Heat Waves: More Frequent, More Deadly
July 10, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
Graphic: By 2050, major U.S. cities will experience more and more frequent heat waves, with additional potentially deadly days over 95 degrees.
BP bills Anadarko for its part of spill cleanup
July 5, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
AP – As BP PLC’s costs for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill climb to just over $3 billion, the British oil giant is billing partners Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Japan’s Mitsui for their shares of the cleanup.
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What Your Grocer Won’t Tell You About Food Additives [Infographic]
July 5, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
Summer is the season for fresh, local foods and bountiful farmers’ markets, but unfortunately, too few of us are really taking advantage of nature’s harvest. Even though eating what’s in season, and cooking for ourselves, should be cheaper than processed and prepared fare, many people are stuck on old habits. This is also true despite the fact that cooking your own food helps with weight loss, because you have better control over what’s included and you tend to use lower-fat ingredients.
Another good reason to eat fresh and local foods is to cut down on preservatives and other food additives, some of which are questionable. We’ve written before about the debate over nitrates and nitrites (are they really unhealthy?), as well as the continuing controversy of hormones in dairy products.
Let’s take a closer look at food additives:
Hurricane Alex threatens Mexico, Texas coasts
June 30, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
AP – The first Atlantic hurricane of the year grew to a powerful Category 2 storm as it neared Mexico’s Gulf coast and south Texas on Wednesday, whipping up high waves that frustrated oil-spill cleanup efforts and delivering tar balls and globs of crude onto already soiled beaches.
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Cleanup ships idled as storms rattle Gulf region
June 29, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
AP – The crashing waves and gusting winds churned up by Tropical Storm Alex put the Gulf oil spill largely in Mother Nature’s hands Tuesday. Regardless of whether the storm makes things worse or even better, it has turned many people fighting the spill into spectators.
Oil-hit Gulf on edge as Atlantic storm surges
June 28, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
AFP – The first major storm of the Atlantic season surged toward the Gulf of Mexico on a path likely to avoid the BP oil spill but leaving coastal residents jittery about its destructive potential.
Stormy conditions could hamper Gulf oil spill cleanup
June 27, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
AFP – Tropical Storm Alex veered away from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill but experts warned that strong waves and winds could still upset efforts to halt the environmental disaster.
Recovery chief to tour Gulf region next week
June 27, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
AP – President Barack Obama’s point man for the recovery and restoration of the area affected by the Gulf oil spill will tour the region next week.
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Little spent on oil spill cleanup technology
June 27, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
AP – While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Teens Lead a Fresh Green Charge
May 30, 2010 by John McRae · Leave a Comment
The recent e4 Eco Expo for Environmental Education in New York City was dominated by two perceptions: 1) the teens who organized and led the event were extremely impressive and inspiring, putting many of us adults to shame, and 2) it was disappointing that more of their “non-choir” peers didn’t show up. The event was held at the prestigious Collegiate School on the Upper West Side, a K-12 private boy’s school that’s part of the elite Ivy Preparatory School League. It’s older than most colleges, having been founded in 1628.
The e4 Conference was organized by eco-minded students from Collegiate, as well as other private schools in the city, in association with Teens Turning Green. One of the highlights was checking out the rooftop garden. Knowledgeable students demonstrated their passion for planting an oasis in the heart of the city. They showed off the plastic horse feed troughs they use as beds (they said they didn’t think anything leached into the soil), as well as their worm bins, complete with red wrigglers happily munching through garden clippings and food scraps.
The students said they love enjoying the fresh produce from their own labor, as well as selling at their local farm market (proceeds are put back into the garden). Any extra unsold food is donated to feed the hungry.
The garden was sunny and breezy, and afforded breathtaking views of the city. But what was perhaps most inspiring was the contagious passion of the student gardeners. As they babbled about Michael Pollan, the poor quality of fast food, the imbalance of farm subsidies and the nutrient content of just-picked onions, one couldn’t help but notice the seeds of the next green revolution.
The rest of the e4 Conference was equally impressive, with student leaders who gave speeches as skillfully as the professional keynoters, and who moderated expert panels like seasoned pros. Workshops included stitching together a dress from reclaimed fabric, learning about green maps and getting a beauty product makeover. My panel, with Karen Stewart Brown of Stewart + Brown green fashion, Julie Gilhart, the fashion director of Barneys New York, and Jane Iredale of Iredale Mineral Cosmetics, went swimmingly. When my buddy Remy C. asked around of the students as to why more of their peers weren’t there, they said everyone was burned out from finals and end-of-the-year work, unfortunately. They missed a great event.
At the pre-conference dinner the night before, Matt Peterson of Global Green spoke about his group’s inspiring work to rebuild New Orleans green. We’ve covered that fairly extensively, but what I hadn’t known is that, according to Peterson, the idea originated with a (now deceased) community activist, a local grandmother from an impoverished ward who wanted the rebuilding of her home to stand for something better.
Speaking about his group’s frequent work with celebs, Peterson said, “It’s amazing that these prominent people help us get the word out and raise money, and it’s fun, but what really matters is future generations.” He continued, “How dare we think we can take away their clean air and water? We need to work through the fear and get to the love: those are really the only two human emotions when you boil it down.”
Peterson, who has the good looks and connections of a rockstar advocate, also made everyone stand, raise their hand, and repeat after him…”Go Lakers!” Then he made us all say, “I love where I live.” Peterson then had to jet off to make his son’s baseball game the next morning. Rockstar.
Judi Shils, executive director of Teens Turning Green, told the crowd that she had never worked with an all-boy’s school before. “I was so impressed,” she said. “They learned how to fold napkins, set tables and put on such an important event.”