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Asking for the Earth

Asking for the Earth

http://askingfortheearth.blogspot.com/

Some concerns expressed on green issues

Recent Posts

  • How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?

    Posted on Wednesday October 15th, 2008 at 01:56 in energy, light bulbs, carbon footprint

    Here is a great piece from the New Scientist about the largly un reported move to do away with the lightbulb as we knew it in Europe and the real benefits of its so called energy saving replacement....

  • Reasons to boycott Starbucks: No. 356

    Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 07:48 in starbucks

    Starbucks has today been accused of wasting more than 23 million litres of water every day.The coffee chain, which prides itself on being green, has a health and safety policy of leaving taps running in all of its 10,000 branches worldwide it has bee...

  • Oil Palm Plantations: No Substitute For Tropical Rainforests

    Posted on Friday September 19th, 2008 at 03:19

    The continued expansion of oil palm plantations will worsen the dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, unless rainforests are better protected. Palm oil, used in food, cosmetics, biofuels and other products, is now the wor...

  • Palin Changes Position on Global Warming - Then Denies It

    Posted on Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at 02:59

    Now says she believes human actions are partly to blame - and that she never changed her positionread more | digg story...

  • ‘Eco-Terrorism’ Legitimized by British Court in Epic Ruling

    Posted on Monday September 15th, 2008 at 02:34 in activism

    In a monumental ruling, a British jury acquitted six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage charges stemming from what the activists said was an attempt to shut down a coal-fired power plant. The jury decided that the activists’ action was justifi...

  • Plastic Bags: Can We Kick the Habit?

    Posted on Monday September 15th, 2008 at 02:29 in plastics

    Adventures in the development of truly biodegradable plastics are showing that technology can help us with our environmental challenges, but make no mistake technology on its own will not be able to deliver us from our environmental quagmire.read mor...

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theminimalist

5 stars The Minimalist

This is a great ecology blog with links to other really informative sites and articles.

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