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According to their research, this wireless, hyper-connected, rather-text-than-talk age group relies on ads, product labels and news coverage for its green product information before performing a search on the Internet.
Arctic PCBs seem to clean up easier than some further south. According to an extremely encouraging report the PCBs of a site cleaned up between '97 and '04 show significant improvement. The site had been polluted to dangerous levels from 1930 up into 1970. Animals in the area have begun to show a much lower almost acceptable level of PCBs if there is such a thing. Unluckily the same is not true o
With all of this stimulus and environmental concern you might think women could easily take advantage of all the change in the air. At present women are employed very little in the fields of upcoming growth and change. While there have been hints by the Obama camp that women should be looking to educate or reeducate into some of these fields it has been very subtle.

If your in the world of investment, you are keeping your ear to the ground. Economic instability is not the best bedfellow for creating environmentally sound economic engines but it may not be the worst. With the obvious Asian markets in deep need of change and regulation it may be the perfect time to invest if you can guess correctly.
"The bamboo has shrunk because we haven't known how to cut it correctly. That has slowed growth and dried it out," says Gazz a local bamboo farmer in Tigre along the Parana River Delta in Argentina. The government of Argentina has been focusing on educating local folks along with a little help from the likes of Al Gore and Jane Goodall who some say have been sharing a private jet to cut emission
"Drill Baby Drill," the mantra oft heard at Republican conventions may be coming to a shale bed near you. Hydraulic fracturing has become an extremely successful method of extracting natural gas in more populated and unusual areas. Unluckily there have been some serious health and environmental concerns.



New York Times is at it again raking the muck we drink. Combing the data to show us just what the EPA is good for. There aught to be a law and there is the Safe Drinking Water Act is supposed to be enforced ultimately by the EPA and 6% of the those facilities that broke the law were reprimanded.
Every year Mekong River Commission (MRC) Council meets to discuss the future of this incredible resource. The council made up four countries Thailand, Viet Nam ,Cambodia, and Lao will try to address the rising pressures facing the river and it surrounding areas.


All but forgotten disaster at the Union Carbide facility in India will have another anniversary this one is its 25th. People still struggle in this densely populated area where the disaster may have affected as many as 500,000. Industry must be held accountable and victims must be compensated.

Particularily in the grocery store or supermarket you could spend an extra hour simply comparing products for there green claims not to mention fact checking and bold face lies. In this environment you need an equal partner to the mass marketeers. In steps Ethiscore Ethical Consumer Research Organization a co-op of workers that is now giving ratings on many of these green claiming companies.



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