Environmental Issues Blog
Plastic Soup Anyone?
Single use plastic bags have become a staple of the consumerist
diet. America is the largest consumer driven society and we have grown
accustomed to the convenience of plastic bags. They help us tote
around our horde of freshly purchased goods from the big box stores.
As if our already over-packaged items really need another layer of
plastic.
Its comical when you buy a candy bar or a bottle of water and the cashier almost insists on bagging the small item which you are about to consume. …
Keep Upper Park Wild
Bidwell Park is one of the largest city parks in the United States with a size of 3,618 acres. Without the community activism of loyal park enthusiasts, Upper Bidwell Park would be a concrete jungle and Big Chico Creek would have a waterslide. A local effort called Keep Upper Park Wild, is pushing to stop further development of Upper Bidwell Park. This effort is championed by the Chico environmental organization Friends of Bidwell Park. The romantic model of the wilderness ideal is entren…
Chris Jordan: Raising Awareness Through Art
I just recently found about a photographic artist named Chris Jordan. He does a lot of very creative work with environmental issues, that he hopes will raise our level of awareness. Many of his pieces of art feature extreme amounts of garbage such as plastic beverage bottles, cell phone chargers, oil barrels, and crushed cars displayed in creative ways. I think my favorite of his pieces is Cans Seurat, 2007(60x92") and according to comments on his web site, the photograph "Depicts 106,000 a…
The Mystery Meat
Do you ever wonder how much of those stacks, upon stacks of conveniently packaged meats actually get sold at our supermarkets? How much meat is wasted? A NewsNet5 report claims there is an attempt by both the meat industry
and the supermarkets “to save at least $1 billion worth of meat it throws
away each year”. We have so much meat, we can't sell it all! How
disrespectful of the animal that was sacrificed for us to have our
cheeseburgers.
So what are these big businesses doing to try …
Cap Freeway
Have you ever driven into Los Angeles anytime of day while it is light outside and experienced the beautiful halo of smog surrounding the city. You know this just can't be good for you or the environment, guess what it does to the people that live there. Among the mass of concrete and city lights and everyone rushing from place to place wouldn't it be nice to just stop and stroll through the park. Park, what park, the only park most people see is themselves parked on the freeway in rush hou…
Population
The explosion of population that has happened in the last 100 years is putting a great strain on the planet and it's ability to correct the mistakes we make on a everyday basis. From estimates the population will add another 2.5 billion people to it's masses by the year 2050. With the explosion of technology in Lower Developed Countries(LDC) we are seeing that their standard of living has increased and they are starting to consume natural resources quicker and will pick up steam over the next …
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