-
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk In recent years, colleges and universities have recognized the capacity for their independent communities to lead the nation as examples of sustainable and carbon-neutral institutions. Colleges in the U.S. and around the world have introduced conservation measures to reduce waste, installed solar panels...
-
What kinds of changes to federal environmental policies can we expect to see from Donald Trump’s presidency? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Like many Americans, environmental advocates are alarmed at the results of the 2016 election. What worries them most is Trump’s call for reneging on the landmark...
-
CJ Quinn EarthTalk Energy is America’s most controversial issue to hit the 21st century. Currently, our dependency on oil is greater than ever. We use this non-renewable resource on a daily basis. In fact, oil, accounts for the largest percentage of the worlds energy consumption. At 30 billion barrels...
-
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bureau of Land Management has finalized rules that encourage increased solar and wind energy production on public lands, and it’s making California a priority. The policies create a competitive process similar to the way oil and gas leases are granted....
-
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The Chernobyl disaster confirmed everyone’s worst nightmares about the awesome power of nuclear reactions. When the Ukrainian reactor collapsed, the radioactive fallout profoundly contaminated the surrounding environment, affecting any living beings located within the so-called “Exclusion Zone” of 30 kilometers around the reactor’s...
-
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk We’re all familiar with the issue of non-biodegradable plastic debris (shopping bags, soda bottles, fishing nets etc.) clogging up our waterways and making its way out to sea—sometimes accumulating in huge “gyres.” But what you might not realize is that even if you...
-
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Halloween may be fun, but…this most ghoulish of holidays is also cause for lots of waste, given the preponderance of one-time use costumes that end up in a box or in the trash come November 1. And sustainability proponents also decry Halloween for...
-
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Anyone who lives in the western United States is familiar with the massive fires that rage every summer, and a report out Monday says climate change has doubled the amount of acreage burned since 1984. Researchers from the University of Idaho...
-
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Wave power advocates cheered in September 2016 when Hawaii-based Naval researchers started feeding power from two experimental offshore wave energy devices into the grid on nearby Oahu, representing the first time the American public could access electricity derived from ocean waves. The trickle...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk In recent years, colleges and universities have recognized the capacity for their independent communities to lead the nation as examples of sustainable and carbon-neutral institutions. Colleges in the U.S. and around the world have introduced conservation measures to reduce waste, installed solar panels...
What kinds of changes to federal environmental policies can we expect to see from Donald Trump’s presidency? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Like many Americans, environmental advocates are alarmed at the results of the 2016 election. What worries them most is Trump’s call for reneging on the landmark...
CJ Quinn EarthTalk Energy is America’s most controversial issue to hit the 21st century. Currently, our dependency on oil is greater than ever. We use this non-renewable resource on a daily basis. In fact, oil, accounts for the largest percentage of the worlds energy consumption. At 30 billion barrels...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bureau of Land Management has finalized rules that encourage increased solar and wind energy production on public lands, and it’s making California a priority. The policies create a competitive process similar to the way oil and gas leases are granted....
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The Chernobyl disaster confirmed everyone’s worst nightmares about the awesome power of nuclear reactions. When the Ukrainian reactor collapsed, the radioactive fallout profoundly contaminated the surrounding environment, affecting any living beings located within the so-called “Exclusion Zone” of 30 kilometers around the reactor’s...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk We’re all familiar with the issue of non-biodegradable plastic debris (shopping bags, soda bottles, fishing nets etc.) clogging up our waterways and making its way out to sea—sometimes accumulating in huge “gyres.” But what you might not realize is that even if you...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Halloween may be fun, but…this most ghoulish of holidays is also cause for lots of waste, given the preponderance of one-time use costumes that end up in a box or in the trash come November 1. And sustainability proponents also decry Halloween for...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Anyone who lives in the western United States is familiar with the massive fires that rage every summer, and a report out Monday says climate change has doubled the amount of acreage burned since 1984. Researchers from the University of Idaho...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Wave power advocates cheered in September 2016 when Hawaii-based Naval researchers started feeding power from two experimental offshore wave energy devices into the grid on nearby Oahu, representing the first time the American public could access electricity derived from ocean waves. The trickle...