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Our Planet - Week of February 15th, 2009
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| |  | NEWS THIS WEEK |  | Tracking Home Energy Use with Google
Internet giant Google announced last week the beta launch of a new free web application called PowerMeter designed to provide users who already have so-called “smart” electricity meters in place to track exactly how their homes are consuming energy.
Go to all articles - Go to this article |  | Audubon Fingers Warming for Shifting Bird Ranges
According to a new report by the nonprofit National Audubon Society, nearly 60% of the 305 species of birds found in North America are on the move—shifting their ranges northward by an average of 35 miles—as a result of global warming.
Go to all articles - Go to this article | | | Reporting by Roddy Scheer
| | THIS WEEK'S COMMENTARY |  | COMMENTARY: Trained By Tourists
Gambia’s Green Monkeys Suffer From Overexposure
It’s not only among humans that obesity is a major health problem. In Bijilo Forest Park in The Gambia, it is the green monkeys who are piling into the fast food and risking early-onset diabetes. What amounts to poison for animals is being handed to them by the very people who pay to see them living in their natural environment—tourists. By Dawn Starin
Go to all articles - Go to this article | | IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF E | | GREEN LIVING |  | Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Electronic Lights Are Ruining Our Sleep, and Health
Reconsider all those electronic sources of night light, for health’s sake. By Melissa Knopper
Go to all articles - Go to this article | | CURRENTS |  | Industry and Environmental Justice
Can a Historic Black Neighborhood Be Preserved?
Can a historic black neighborhood be preserved within a sea of industry? By Ethan Goffman
Go to all articles - Go to this article | | EARTHTALK |  | Week of 2/15/2009
Dear EarthTalk: What’s happening with wild populations of cheetahs, the fastest land animals on Earth?
Dear EarthTalk: Don’t all these huge snow and ice storms across the country mean that the globe isn’t really warming? I've never seen such a winter!
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