Category: Environment

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November 30th, 2008

Undoing Bush’s Environmental Legacy.

Dear EarthTalk: How can the new Obama administration and/or Congress undo the many anti-environmental actions the Bush administration undertook over the last eight years, including the obstruction of Bill Clinton’s landmark “roadless rule” legislation? The Bush administration has certainly been no friend to the environment. Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton administration’s [...]

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November 20th, 2008

My 1987 High School Report On The Ozone Layer.

This weekend my wife and I were going through some stuff as we prepare to move and I came across a report I wrote about the ozone layer in 1987 – when I was just 15 years old. Yep, 21 years ago. Mind you I had no idea what I was talking about, but it [...]

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November 04th, 2008

Even If It Didn’t Matter, Why Would Anyone Choose To Litter?

Even if littering did nothing and whatever you threw on the ground had no affect on our ecosystems or planet, why would anyone choose to do it?

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October 08th, 2008

1,100 Species To Go Extinct In 2008.

This is what we want to leave for future generations? Thousands of species going extinct each year? I hope not. The IUCN Red List for 2008 includes the monitoring of 44,838 species, of which 869 (2%) are now extinct, 16,928 (38%) are threatened with extinction, 3,513 (8%) are near threatened, and 5,570 (12%) have insufficient [...]

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October 05th, 2008

Are Aerosols Still Bad For The Ozone Layer?

Dear EarthTalk: What’s the deal nowadays with aerosol spray cans? I thought that the ozone-depleting chemicals used in them were eliminated back in the 1970s. Is this true? If so, what is now used as a propellant? Are aerosols still bad for the ozone layer? The aerosol spray can has a storied history in the [...]

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July 23rd, 2008

Silence: It’s Golden. And Quiet…Very Quiet.

Taos is a different kind of place, as on one side you have what is basically the desert – flat land, no water, sagebrush growing everywhere. And on the other side of town, you have canyons and Carson National Forest – tons of trees, grass and water. It is quite a dichotomy, really. But my favorite part of both sides of town is the silence – I have never experienced silence like this, and it has taken some getting used to. We are so used to traffic, blaring horns, booming stereos and just a general buzz that when we got here and tried to fall asleep the first couple of nights, we couldn’t!

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April 29th, 2008

Giveaway: DVD’s From The History Channel.

Posting will be light this week as I will be away for most of the week, so please bear with me. Thanks! The people over The History Channel were kind enough to send me two DVD’s to give away to you guys in honor of Earth Day…problem is is that I didn’t get them until [...]

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