Whaling worsens carbon release, scientists warn
An estimated 100 million tons of carbon has been released into the atmosphere due to a century of whaling. Described by Dr. Andrew Pershing from the University of Maine describes whales as the “forests...
View ArticleWal-Mart to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution by 2015
In 2005, Wal-Mart introduced three goals: to be supplied 100% by renewable energy, to create zero waste, and to sell products that sustain people and the environment. Wal-Mart currently uses 29 solar...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Road Salt, Snow Melt and the Bay
BayBlog’s Question of the Week last week was about whether or not the road salt used as a deicing agent during the past few storms has become a source of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. The short...
View ArticleCoal Mountain River
What impacted me the most during Lorelei’s talk was her difficult decision to stand up and fight for her rights and beliefs. Her grandfather, father, husband, and sons all work or have worked in the...
View ArticleStealing Your Way to Australia
What has always fascinated me about Australia is its demographic history. Up until the American Revolution, Britain sent its convicts to the American colonies as indentured servants. Once America...
View ArticleFallacies of Vegetarianism
Food Inc. is such a powerful and informative movie. Upon leaving the classroom, I heard many people remark “That’s why I’m a vegetarian.” Part of me feels a little bad that the disturbing scenes shown...
View ArticleTapped
Tapped brought up many issues and the discussion afterwards was just as enlightening. The two main issues that impacted me the most were 1) the dangers of PET and 2) the question of “What can we do?”...
View ArticleMoney Saving Fonts
Here’s an interesting article I came across the other day about how you can save money by being smart about the fonts you use. According to the article, Century Gothic takes up less ink than writing in...
View ArticleReflection Blog
One of the first blogs I wrote captured why I decided to take this course in the first place. I wrote about how economics and ecology often appear to be fighting on opposing sides and how fed up I am...
View ArticleWho Draws the Line on Radical Environmentalism?
In my opinion, there is always some group of people who become so radical that they give their particular movement a bad name. John Wade is the type of person who makes me wary of the environmental...
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