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UN’s World Water Day 2012

~ “It’s official: the UN’s WORLD WATER DAY 2012 was the BIGGEST EVER, thanks to you!”
Here’s 54 pages of EVENTS all around the world, http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/events/events-list/en/?page=1&ipp=20, Shown on this MAP, 54 pages of events, http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/events/events-list/en/?page=1&ipp=20, with PHOTOS at http://www.flickr.com/groups/wwd2012events/pool/with/6861898198/
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World Water Day 2012
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Students & the ‘Nature Bodies’ organization at the Gol Bazaar Square, India during the World Water Day 2012
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USA imposes first-ever carbon emission limits on new power plants

March 27, 2012, www.tcktcktck.org | The Environmental Protection Agency has just proposed the first-ever national standards to limit dangerous carbon pollution from new power plants. These historic safeguards are critical to ensuring a cleaner future for American communities: no longer will new electric plants be able to endanger our health with unchecked carbon pollution and the climate change it causes.

Instead, our nation can start creating a 21st century power fleet — one that uses the latest clean technologies and reduces the threat of climate change.

USA imposes first-ever carbon emission limits on new power plants » TckTckTck | the Global Campaign.
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“The Environmental Protection Agency has just proposed the first-ever national standards to limit dangerous carbon pollution from new power plants. These historic safeguards are critical to ensuring a cleaner future for American communities: no longer will new electric plants be able to endanger our …”
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GoodNews FortheEarth‎~ Thanks so much for this article! Because of it, I was able to follow a link to the main EPA site, find all the press releases that came out today, and post them on our Wall. It’s great when someone from another country can tell let us know what’s going on in the USA — a good example of how it helps for people from all places all around the world to work together!

Mar 26, 2012 GoodNews FortheEarth on Facebook Leave a Comment
Filed under: Air, Business Policy, Energy - Polluting, Pollution

Air Pollution Experts Awarded 2012 Tyler Environmental Prize

LOS ANGELES, California, March 20, 2012 (ENS) – The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement today announced that it is honoring two experts on air pollution with the 2012 Tyler Prize for their work to advance the scientific understanding of air pollution, and develop solutions to reduce the danger to human health and the impact on climate change.

John Seinfeld, PhD, of the California Institute of Technology, is recognized for his groundbreaking work leading to understanding of the origin, chemistry, and evolution of particles in the atmosphere. The fundamental understanding of the physics and chemistry of urban and regional air pollution that emerged from his research served as the basis for action to control the effects of air pollution on public health.

“The Tyler Prize is the highest recognition in the field of environmental science,” said Seinfeld. “It’s a humbling honor.”

Kirk Smith, MPH, PhD, of the University of California at Berkeley is recognized for his work identifying that household air pollution in developing nations is responsible for nearly two million premature deaths per year, disproportionately among women and children.

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Filed under: Air, People, Profiles, Pollution

California – tough new CLEAN AIR STANDARDS FOR CARS

Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com, January 30, 2012

“According to the new standards, by 2025 cars sold in California must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent and smog emissions by 75 percent. The program will also require 15.4 percent of all cars sold in California to be zero or near-zero emissions by 2025.”

Jan 30, 2012 GoodNews FortheEarth on Facebook 1 Comment
Filed under: Air, Climate, Local Policy, Pollution

Court Rejects Attempt to Kill Cement Plant Rule

earthjustice.org, Today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Portland Cement Association’s attempt to kill Clean Air Act standards that will reduce cement plants’ emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants by more than 90 percent and save between 900 and 2,500 American lives every year. December 12, 2011, Jeavonna Chapman, Shalahnia Riversong, Bob Hughes and 3 others like this.  1 share Comments;    Bob Hughes One for the book, Robert Brothers, ‎~ U.S. COURT SUPPORTS CLEAN AIR, rejects industry attempt to kill an important anti-pollution ruling. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Portland Cement Association’s attempt to kill Clean Air Act standards that will reduce cement plants’ emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants by more than 90 percent and save between 900 and 2,500 American lives every year. Thanks to Earthjustice and others!

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Filed under: Air, Pollution

How Mushrooms Can Clean Up Radioactive Contamination – An 8 Step Plan

Saturday, 16th April 2011, www.permaculture.co.uk | “Many people have written me and asked more or less the same question: ‘What would you do to help heal the Japanese landscape around the failing nuclear reactors?’  Here are 8 steps to cleaning up radioactive materials”

“How Mushrooms Can Clean Up Radioactive Contamination – An 8 Step Plan | Permaculture Magazine
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*This article is crossposted from hopedance.org* Many people have written me and asked more or less the same question: “What would you do to help heal the Japanese landscape around the failing nuclear reactors?”
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Robert Brothers “ideas are good news, facts are better. The fact mentioned here is that “Gomphidius glutinosus has been reported to absorb – via the mycelium – and concentrate radioactive Cesium 137 more than 10,000-fold over ambient background levels. Many other mycorrhizal mushroom species also hyper-accumulate.” The best news would be results of the use of these species, in terms of how long it takes for how many of them to absorb how much radiaation. Would anyone like to research this, using the sources that Stamets gives?”
Pedro Di Girólamo “You should Post this very good comment as a comment to this article in the original site (Permaculture Magazine) where it was published ^_o”
Erika Leonor Huerta Fuentes “En la naturaleza podemos encontrar el remedio a todos los males…cuántas especies se han extinguido y ya no podemos contar con ellas?”
GoodNews FortheEarth “Pedro, perhaps you could post it for me : )”
GoodNews FortheEarth “Erika, i think i understand most of what you wrote, except for the last part, so perhaps you could translate ? gracias : )”
Pedro Di Girólamo “Well; I will do it naming of course the Group ‘GoodNews For TheEarth’ ;-)”
Jeavonna Chapman “In nature we find the cure for all ills … how many species are extinct and we can not count on them?
Love Google Translate”

Lindy Rose, Elaine Codling, Pedro Di Girólamo, Pablo Ricky, Ysabel Vicente, Peter Wetpots Wakeling, Erika Leonor Huerta Fuentes, Nani Kamphuis, Foyo Enlight, Marko Bey, Leo P Vicioues and Bob Dobbsin like this.

Apr 16, 2011 GoodNews FortheEarth on Facebook Leave a Comment
Filed under: Energy - Polluting, Nuclear, Pollution

Olaus and Mardy Murie: Alaska’s Passionate Protectors

October 21, 2013, www.wilderness.net | “Margaret (Mardy) Murie is fondly called the Grandmother of the Conservation Movement, but her love of the land began at a young age. Born on August 18, 1902 in Seattle, Mardy moved to Fairbanks with her family when she was five years old. Her step-father was an assistant U.S. attorney. She attended Simons College in Boston but finished her degree in business administration at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, now the University of Alaska.”

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HISTORY – Olaus and Mardy Murie: Alaska’s Passionate Protectors
“I hope the United States of America is not so rich that she can afford to let these wildernesses pass by, or so poor she cannot afford to keep them.” – Mardy Murie – In congressional testimony about the Alaska Lands Act
Thanks to Dena Nickell for posting this.
Wilderness.net – Olaus and Mardy Murie, 1902 – 2003
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Olaus is rememberd as a biologist, Alaskan explorer and author. Mardy is often call the ‘grandmother of the conversation movement.’
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Filed under: Animals, Animals & Plants, Compassionate Actions, Education, People, Profiles, Pollution