Posts Tagged ‘blue august’
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photo via Valley Vistas
As you hopefully know by now, August is a special month round these parts. That's because it's
Blue August - a month of not only a focus on all things marine here on TreeHugger, but also a month of awesome TV programming and online content on everything related to water over at sister site
Planet Green. To get started on an eco-active foot, there's a challenge being issued to you - Clear Out the Beaches!...
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Tags: activism, beaches, blue august, Butts, Health, nrdc, Photo, planet green, Science & Technology, Treehugger, Tv Programming
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
photo: Phillip Capper via flickr
We all know that the state of the world's fisheries is pretty dire, with
overfishing rampant and
fish stock collapse likely in many places if something isn't done about it. A new paper in the journal
Science gives some hope, saying that management efforts to prevent overfishing are working. H...
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Tags: blue august, Collapse, Fish, Fish Stock, Fisheries Management, fishing, Journal Science, Management Efforts, New Science, oceans, Phillip Capper, Photo, science
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photo via aj_and_marguerite
Now when you walk through the New England Aquarium (a past pick for
a great staycation), you're encouraged to keep your cell phones and MP3 players up and running so that the aquarium can infuse your brain with climate change information....
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Tags: Aj, blue august, Brain Information, Cell Phones, Climate Change, Education, Marguerite, Mobile Tours, New England, New England Aquarium, oceans, Photo, Science & Technology
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Image via Zunami
Talk about a "butterfly flaps its wings" scenario. Scientists Kakani Katija and John Dabiri of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have worked out just how
jellyfish swim, and propose that the way jellyfish and other swimmers move through the water could have as big an impact on mixing up the oceans' waters as tides and wind, which means they're an important part of determining the temperatures of the seas. ...
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Tags: blue august, Butterfly, California Institute Of Technology, global climate change, global warming science, Image, Institute Of Technology, Jellyfish, Katija, Ocean Temperature, oceans, Science & Technology, Scientists, Swimmers, Temperatures, tides, Wings
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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NRDC Issues 2009 "Testing the Waters" Report
A day at the beach sounds good -- as long as the waves aren't contaminated by human or animal waste.
At the risk of raining on your beach party, and in the hopes of eventually improving it, the Natural Resources Defense Council issued its latest
report on water quality at U.S. beaches. The good news: a 10 percent decrease in closing or advisory days last year compared to 2007. The bad: pollution remains serious, lea...
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Tags: Alan Cleaver, Animal Waste, Bad Pollution, beaches, blue august, Day At The Beach, Health, Natural Resources Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council, news, nrdc, Resources Defense Council, Risk, Travel & Nature, water, water crisis, Water Quality, Waves
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
It appears that Canada's greatest contribution to world culture since William Shatner have moved beyond just performing;
Cirque du Soleil are now architects as well. They were chosen to "imagine and design the Canada Pavilion for the 2010 International Expo in Shanghai," now under construction....
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Tags: Acrobats, architects, blue august, Canada, Canada Green, Canada Pavilion, design, Design & Architecture, Green Walls, Imagine, International Expo, Rainwater Harvesting, shanghai, William Shatner, World Culture
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Photo: Flickr, CC
They Ran the Pumps 24/7 Because it Costs too Much to Pay Someone to Turn Them Off...
I think few people realize how much water is used for food production. The numbers are quite mind-boggling, and a side effect of this is that a lot of energy is used to pump that water. So much so that the
Idaho Power Company has started
paying farmers to turn off their water pumps in the afternoon (during peak demand), resu...
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Tags: alternative energy, blue august, energy, Farmers, Food & Health, Food Production, Peak Demand, Peak Electricity Demand, Photo, water, Water Pumps
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