Part of the Internet is sinking
If you’re thinking about buying a .tv domain name, GoDaddy.com tells you to reconsider since Tuvalu, which is the home country of the .tv domain, is sinking due to rising waters associated with global warming.
From Wreck and Salvage via Boingboing.
Does this guitar have good vibes?
For many years now the Forest Stewardship Council has been the world standard for ensuring that paper products have come from sustainably harvested forests. But as a recent incident in Vancouver’s Burnaby Mountain exposes, there’s demand for unsustainably- or illegally-logged forests for products outside of what we write and draw on.
Soon Europeans won’t be able to buy non energy-efficient goods such as windows and showerheads, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The law expands on a 2005 law that covers electrical appliances and goods like dishwashers and televisions. The law will now expand to ‘energy related’ goods.
Products that do not meet European standards will be not be allowed to market.
via Treehugger.
Lambert/Getty Images via National Geographic
National Geographic has a series of photos from the very first Earth Day in 1970. That’s a lot of bellbottoms. Happy Earth Day!
This may turn out to be the Best Earth Week. Ever.
On Tuesday the US Congress launched “the mother of all climate weeks” with three full days of hearings on the House and Senate’s new climate bill.
In total fifty-four witnesses, from a dizzying diversity of organizations and interests are meeting to discuss a wide-ranging law that, if passed, would make the United States a significant player in solving global warming. The hearings will be feature many high profile individuals and organizations such as EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Nobel Prize winner and global warming superstar Al Gore as well as representatives from industry, environmental groups, labour, labour-environmental groups, scientists, researchers, and even trout fishers and Catholic bishops.
