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Blog Entries by Joseph B. Treaster from 01/2010

Jessic Biel and Pals Climbing Kilimanjaro to Highlight Unsafe Drinking Water

| Posted 01.05.2010 | Green
Read More: Lupe Fiasco, Knight Foundation, Knight Center for International Media, Alexandra Cousteau, Entertainers, Ethiopia, Safe, Dissolve, Santigold, Hewlett Packard, World Health Organization, Sick, Mount Kilimanjaro, Gear, Wold Zemudkun, Celebrities, Blue Legacy, Healthy, Training, Climb, Unsafe, Drinking, Isabel Lucas, Procter & Gamble, Eddie Bauer, Greg Allgood, Jacques Cousteau, Water, Powder, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, Kenna, Hollywood, Green News

Kenna was born in Ethiopia in East Africa and came to the United States with his parents when he was three. Africa is the part of the world where the most people are struggling with unhealthy drinking water.

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Dirty Drinking Water Pushes Jessica Biel Up Mt. Kilimanjar

| Posted 01.12.2010 | Green
Read More: Measles, Ethiopia, Dirty, Knight Foundation, Malaria, Lupe Fiasco, Knight Center for International Media, Alexandra Cousteau, Challenge, Polluted, Cause, Countries, Wold Zemedkun, Safe, Raise, Clean, East, Africa, Jessical Biel, Tanzania, Hewlett Packard, Publicity, Mount Kilimanjaro, Miami, Celebrities, Developing, Money, Expedition, Problem, Climb, Unsafe, Procter & Gamble, Drinking, Isabel Lucas, Eddie Bauer, HIV/AIDS, Filth, Water, Jacques Cousteau, Kenna, Justin Timberlake, Santigold, Bacteria, Hollywood, Green News

Dirty water kills more children every year than malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS combined. But you don't hear much about the water problem. That's why the stars are going up the mountain.

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The Texas Drought, The Florida Chill -- Climate Change?

| Posted 01.15.2010 | Green
Read More: International Research Institute for Climate and Societ, Nasa, Cold, Near Freezing, Knight Foundation, Knight Center for International Media, Poll, Pollution, Temperature, Drought, Don A. Wilhite, Climate Change, Washington Post, Michael J. Hayes, Global Warming, Ben Kirtman, Rancher, Abc, El Niño Effect, Florida, Texas Drought Project, Lisa Goddard, Scientist, Texas, Survey, Knight Center, Weather, University of Miami, La Niña Effect, John Nielsen-Gammon, Columbia University, Apathy, Noaa, Pew Research Center, Farmer, Environment, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Fluctuation, Miami Herald, Green News

Widespread confusion over short-term fluctuations in temperature and long-term trends is causing concern among the majority of scientists who are convinced that climate change is happening.

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