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"We consume today 12 times as much as we consumed 100 years ago, putting an immense pressure on the planet's resources."-@InjusticeFacts

An oil spill from a stranded cargo ship off New Zealand is the country's worst environmental disaster in decades, the government says.An oil spill has stricken New Zealand Wednesday, October 5 and it is said to get significantly worse. The Liberian ship "Rena" ran upon a reef causing the oil to ooze out of the [...]

Spring Lake, NC (Cumberland County) previously issued out an alert about the tainted water supply. Apparently the water contains dangerous bacteria such as E-Coli and fecal mater. If you did use the tap water, it was suggested that you boil it before using it. Restaurants closed down and the water supply was shut off.This goes [...]

DC's Fashion Week is here !! Eco Fashion Designers who are gracing the streets of DC.Aidah Collection Elizabeth St John Kelly Tang Natalia SanzThe Eco Fashion Show premiered Monday, September 19, 2011 and was sponsored by Inova & Perkins + Will.Tuesday, September 20 premiered the "Second Lives: the Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles". This highlighted [...]

75 Kenyans died last week due to a pipeline explosion in their neighborhood. Pipelines are popularly and dangerously used in the African communities in efforts to transport oil for production and consumption. It is no secret that the oil companies have no problem exploting the villages of Africa for their own greed. These pipeline are [...]

If you are anything like me, you must be devastated over our precious cantaloupe. Apparently, a cantaloupe farm from Colorado has sent out a recall of the fruit due to a deadly Listeria contamination. People in Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Montana and Texas, and four have even died from the outbreak. If an [...]

According to Did You Know Facts ..Since 1981, every Chinese citizen over the age of 11 has been required to plant three trees per year.I think that is pretty awesome 🙂

Here is a list of produce that you should shop for in season. Shopping for fruits and vegetables while they are in season will leave less of a carbon footprint and is essentially eco-friendly because it requires less energy to produce. Also, the produce that are shopped in season are a lot more fresh. I [...]

Produce;Shopping at your local Farmers Market for produce such as fruits and vegetables is a an excellent way to shop. It leaves less of a carbon footprint, meaning you are being environmentally friendly. Shopping at your local Farmers Market is recommended because;Fresh fruit and vegetables. Produce is picked ripe and sold that day. Supermarket produce, [...]

"i walk light, so that I don't piss the ground off."

APRIL 22, 2011So, what are you doing??You can do something simple like;Recycle! (which should be an everyday thing -_-)Pick up a piece of trash you see outside.Buy eco-friendly products.PLANT A TREE!!Use a power strip to turn off televisions, stereos and computer systems when you're not using them and unplug appliances such as phone chargers, extra [...]

The earth does not belong to man -- man belongs to the earth.-- Chief SeattleI believe in God, only I spell it "Nature".-- Frank Lloyd WrightWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.-- John MuirWe do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we [...]

We all know that Wifi is God's gift to man. But at what cost? Does wifi radiation make trees sick? According to studies in the Netherlands, 70 percent of the trees in urban areas (opposed to 10 percent five years ago) have had symptoms such as cracks, bumps, discoloration and tissue damage while the trees [...]

I've been asked numerous times (because I'm obviously an "all things environmental" guru) "Is it safe to eat seafood?". I wrote a blog about it a while back. Remember the sniff test? Well, obviously that didn't work out. Go figure, right? Apparently, the more seafood you eat, the higher the risk you are of being [...]

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Before you get excited thinking there is an alien walking around somewhere, there isn't. Or at least not from what we know. What NASA has found is a bacteria made up of arsenic. Creepy? Arsenic is deadly to us. This was thought to be completely impossible until, well, they found it. EVERY living being on [...]

Activists from Greenpeace just dropped a banner from a Kentucky hotel during an EPA hearing for coal ash. Pretty bad ass if you ask me.

Activists from Greenpeace are now hanging from the anchor chain of Chevron's Stena Carron to prevent the ship from sailing out to their drill site. All this is in effort to combat offshore drilling.Classic example of one of my favorite quotes;No one can do EVERYTHING. But everyone can do SOMETHING.I absolutely love the fight in [...]

Vermilion Oil Rig 380 has just exploded with 13 people on board around 9:30 a.m this morning. All 13 people were blasted into the ocean and are currently awaiting help. Only one was found injured. The Vermillion Oil Rig is owned by Cairn Energy is is located 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana and [...]

CONGRATULATIONSCongrads Greenpeace for their amazing victory in getting Burger King to drop Sinar Mas! Sinar Mas has been doing some major destruction to the Paradise Rain forest through their palm oil exploration. The world is already running low on our beautiful rainforests! It's only right that we protect the little that we have. After all, [...]

Day 2 @ Greenpeace *happy dance*I am now interning with GreenpeaceCivil disobedience at its best.!!Tell Cairn Energy to get out of the Arctic!!!!Tell Cairn Energy to get out of the Arctic!!!!Tell Cairn Energy to get out of the Arctic!!!!Tell Cairn Energy to get out of the Arctic!!Its no secret that Greenpeace is known for their [...]

I am utterly in love with Parsons. I'm currently in the application process for their environmental studies program. I love how they are able to mix my major in environmental studies with fashion. Students in the Association in Applied Science program were given a project to design clothes leaving zero waste and using sustainable materials [...]

Did your school make the cut?1. Green Mountain College (Poultney, Vermont)2. Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)3. Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington)4. University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)5. Stanford University (Palo Alto, California)6. University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)7. Northland College (Ashland, Wisconsin)8. Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)9. College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine)10. Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts)11. [...]

This will be my ride of choice. 😉

"A Weekend Without Oil"Its a goal to curb 1,000,000 gallons of oil!!SIGN UP HERE!!SIGN UP HERE!!SIGN UP HERE!!SIGN UP HERE!! Walk or ride your bike: Avoid using cars and if you must, always try to carpool. Transportation accounts for 40 percent of our petroleum consumption and is easily one of the biggest areas we need [...]

UK has a wonderful pay as you throw system. It's like "eureka!". This is an attempt to get consumers to decrease trash while increasing recycling. Check this outThis is a microchip in their trash cans that weigh's the amount of trash thrown away. Then bins weight the trash and the microchip shows where the trash [...]

The "sniff" test.I told you in a previous post about how they are checking seafood for oil. To refresh your memory, basically all they do is sniff for oil. But have no fear, environmentalists are here!!Prominent environmental groups are calling for better testing. The Natural Resource Defense Council has sent letter to the Food and [...]

When you think about it; its not about saving the environment per se. The planet will always be here. The environment will eventually renew itself, millions of years later. Its more-so about saving us from ourselves. After all, we need the environment. The environment doesn't need us. When we pollute and destroy the environment, all [...]

GREED vs NATURE“What happens in the film is what is happening here,” said Chief Arara of the Brazilian Arara tribe I knew it! I knew the movie Avatar was an environmental movie. It was all about loving and respecting your planet or who they called, their mother. We call our environment "Mother Nature". They were [...]

“An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country,” Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.)BOOM!!Take that! Take that!

Many have speculated that global warming is a myth, a farce, a hoax. Of course, I am hear to tell you that that is complete bologna! The fact is, there is scientific fact that global warming is completely true and is most certainly happening right now.The report said that "Global average surface and lower-troposphere temperatures [...]

Recently, the Senate had the opportunity to fight climate change and help protect the environment. Unfortunately, they let this moment pass them by, by choosing not to vote for a climate bill and instead, putting it on the back burner. Here is a list of our leaders who voted against climate legislationThis list is from [...]

*points and laughs*BP has just endured a record $17 BILLION loss in profits and is expected to spend at least $32 BILLION in cleaning up the Gulf. BPs share price dropped 40%. Not to mention, the previous CEO in office at the time of this oil spill as stepped down. "As expected, BP reported the [...]

I just had a flutter of joy in my heart when I read about this civil disobedience in London. This is exactly what it's going to take to get things done obviously since the government refuses to transition to a clean energy economy. Everyday citizens, like YOU and I, will need to put our foot [...]

Money does not buy you happiness intelligence.David Koch really believes that global warming is good for you. *slap* Is this a joke? He's probably just scared that Koch Industries' pollution will be regulated by the government. He says, “The Earth will be able to support enormously more people because a far greater land area will [...]

Tuesday, emergency teams were sent out to an oil well off the coast of New Orleans after a new Gulf oil leak was reported. Apparently, a boat called Captain Buford driven by Pere Ana C. crashed into the oil well. U.S. authorities have down played reports of a giant fountain of oil. "There is some [...]

"They sent us here to listen to their voices, they sent us here to represent their interests, not our own."- ObamaGreat. Now get to work!

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/23179048001?isVid=1Michigan has just declared a state of emergency with what is being claimed to be the largest oil spill in Midwest history by U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer. The pipeline has already leaked 840,000 gallons already into the Kalamazoo River. This began Monday morning with when a pipeline owned by Enbridge Liquids Pipelines sprung a leak [...]

Cross-post from 1sky.orgThe Senate has once again stalled on climate this summer by officially dropping a comprehensive climate bill from July legislation. In other words, a climate bill will not be passed this summer as we hoped. Big Oil, Dirty Coal and their friends in Congress have again blocked any progress towards a solution to [...]

I wrote a post about this not too long ago. This reminds me of a Roland Emmerich movie. How freaky are these?? Imagine driving and the ground beneath you just caving in randomly. Or your home being sunk beneath the Earth. Creepy. Mother Nature plays NO games. GUATEMALACANADAHUNGARYTampa Floridanear COLUMBIA

A plane that runs strictly off of solar power, or energy from the sun, has recently made its first successful 24 hr flight. At night, it uses its solar energy stored during the day. In 2011, Solar Impulse plans to have ocean crossing flights. Then, it will undertake a round the world flight in 2013.“I [...]

According to NOAA officals, the likelyhood of the oil spill hitting Miami is 80% being that the loop current is moving east. It's highly likely that the oil will touch the coasts of the Florida Keys, Miami and Fort Lauderdale. "OH NO! ANY BEACH BUT MIAMI BEACH!" -says the people. (>_<) <---- this is my [...]

I bet you're wondering, "What the heck is the government doing about this oil spill?" because in all actuality, its just as much of the government's fault as it is BP. If the government would have enforced more strict regulations for offshore drilling never opened up off shore drilling in the first place, this probably [...]

Whoever is in charge of BP's image is either dumb or just doesn't care at all. One would think BP would try to keep a low profile since the Gulf Oil Spill, but no. Since then, CEO Tony Hayward has went on a yacht vacation and now, BP has lobbied the release of a convicted [...]

FACT;E-waste represents 2% of the trash in U.S. landfills, but equals 70% of overall toxic waste.25 million tv's are thrown away each year. Three times the height of the empire state building. If you stacked all of the cell phones in the landfills, you could build a bridge to the moonIt takes over a million [...]

What is CLIMATE CHANGE?In the human history, our world has had 275 parts per million of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere. Scientist believe that we should not go over 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. However, we now have 392 parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. 350.org does [...]

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I've got you. This is the best explanation thus far.

How could you BP .. How could you?

If you do your research, all gas stations have done their dirt on destroying the environment and crushing basic human rights. However, in my opinion, Royal Dutch Shell plc Gas Station in my opinion is a little worst than BP. Shell has managed to kill everything beautiful in Nigeria. Including the people. They have NO [...]

BOOM! Thank YOU President Barack Obama!!Obama recently awarded a booming $2 billion to solar plants to jump start this ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION. This is so needed in order to transition to a clean energy economy. Crude oil is not only harmful to the environment and to our health, but it's also running out. So our best [...]

I wonder,If Obama never lifted the moratorium on offshore oil drilling, would the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have occurred?So honestly, is the oil spill essentially Obama's fault?hmm ..

What mother in her right mind would let her child play in oil on the beach? The child even becomes frantic when she finds oil on her feet.This really brings my spirits down. I wish this could just end already.http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/e/16711680/wshh7Miof1G71A3mVWKU

"Did you ever stop to notice, the crying Earth .. the bleeding shores?"Micheal Jackson - Earth SongPhotos courtesy ofTampa Bay Blog

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Personally, I am not a huge fan of driving because for one, there are way too many traffic rules and so I've accumulated massive tickets during my stint in driving. And two, I'm a treehugger .. duh. However, living in North Carolina for most of my life, we weren't able to take the "metro". All [...]

I just cannot help myself. I am flabbergasted at the views on the environment coming from Sarah Palin;Sue US government to stop listing polar bear as endangered. (Aug 2008)Don’t duplicate effort in monitoring cruise ship emissions. (Oct 2006) Opposed protections for salmon from mining contamination. (Aug 2008) We must encourage timber, mining, drilling, & fishing. [...]

Apparently, the BP oil spill has been overshadowing other oil company injustices. Chevron has a long history of voilating basic human rights while devastating and killing the Earth and PEOPLE. Chevron is totatlly violating the natives of Ecuador. They have been deliberately dumping millions and millions of HIGHLY toxic waste into their river streams where [...]

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Dear America, KISS. MY. ASS.Sincerely,BPThat is essentially what BP CEO Tony Hayward is saying. While 125 million gallons of crude oil has been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, Tony Hayward felt the need to take his private jet back to England towatch his yacht in a yacht competition. Is this real life? This guy [...]

So apparently Kevin Costner has a solution to the oil spill. He and his scientist brother have been working on 32 oil and water separator for for the past 15 years. The largest of the machines can separate 200 gallons of oil from water in one single minute with the water being 99% free of [...]

After meeting with with BP officials, Obama has this to say;I just concluded a constructive meeting with BP's chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg. I raised two issues at the meeting. First was the containment of the oil that is still spewing into the Gulf. My administration has directed BP to mobilize additional equipment and technology. In the [...]

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Fresh from his 4th visit from the Gulf of Mexico, Obama will be making his speech at from the Oval office tonight at 8PM. Click here for the live video stream and to sign up for reminders about the broadcast. Obama will be discussing five main points;1) The reorganization of the Department of Interior which [...]

Oh wow , this is super funny .. but true .

According to a USA Today poll, 71% of Americans want Obama to be tougher on BP for their oil spill incident. Obama's ratings on his handling of the oil spill has gotten a little worse despite his harsh language to BP. SOOOO .. WHATS GOING ON?The senate is demanding that BP establishes a fund of [...]

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OOPS!!I definitely took off the option to follow my blog looooooooooong ago. Well, its back up so please follow!!kthnxpeace & love ♥

I've always wondered, does extracting oil from the the Earth, whether it be from on land or under seas, have some underlying direct effect to the Earth that we have yet to discover?Be it earthquakes, land slides, sinkholes .. whatever. There must be some kind of damage (besides those apparent) to the Earth from taking [...]

Is it just me or is this really type, "2012". Creepy Shots fired by Mother Nature.

Food poisoning? Seriously? Day by day we see how ridiculous BP is and the disregaurd for not only the environment but THEIR WORKERS! The clean up crews are getting sick from the massive amounts of crude oil they are being exposed to but BP just simply disregaurds the problem and write it off as FOOD [...]

Hands Across the Sand is a really powerful movement going on world wide. Bascially, people from all walks of life are gathering on beaches, parks, rivers, etc. at 11:00pm on June 26, 2010 to form a line and join hands in efforts to make a statement about opposing offshore drilling and to get the message [...]

That's what I'm talking about Obama. Take the initiative !

Foreshadowing the future much?Duh ..

BP CEO Tony Hayward thinks "there are too many people working to save the world". WOW , really?

This is a video of the lies BP tells and the images to prove it. At 1:49 in the video is most devastating. That is ALL OIL.

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There is a scare going around about whether or not seafood is safe to eat being that there is a massive oil spill going on in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico fisheries are home to 59 percent of U.S. oyster production and three-quarters of the country's wild shrimp.should you be worried?Apparently, no. [...]

According to many news sites and satellite photos, there is a SECOND oil spill in Ocean Saratoga! Luckily this spill isn't at the alarming rate and volume as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill however, still unacceptable. This oil rig is about 10 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana and is owned by Taylor [...]

Hey! So sorry I have not been posting as much. With this move to DC and starting my internship with 1Sky, its been really hectic so i've be a little busy. I promise I wont neglect you anymore though! Let's get down to business.You all know about the oil spill going on. However, you may [...]

SIGN THE PETTION TO BOYCOTT BP !

It AMAZES me how offshore drilling is still even an option after the devastating OIL SPILL IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. However, everyone does not feel the same obviously. The risks of blow-outs are even higher in the Arctic than it is in the Gulf. There's going to be oil EVERYWHERE if we do not [...]

I love Obama as much as the next person however, Americans in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll give him failing grades on his response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Apparently 53% of people surveyed gives the Obama Administration a "poor job" a poor rating with their response to the oil spill.Obama's ResponseSo Far ..1) [...]

There is no end in site for the oil spill which has been spewing oil for almost 40 days non stop in the Gulf of Mexico. Dont sit around while oil tycoon's destroy our waters and beaches. WE CAN TAKE ACTION NOW!BOYCOTT BP !Check out the facebook pages dedicated to boycotting BP. BP brands to [...]

While searching youtube for old shows, we stumbled upon Babysitter's Club originated in 1986. I was a tad bit too young to catch the episodes so I dont quit remember what the show was like. I believe I read the book series though. Anyway, I immediately clicked on the episode titled, Dawn Saves the Trees--with [...]

Hello beautiful people!I'm in DC! I HAVE TO tell you about this new place my friend took me to called BUSBOYS AND POETS off of U-Street in DC. AMAZING!What sparked my interest while reading the menu was the fact that they are extremely environmentally friendly. If you remember, I did a post about the clubbing [...]

Do you remember my post about Nestle and their destructive way of obtaining the palm oil used in their products? Well, basically they were causing the destruction of the world's Paradise forests! But now ..*drum roll please*NO MORE!! Nestle has pledged to stop their destuction of the Paradise forests and establish a new policy which [...]

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I knew I loved this store for a reason.Not only do they have amazing clothes but they are also environmetally friendly! American Apparel recycles over 1 million pounds of cotton a year. This is an alternative to dumping over 30,000 pounds of cotton cuttings a week into the landfills. American Apparel also (obviously) is United [...]