Home:News:Sports:Local Sports Habitat tour educates about area wildlife 06/24/2007 Email to a friendPrinter-friendly When he attended a habitat tour a few weeks ago at Game Lands 257 near Tamaqua, District 7 Game Commissioner Jay Delaney was impressed by what he saw. Home:News:Sports:Local Sports Habitat tour educates about area wildlife 06/24/2007 Email to a friendPrinter-friendly When he attended a habitat tour a few weeks ago at Game Lands 257 near Tamaqua, District 7 Game Commissioner...

Many grocery stores and drugstores must now collect and recycle plastic bags, with the aim to improve the environment and reduce trash in landfills. It demands drugstores and grocery stores of at least 10,000 square feet to offer at-store recycling programs for plastic bags. Plastic-bag manufacturers encourage the recycling effort, with the ability to convert the plastic bags into other products, including combining them with wood shavings to make weather-resistant lumber products. Less...

Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - The World Health Organization on Monday warned that global policy makers must act quickly to address the critical problem of global warming, or face serious health and economic consequences. Shigeru Omi, WHO's regional director for the Western Pacific region, said the current crisis was masked by the fact that global warming issues did not present as much a tangible problem to many governments, as compared to immediate health problems such as communicable diseases....

And what sort of things are these people supposed to be ashamed of? One family, the Barries, are scolded for their overuse of light bulbs, "Dad's overseas business travel, their swimming pool and boat," while the Lane family is taken to task for their "six TVs, three DVD players, five or six computers, 12 freshly laundered towels a day. The "carbon cops" are shown rummaging through a family's smallest household items, searching for global warming contraband--and then scolding them for...

These acres are critical migration and winter habitat for waterfowl, as well as habitat for numerous other wildlife species. Ducks Unlimited is working hard to make sure the program is fully funded to conserve and restore 250,000 acres a year and that farmers and ranchers get a fair payment for their wetlands conservation efforts. This program is vital to waterfowl habitat conservation efforts. Other competing proposals for the 2007 farm bill would make funding for the Wetlands Reserve...

We want to try to get recyclable material out of the waste stream, or the landfill, White said. The recycling grant program aims to enhance Kentucky s recycling infrastructure and boost the state s household recycling rate to above the national average of 28. Recycling not only benefits our environment, it also benefits our economy, Fletcher said in a written statement. The county s recycling program applied for the grant in March, filling out extensive paperwork and sending it to...

You are in: News >SA News THE WEEK IN REVIEW All the stories from the past 7 days CAPE TOWN SA climate change threatens extinctions Mon, 02 Jul 2007 Climate change in South Africa could drive thousands of species to extinction in the next 50 to 80 years, Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena said in Port Elizabeth on Monday. You are in: News >SA News THE WEEK IN REVIEW All the stories from the past 7 days CAPE TOWN SA climate change threatens extinctions Mon, 02 Jul 2007 Climate...

But, how many brides take the time to factor the environment into their big day? In fact, the trend of environmentally friendly weddings has recently led to the blossoming of an entirely new theory - something old, something new, something borrowed, something green. Latest wedding trend puts environment first. But, how many brides take the time to factor the environment into their big day? In fact, the trend of environmentally friendly weddings has recently led to the blossoming of an...

Posted at 10:30 am by Debra Smith A national professional landcare organization sent me a list of tips for conserving water and this statement: a healthy lawn is good for the environment. If you really want to save water, get rid of the lawn and replace it with native plants, shrubs, trees or an ecolawn, which don t need to be watered, mowed or chemically-enhanced. Are lawns bad for the environment? Lawns also suck up an incredible amount of water and the run off from fertilizers and...