Category: Environment

Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming on the same amount of land---according to new findings which refute the long-standing assumption that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population.

Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming on the same amount of land---according to new findings which refute the long-standing assumption that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population.

Holistic Management International offers the public a a free Personal Carbon Impact Calculator card that helps people determine and offset their ecological effects on the planet. The 9" x 4" card carries a simple chart that translates individual impacts on global warming into dollars and cents, using the same principle that the Climate Exchange industry uses in paying carbon credits to farmers. Reviewing the chart, people can calculate their personal carbon impacts, and then decide whether or not to use the dollar value of their impacts to support alternative energy projects.

"A solution to global warming is right under our feet and we can make it personal," says Peter Holter, COO of Holistic Management International (HMI). The non-profit uses natural methods to restore land, improve soil health, reverse desertification, and improve biodiversity - which greatly increase the soil's ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it as organic matter. 30 million acres worldwide are currently being managed holistically.

A leading UK dairy free organic chocolate manufacturer has gone mental - environmental. Plamil foods factory in Folkestone is now run on 100% sustainable energy sources. The latest research from Chicago University, a UN report and a leaked secret document from the UK government all suggest a vegan diet is the best for the planet. Adrian Ling Plamil Foods MD says "The food industry needs to realise the dangers of a vegan diet rising in popularity. Food manufacturers now have to watch quality control on many different new levels if they want to keep a competitive edge"

Vegan Willy Wonka Adrian Ling from Plamil Foods has issued a warning to the organic and health food industry about the dangers of Vegan diets, just days before he is due to present an Environment award at the world's biggest vegan festival at The Bristol Vegan Fayre on the 9th and 10th June.

A new report has been published which challenges certain basic assumptions about climate change. The report has been written by an independent lay researcher, and is backed by over 20 signatories from diverse backgrounds. The report presents significant ground-based and space-based data which indicates that ongoing illegal and unacknowledged aerosol spraying from aircraft could be affecting our climate. Copies of the report have been sent to Greenpeace, the Civil Aviation Authority, The Royal Air Force and DEFRA, challenging them to investigate the data themselves.

An independent lay researcher, with a background in Software Engineering, from Derbyshire, UK, has published a new report which documents ongoing illegal aerosol spraying activities which could be affecting our climate, our health or both. This activity can be seen in multiple, repeated instances of persistent aircraft trails across our skies.

Global warming is much more serious than previously thought.

According to a recent study by NASA, global warming is much more serious than previously thought. NASA estimates that the average temperature of the eastern United States will rise 10 degrees Fahrenheit by 2080. This is considerably higher than the two to 3.5 degree temperature increase by 2100 predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climactic Change (IPCC).

Between 2002 and 2005, over 700 new species have been found in Anartica's Weddell Sea at depths between 2,500 and 20,000 feet.

At first glance, the Weddell Sea in northwest Antarctica may not appear to be teeming with life. Far below the surface there, though, an international team of scientists, together with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), reported finding at least 700 new species.

Air pollution has been taking its toll of the world famous Taj Mahal. Plans are afoot to clense it with a mud bath.

The Taj Mahal, one of India's most famed monuments, known for its white marble, has been gradually turning yellowish. Particulate matter associated with air pollution has been accumulating on the Taj Mahal giving the marble a yellow look.

Researchers belonging to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) say that the Arctic ice caps are melting at a rate much faster than that predicted by computer models previously reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and that the ice could be gone sometime near year 2020.

The Nature Conservancy and IBM announced on Tuesday that they are collaborating to conserve some of the world's great rivers by meshing extraordinary computing power and science-driven conservation.

Earth Day is the time for raising awareness of environmental factor, good and bad. Education is key in making informed decisions that affect the future of our planet, and inevitably our future generations.