Dear EarthTalk: How is the fur industry doing these days? Has it been impacted by activism from PETA and similar groups?
An accurate source of up-to-date numbers is hard to come by, but it’s safe to say that the fur industry has been hurt by the ongoing and very visible anti-fur campaign—sometimes featuring top supermodels—by People [...]
A few weeks ago I saw a posting over at Design Sponge that had instructions for making a cat scratching post out of old cardboard. Talk about recycling! Since we have just moved yet again into our new place, we have plenty of the main ingredient for the project – the cardboard. Add [...]
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 [...]
