Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
By NunoXEI • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Just a few short weeks after Greenpeace released Slaughtering the Amazon, Nike has announced new standards for keeping leather made from Amazon destruction out of its shoes. Nike now wants to work towards a new leather sourcing policy that doesn’t contribute to the destruction of the Amazon or climate change. They’ll be adhering to the new [...]
By NikkiJade • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Videos
This video presents environmental activist Severn Suzuki at age twelve addressing global leaders at the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in a powerful, provocative speech.
By NikkiJade • Jun 17th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This animated video by GOODmagazine breaks down the impact of the world’s “oil addiction”, on prices and other social, environmental and economic factors. The video is a simple overview of a complicated situation, but it presents a provocative message.
By NikkiJade • Jun 10th, 2009 • Category: Videos
What would you do for $20,000? National Geographic and Frito Lay’s Sun Chips want to know. The Green Effect is a contest that asked U.S. residents to submit an original idea for an eco-iniative to make a difference in their community, with prizes to turn the ideas to reality!
By NikkiJade • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This AlJazeera report highlights the challenge of balancing progressive environmental policies and the socio-economic impacts they have, with particular respect to China’s plastic bag ban on June 1, 2008. The accompanying post outlines more detail on the move and a brief global perspective of plastic bag policies.
By NikkiJade • May 18th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This UNICEF video notes that the changing climate undermines social and economic development, which in turn affects children and other individuals’ access to food, clean water, and in turn, education thus bringing awareness to the physical vulnerability of children who are more likely to “die in a natural disaster or succumb to malnutrition, injuries or disease in the aftermath”.
By NikkiJade • May 8th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Spotlight
Coal is one of the largest sources of energy for electricity generation worldwide, accounting for half of the electricity generation in the U.S. As a fossil fuel, burning coal for energy creates vast amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, including its major component carbon dioxide (CO2). Nicole McCallum looks into the “clean coal” debate a little deeper.
By NunoXEI • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Josh Hill, The Daily Galaxy–Together with Britain’s environment ministry and the country’s Meteorological Office, Google have created a new animated map that layers over their Google Earth program to illustrate the potential impact of global climate change over the next century.
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters, ENN–Greenpeace and more than 100 other environmental groups denounced projects for burying industrial greenhouse gases on Monday, exposing splits in the green movement about whether such schemes can slow global warming.
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Jeremy Lovell, ENN–Millions of the world’s poorest children are among the most vulnerable and unwitting victims of climate change caused by the rich developed world, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, calling for urgent action.
