Yahoo! Green Website Promotes Sustainability
Jun 3, 2008 2:56 PM PSTYahoo!, the Internet giant best known for free email and a profitable online advertising model has been stretching into a relatively new Internet arena - web pages focused on green marketing, green content, and sustainable products. The Northern California based company has been producing its Yahoo! Green website since the beginning of the green marketing craze that is now sweeping across Silicon Valley and the Internet faster than an electrically powered Toyota Prius hybrid speeding down the highway.
Testing Toys for Lead and Toxins
Dec 13, 2007 10:46 AM PST
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Parents brought their children's toys to a city funded environmental center in San Francisco to be tested for lead and other harmful toxins. The toys were tested with a tool called an X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer, or XRF, which can detect even trace amounts of lead and other toxic chemicals. |
Conscious Goods Alliance Bus Tour Rolls Across U.S. to Showcase Sustainable Products
Nov 19, 2007 12:44 PM PST
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The Conscious Goods Alliance Bus is rolling across the U.S., full of knowledgeable staff and lots of information about many sustainable products. The bus runs on vegetable oil, and is outfitted with green building materials and technologies. |
Feds Finally Allow Some Community Volunteers to Help Clean Oil Covered Beaches in San Francisco Bay Area
Nov 12, 2007 5:50 PM PSTBirds Die, Water Poisoned, as SF Bay Oil Spill Spreads
Nov 11, 2007 7:47 PM PST
 This bird, a victim of the spill, is covered in oil. |
Clean-Up Response Much Too Slow, Small from the Start...... SF Bay Residents Fuming as Hundreds of volunteers are turned away at local beaches Interactive Map of SF Bay oil spill |
San Francisco Bay Stained by Huge Oil Spill
Nov 8, 2007 11:55 PM PST image credit Sustainablepublic.com Workers attempt to rescue a duck covered in oil at Golden Gate National Recreation Area |
The full impact of a massive 58,000 gallon oil spill in the San Francisco Bay began to settle in on residents today, as oil polluted bay waters, crippled, sickened, and killed wildlife, and fouled the air with a noxious odor. |
Polar Bears Endangered
 image U.S. Fish & Wildlife service |
Did you know that polar bears in the Arctic Circle rely on Arctic Sea Ice for their survival? The sea ice must be present for polar bears to eat, as it helps them effectively hunt seals. |
NASA Images show Melting Arctic Ice
The signs of global warming are all around us. Heightened summer temperatures, prolonged and dangerous forest fire seasons, catastrophic storms and floods like those brought by hurricane Katrina, and unprecedented droughts around the world. As the temperatures rise, so do the greenhouse gas emissions that are pumped into the atmosphere daily by industry, governments, and individuals driving their oversized and unneeded SUVs.
But even as the evidence of global warming and the impending potential environmental catastrophe continues to grow, people are often reluctant to admit to themselves or others that the effects of global warming are a phenomena that must be dealt with. These photos show dramatic evidence that something is causing the earth to warm at an accelerated rate
