Whoo-hoo! The first town-wide ban of bottled water is in a tiny little town called Bundanoon, Australia. With only about 2,000 residents it will only have a small impact locally, but it could have big repercussions around the rest of the world. Cities like San Francisco and NY have passed ordinances banning their governments [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Do you have current facts and figures about how much rainforest is being destroyed each day around the world, and for what purpose(s)?
Pinning down exact numbers is nearly impossible, but most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily, and significantly degrading another 80,000 acres every day [...]
The Everglades wetlands ecosystem, our country’s largest subtropical wilderness, has already been devastated by a century of destructive human activity. For many years, the NRDC and other environmental groups have been working to stop a gargantuan limestone mining project from causing even more harm to the Everglades, irreversibly destroying critical wetlands and endangered species habitat, [...]
I know it is very easy to get caught up focusing on the bad stuff going on in our world – the destruction of our rainforests, climate change, peak oil, hormonal changes due to our use of toxic chemicals – sometimes it seems like the totality of the environmental movement focuses only on the negative [...]
