http://susty.com Do Good. That's Susty. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 http://susty.com/tropical-deforestation-basics-problem-solution-get-your-fix-environment-eco-friendly-green-design/ http://susty.com/tropical-deforestation-basics-problem-solution-get-your-fix-environment-eco-friendly-green-design/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:24:11 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7862 How to Save Tropical Rainforests Research reveals that logging is the largest single factor leading to tropical deforestation, as the cutting and road building associated with the timber industry opens avenues into rainforests. This initiates a chain of destruction that can include more logging, mining, slash-and-burn clearing for cattle grazing and conversion for chemical-intensive industrial agriculture. Most of the resultant products are exported to northern industrialized countries.]]> http://susty.com/tropical-deforestation-basics-problem-solution-get-your-fix-environment-eco-friendly-green-design/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/late-night-tv-comedy-writers-guys-few-women-male-dominated-career-television-show-staff/ http://susty.com/late-night-tv-comedy-writers-guys-few-women-male-dominated-career-television-show-staff/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:38:33 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7719 Daily Show for Comedy Central back in 1996, as well as from top women writers who have staffed the shows of Conan, Colbert and David Letterman.]]> http://susty.com/late-night-tv-comedy-writers-guys-few-women-male-dominated-career-television-show-staff/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/green-patriarch-opens-eighth-environmental-symposium-in-new-orleans-video/ http://susty.com/green-patriarch-opens-eighth-environmental-symposium-in-new-orleans-video/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:49:02 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7727 "Green Patriarch" Bartholomew of the Eastern Orthodox church officially opened the Eighth Religion, Science and the Environment (RSE) Symposium, entitled “Restoring Balance: The Great Mississippi River,” taking place for the next five days including a large and diverse group of theologians, scientists, policymakers, environmentalists, representatives of business and NGOs, and media. See video of the Ecumenical Patriarch's opening address below the fold.]]> http://susty.com/green-patriarch-opens-eighth-environmental-symposium-in-new-orleans-video/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/bill-maher-australian-super-drought-sydney-dust-storm-means-global-warming-skeptic-inhofe-senator-now-video/ http://susty.com/bill-maher-australian-super-drought-sydney-dust-storm-means-global-warming-skeptic-inhofe-senator-now-video/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:44:31 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7645 http://susty.com/bill-maher-australian-super-drought-sydney-dust-storm-means-global-warming-skeptic-inhofe-senator-now-video/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/dust-storm-turns-sky-black-in-broken-hill-australia-video/ http://susty.com/dust-storm-turns-sky-black-in-broken-hill-australia-video/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:53:27 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7650 http://susty.com/dust-storm-turns-sky-black-in-broken-hill-australia-video/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/confessions-of-radical-industrialist-profits-people-purpose-doing-business-by-respecting-earth-ray-anderson-green-business-sustainable-living-book/ http://susty.com/confessions-of-radical-industrialist-profits-people-purpose-doing-business-by-respecting-earth-ray-anderson-green-business-sustainable-living-book/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:51:03 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7752 Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothingfrom the earth that can’t be replaced by the earth. Now, in an inspiring business book for our time, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of industry to share that goal.]]> http://susty.com/confessions-of-radical-industrialist-profits-people-purpose-doing-business-by-respecting-earth-ray-anderson-green-business-sustainable-living-book/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/michael-pollan-food-politics-agriculture-system-breakdown/ http://susty.com/michael-pollan-food-politics-agriculture-system-breakdown/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:05:50 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=6831 eater of Fruity Pebbles). He touches on the dust-up between Michelle Obama with her organic garden on the White House lawn andthe Mid America CropLife Association encouraging her use of pesticides. Pollan suggests this lobbying group for pesticide manufacturers should go by the opposite name the "Bug Death Association." Apparently the garden has a twin on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture...]]> http://susty.com/michael-pollan-food-politics-agriculture-system-breakdown/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/red-tailed-hawk-gramercy-park-perched-edwin-booth-statue-photo/ http://susty.com/red-tailed-hawk-gramercy-park-perched-edwin-booth-statue-photo/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:52:16 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=6640 Red-Tailed Hawk of Gramercy Park has been spending quite a bit of time perched on the head of the Edwin Booth statue. Gramercy residents Dennis and Sandy Kisiel have spotted 99 species of birds in Gramercy Park since 2006. ]]> http://susty.com/red-tailed-hawk-gramercy-park-perched-edwin-booth-statue-photo/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/international-day-climate-action-october-24-2009-350-org/ http://susty.com/international-day-climate-action-october-24-2009-350-org/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:57:19 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=6977 350.org continues on the journey it launched in 2008 along with author and activist Bill McKibben to spread its important message about reducing the world's level of C02 in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. The 350 campaign is inviting you and the world to participate on October 24, 2009 in sparking the"largest climate action the world has ever seen." ]]> http://susty.com/international-day-climate-action-october-24-2009-350-org/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/fabien-cousteau-ocean-exploration-industry-pollution-toxic-chemicals-beluga-whale-consumer-pbs-video/ http://susty.com/fabien-cousteau-ocean-exploration-industry-pollution-toxic-chemicals-beluga-whale-consumer-pbs-video/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:31:48 +0000 by Michele LaTorre, Long Beach, NY USA http://susty.com/?p=7352 our production company Big City Pictures put together the first in a series of videos interviewing the grandson of Jacques Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau which I had the pleasure of editing. The occasion was a recent screening of the film Sea Ghosts which uses the Beluga whales as the "canary in the coal mine" to conveying the environmental consequences that await we humans. Ironically Sea Ghosts was on the same night that the Star Trek movie rebooted its space opera franchise, so we asked Fabien to comment on the disproportionate amount of research dollars being apportioned to space exploration over Earth's oceans. He also touches on some basic concepts for how our everyday actions wind up contributing to the pollution of our oceans and how that comes back to haunt us on our dinner plates. ]]> http://susty.com/fabien-cousteau-ocean-exploration-industry-pollution-toxic-chemicals-beluga-whale-consumer-pbs-video/feed/ 4