January 29, 2011 – 9:30 am
Because there’s nothing better for Gaia than sewing your own sexy lingerie Alabama Chanin offers a sexy and sustainable alternative to your standard nylon negligee and polyester panties for Valentine’s Day: a DIY organic cotton corset and bloomer set, entirely made in the USA. Hmmmm Wow, that’s ultra sexy……well, not really, but, your loved one […]
January 28, 2011 – 9:15 am
I know you’re excited. It’s Friday, and you are just dying to head out this weekend and meet some green-hotties who will yap your ear off about sustainability, recycling, an ice free Arctic in a hundred years, how you can reduce your carbon footprint (so she can continue driving her Hummer H3), and other romantic […]
January 27, 2011 – 9:22 am
Time for another scarefest, via our alarmists buddies at Treehugger Time Out, London’s weekly events-listing magazine, has asked experts to describe the impact of great catastrophes on the capital city. Many are related to climate change and the outlook is not good. A scientist outlined the effect of global temperatures rising by 4C, something that […]
January 26, 2011 – 3:59 pm
They’re really digging deep to defend their cult “Humans didn’t wait for the industrial revolution to provoke environment and climate change. They have been having an influence for at least 8000 years.” Jed Kaplan is putting forward a new interpretation of the history of man and his environment. This professor at EPFL and his colleague […]
January 25, 2011 – 9:19 pm
Is there nothing that anthropogenic global warming doesn’t cause? Many tree species in Israel, North America and Eurasia that depend on the wind to disperse their seeds may be at risk of extinction, according to researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Their theory is based on a unique, fully mechanistic model developed to predict […]
January 24, 2011 – 11:54 am
One of Ask Umbra’s readers is concerned about the OB non-applicator tampons disappearing from shelves. The response is a bloody mess I’m so glad you wrote, Liza. Happy to be your guide to a more sustainable red tide. Some are calling it a Tampocalypse. But seriously, let’s not get overly alarmed. Sometimes disappearing tampons happen […]
January 23, 2011 – 3:52 pm
As for her, she’ll continue taking lots of fossil fueled flights around the world all the time SICK of being perceived as boring, fed up with insinuations that she is a ‘false’ world No 1, Caroline Wozniacki told the media to bring it on and turned her attention to everything from Kenny Dalglish to Andy […]
January 22, 2011 – 2:06 pm
That jibes humorously with the headline: Right wing denies facts, ignores science, helps reelect Obama Recently we learned that 2009 was tied for the warmest year in the history of the planet. The last decade was the warmest decade in the history of the planet. This week we learned that House Republicans want to raise […]
January 22, 2011 – 8:34 am
That’s what The Politico is wondering, saying that the Alarmist-(who keeps his thermostat really high, drives in massive gas guzzlers, and takes many unnecessary fossil fueled airplane trips)-In-Chief is being pressured to do just that In two previous big speeches on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama planted global warming and energy near the top of […]
January 20, 2011 – 9:08 am
Today’s dose of “seriously?” The Imperial War Museum in London may seem like a strange place to launch a report on climate change. But that’s where I am this morning, along with speakers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, the Women’s Institute and the museum itself. Why? Two reasons. First, climate change is one […]
