A canary in the coal mine. Becky Kramer of The Spokesman-Review reported last week about the plight of redband trout in the Spokane River whose numbers have decreased as much as 75% since 1980 in some areas on the river. Biologists from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have been studying redband trout in hopes of understanding their decline and Kramer’s piece is
a fascinating look at the research subjects and the researchers. Read more HEREMark your calendar for this great recycling event.
Local Spokane business Huppins is teaming up with Sony and Waste Management for a HUGE free E-Waste Recycling Event on November 1. Don’t miss this opportunity to properly dispose of and recycle any brand of consumer electronics - TVs, laptops, monitors, VCRs, cell phones, iPods etc. (no appliances i.e. refrigerators, microwaves, air conditioners or smoke detectors.) Stop by on Saturday November 1 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Huppins Warehouse Facility at 229 N. Ella Road in Spokane.
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Jobs, baby, jobs! With the $700 billion bailout, the conversation about subsidizing an alternative fuel industry as a key to restoring the economy and environment is becoming a reality. Green Jobs for America Campaign, a coalition of environmental and labor groups, wants a $100 billion green stimulus program that would include tax credits, loan guarantees and public investment in environmental technology. They say it will create roughly 2 million jobs over two years, especially in manufacturing and construction work. (Hence green-collar jobs.) To make this happen, Congress and the executive branch need an unprecedented commitment to public works spending. Check the Apollo Alliance’s petition for the green stimulus HERE10 worst pollution problems. "The global health burden from pollution is astonishing, and mainly affects women and children," said Richard Fuller, director of Blacksmith Institute. "The world community needs to wake up to this fact. Clean air, water, and soil are human rights." An annual report from the Blacksmith Institute catalogs the world’s worst pollution problems in an effort to focus attention to clean them up; most of the sites are in developing countries. The top problems are---in no particular order---indoor air pollution, low-tech lead battery recycling, small-scale gold mining, industrial mining, contaminated surface water, contaminated groundwater, metal smelting and processing, poor urban air quality, radioactive waste and uranium mines, and untreated sewage. Check the report HERE
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Photo courtesy of Apollo Alliance
Jobs, baby, jobs! With the $700 billion bailout, the conversation about subsidizing an alternative fuel industry as a key to restoring the economy and environment is becoming a reality. Green Jobs for America Campaign, a coalition of environmental and labor groups, wants a $100 billion green stimulus program that would include tax credits, loan guarantees and public investment in environmental technology. They say it will create roughly 2 million jobs over two years, especially in manufacturing and construction work. (Hence green-collar jobs.) To make this happen, Congress and the executive branch need an unprecedented commitment to public works spending. Check the Apollo Alliance’s petition for the green stimulus HERE
10 worst pollution problems. "The global health burden from pollution is astonishing, and mainly affects women and children," said Richard Fuller, director of Blacksmith Institute. "The world community needs to wake up to this fact. Clean air, water, and soil are human rights." An annual report from the Blacksmith Institute catalogs the world’s worst pollution problems in an effort to focus attention to clean them up; most of the sites are in developing countries. The top problems are---in no particular order---indoor air pollution, low-tech lead battery recycling, small-scale gold mining, industrial mining, contaminated surface water, contaminated groundwater, metal smelting and processing, poor urban air quality, radioactive waste and uranium mines, and untreated sewage. Check the report HERE
