Tag: Blue August - Page 8
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Is Brown the New Green? Not Watering Lawns Works
It's catching on: homeowners letting lawns go fallow during the summer without wasting resources on watering. When I lived in Seattle it was a common practice. After the grass turns brown, come fall,
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Oceans 11 meets Flipper: Don't Miss "The Cove"
The fate of 23,000 dolphins is in your hands, says Flipper's old trainer Ric O'Barry who's devoted years to ending the monster he
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Getting Butts Off Beaches Makes Everyone Happier
As you hopefully know by now, August is a special month round these parts. That's because it's Blue August - a month of not only a focus on all things marine here on TreeHugger, but also a month of awesome TV
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Overfishing is Slowing, But Only in Areas With Good Fisheries Management
We all know that the state of the world's fisheries is pretty dire, with overfishing rampant and fish stock collapse likely in many places if something isn't done about it. A new paper in the journal Science gives some
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New England Aquarium Focuses on Climate Change with Mobile Tours
Now when you walk through the New England Aquarium (a past pick for a great staycation), you're encouraged to keep your cell phones and MP3 players up and running so that the aquarium can infuse your brain with
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World's Largest Caterer Bans 69 Endangered Fish From Its Menus
Good news for more sustainable fisheries! The world's largest contract caterer, Compass Group, has just announced that it will remove some 69 endangered and threatened fish from its menus in the UK and Ireland. The fish to
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Jellyfish Changing the Ocean's Temperature...by Stirring It??
Talk about a "butterfly flaps its wings" scenario. Scientists Kakani Katija and John Dabiri of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have worked out just how jellyfish swim, and propose that the way jellyfish
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How Polluted is Your Beach? A New Report Knows
At the risk of raining on your beach party, and in the hopes of eventually improving it,
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Acrobats Design Canada Pavilion with Rainwater Harvesting, Green Walls
It appears that Canada's greatest contribution to world culture since William Shatner have moved beyond just performing; Cirque du Soleil are now architects as well. They were chosen to "imagine and design the Canada Pavilion for the 2010 International
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5 Super Cheap, Green Beach Resorts
Although going green doesn't have to mean spending a bundle, it's much easier to find a luxury eco-friendly resort than it is to find a cheap one. But we found five beach-centered resorts in areas all
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Paying Farmers Not to Irrigate During Peak Electricity Demand
Photo: Flickr, CC They Ran the Pumps 24/7 Because it Costs too Much to Pay Someone to Turn Them Off... I think few people realize how much water is used for food production. The numbers are quite mind-boggling, and a side effect of this is that a lot of
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Computer Models Improve Salmon Passage at Hydropower Dams
Image: PNNL Guiding Salmon to Safety Many populations of Chinook Salmon are endangered, and hydropower dams are not making things betters. But is there a way to mitigate their impact? Part of the problem is that predators (like the pikeminnow) gather in
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IBM Equates Water to Electricity, Wants Better Measures and Management
In June, we had a chance to sit down with Drew Clark, IBM's Venture Capital Group Director of Strategy. He let us know about some great ways IBM is filtering money into projects that go directly toward
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Should Individual Food Items Get Water Footprint Labels or Are We Already Overloaded With Information?
The water footprint of food is likely to become a growing problem as climate change plays havoc with world water supplies, and as more of the world tries to eat up the social ladder: As in consuming more meat. In an effort to
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Bad News For Sea Nymphs and Sirens: A $282 Million Seaweed Deal Heals Broken Hearts
Seaweed liquid morphs into gel to sheath heart muscles after attack Not too shabby considering the product is based on a common brown seaweed: an Israeli pharmaceutical company BioLineRx has just in-licensed a new heart smart remedy to heal hearts after
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Could Farmed Fish Lead Us to 'Mad Fish'?
At TreeHugger we've had a lot to say about farmed fish - some good , but mainly negative. Farmed salmon, that perennial favorite (it's a $10 billion market as of 2007), causes native
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Honey We Shrunk The Plankton, Climate Change Making Aquatic Organisms Smaller
I want to be careful not to exaggerate the
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This Could Be the Summer From Hell for Carribean Coral Reefs
This summer won't be fun for many coral reefs, particularly in the Carribean which look to be facing stressors and potential widespread bleaching through October, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
