http://newlygreens.com Walking Green for a Sustainable Garden State Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:30:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://newlygreens.com/feed/ Stories of green living from the early adopters walking the walk. Produced in NJ just outside New York City the show gives an East Coast flavor to implementing more balanced choices. Hosts Greg and Connie, "newlygreens" and not so newlywed, try take the stories to heart and and bring practical change into their own lives. It may not be about being the ideal, but it is definitely about finding inspiration and working toward something better. Kaizen Productions LLC clean Kaizen Productions LLC info@newlygreens.com info@newlygreens.com (Kaizen Productions LLC) 2010 Kaizen Productions LLC Eco Friendly Tales of Going Green from the Northeast sustainable, environmental, earth, nature, solar, wind, recycle, organic, green, eco, eco-friendly http://newlygreens.com/_content/_images/powered_by_podpress_small.jpg http://newlygreens.com http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/reusable-news-june-24-2010/ http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/reusable-news-june-24-2010/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:00:39 +0000 RisaP http://newlygreens.com/?p=2905 The Headlines Europe’s wind and gas power neck and neck Bank of America stands up to BP Alaskan state official defends oil over bears East coast governors collaborate on wind Nearly extinct species of turtle offered hope Airships making a comeback The Details Europe’s new wind and [...]]]> http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/reusable-news-june-24-2010/feed/ 0 airship,Alaska Department of Fish and Game,Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium,Austria,Bank of America,Bank of America Merrill Lynch,BP,British Petroleum,Bullet 580,critical habitat,Delaware,Department of Interior The Headlines - Europe's wind and gas power neck and neck Bank of America stands up to BP Alaskan state official defends oil over bears East coast governors collaborate on wind Nearly extinct species of turtle offered hope The Headlines Europe's wind and gas power neck and neck Bank of America stands up to BP Alaskan state official defends oil over bears East coast governors collaborate on wind Nearly extinct species of turtle offered hope Airships making a comeback The Details Europe's new wind and gas power neck and neck Startlingly progressive news from across the pond! The European Wind Energy Association reports that the amount of new power generated by wind turbines in Europe this year will be comparable to, if not greater than the amount of new power generated by natural gas this year. New natural gas was top dog in European power generation, but since 2008 it has been lagging behind new wind. Just to make sure we're clear, we aren't saying wind produced more power than all the natural gas in the European Union. We're saying that since 2008, more new wind power has been created than new natural gas power, which is still pretty great. The European Union can now generate 85GW of wind power, and if the past few years is any indication, they'll only be adding more. Bank of America stands up to BP In a fiscally responsible and possibly moral move, an executive within Bank of America Merrill Lynch handed down an order last week telling the company's traders not to engage in oil trades with British Petroleum beyond June of 2011. The unnamed executive did not state a reason for doing so, but cutting down on trades with a counterparty helps to protect banks against risk that a company will be unable to meet its long-term obligations. Bank of America has good reason to assume BP won't be able to pay up, with the company running up a huge tab for oil spill cleanup in the Gulf, boycotts taking place across the United States, and their stock plummeting. Bank of America is not one of BP's biggest trading counterparties, but perhaps they will set a trend for larger banks to follow. Alaskan state official defends oil over bears The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has a plan to save the increasingly rare polar bear. They want to establish more than 187,000 square miles of Alaskan land as a polar bear "critical habitat". Critical habitat by definition is the area that contains features essential to the conservation of the species, so unless the United States was for some reason anti-polar bear, giving them this essential land would seem like a no-brainer. Not so, says Doug Vincent-Lang, endangered species coordinator for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Vincent-Lang believes the cost of setting aside this land for the polar bear is not worth the protection. Polar bears spend the majority of their lives living on sea ice, hunting for food above and below the ice. This also happens to be prime territory for oil drilling. The establishment and designation of preserved land would lead to development project delays, additional consultations and litigation, which would cost the oil industry. It should be noted though, that giving this land to the polar bear, a threatened species, would only cost the oil industry a lot of money, not the taxpayer. East coast governors collaborate on wind Ten governors from East coast states, Republican and Democrat alike, have shaken hands on the development of wind energy farms on the Outer Continental Shelf. Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Virginia governors officially created the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium, which according to the Department of Interior is expected to generate thousands of jobs in manufacturing, construction, and operations relating to new wind energy development. Not many states have come out in direct opposition to more offshore oil drilling, but now that these ten states have banded together, the "neighbor effect" should stop any new drilling from taking place. Nearly extinct species of turtle offered hope Kaizen Productions LLC clean 11:09 http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/reusable-news-june-3-2010/ http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/reusable-news-june-3-2010/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:47:37 +0000 RisaP http://newlygreens.com/?p=2817 The Headlines: Greenpeace members arrested at anti-drilling protest Beijing zoo serves the species they house for dinner No poo this week, but we’ll do some numbers: Extending the Treasury Grant Program could produce 200,000 jobs Protein made by plants to be reduced by 1/5 USA one of [...]]]> http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/reusable-news-june-3-2010/feed/ 0 ant,Arctic,arrests,Beijing Zoo,BP,Brazil,Canada,China,CO2,crocodile,deer,European Union The Headlines: - Greenpeace members arrested at anti-drilling protest Beijing zoo serves the species they house for dinner No poo this week, but we'll do some numbers: Extending the Treasury Grant Program could produce 200,000 jobs The Headlines: Greenpeace members arrested at anti-drilling protest Beijing zoo serves the species they house for dinner No poo this week, but we'll do some numbers: Extending the Treasury Grant Program could produce 200,000 jobs Protein made by plants to be reduced by 1/5 USA one of the top ten renewable energy investors The Details: Greenpeace members arrested at anti-drilling protest Ever the users of dramatic symbolism, members of Greenpeace boarded an offshore drilling support ship off the coast of Louisiana on May 24. Their mission? To scrawl crude anti-drilling messages on the side of the ship using crude oil. The ship is scheduled to travel to the Arctic over the summer to support Royal Dutch Shell's plans to survey the area for potential drilling, and Greenpeace found this to be unacceptable. Seven members of Greenpeace wrote "Arctic Next?" on the ship and held up a sign that said, "Salazar: Ban Arctic Drilling" before being captured and detained by local law enforcement. The activists were charged with unauthorized entry of critical infrastructure and unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling, both of which carry a maximum sentence of six years in prison. Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace, said, "It is outrageous that prosecutors would confront peaceful protesters with such a heavy hand while not a single BP executive has been charged for the devastation they have wrought on the Gulf of Mexico and the people and animals that depend on it." The seven members of Greenpeace were released on bail on May 25. Beijing zoo serves the species they house for dinner An unsettling article from The Guardian recently reported on the misconduct of the Beijing Zoo in China. While most other zoos try to protect the animals in their exhibits, the Beijing Zoo would rather turn a profit, selling some of the very species that inhabit their zoo as food in their restaurant. The restaurant serves the webbed toes of hippopotamus, dishes made with crocodiles, scorpions, kangaroo tail, deer penis, ant soup, shark fin soup, peacock and more. And until the zoo began receiving bad PR, they even had the bad taste to put nutritional information and serving suggestions on the cages of their exhibit animals. The management of the zoo has promised to change their menu, but no one knows yet what those changes will entail. Extending the Treasury Grant Program could produce 200,000 jobs The Solar Energy Industry Association or SEIA released a report last week stating that if the federal government only does two teensy weensy things, the green energy industry could create over 200,000 jobs by 2016! If the federal government extends the Treasury Grant Program, which was part of the Federal Stimulus Package, for another two years and gives tax breaks to green industry equipment manufacturing companies in the form of Manufacturing Investment Tax Credits, $48 billion would be invested in the solar industry, and 207,000 jobs would be created. Protein made by plants to be reduced by 1/5 A UC Davis study released in a recent issue of Science made a sobering discovery about the effects of CO2. Over the next 50 years, the authors of the study say, plants will not be able to absorb as much nitrogen due to projected higher CO2 conditions. Without taking in as much nitrogen, plants will not be able to produce as much protein.  In 50 years, people will be eating plant-based food that contains 20 percent less protein than the plant-based food of today. And in case some of us are not big salad eaters, we will still be affected because any foods made with carbohydrates such as spaghetti and bread are created from wheat and other grains that grow on plants. So this affects virtually everyone. USA one of the top ten renewable energy investors We just got its hands on a Pew research study and found the countries that have invested the most into renewable energy sources. And the U.S. Kaizen Productions LLC clean 10:36 http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/larry-schweiger-ceo-of-national-wildlife-federation-on-bp-oil-spill/ http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/larry-schweiger-ceo-of-national-wildlife-federation-on-bp-oil-spill/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 13:42:59 +0000 mattisong http://newlygreens.com/?p=2772 We are extremely honored to have with us today, Larry Schweiger, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Wildlife Federation.  To highlight just a few of his many past accomplishments, he served for eight years as President and CEO of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, where he [...]]]> http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/larry-schweiger-ceo-of-national-wildlife-federation-on-bp-oil-spill/feed/ 0 BP,Deepwater Horizon,Environmental Disaster,FLA,Gulf,Gulf of Mexico,Haliburton,LA,Larry Schweiger,MS,National Wildlife Federation,oil spill We are extremely honored to have with us today, Larry Schweiger, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Wildlife Federation.  To highlight just a few of his many past accomplishments, he served for eight years as President and CEO of t... We are extremely honored to have with us today, Larry Schweiger, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Wildlife Federation.  To highlight just a few of his many past accomplishments, he served for eight years as President and CEO of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, where he pioneered watershed restoration and promoted ecological research, land conservation and community outreach.  Prior to that, Larry was the Executive Secretary of the Joint House/Senate Conservation Committee for the Pennsylvania General Assembly.  In his book Last Chance, he breaks down the science behind global climate change and shares how the clean energy economy can provide the solutions we need to avert the worst consequences of global warming. Jan 19, 1991 the largest oil spill of all time (380-520 million gallons) was created intentionally by Iraqi forces trying to prevent the landing of US forces in Kuwait during the Gulf War.  They intentionally opened valves at the port releasing a 4 inch slick over 4000 square miles. The largest accidental spill of all time (140 million gallons) was also in the Gulf of Mexico June 3, 1979 - March 23, 1980. Ixtoc I, a two-mile deep exploratory well, leaked at an estimated rate of 10,000 to 30,000 barrels per day for almost ten months until it was capped in March 1980. Approximately 5.65 million tonnes (that's over 1.5 billion gallons) of oil were lost as a result of tanker incidents alone from 1970 to 2009 Worst Spills of all Time Other Famous Spills Learn More About The Science of Spills New York Times Interactive map of the BP spill What about the Natural Gas that's mixed in with the oil Welcome to Newlygreens on the Radio, Mr. Larry Schweiger. Some points of interest from today's interview: Tony Hayward CEO of BP has claimed the environmental impact of this spill would be small relative to a really big ocean. The Exxon Valdez spill was just over 21 years ago and it was considerably smaller than this spill. On May 20th the EPA ordered BP to find a less toxic alternative to the dispersant called Corexit they have been using to break up the oil coming from the well.  100's of thousands of gallons of to be more specific... (related story) We see over 70 miles of oil floating on the surface. The BP estimate of the leak has grown from 1,000 barrels a day up to 5,000 barrels/day at the prompting of the Coast Guard, that's 210,000 gallons.  A recent NPR scientist put the estimate at more like 84,000 barrels or 3.5 million gallons/day .   BP currently claims to be siphoning 3000 barrels/day but admit there is still more leaking. A reminder to our listeners the National Wildlife Federation has a number of ways for you to get involved from Finding Solutions to the Climate Crisis, getting kids outside with the  BE OUT THERE™ campaign, or Safeguarding America's Wildlife and Wild Places , If you care to refer people to help with NWF oil spill activities please feel free to refer them to NWF's oil spill page. They may also have job openings so if their mission speaks to your heart there may be opportunities for our listeners to get involved professionally as well.   You can find more information at www.nwf.org. How will this effect wildlife in the area? Kaizen Productions LLC clean 24:10 http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/greensprouts-for-use-with-nwf-interview/ http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/greensprouts-for-use-with-nwf-interview/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 13:41:03 +0000 cmatti http://newlygreens.com/?p=2786 In keeping with today’s topic of the BP Oil Spill we’ve gathered some information on how you can help.  From the EPA to the NWF, there are many ways to find out more and get involved. Only one tip today: Stay informed.  Ask questions.  There are better [...]]]> http://newlygreens.com/podcasts/greensprouts-for-use-with-nwf-interview/feed/ 0 BP,Deepwater Horizon,EPA,Gulf oil spill,Lisa P. Jackson,National Wildlife Federation,NOAH,oil spill,Ranger-Rick,TransOcean In keeping with today's topic of the BP Oil Spill we've gathered some information on how you can help.  From the EPA to the NWF, there are many ways to find out more and get involved. - Only one tip today: Stay informed.  Ask questions. In keeping with today's topic of the BP Oil Spill we've gathered some information on how you can help.  From the EPA to the NWF, there are many ways to find out more and get involved. Only one tip today: Stay informed.  Ask questions.  There are better alternatives.   In the meantime, get information on the spill and how you can help below.. From the  EPA website: To volunteer, call the Deepwater Horizon Response Volunteer Request Line at 1-866-448-5816. More information and volunteer hotlines. Report an oil sighting: Report oiled shoreline: 1-866-448-5816 Report oiled wildlife: 1-866-557-1401 Discuss spill related damage: 1-800-440-0858 Submit a question or a comment about the spill. Follow EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson on Facebook or Twitter Follow EPA on Facebook or Twitter Submit a technology solution. Vendors - submit information to EPA's list of contract services your company can offer. Add EPA's BP Spill response widget to your Web site, Facebook page, or other location. From the National Wildlife Federation website: Volunteer for the Cleanup Efforts - The National Wildlife Federation is helping coordinate the on-the-ground volunteer effort, including NWF's Gulf Coast Surveillance Teams, which are being set up to monitor the coastline for wildlife in distress. Donate to the National Wildlife Federation's Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund - You can help wildlife threatened by the oil spill by donating online, making a leadership gift or donating via your mobile phone. Your support will help NWF's on-the-ground volunteer and restoration efforts. Speak Up for Cleaner Energy Choices - Tell your senators that now more than ever we need to pass comprehensive legislation that provides America with cleaner and safer energy choices. Help Spread Messages Online - Follow @NWF on Twitter or join us on Facebook to get all the latest updates about the BP Oil Spill. On the ground in the Gulf? Share your photos and videos on Flickr by tagging them SPILL_NW10. How to talk to your kids about the spill:  http://www.nwf.org/Kids/Ranger-Rick/Parents-and-Educators/How-To-Talk-With-Kids-Gulf-Oil-Spill.aspx PLEASE, if you find wildlife along the Gulf Coast that you think may have been injured by the oil spill, do NOT attempt to rescue it. Call the Oiled Wildlife hotline at 866-557-1401. Kaizen Productions LLC clean 6:21 http://newlygreens.com/blog/al-gore-op-ed-on-bp-oil-spills-significance/ http://newlygreens.com/blog/al-gore-op-ed-on-bp-oil-spills-significance/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 21:34:13 +0000 mattisong http://newlygreens.com/?p=2780 http://newlygreens.com/blog/al-gore-op-ed-on-bp-oil-spills-significance/feed/ 0