pollution

Our world is overpopulated by cows!!! and the world could be so much better if they weren't not that numerous... Read all the reasons why. It's very interesting...

As of May 2008 the estimated world population is just over 6.6 billion people. Wow! Its no secret that the world population is growing at an alarming rate and that something needs to be done. Another interesting or alarming, however you look at it, is the decreasing forests, trees, and rainforest’s. Yet again not another big secret, but something is being done to help solve this problem and in fact those efforts are getting stepped up. I am talking about an old initiative that is being renewed to be known as the 7 billion tree project.

Target Shooters in the Mt. Hood national forest in Oregon have literally trashed the place.

Why does the argument that businesses should do more to reduce pollution and protect the environment often boil down to the issue of jobs vs. nature? Advocates of green living around the world are increasingly making the argument that green business is good business, and that clean energy and other green sectors actually generate jobs. Too often, though, many businesses still aren’t buying it.

This came from Reuters and if you ask me, I say that the researcher from the University of Exeter in Britain who said this is full of Sh%$#. Oh yes!!! This research was a waste of money. Let’s keep polluting the air so that the forest stay alive. Ya right. The way I see it we got to stop polluting, and that includes stopping deforestation, to keep our green lands alive.

According to a press release issued by the American Lung Association, Pittsburgh is the #1 city in the U.S. with the highest levels of particle pollution. This is a direct result of the ash, soot, car exhaust, aerosols and other harmful pollutants produced by the city.

sustainablog's newest writer Justin van Kleek considers the (psychological) pollution environmental activists themselves can often spew. Or, to borrow the famous quote from Pogo, "we have met the enemy, and he is us."

Map of the United States that shows the areas where water has tested abnormally high for heavy metal contaminants

Soulful environmentalism begins with seeing the interconnectedness of all of life...yes even the stuff we call trash. Can stryrofoam peanuts help us see the purity of life?

With all the smog that is notoriously linked to Beijing and nearby cities, the pressure for cleaner air is forcing Chinese environmental officials to quickly meet international pollution standards.

While L.A. still reigns as the most polluted city overall, a new city overtakes it for sootiest.

Either we should add the pollution cost of shipping food over long distances to the prices we pay in the grocery store, or we should eat more locally grown food, right?

New calculator from Stanford researchers allows you to see how much added cost the carbon emissions from your airline travel would add to the cost of your already-expensive airline ticket.

According to a study by the Earth Policy Institute, global CO2 emissions reached a record high of 8.38 gigatons in 2006, and they’ve only increased since then.

Check out a Minnesota bus that runs on recycled vegetable oil.