By Bill Willis
When the camera are rolling, people generally have a lot more to worry about that what kind of paint is covering the set. But day in, day out, set painters cast and crew can be exposed to toxins.
In the paint industry, ingredients that have the potential to be hazardous are commonly classified as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. Some coatings can contain as many as 100 different VOCs, and indoor accumulations of these chemical can be 50 to 100 time...
A conversation with John Anderson, Vice President and General Manager, William F. White Ltd. Vancouver.
Pacific Green: John, first congratulations on the White's Goes Green program and leading the way with a Pacific Green Carbon Offset Program.
John: Thanks, it's been a long time coming and in the West was originally pushed by our former GM Greoge Margellos. Now myself and close associate, Nav Degun, have helped to move ...
"Going Green" is a process for any company as it requires desire, commitment, funding and action. Responsible action must include responsible fiscal management and planning. Otherwise an all out push to go green rapidly could result in your company falling on hard times or even having to close its doors.
Each of these steps represents a greater level of commitment, cost and employee education.
1) The most basic. When your company provides a healthy an...
Patricia Sims
As filmmaker and writer, Patricia has a passion for large-brained megafauna. Her quest to understand the sentience in nature has led her around the globe in pursuit of the issues that threaten the balance of the natural world. She explores the interrelationships between humans and animals and the conservation challenges that modern and traditional societies face in stories that seek to unravel the mystery and beauty of life as we know it.
Patricia...
• We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
• One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.
• Rainforests are being destroyed because the...
The light that is entering your eyes right now has come from that vast nuclear fusion reactor we call the Sun, 149 million kilometres away. Just eight minutes and 18 seconds ago, it left the Sun. So did the heat, travelling across space as radiation. Ponder this the next time you are lying in the sun, doing nothing.
Along the way, we renamed it solar energy, and during the last nano-blink of geological time we learnt how to harvest it, putting solar panels on our roofs to generate elec...
* Tristam Stuart, The Guardian, Saturday 16 May, 2009
A small town in Belgium has gone meat-free one day a week. A sign of things to come, says one food historian
For decades, environmental arguments against eating meat have been largely the preserve of vegetarian websites and magazines. Just two years ago it seemed inconceivable that significant numbers of western Europeans would be ready to down their steak knives and graze on vegetation for the sake of the planet. The rapidit...
While other companies plant seeds of environmentalism, this one lays down sod. In 2006, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch instituted the Cool Change Initiative, proclaiming that all the media conglomerate's holdings, including Fox, would be carbon neutral by 2010.
The studio has been on the greening fast track ever since, installing more efficient lighting, extending the reach of its two water chiller plants (up to 50% more efficient than regular air conditioners) to additional build...
Author of definitive report on climate change sounds ominous new warning
Lord Stern, the economist who produced the single most influential political document on climate change,says he underestimated the risks of global warming and the damage that could result from it.
The situation was worse than he had thought when he completed his review two-and-a-half years ago, he told a conference yesterday, but politicians do not yet grasp the scale of the dangers now becoming apparent.
Scientists are to hold an emergency summit to warn the world's politicians they are being too timid in their response to global warming.
Climate experts from across the world will gather in Copenhagen next month to agree a stark message to policy makers, which they hope will break the political deadlock on efforts to curb rising temperatures. The meeting follows "disturbing" studies that suggest global warming could strike harder and faster than exp...
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