Green Arch Design

“Yet to imagine a planet where you could not drink the water…” – quote from Wyland Ocean Wisdom. The incredible image above came from National Geographic Wallpapers.

“When we care enough we begin to take action…” – excerpt from Wyland Ocean Wisdom.

“…the very struggle to reach agreement at Copenhagen, and the tougher talks to come, demonstrate that climate diplomacy has finally come of age.” [Indeed], “the onset of a kind of climate realpolitik, which eschews hot air for real action, signals is a sign that global climate talks have moved beyond symbolic rhetoric.” – excerpts from Time Magazine article. Click HERE for more info.

“This is the biggest peacetime mobilization of global effort on anything”. “If you think back a year or so, imagine the U.S., Brazil, China, India, Australia, and Russia all turning up and making definitive national commitments to significant reductions… It would have been inconceivable a year ago.” – excerpts from Bloomberg BusinessWeek article. Click HERE for more info.

“Clean energy may be the greatest opportunity of this century”. – excerpt from Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Click HERE for more info.

“The largest and most important U.N. Climate Change conference in history opened Monday… the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.” – excerpt from the Associated Press. Click HERE to read entire article.

Friday April 17,2009 marked the beginning of the end for those politicians and lobbyists who have fought to delay and postpone meaningful U.S. action on Global Warming! Click HERE for more information.

Today is Earth Day! Click HERE to see what the earth could look like in 2100.

This week is Green week at NBC! Click HERE for more details. Check out these Green Videos!

thedailygreen.com is a website that strives to be “the consumer’s guide to the green revolution”. In that light they have created a Top 10 list for eco-themed movies suitable for kids. The list includes Ferngully (1992), Finding Nemo (2003), (2005), Over The HedgeHomeward Bound, An Incredible Journey (1993), The Lion King (1994), Happy Feet (2006), Arctic Tale (2007), Rescuers Down Under (1990), A Bug’s Life (1998), The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1989). Surf’s Up and Evan Almighty did not make thedailygreen list but they are two of our favorite movies for kids!

“Americans make up 5 percent of the world’s population, but contribute nearly 25 percent of the greenhouse gas pollution that causes global warming.” – excerpt from AOL earth focus on Global Warming. Click HERE to explore more of AOL’s interactive website.

Friends of the Earth sued the U.S. Export-Import Bank in 2005 charging that the government “sankbillions of dollars into financing activities without considering the effects on global warming.” The government has agreed to take greenhouse-gas emissions into account when evaluating fossil-fuel projects. For more information on the Bloomberg report click HERE.

The incredible images above come from National Geographic Wallpapers.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory explodes on takeoff. Scientists had hoped the $280 million satellite would help them monitor carbon emissions. Click HERE for more information.

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National Geographic Magazine reports in its September 2008 issue that “the first – and still most comprehensive – study of global soil misuse, scientists at the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) in the Netherlands estimated in 1991 that humankind has degraded more that 7.5 million square miles of land.” For more information click HERE.

President Obama signed an executive order yesterday on energy independence. In signing the order he pledged to lay down more than 3,000 miles of transmission lines, make 75% of federal buildings more efficient and weatherize 2 million homes. Click HERE for more information from The Wall Street Journal.