Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web, and this year [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
