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Mercury Fish

It seems that the United States Geological Survey (USGS) just finished conducting a study on the fish of, well, the entire country’s waterways. What they found was quite shocking. Overall, the study, which lasted from 1998 to 2005, included nearly 300 streams across the states and what they found was that 100 percent of the fish in [...]

We are talking BIG incentives

On Tuesday, President Obama announced at Savannah Technical College some more details about how he was looking to increase incentives for energy efficient home renovations. He calls it the HOMESTAR program. Now I have obviously heard abou that incentive program. It was just last year that my mother retrofitted her home with new energy star labeled windows [...]

Crude: A Joe Berlinger Film

A 2009 Sundance Film Festival selection, Crude: The Real Price of Oil, is a documentary based on Chevron’s destruction of the Ecuadorian rain forest. Joe Berlinger, known for films like Paradise Lost and Brother’s Keeper, gives a well-rounded look at one of the biggest environmental lawsuits in history. For those of you who aren’t familiar [...]

What’s new with the climate talks?

So I don’t know if you heard, but last week Yvo de Boer announced he would be stepping down from his post as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change, or the UNFCCC. His official step down date is June 1, so that gives de Boer and the UNFCCC a mere [...]

Facebook on Coal?!

To all of you Facebook users out there, you might be excited to know that the second most visited site in the U.S. just announced that it is opening up their first data center in Oregon! Sounds cool right? Well, what if I told you that they are planning on to power that data center [...]

Not Exactly What I Would Be Spending $8 Billion On…

Remember the Three Mile Island incident? Remember how it basically put a halt to any more nuclear reactors being built in the United States? You do?! Well, then someone please tell me why President Obama just signed on to an $8 billion dollar loan to build the first nuclear sites in nearly three decades. That’s right [...]

It’s Just Snow…

So this crazy east coast blizzard has been creating mixed feelings in tons of Americans, those actually in the storm and those watching from afar. While kids play in the snow, excited about another snow day, and employees complain that they have to clean ridiculous amounts of snow off their cars, climate skeptics are using [...]

An Environmental Journalist, Hard at Work

Here at Ithaca College we often have the rare privilege to meet extraordinarily influential people and sometimes even get the chance to study with them. I got to listen to one of those people speak today and her name is Sandra Steingraber. A cancer survivor, an author, and a biologist, Steingraber is one influential woman [...]

Helping Haiti from our Home

Today was a pretty inspiring day for me, most especially around the noon hour. I received an email that went out to many student organizations, most especially those dedicated to volunteering. The email was brief, saying only that there would be a brainstorming meeting Thursday at the lunch hour to discuss efforts to help Haiti. [...]