The issue of the Canadian seal hunt is a controversial one. It is a battle of animal rights versus First Nations rights, at least for the arctic seal hunt. In 2009, the European Union banned the import of seal products. The legislation was one of the most non-partisan bills to pass through the European Parliament. [...]
Read more →If you haven’t heard of the 10:10 Campaign by now, it’s not too late. Although 2010 feels like it’s starting to come to a close, the campaign, according to its global director Lizzie Gillett, is really starting to pick up steam. (Check out the video of her discussing her involvement below) Over the past few [...]
Read more →Much of Africa is a desperate place, embroiled in war, rebellion, and a daily struggle to exist. The region around the Congo basin in particular has been home to many scourges, and millions of deaths. The deaths of any people are a tragedy, of course. So who can blame people in such dire straits from [...]
Read more →In 2008, Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki entered a delivery depot in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, and removed a case of whale meat. A case that, along with many others just like it, shouldn’t have been there. They delivered the case to the police, as evidence of a theft ring in the Japanese whaling [...]
Read more →In the late 1950s the British discovered oil in Nigeria. Vast amounts of oil. When Nigeria claimed its independence in 1960, it continued to allow foreign operators to run the oil concession, in return for a 50/50 split in the profits. In the early years, British Shell was the sole operator, but soon others, like [...]
Read more →In a recent issue of the New Yorker, one of their excellent reporters asked an interesting question — could Bolivia be the next big source of Lithium for the world’s batteries? The Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats The article gets to the heart of a lot of green issues these days — the intersection of [...]
Read more →Iceland has been the subject of some unfavorable attention over the past year, between its economic meltdown, its inability to pay its debt, and the recent volcanic eruption. From an environmental standpoint, Iceland is a country of contradictions. Iceland is a small nation, with fewer than 350,000 people, which is smaller than most mid-sized North [...]
Read more →Water Scarcity becoming a critical issue for the Arab World. Climate change, food insecurity and the decreasing availability of water are among the multiple challenges facing the Arab region, according to a new assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme. “This assessment has been a truly collaborative one outlining the progress but also the realities [...]
Read more →Mexico Tourism is starting to go green ahead of Climate Change conference to be held later this year. Latin America is widely viewed as the cradle of ecotourism even until recently, most of Mexico’s protected areas were simply off limits to tourism. Keeping popular destinations such as Cancun beautiful is a task that one local [...]
Read more →China joined with India in giving qualified approval for climate accord. This past week, China finally joined with India in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen Climate Accord, calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions. However the official messages to the U.N. climate change secretariat did little to ease the growing pessimism that a [...]
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