Serious consideration is being given to the mad proposition of
engineering the biosphere as a solution to climate change [
ark]. Technological pseudo-scientific proposals for humans to engineer atmospheric processes are dubbed
"geoengineering" [search] and generally seek to either reflect solar radiation or absorb greenhouse gases. They include such shortsighted, ill-conceived and risky ideas as mass release of aerosols...
(Seattle, WA) --
Ecological Internet (EI) welcomes Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski's decision to block
Bush administration plans to sharply increase logging [search] on 2.2 million acres of BLM forests in Western Oregon. Kulongoski concluded that
President Bush's hastily arrived at logging plan did not conform [
ark] to federal environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act, and failed...
TAKE ACTION! The Bush Administration is rushing out long-term plans that would convert over 2 million acres of Oregon's national forests, with their towering trees, rushing rivers, and superb wildlife habitat, to empty clearcuts. Much of the forests under siege are in the
Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion [search] nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Crest, which...
(Seattle, WA) --
Ecological Internet, the world's leading provider of on-line environmental portals and
action opportunities, is pleased to announce
New Earth Rising, a new fiercely biocentric online magazine (e-zine), committed to thought and action to achieve global ecological sustainability. The green publication launches today at
http://www.newearthrising.org/ and free subscriptions can be made at
http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ ...