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Urgent Petition to save Cabo Pulmo National Marine Pa...
By rainbowhawk on July 9, 2010 | No Comments
Howdy Folks Here in Baja California Sur, Mexico we are facing the possible destruction of one of only 4 full reef systems in North America, the Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park and World Heritage Bio Reserve (UNESCO/United Nations program) and one which is vital for sustaining the balance of marine a... -
Aluminum Plays Key Role in World’s First Hybrid Sol...
By Escape The Illusion on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
Written by Tina Casey. A global aluminum company called Norsk Hydro is supporting green jobs in the U.S. through its Extrusion Americas unit, which operates 12 aluminum extrusion facilities in the U.S. Two of the company’s southeastern U.S. facilities will supply aluminum frames and other parts f... -
Confessions of a Former Oil Industry ConsultantBy Escape The Illusion on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
Jeremy Leggett has undergone quite a few large career changes, from oil industry consultant to Greenpeace scientist to solar power entrepreneur. A geologist by training, he worked with the oil industry until his studies brought him face-to-face with the growing evidence of climate change. In an indu... -
Mexico Adopts Sustainable Water Disinfection in Chiap...By Escape The Illusion on April 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Written by Tina Casey. Working with the social investment group FEMSA, the government of Chiapas, Mexico is introducing sustainable disinfection technology to 175 local water systems, in support of the United Nations’ Millenium Development Goals partnership to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and di... -
Ayurveda out of balance: 93 percent of medicinal plan...By Escape The Illusion on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
Traditional Ayurvedic medicine could face an uncertain future as 93 percent of the wild plants used in the practice are threatened with extinction due to overexploitation, the Times of India reports. The Botanical Survey of India recently prioritized 359 wild medicinal plant species and conducted an... -
Canadian Scientists Put the Hex on Hexane EmissionsBy Escape The Illusion on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
So who knew? The manufacture of cooking oil involves hexane, a solvent that separates the oil from crushed seeds. Hexane is a volatile organic compound found in gasoline. Hexane is also a degreaser used in the printing industry. It dissolves glues, varnishes, and inks. Aside from the ick factor ... -
Tires Made From Renewable Materials Commercially Poss...By Escape The Illusion on March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
There are about 1 billion tires made each year; each and every one of them uses 7 gallons of crude oil to produce. Although 7 billion gallons is just a small blip (0.5%) of the overall global annual use of crude oil (~1.3 trillion gallons), figuring out a way to make tires from something other than ... -
Sweatshops Won’t Save HaitiBy Escape The Illusion on March 15, 2010 | No Comments
The United Nations will host a Haiti donors’ conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year’s event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda has already begun to take shape: It&#... -
Poor ObamaBy Escape The Illusion on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
What a mess he inherited. The Great Recession, Iraq, Afghanistan. No other U.S. president has ever faced such a mess. And Obama has to deal with this mess with fewer than 60% of the seats in both houses of Congress being held by his own party. Even knowing how terrible this inherited situation would... -
Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, but Biofuel DoesBy Escape The Illusion on March 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
The poplar tree has entered the crowded field of sustainable biofuel crops, and now it seems that China, Israel and the U.S. are racing to tap into its potential. Poplars have a couple of big advantages over conventional biofuel crops, especially food crops like soy and corn. For one thing, raisin...
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