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Fossil Fuel Industry Is Killing the World’s Coral Reefs

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Fossil Fuel Divers from coastal communities around the world wrapped crime-scene tape around dead coral reefs during a series of underwater dives to highlight the catastrophic damage to this valuable ecosystem and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry for its loss. A series of underwater photographs collected from Samoa, the Australian Great Barrier Reef and the Andaman Islands was ... Read More »

Climate Change Is Real and We Must Act

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Climate Change In the studio of a Los Angeles radio station, host Tina Mastramico was kicking off another edition of her show Celebrity Chat. “We’re here with Don Cheadle,” she said, “to discuss the Environmental Defense Fund [EDF], his new movie.” Cheadle, the actor-director and climate activist, seemed taken aback. “Um, EDF isn’t a movie. It’s an organization that helps ... Read More »

Saving Water When Traveling

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Saving Water Water conservation has always been an important part of our role in society. While water is a renewable resource, we must be careful with the amounts that we use on a daily basis because water is not a sustainable resource. Many people are conscious of the ways in which they use water at home, but what about when ... Read More »

Mount Everest Climbers May One Day Climb Ice-Free

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Mount Everest The Himalayan Mountains and Tibetan Plateau, dubbed the “Third Pole” for having the largest ice mass on Earth after the polar regions, are rapidly losing their glaciers. Eighteen percent of China’s glaciers have vanished in the past 50 years according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Air pollution and rising air temperatures are combining to increase glacial melt, ... Read More »

Earth Day at The Bay, Newport Beach

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Earth Day Saturday, April 22, 2017 Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center 10 – 3 p.m. Free parking, free admission Bring some cash for food trucks and opportunity drawing Click here for Event flyer Click here for Rain Barrel flyer Service Project: Native Plant Restoration in partnership with OneOC 9 – 11 a.m. On Earth Day we need you to take ... Read More »

Green up Your Swimming Pool

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Green Up Sure, one way to “green” up your pool is to put plenty of plants around it and throw in some algae in for good measure, but that’s not what the term stands for. No, greening up means implementing eco-friendly solutions and practices in order to run an energy and water-efficient swimming pool. These solutions will not only keep ... Read More »

Coffee Cup Recycling, It’s a Problem

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Coffee Cup Recycling For those of us on the go, a quick cup of coffee is so often our saving grace. That blend of flavour and energy is the perfect pick-me-up whether it’s first thing in the morning, midway through a particularly stressful day, or on the way home with your troubles left far behind. Global franchises have built their ... Read More »

Natural Resources, Use Has Tripled in 40 Yr.

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Natural Resources Humans’ appetite for gnawing away at the fabric of the Earth itself is growing prodigiously. According to a new UN report, the amount of the planet’s natural resources extracted for human use has tripled in 40 years. A report produced by the International Resource Panel (IRP), part of the UN Environment Programme, says rising consumption driven by a ... Read More »

Greener Warehousing Operations

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Greener Warehousing Just like we all try our best to organise our lives at home in a way that would be as efficient and environment-friendly as possible, we should be putting in the same effort in improving various aspects of our professional lives in order to have the minimal impact on the environment. Read More »