DIY WaterWall

Michelle shows us how to create a beautiful and practical WaterWall for energy savings at home.

Coral reefs need protection

WWF report says last marine wilderness area on the planet must be protected!

Coral Sea sharks could be wiped out
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Christian the Lion - the full story

Christian left the Kora Reserve in 1973. He made his new territory along the Tana river, but when the Wakamba herdsmen kept bringing their livestock to his hunting ground, he moved on. George Adamson said in his autobiography, "I used to count the days on which we hadn't seen Christian, but when they reached 97, I gave up recording them in my diary." Because a lion can live from 12 to 15 years in the wild, Adamson believed that Christian ended his days in the Meru National Reserve only a few miles up river.



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Protect the Polar Bears of Chukchi Sea!

Less than a month after listing polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided to give oil companies legal protection to potentially harm the bears as they move forward with oil and gas exploration and development in Alaska's Chukchi Sea.

Head over to the National Wildlife Federation and copy the e-mail they've prepared for people to use as a way to open up their representatives' eyes.

They want you to edit and send the message to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall, urging him to protect the Chukchi Sea polar bears, not big oil profits. I say send it to any political figure, Democrat or Republican, you can think of!

Bush bumbles one last time on environment

Adding one final insult to nearly eight years of injury, the Bush administration continued to defy the Supreme Court today by issuing a request for additional comments--an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking—on global warming regulations, rather than the so-called "endangerment determination" that the Court's ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA compelled and senior Environmental Protection Agency officials had argued for. A front-page report in the Washington Post today details the tireless efforts of senior political appointees in the administration to prevent global warming regulations from being in put in place under President Bush.

"Today's action caps off eight years of catastrophic negligence on the part of an increasingly irrelevant administration, and removes whatever shadow of a doubt that may have existed about whether it was going to fail to live up to its obligations to the American public, the law, and the Supreme Court to do something real on global warming. The American public, Congress, world leaders, and even career government officials are counting down the days until this administration leaves town and a new president undoes the damage done by President Bush and makes up for nearly a decade of lost time--time we didn't have to waste in the first place. And the first thing the next administration will do is toss the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking into the circular file.

"Stephen Johnson should have left his post long ago, but today's action underscores his complete and utter lack of credibility. Johnson will be remembered not for his decades of public service, but rather for his unswerving fealty to the misguided policies of a failed administration.

"This global warming melodrama has all the set pieces of classic Bush administration political theater: politics coming before science, outright deception of the American public and Congressional investigators, willful disregard for the law and courts, and political meddling at the highest levels to protect favored special interests--with the dark hand of the Vice President visible throughout. Thankfully this drama is near the end of its final act."

News Flash: small Canadian pond to become trash bin

Armed with nothing more than a rod and reel, Andy Murphy is an unlikely environmental warrior, waging a fight against a plan to dump thousands of tonnes of mining waste into a trout pond in southeastern Newfoundland.

The battleground is Sandy Pond, a small tranquil lake not far from Long Harbour on the Avalon Peninsula, about 100 kilometres west of St. John's.

It is at the center of a simmering dispute that pits environmental concerns against the hope for jobs in a region that desperately needs them. ...(read more at Yahoo! Canada)

School Aims for More than Being Green

WSJ's Matt Rivera looks at the Willow School, which views being green as more than just recycling and conserving. The school was planned so that when it was built it would actually improve the environment around it.

Hybrid cars more and more popular

As motorists face gas prices in the $4 range this summer, many are turning to hybrid vehicles as a means of saving money at the pump while also helping the environment. Michelle Miller reports.