The Guardian has an excellent series of satellite images comparing photographs taken on two separate dates of the same location. Really shows the power we have to drastically impact our environment. A power we abuse and take for granted.
Hey guys, I thought I would let you guys know everything that is going on in the world of Student Ecology Movement. Tomorrow we are meeting with Linda Bain from the Sandy Springs Conservatory, we are excited with the prospects of working with them. As previously noted before, we will be speaking at the Atlanta Sustainability Roundtable, and we would be more than delighted if anyone would like to go to it. We will also be helping teach a program on making your own rain barrel, which is hosted by the DNR as well as keep Dekalb beautiful. Keep posted and we will tell you more about exciting SEM programs and opportunities.
Hello World, Today marks a turning point for the Student Ecology Movement. We have been asked to speak and participate in the monthly Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable. This roundtable is for environmental groups to discuss and participate in a conversation about the environment and what people can do to help. We are very excited to participate in this and possibly going to participate in the larger Bioneers convention. In addition to this we have two exciting opportunities that we are going to possibly get involved with. We will keep you updated with the most current news and opportunities for you to get involved in saving our environment.Thanks so much for everything, The Student Ecology Movement
If you pick up the paper this coming tuesday and flip to the Living section you will see a feature article about us. The Student Ecology Movement have been working with Brian Feagans from the AJC and have had a photo shoot and an interview concerning our actions with Georgia’s water crisis. The other day we spent a few hours cleaning trash from the banks of the Chatahoochee river, and have been trying to work with congress to pass a desalinization bill. We are looking to work with the DNR (Department of Natural Resources) to continue our campaign on sustainable water solutions and educating about our fragile ecology. Thank you for all the help and support, ~Julian, Adam, and Jonathan
Welcome all! This is Julian Gindi reporting. Today I have a bunch of things to tell you. First and foremost, take a look at the video above. This video is one of the best that I have seen about climate change and it’s consequences. Climate Change IS happening and we need to act NOW. A few things of interest have happened recently. Rain-Atlanta has seen a nice amount of rain; just enough to make us a tad short of the driest year on record. This is not good. We are just scraping by, we need to be way beyond this bottom level. To help this the Student Ecology Movement has created a helpful brochure that can be downloaded here. On the brochure there are many tips that will save you money, and conserve our diminishing water supply. A little about this blog:I hope to keep you informed about the rapidly changing issue of the environment and climate change. New information is arriving daily and it is hard to pick out fact from fiction. This is something we will do for you, and give you weekly tips that will not only save the environment, but will save you money. So please, subscribe to this blog. Read it. Share it. Our next post should come later today. (Our first official post). We hope you will take these tips to heart and help us save our world. Click To download brochure:Water Conservation
In the December 31st, 2007 issue of Newsweek, Sharon Begley points out how….
‘We are in for a minimum of 90 or more years of warming no matter how many Hummers are junked in favor of Priuses. The reason is both atmospheric (greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide remain aloft for about a century) and political (the world can’t seem to summon the will to reduce greenhouse emissions). We are not at 385 parts per million of carbon dioxide, and there is no way to avoid reaching 450pmm by midcentury, says Jay Gulledge of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Unfortunately, the effects of even 385pmm are worse than forecast.
Climate change is with us now, and the rates and impacts are greater than predicted,” says Pew’s Vicki Arroyo. We have no choice but to talk about adaptation.’
The point is we have to act now or begin to consider how to cope with implementing city-wide cooling centers for those that find themselves without air-conditioning, building countless miles of walls and levies to protect urbanized land, dealing with increasingly horrific fire seasons on the west, and more intense weather patterns on the east.