Archive for February, 2007

Corporate Push for Action Against Warming

February 24, 2007

It was good to see that for once COMPANIES are urging for action against warming instead of the government urging companies to lower emissions to slow down global warming.  This is exactly what we need for big change, especially because it’s coming from high greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions leaders, such as Volvo and [...]

Fetal Exposure To Common Chemicals Can Activate Obesity

February 18, 2007

I decided to report this article because we have just been studying exposure to chemicals and pollution and their chronic and immediate effects. However, this time the harmful thing doesn’t come from some sort of pollution or reaction, but instead is a chemical found in everyday plastics and pesticides. Also, even more [...]

Gore Plans To Rock Against Warming

February 17, 2007

I saw this article and it immediately interested me because I love music and we have seen Al Gore’s documentary on global warming in class obviously, and this also sort of follows my last post. After crossing the globe with presentations to inform people about the dangers of global warming, and then making the [...]

And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to … Al Gore?

February 2, 2007

I thought this would be a good article since we have just recently seen Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, in class. The article indicates that former Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, for doing exactly what we saw him doing in the movie…travelling around the world to [...]