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Knox’s Wireless Green
Welcome to this week’s installment of Knox’s Wireless Green, a rundown of all the week’s most interesting, weird, and popular stories from the worlds of science and the environment. Scientists were super busy this week announcing new discoveries. Among the most interesting was scientific proof that
Continue reading...Twenty-Five Years of Eco-Terrorism
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Since the very, very enthusiastic environmental activists at the Earth Liberation Front decided to torch a street of million-dollar homes in Seattle yesterday, it made me wonder just how long they’ve been in business. This is the logo of Environmental Life Force, not the Earth Liberation Front apparently. [...]
Continue reading...South Africa Brings Back Elephant Killing
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
All across Africa conservation groups are working to preserve populations of threatened elephants from threats like ivory poachers. An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Image by Rob Hooft. Recently, however, the South African government decided that the population in their country was sufficiently large to reinstate elephant [...]
Continue reading...Detained Activists Planted Bugs on Japanese Harpoon Ship
Monday, February 25, 2008
Last month, two members of the radical anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) boarded a Japanese whaling ship. The SSCS ship Robert Hunter before its transformation into the Steve Irwin. Photo by Alpha The story became an international incident when the two men were held on board by [...]
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 1778
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India, the Roman Empire, and the Japanese Edo period. A painting of the 1778 Bishnoi massacre Today we’re going to India in 1778 to cover a forest, a desert, and a tribe of environmentalists [...]
Continue reading...Make the Most of Your “Extra Day” on February 29th
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
As 2008 is a leap year, we all have an extra day to play with at the end of the month. And both the Big Green Switch and the National Trust are urging people to think of February 29th not just as “any other day” but to make [...]
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 1666
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India and the Roman Empire. Today we revisit Japan’s Edo period in the mid-1600s, a time of turmoil that resulted in an amazingly complex environmental policy that still influences our ideas on conservation [...]
Continue reading...The Real Price of Gold
Friday, February 8, 2008
A lot has been written about the environmental damage done by gold mining. A woman in Guinea searches for gold in a makeshift mining site Less familiar is the harm that it does to the miners themselves. The gold that shimmers and sparkles in the windows of jewellers’ shops [...]
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 100 A.D.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
We’ve bounced from medieval England to ancient India in our series on environmental ideas throughout history. Image by Frank Zweers Today we travel back to one of mankind’s greatest civilizations, the Roman Empire.
Continue reading...Top 4 Environmental Extremist Groups
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
4. Voluntary Human Extinction Movement “Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to returnto good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.”
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Friday, March 7, 2008
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