YouSayToo: posts tagged environment

Matt Laurer - Burning Gas Around the World

Thu, 01 May 2008 11:57:43 GMT

Hey remember last week when NBC was "going green" and telling us how to live without wasting energy or burning fossil fuels? What a difference a week makes - now that they have relaunched "[more]

Sinking Maldives Posterchild for EarthDay

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:42:22 GMT

Readers probably already know my view on the environment/Earth Day: The Earth does not need saving - WE DO! That being said the tiny archipelago nation of the Maldives are getting a new meaning to the [more]

In The Age of Expensive Gas - RV's Got To Go

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:42:21 GMT

As much as I support American business, I will not shed a tear for the fate of Winnebago, a company that is part of the problem. Winnebago and their ever increasing line of monstrous RV's is a poster [more]

Gas Hits $9 per Gallon in UK!

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:42:27 GMT

This CBS News video not only explains just how much more gas costs in the UK compared to here in the US - $9 a gallon! It also explains in layman's terms some of the factors behind the surging oil [more]

Gas Guzzlers and the Soccer Moms that Love Them

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:42:33 GMT

Look, the only reason I'm up this morning and posting is to get the painful sting of last night's [more]

Global Warming Claims the Poles

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:42:40 GMT

Polar ice caps are melting at a much faster rate than models show. Take Antarctica for example, the ice loss increased about 75% over ten years since 1996. Now it's losing 192 gigatons of ice per year [more]

Recycling Nuclear Fuel? That Would Be Too Easy!

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:28:02 GMT

This article makes sense - why don't we recycle the spent nuclear fuel. France has been doing it...oh right France, we aren't supposed to like them. Or is it cool to like them now that Sarkozy [more]

Think about what it consumes before buying it

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:07:00 GMT

"Environmental obesity" - great ad campaign from Leo Burnett Brussels, photos by Frieke Janssens [more] [images]

project, that will rival the Great Wall of China

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:03:36 GMT

Henan Business News report, Chinese people have condemned a project to build a 13-mile long dragon along a mountain ridge outside a city. [more] [images]

London plans to be the greenest city in the world

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:43:52 GMT

The British capital, Reuters report, set out on Tuesday to become [more]

ikea stops littering the landscape

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:50:18 GMT

Ikea, the purveyor of cheap chic modern furniture and housewares, said today it will stop handing out disposable plastic carry bags in the U.S. in an effort to radically reduce the tens of millions of [more]

25 million dollars to the Earth saviour

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:39:00 GMT

A $25 million prize was established for anyone, who can come up with a solution, how to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The closing date for Earth Challenge contest is 8 February 2010. If [more]

Anti-pollution plans prove unsuccessful

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:33:46 GMT

European car makers are against environmental anti-pollution plans. They claim that exhaust emissions are "damaging". The industry body says that these plans will lead to unemployment and relocation [more]

Bush lifted a ban, thus endangering many species

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:06:18 GMT

Bush lifted a ban on oil pumping in Alaska, near Bristol Bay. Dirk Kempthorne, the Interior Secretary, said: "There will be significant opportunities for study and public comment before any oil [more]

serious issue..the year the World woke up

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:13:34 GMT

A plethora of scientific reports underpinned the global phenomenon throughout the year, which was officially the warmest ever recorded in Britain and the sixth warmest the world has known. It was, globally, [more]