Start-Up Says It’s the World’s First Green Airline

If you travel amoung Seattle and Portland, and you don’t intellect flying in a nine seat, single-engine turboprop, next you can be one of the first to say that you’ve taken a flight on America’s first truly green airline.

At least, that’s how Portland, Oregon-based SeaPort Airlines sees it. The airline, which opened up shop in June and uses a fleet of three small planes to shuttle passengers within Portland universal and Seattle’s Boeing Field, has partnered with the Columbia Land Trust, …

Exxon ad gets banned in UK for misleading green message

If you’re weary of giant oil companies making green-friendly claims, you’re not alone - the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has made a ruling against an ExxonMobil television ad that uses imagery that relates their carbon-emitting potential source to wind and solar potential and suggests liquefied natural gas (LNG) is super clean.

The ASA, an independent ad-industry watch dog for the UK, has said that the spot should not be shown again in its current mold. that decision comes a…

EPA Vetoes Yazoo Project

The day after disastrous flooding of New Orleans was sidestepped, the EPA has vetoed a long-running project proposal for moving large amounts of water in Mississippi. After receiving more than 47,000 public , a majority of them against a proposal to build the world’s largest water pump, the EPA vetoed a huge Army Corps of Engineers flood control project.

The project would pump up to 14,000 cubic feet per second from land along Mississippi’s Yazoo River during major rain events. While that…

Catching leaks may conserve water in the lengthy run

One of the biggest challenges for water conservation is finding and repairing leaks. While a small leak may only lose a little water, by day those drips add up. And when you multiply that volume of water by the number of small leaks, you can see that we are potentially losing a huge amount of water through our water mains, even before a significant break occurs.

The city of Berkeley is taking a proactive approach with a pilot program to conserve water by identifying leaks before they surf…

Sahara Forest Project wants to grow food in the desert

As a planet, we have a lot of desert and even more sea water. So how does the Sahara Forest Project wants to use these factors to grow food (along with generating additional fresh water and energy) in the Sahara desert?

Think back to grade four biology and you may remember that plants need a couple of things to get growing — namely sunlight and fresh water (among other things but I barely passed biology). There’s obviously not much fresh water around (rain can be minimal for years at a t…

Elephants and tigers rejoice as Indonesia doubles Tesso Nilo national park

The towering weekend started with some good news for endangered Sumatran elephants and the critically endangered tigers who live in Sumatra’s Tesso Nilo National Park.

Working with the World Wildlife Fund, the Indonesian government agreed to extend the national park, which was initially only 94,000 acres by about 250,000 acres.

One of the biggest challenges for Sumatra is the global demand for its products, particularly palm oil and paper. In the past 25 years, the province of Riau, wh…

One thousand puppies rescued from W. Virginia puppy mill

More than 1,000 dogs were rescued from a West Virgina puppy mill by the weekend. The kennel, Whispering Oaks in Parkersburg, surrendered the dogs to the Humane Society after sheriff’s deputies searched the facility. The dogs were mostly purebred dachshunds.

The Humane Society says the dogs were kept in dilapidated sheds and cages, were never let out and were rarely handled by humans. While the dogs did not seem to be abused, the number of dogs was alarming, leading the Humane Society to c…

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