Celsias Expert Articles

Divest Coal Campaign Gathers Momentum

Late last week members of the Brown Divest Coal campaign were invited to attend the Brown University Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday May 23rd to discuss coal divestment. In March, the endowment oversight committee recommended the Board of Trustees divest the University’s endowment from the country’s 15 largest coal companies. President Christina Paxson herself has acknowledged that students attending and presenting at a Corporation meeting is “unprecedented”. Brown Divest Coal members Ryan Green ‘16 and Emily Kirkland ‘13 will be attending the meeting.

"It is such a rare opportunity for students to speak directly with the corporation ...

Inspiring Action

This is a video by Greenpeace that we thought was definitely worth sharing

http://youtube/watch?v=zVu9eawb1QY

Climate Risk, Displacement and Adaptability

In March of 2006, I drove to Biloxi Mississippi to see the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Unlike the flooded homes, black mold and chaos in New Orleans, Biloxi’s coastal infrastructure was completely wiped off the map. Driving along the beachfront road, lonely foundation slabs were the only evidence of homes and families turned upside down. While touring the area, I participated in a rebuilding conference with urban planners, city officials and residents to brainstorm about how to “Do it again, get it right”. However, the need to return to normalcy after a traumatic event and the sentimental pull to ...

Adopt a Loveable Manatee for Father’s Day

Go beyond the usual this Father’s Day. Save the Manatee Club suggests a real Florida manatee gift adoption for caring dads, everywhere. Select from 35 living manatees with known histories in the Club’s adoption programs including Rocket, Brutus, Doc, Paddy Doyle and other great choices for dad. See them all here Funds from the adoption program support the Club’s manatee conservation efforts around the world.

Each $25 gift adoption includes an adoption certificate with a color photo, biography, a membership handbook, the Club’s official quarterly newsletter, The Manatee Zone, the bi-monthly E-newsletter, Paddle Tales, and a ...

Green Business Innovations Working Towards the Greater Good

It’s a major draw to customers when a company has a dedicated green cause. Recent government guidelines and incentives in both the United Kingdom and United States have encouraged companies to develop their climate-wary schemes in order to reduce the amount of pollution being emitted by their industry.

Some companies go a step further from simply asking employees to turn lights off after use; some do what they can to not only make their business more climate-friendly, but develop technology which contributes towards the greater good for all.

Apple: The New (Green) MacBook

Apple is renowned for developing the ...

The Ever-changing Global Solar Market

The solar energy market is constantly shifting and there is no doubt about that. Photovoltaic (PV) energy was once considered expensive and inefficient but that is no longer the case. Advancements in solar technology are constantly improving (at an exponential rate) but the real industry focus seems to be on decreasing the cost of solar energy. In 1980, solar energy cost over $20 USD per watt and now in 2013, under $1 USD per watt. The falling prices are making it very possible for homeowners and businesses alike to invest in solar energy. Despite falling prices, skeptics still question the ...

Your Beaches Disappearing -Courtesy of Climate Change

Intelligent TV on American TV

The Lonely Dodo

From Aardman Animations, the people who brought you "A pigs tale " last year for the Human Society of the US about factory farming.It may be too late for the dodo-but does it have it have to be too late for so many other species. Stop other species going the way of the dodo at the lonelydodo.com

Spring 2012 Earliest on Record

March 2012 set records for warm temperatures that promoted early leafing and flowering across large areas of the United States. A team of scientists at the USA National Phenology Network, which is sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, have published a studywhich shows that 2012 was the earliest spring over the 48 U.S. states since 1900 when systematic weather data began to be available for the entire area.

Phenology is the study of recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, especially their timing and relationships with weather and climate. Assessing the severity and impacts of such extreme ...

DiCaprio 11th Hour Auction Raises $33 Million

Leonardo DiCaprio suggested to art collectors on Monday to bid at an environmental charity auction in New York as if the planet's fate “depends on us” - and the auction raised more than $33 million

The 11th Hour auction at Christie's featured 33 works of mostly contemporary art, much of it created for the event and addressing environmental themes.

The strong result doubled pre-sale estimates, with nine of the works selling for more than $1-million. Among the main sellers, Mark Grotjahn's Untitled went for $6.5-million and Zeng Fanzhi's The Tiger fetched $5-million, both of them doubling ...

Renaissance of New Drugs for Rare Diseases

Once famously described as “orphan diseases, too small to be noticed, too small to be funded” in the Hollywood drama Lorenzo’s Oil, rare diseases are getting unprecedented attention today among drug manufacturers, who are ramping up research efforts and marketing new medicines that promise fuller lives for children and other patients with these heartbreaking conditions.

Justin and Jason Leider’s weekly treatments of Elaprase only address some symptoms of Hunter syndrome, and cannot stop the neurological damage it causes. Their parents hope to get the boys into an upcoming clinical trial, which will deliver the enzyme into their central ...

Living Green Infrastructure Declaration’

An online Living Green Infrastructure Declaration has been created to encourage government and the private sector to plan and build greener, healthier, more beautiful communities. Living green infrastructure advocates, including Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, LEAF, Ontario Parks Association, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, and Landscape Ontario are encouraging citizens from across North America to show their support for living green infrastructure by signing the Declaration.

Living green infrastructure includes urban forests, green roofs and walls, green streets and spaces including parks and engineered wetlands, rain gardens, water harvesting and other technologies which provide public and private economic benefits while ...

Do the Math on Climate Change

The trailer of Bill Mckibben's "Do the Math" .If you haven't seen it, do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLr_lfyRfqY

If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get out of the Ocean

Shifts in the composition of marine fisheries catch are significantly related to temperature change in the ocean, according to an analysis in Nature this week. The study shows that warming has already affected global fisheries over the past four decades, by increasing the proportion of warmer-water fish species being caught. These findings provide a signature of the effect that climate change has on the distribution and abundance of marine organisms.

Understanding how climate change may affect marine fisheries is important as they contribute to the economy and are a key source of food to many coastal communities. William Cheung and ...

Kerry List Threats to Children

And at the top of the list ?- Climate Change .

UCS Cartoon of the Month

The Union of Concerned Scientists Cartoon of the Month

My Wild Kingdom App Wins FWA Mobile of the Day Award

Mutual of Omaha’s My Wild Kingdom app has been awarded Mobile of the Day for May 6 by Favourite Website Awards (FWA). The app will be featured for 24 hours on the FWA website

My Wild Kingdom is a free, mobile adventure app that uses augmented reality to bring the wildlife experience to any situation by allowing users to add virtual animals to their photos and videos.

The app allows users to hold a giraffe in their hand, put a giant elephant on the freeway or sneak an alligator into a family portrait, all while choosing from several different ...

A United Nations of All Species

United Nations -a nation for all species. The concept of the Earth as alive and full of meaning vs our current apartheid between people and the Earth.Official trailer 2013

Storm of the Century, Every Two Years?

To protect New York City from the increasing number of flooding events expected in the next century—similar to Hurricane Sandy—the city needs to consider a costly and invasive option: permanent evacuation of communities in the lowest-lying areas and massive barriers around the city that will cost billions of dollars. In a feature published in this month’s Scientific American, Mark Fischetti discusses these options as well as other difficulties East Coast cities from Massachusetts to North Carolina will face as weather patterns shift due to climate change.

Flooding and other “extreme climate events” on par with Sandy are ...

Hello to hello lemon

Our decision to start hello lemon was motivated entirely by our desire to lead adifferent kind of lifestyle. In the beginning we didn’t set out to create a greeting card business – that happened quite organically. We simply knew that working at traditional jobs wasn’t going to provide us with the flexibility we wanted, and so the only option was to come up with an alternative.

The seeds of this idea were planted when we stumbled by chance across a couple of authors, whose books have come to shape our views about what we want out of life ...