WeEarth Launches Its Online Network Around the World
LOS ANGELES, CA (May 6, 2008 )
On Earth Day, April 22, WeEarth launched not just a website, but an integrated online media network powered by the voices of its members. WeEarth provides its users with a unique portal through which they can explore and share environmental and [...]
You can’t discover what’s in a black hole unless you go inside. But if you do, you never come back. Such is the problem physicist Stephen Hawking has faced when attempting to deepen his knowledge on the subject, and such was my experience listening to the latest lecture Hawking gave through his cheek. The lecture [...]
So this article may convince you to take a day off from We Earth every now and then, a dangerous proposition that probably won’t do me any good, but I’ll take my chances.
Internet addicts are committing to “Unplug Days,” where they shut off the computer, don’t talk on instant messenger, don’t blog, and don’t answer [...]
For the first time in history, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are actually encouraging people to eat meat, but under unique conditions that only future science can develop.
On the group’s website they claim to offer $1 million to the first scientist who can create “in-vitro-meat,” real, edible animal flesh that is [...]
As awareness of green technology increases, so do the dilemmas it presents. Most recently, a decision in Scotland shows how some efforts to go green could harm more than they help, and the environmentally conscious are hopelessly divided.
According to the Guardian UK, Scottish ministers rejected a plan to build one of Europe’s largest onshore wind [...]
One reason the 66 year-old former Beatle claimed eating meat was bad for the environment is the amount of land and water wasted to raise, pack and preserve the meat. Reuters reports that “a 2006 United Nations report found that cattle-rearing generated more greenhouse gases than transportation” so Sir Paul’s argument has some pretty powerful legs.
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