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Wildly meaningful gifts from World Wildlife Fund
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As we were prowling for practical green gifts to feature in our coming 2009 Green Gifts Lists, this simple T-shirt caught our eye. It’s green, unisex and made with organic cotton. And you’ve got that iconic Panda there on the side. What more could a greenie want?
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Tags: · donations, holiday gifts, wildlife conservation, wildlife donations, World Wildlife Fund
Sustainable palm oil? Not so fast…
September 11th, 2009 · No Comments
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
Palm Oil, an ingredient found in most processed food, has been the subject of much environmental debate in recent years over its role in deforestation. It is commonly found in cooking oil and as an ingredient in cosmetics, soaps, detergents, and some plastics. Palm oil also has been considered for use in the production of biodiesel.
 There have been many attempts to make palm oil sustainable. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was even established in 2003 to do just that. Unfortunately, six years later, there is still no system that can effectively trace palm oil beyond the processor to the plantation level. Companies that manufacture products using palm oil have little way of knowing where the controversial substance originated — which leaves the question of whether and to what degree palm oil is sustainably farmed up in the air.
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Tags: · Advertising Standards Authority, Borneo, Carbon Emissions, deforestation, Friends of the Earth, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Malaysia, Malaysian Palm Oil Council, orangutan, palm oil, palm tree plantations, Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, Sumatra, tropical rainforest, United National Environment Programme, World Wildlife Fund
Cruise ship pollution concerns environmentalists
August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Harriet Blake
Green Right Now
“Don’t let the vacation ruin the destination.”
These words of wisdom hail from environmentalists who have legitimate concerns about ocean pollution due to cruise ship dumping.
Cruise ship vacations have gained in popularity in the last decade, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, which states that the industry has grown nearly twice as fast as any other means of travel during that time frame. And, at the same time, the average ship size has been growing at about 90 feet every five years. Ships used to average about 3,000 passengers, but today some carry as many as 8,000.
So with larger ships carrying more passengers, there is mounting concern about how this growth will affect the ocean’s marine life and water quality.
Recently the World Wildlife Federation’s Baltic Sea chapter recommended that area ports upgrade their facilities to cope with contamination from cruise ship sewage. The WWF said that Baltic-area ports are not keeping their facilities up-to-date in terms of disposing of cruise ship waste and suggested that the money being made by cruise ship tourism be spent upgrading the facilities, according to a report in the Environmental News Service.
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Tags: · cruise ships, dumping, effluent, EPA, Friends of the Earth, garbage, Oceans, Sewage, Travel, treated wastewater, untreated wastewater, Vacations, World Wildlife Fund
Endangered Valentines
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We thought we were done with the Valentine’s Day tips. But then along came these soooo cute little seal and polar bear pictures from the World Wildlife Fund and we just said, awwwww! soooo cute. We had to spread the word.
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Tags: · Valentine's Day, World Wildlife Fund
Earth Hour 2009, coming to a city near you this spring
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Earth Hour, that annual blackout to demonstrate support for fighting global warming, will be back stronger than ever in 2009. Organizers announced Thursday that 377 cities in 74 countries have pledged to participate in the global event set for March 28 at 8:30 p.m. (your time), surpassing last year’s participation.
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Tags: · Climate Change, Earth Hour, Shepard Fairey, World Wildlife Fund
Chalk Mountain, between a rock and a nesting place
November 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
By Barbara Kessler
Every spring, as sure as the sun warms the cedars and the birds flock back from Mexico, Lee Clauser leads a stealth group of intense adults dressed in khakis and boots to the edge of a wild thicket near his house in north central Texas.
They creep into the brush, quietly unloading their weapons of mass observation.
 Putting binoculars to eyes, they look, and listen, for the brilliant Golden-cheeked warbler, and for the reclusive Black-capped vireo. Both songbirds are listed as endangered in the United States, their nesting grounds having been narrowed to a strip of Texas Hill Country that supplies just the right shrubbery and old-growth cedars. The birders, who come from Fort Worth, Dallas, New England, the Pacific Northwest and beyond, know that catching a glimpse of one of these delicate creatures is a rare treat.
“People have come from Europe to see those birds, both species. For birders all over the world, it’s a huge deal,” says Clauser, a retired banker and life-long bird rescue and rehabilitation expert.
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Tags: · Audubon Society, Black-capped vireo, Chalk Mountain Preservation Association, Dallas, endangered species, Fort Worth, Golden-cheek warbler, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, World Wildlife Fund
World Wildlife Fund warns of accelerating climate change
By Harriet Blake
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued a report earlier this week stating that global warming is increasing at an even faster pace than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast in 2007. The report, “Climate Change: Faster, Stronger, Sooner,” was pegged to the Oct. 20 Luxembourg meeting of the European Union’s Environment Ministers.
Despite concerns about the global financial crisis, the ministers have chosen to stick with their environmental improvement plan – to reduce greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020. The WWF would like to see that increased to 30 percent.
According to the WWF’s scientific data, there were six key findings:
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Tags: · Arctic Ocean, Carbon Sink, Climate Change, European Union, global warming, Greenhouse Gases, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPPC, sea level, World Wildlife Fund
Arctic Sea ice reaches second lowest recorded level
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments
By Kelly Rondeau
The numbers are in from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and declining ice thickness is at a  hazardous level; observed to be the second-lowest coverage on record, scientists said this week.
According to the NSIDC, on September 12, 2008, the sea ice extent dropped to 1.74 million square miles (4.52 million square kilometers) — or a little less than half the area of the United States. This appears to have been the lowest point of the year, as sea ice has now begun its annual cycle of growth in response to autumn cooling.
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Tags: · Arctic Sea Ice, National Snow and Ice Data Center, World Wildlife Fund
Human Race 10K Benefits Wild Life Preservation
By Kelly Rondeau
Three major charities — The World Wildlife Fund, the Lance Armstrong Foundation and ninemillion.org–  benefited from the Nike + Human Race 10K on Sunday, an event billed as the World’s Biggest Race that involved 25 races in 25 cities around the globe.
Thousands of runners turned out for the 10K in the North American host cities of New York City, Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago and Austin, as well as around the world in other major cities such as Paris, Rome, Madrid, Vancouver, Lima, Instanbul, Singapore, Melbourne, Warsaw, and Seoul. Collectively, the runners logged more than 3 million miles, according to Nike, with each mile producing more money toward the three charities.
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Tags: · Human Race 10K, Lance Armstrong, LiveStrong, Ninemillion.org, World Wildlife Fund
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