Blogs about: Environmental Degradation

Featured Blog

Why India will not become a superpower?

smcinvestmentindia wrote 3 days ago: 1. Population: India’s increasing population is a big hindrance in India’s becoming a S … more →

Tags: General, India, Bureaucracy, corruption, Economic Policy, global financial crisis, Indian Media, Indian policy makers, Judiciary

Failure to Yield

Rady Ananda wrote 1 week ago: By Union of Concerned Scientists For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will fee … more →

Tags: Food News, Genetically Engineered Food, scientific studies, genetically modified food, News, Politics, Pesticides, organic farming, failure to yield

Land Reclamation Ruined Sentosa Reef

limjunying wrote 1 week ago: Photo Credit: Ria Tan A really saddening photo. I’m sure many Singaporeans don’t even k … more →

Tags: Singapore, Endangered Species, Coral Reefs, sentosa

KEEP OFF THE GRASS, part 3

worldinahandbasket wrote 2 weeks ago: If only 1000 of us in America stop using pesticides on our lawns and gardens, we’ll protect th … more →

Tags: Lawns, chemical fertilizer, suburban lawn, Pesticides, herbicides, ecological damage, BioRegion, toxins, lawnmower emissions

Farrah Fawcett Living Downstream49 comments

Steven Mather wrote 3 weeks ago: Dividing Breast Cell Farrah Fawcett’s death is both poignant and embarrassingly mundane. It is poig … more →

Tags: General, Barack Obama, Cancer, environmental oncology, environmental responsibility, Farrah Fawcett, living downstream, mountaintop removal mining, Sarah Palin

Immigration Reform: An Environmental Perspective45 comments

Steven Mather wrote 1 month ago: Immigration, as a policy issue, is politically explosive. It is politically explosive because it ne … more →

Tags: Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economic Development, Foreign Policy, Going forward, Human Rights, Politics, Carrying capacity, collapse, democracy

My intellectual urban pre-school era (The Summer of 2009)

Kent Hakull wrote 1 month ago: No teachers nor authorities of corrections for miles around, only myself and where the road takes me … more →

Tags: Urban Planning, International Development, University of Waterloo, Literature, Education, Global Recession, fictional joy, urbanism, Urban Revolution

God's Earth Heats Up Against Tyranny: Climate Change to Kill Billions this Century

writergooddoer wrote 1 month ago: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/25/global-warming-of-7c-could-kill-billions-this-century/   MIT: … more →

Tags: Islam, Pakistan, Politics, News, Political Economy, Science, Government, Allah, God

Disaster risk increasing, says UN

candywwgm wrote 2 months ago: Climate change, environmental degradation and badly planned urban development are more likely to aff … more →

Tags: Politics, health, Ecosystems & Habitats, Climate, climate change, Risk Assessment, Cyclones, Tsunami

Reflection 103: Money Consciousness2 comments

Steve Perrin wrote 2 months ago:     (Copyright © 2009)   Money is a pure idea, an abstraction having only symbolic value but no conc … more →

Tags: Books, Consciousness, Economy, survival, The Mind, Transformation., Labor, Money, Left-Brain Interpreter

Tharunka - Is an inhumane world worth preserving?

unswsocrates wrote 2 months ago: The following first appeared in UNSW’s Tharunka magazine as part of their regular “Hypot … more →

Tags: anthropocentrism, cruelty to animals, DeGrazia, Environment, ethics, Humanity, personhood, Speciesism, survival

A brief outline of the modern socioecological crisis, Part 1: A “paradox of affluence”

Jess Vogt wrote 2 months ago: The more I read in environmental studies, the more I realize that there seems to be a consensus amon … more →

Tags: Books, thoughts and musings, annie leonard, Community, consumerism, Education, Fox Cities community, human-earth disconnect, last child in the woods

UNFAO & UNEP Report: The Tragedy of Ghost Fishing and the Solutions

limjunying wrote 2 months ago: Image from FAO, UNEP report What is ghost fishing? Ghost fishing refers to the “catch” … more →

Tags: ghost fishing, ghost nets

Study: Mercury in Pacific to Rise by 50% by 20502 comments

limjunying wrote 2 months ago: Simplified mercury biogeochemical cycle According to a new study, if mercury levels continue to ris … more →

Tags: Environment, water pollution, Ocean circulation, scientific study

Economics and environmental degradation1 comment

robertkyriakides wrote 2 months ago: New ideas, when they first surface, are often ignored. Eventually they work themselves into the imag … more →

Tags: climate change, nicholas stern, Pollution, gordon brown, Alistair Darling, Global Warming, Stern Review, economic growth, climate change and economics

Earth Week and Annie Leonard

Jess Vogt wrote 2 months ago: Happy Earth Day, everyone! This week, Green Roots: The Sustainable Lawrence Initiative, of which I a … more →

Tags: thoughts and musings, annie leonard, Community, consumerism, Education, lawrence university, Materialism, networking, Sustainable Future

United States Checking Corporate Fraud With Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Reform Act 2002

writergooddoer wrote 2 months ago: This paper is a discussion on the Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Reform Act of 2002 with a special emphas … more →

Tags: Law and ethics, Business, Research papers, Free Papers, Papers, united states, greenwashing, Corporate social responsibility, business ethics

Economic Valuation for Environmental Management for Health

saferenvironment wrote 2 months ago: Economic Valuation for Environmental Management for Health: 1. Introduction - There is increasing … more →

Tags: Environment, Population growth, combating Environmental Degradation, degradation of environment, Economic Valuation of Health, environment protection, Environmental health

Degradation of Global Environment Affects Human Health To A Large Extent1 comment

saferenvironment wrote 2 months ago: Degradation of Global Environment Affects Human Health To A Large Extent: Introduction - The probl … more →

Tags: Environment, Population growth, overpopulation, Global Warming, climate change, degradation of environment, Human Health, Environmental health


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS

Find other items tagged with “environmental-degradation”:
Technorati Del.icio.us IceRocket