Eco Solutions – more on conservation, eco warriors and green tech

Eco Solutions – more on conservation, eco warriors and green tech

Posted by Graham_Land in Conservation, Sustainable living, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora

David Suzuki – photo by tristanbrand (source: Flickr Creative Commons)

Since it’s the weekend, why not sit back, put your feet up and watch an environmentally themed video report?

This month’s Eco Solutions from CNN starts with a recap of an earlier report on Japan’s efforts to develop new ways for farming the endangered and highly valued bluefin tuna. It’s a classic example of supply and demand vs. practical conservation and environmentalism. Feel free to juxtapose the situation in Japan against the bluefin’s plight in Europe, as described by maritime archeologist Frank Pope in an editorial for the London Times entitled ‘Bluefin tuna has been fished to the brink of extinction’.

Other topics in CNN’s half-hour Eco-Solutions’ monthly wrap up include the growth of Chinese medicine; its impact on the environment and endangered species, green innovations in Cairo’s slums and a how a bunch of American college kids returned to nature by living in an ‘eco dorm’. It’s proof that the youth of American can use not one, but two kinds of eco-friendly toilets.

The show rounds out with a couple of profiles on eco warriors David Suzuki – an environmentalist who has been fighting for the Earth and the Amazon rainforest since you were still selfishly sipping non-fair trade coffee out of Styrofoam cups – and David de Rothschild, head of Adventure Ecology.

CNN Eco Solutions February Show

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