of Brazil’s…
Tags: amazon, Belo Monte, Brazil, Brazilian, construction, dam, environmental, government, Guardian, hydroelectric, indigenous, project, rainforest, river, Xingu
Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 24th, 2010,
Flowers have been used in a number of environmental projects over the past year. Toyota created 2 new species of plants to help offset their emissions. France is planning on adding a bunch of nectar-bearing flowers along their roadsides to help honey bees. Now, there is a project turning towards a giant amongst flower-kind: the sunflower. The idea behind the Genomics of Sunflower project is the crossbreeding of a standard sunflower with the Texas Silverleaf species (one that grow up to 15 feet tall), thus creating a hybrid that will produce a vast number of edible seeds and also have…
Tags: DNA sequencing, ethanol, flowers, genome, Genomics of Sunflower, hybrid, plants, project, study, sunflowers
Nature, Politics, Jan 12th, 2010,
![]( "<!--:en-->Conservation, Native rights and sustainable energy: Cape Wind suffers another")
' src='http://gf3.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/4795.jpg' alt='conservation-native-rights-and-sustainable-energy-cape-wind-suffers-another-blow' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> What would be the United States’ first offshore wind farm project – dubbed Cape Wind – may be in jeopardy due to an announcement by the National Park Service last week. The NPS stated that the site of the proposed wind farm, in Massachusetts’ Nantucket Sound, should be eligible for protection by being included in the National Register of Historic Places. Two Native American tribes, the Aquinnah and the Mashpee Wampanoag, are opposed to the project due to traditional and spiritual reasons: ‘The turbines would be clearly visible to both Aquinnah and Mashpee people and would degrade their essential view…
Tags: American, Cape Wind, government, Indian, Martha's Vineyard, Mashpee, Massachusetts, Nantucket, native, project, spiritual, sustainable energy, tribes, United States, Wampanoag, wind farm
