TUTORIAL: Advertising Your Business
Welcome to Eco-mmunity. This website aims to connect people to all the green resources in the world. Listing your business here is free and it can only help spread the word about the sustainable value of your goods and services. Step One – Create a membership with Sundance Channel. Once you have logged in to [...]
Read More »Groups Sue for Clean Water Law Enforcement in Northern California
SAN FRANCISCO, California, February 5, 2009 (ENS) – Conservation and fishermen’s groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday in California Superior Court seeking to force state and regional water boards to implement existing clean water laws in the wild rivers and streams of the state’s North Coast region. The groups argue that only cleaner waters will enable [...]
Read More »New Global Climate Adaptation Network in the Works
GLAND, Switzerland, February 5, 2009 (ENS) – A new international network of resource managers, scientists and decision-makers is being forged to help some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and societies cope with the impacts of global climate change. The Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network, or ELAN, is being created as a collaboration between two of [...]
Read More »Ohio Greenlights $2.5 Billion Wet Weather Plan for Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 4, 2009 (ENS) – Columbus residents can expect a decrease in sewer overflows and basement backups after rains and snowmelt once the city’s newly approved $2.5 billion wet weather management plan is completed. On Thursday, the Ohio EPA approved the city ‘s plan to control overflows from the sewer system and proposed [...]
Read More »Railroads Pay to Relocate California Drinking Water Well
SAN FRANCISCO, California, February 4, 2009 (ENS) – The Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway have agreed to pay nearly $1 million in cleanup costs at a Superfund site in the town of Arvin, California, the U.S. EPA announced today. Located in an industrial, agricultural, and residential area of Kern County, the five acre site [...]
Read More »Gulf Council Seeks Emergency Longline Closure to Save Turtles
TAMPA, Florida, February 4, 2009 (ENS) – Sea turtles in the eastern Gulf of Mexico could soon get more protection if the federal government approves an emergency request from a federal fisheries management agency to temporarily halt the use of fishing gear that injures and kills them. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Thursday [...]
Read More »Simran Sethi On Huffington Post
Everybody’s favorite green host, Simran Sethi, is making the rounds on the Huffington Post, offering her journalistic skills in an effort to shine the light on a very important Government decision regarding the future of Kansas’ environment. Simran Sethi has hosted Sundance Channel’s THE GREEN [www.sundancechannel.com] in the past. Her other major contribution to Sundance [...]
Read More »Greening Your Home Town
Start a movement in your home town by setting up a blog about your green ideas and how they could make your neighborhood more concerned with protecting the environment. Here are some questions to help you start thinking about ideas for your writing. What kinds of green friendly stores can you find in your town/city? [...]
Read More »Chevy Volt Electric Car Wins at Washington Auto Show
WASHINGTON, DC, February 4, 2009 (ENS) – The range-extended electric Chevrolet Volt has been named the 2009 Green Car Vision Award winner by the auto magazine “Green Car Journal.” The award was presented at a press conference this morning at the Washington Auto Show. The show opened to the public today at the Walter E. [...]
Read More »Utah Land Avoids Oil Industry
By PAUL FOY – February 4 2009 – SALT LAKE CITY In a high-profile reversal of the Bush administration, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday the government is scrapping the lease of 77 parcels of federal land for oil and gas drilling in Utah’s redrock country. “In the last weeks in office, the Bush administration [...]
Read More »Bush-Era Oil and Gas Leases Near Utah Parks Canceled
WASHINGTON, DC, February 4, 2009 (ENS) – Sales of oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of land near national parks and monuments in Utah were halted today by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. The parcels were auctioned by the Bureau of Land Management in December 2008. “I have directed the BLM not to [...]
Read More »Protesters of Massey Coal Blasting Cited for Tresspass
PETTUS, West Virginia, February 3, 2009 (ENS) – Fourteen people were arrested today at a Massey Energy mountaintop removal coal mine site for trespassing on company property while staging a protest of blasting they say will endanger communities on Coal River Mountain. Five activists with Climate Ground Zero and pan-Appalachian Mountain Justice who locked themselves [...]
Read More »Kentucky Utilities Must Spend $140M on Clean Air Settlement
LEXINGTON, Kentucky, February 3, 2009 (ENS) – Back in 1997, Kentucky Utilities modified the largest coal-fired electrical generating unit at its E.W. Brown Generating Station in Mercer County, Kentucky without installing required pollution control equipment or complying with applicable emission limits. These alleged violations of the Clean Air Act allowed the company to increase the [...]
Read More »Using Eco-mmunity Map to Energize Your Community
If you are interested in using the network of green-conscious individuals on the internet to empower your community, then you may want to check out the Eco-mmunity Map. The Map allows you to make map markers for the resources in your community that can help people live a more environmentally-friendly lifestyle. For instance, a new [...]
Read More »Obama’s Commerce Secretary Pick No Environmental Champion
WASHINGTON, DC, February 3, 2009 (ENS) – President Barack Obama today named U.S. Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, a Republican, to fill the slot of Commerce Secretary in his cabinet. If confirmed by the Senate, Gregg will join Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Defense Secretary Robert Gates for a total of three Republicans in [...]
Read More »World Running Out of Weapons to Fight Superbugs
HOUSTON, Texas, February 3, 2009 (ENS) – People are dying from “superbugs” because our antibiotic arsenal has run dry, leaving the world without sufficient weapons to fight the ever-changing bacteria, warn infectious disease researchers at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. In an article in the current issue of “The New England Journal [...]
Read More »Companies with Recycled/Environmentally-Friendly Products
Products made out of recycled or reused materials are really exciting from an environmental point of view. Usually, there is very little environmental cost to a recycled good, and virtually zero environmental cost for a reused good. Because these products are so great for the planet, and since it is sometimes hard to find these [...]
Read More »Citizen Scientists Get Involved in Great Backyard Bird Count
NEW YORK, New York, February 2, 2009 (ENS) – Common robins or rare raptors – whatever birds fly through backyards, schoolyards and parks – are being counted and reported February 13 through 16 in the 12th annual Great Backyard Bird Count. Bird and nature lovers across North America are invited to join tens of thousands [...]
Read More »Revitalization of Our Inner Cities Can Transform Our Culture
Open Salon has been holding a blog writing contest on their site, where a new Editor’s Pick is promoted on Open Salon each week. The author of this first blog post talks about cities like Trenton, where the loss of manufacturing businesses has left these once industrious cities bereft of the type of investment needed [...]
Read More »Solar Power Turns on Texas Lawmakers of Both Parties
AUSTIN, Texas, February 2, 2009 (ENS) – Less than a week after the biannual Texas state legislature opened, a bipartisan group of lawmakers today showed their support for a slew of bills promoting the development of solar energy in the state. At least 18 bills have already been filed to support the deployment of solar [...]
Read More »New York City’s Smaller Wetlands Remain Unprotected
NEW YORK, New York, February 2, 2009 (ENS) – It’s hard to image standing in midtown Manhattan, but wetlands do exist within New York City, and they both protect the city and need protection themselves, according to a report released Friday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “Many New Yorkers don’t realize there are thousands of acres [...]
Read More »$43 Million Ottawa River Cleanup Agreement Signed
TOLEDO, Ohio, February 2, 2009 (ENS) – In about two years, the Ottawa River will run cleaner due to a cost-sharing agreement signed Friday between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Ottawa River Group. The Ottawa River Group is a partnership of the City of Toledo and businesses along the river, including Allied Waste [...]
Read More »United States Takes Wind Power Gold
For the year of 2008, the United States has surpassed Germany as the nation generating the most electricity from wind power. The addition of new windmills has obviously become a commonplace occurrence in America. Part of the reason for this surge in new windmills is likely correlated to the way in which wind farm businesses [...]
Read More »World Wetlands Day: An Australian Wetland in Crisis
CANBERRA, Australia, February 2, 2009 (ENS) – Today, Australia’s Labor government used the occasion of World Wetlands Day to slam the former Liberal government for its treatment of the country’s 65 wetlands that are officially designated under the Ramsar treaty. World Wetlands Day marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands on [...]
Read More »Northern Afghanistan Winter Deepens Drought Victims’ Misery
MAZAR-e-SHARIF, Afghanistan, February 2, 2009 (ENS) – “I can never recover from my failure to provide food and medicine for my children,” said Abdul Rahman, leaning against a ruined house in Dehdadi, a district in Balkh province. “My 18 year old daughter died one week ago.” Rahman is one of tens of thousands of Afghans [...]
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