Technology is Helping Americans Use Less Water
Americans are using less water than they did 30 years ago, despite a 30 percent population increase during the same period, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report that details estimated U.S. water use for 2005.
Most of the decrease is due to more efficient technologies at power plants and improved irrigation systems. That’s not too surprising since 80 percent of the 410 billion gallons
Never Say Never(land): UN Names Tinker Bell Ambassador of Green
The United Nations has named Tinker Bell–a leading citizen of both Disneyland and Neverland–as its “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help promote environmental awareness among children.
Kermit the Frog once observed in song that “it’s not easy being green,” but he was talking about skin color, not lifestyle. For Tinker Bell, being green isn’t just easy, it’s as natural as flying.
The pint-sized pixie first appeared as
Go Wild at the World Wilderness CongressWithout Leaving Home
If you aren’t attending WILD9–the weeklong World Wilderness Congress (November 6-13) that will bring together many of the world’s leading conservationists and wilderness experts to debate and take action on critical environmental issues–you can still pull up a chair and join in through a variety of social networking tools that The WILD Foundation is using to broaden global participation in the event.
The WILD Foundation started
