Is bottled water propping up a dictatorship? Is Walmart’s green business club worth the dues? Is Mumbai headed for a climate change fall? And who stole nearly 100 loggerhead turtle hatchlings from a North Carolina beach? All this and more in this morning’s Coolness:
- Joel Makower looks at Walmart’s Sustainability Consortium — a sort of club for green businesses to set sustainability standards for those businesses — and wonders why companies would pay to join it.
- Mother Jones magazine has prompted quite a little water balloon fight over its recent article that FIJI bottle water is propping up a military junta in Fiji. Nick Aster at Triple Pundit has a good analysis of the situation.
- Will Mumbai disappear because of climate change? Maybe that’s too dire — but Green Inc. reports the city is developing on wetlands and removing 100,000 old trees, setting itself up for a climate change disaster.
- Missing: 83 loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings from their nest in North Carolina — leading to a $5,000 reward by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, reports 60-Second Science. (Loggerhead sea turtles face extinction in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, reports the National Marine Fisheries Service.)
- You’ve heard of a human right to health and water — but what about a human right to sanitation? WaterWired makes the case.
(Image: Loggerhead sea turtle. Credit: Damien du Toit through a Creative Commons license.)
Tags: 60-Second Science, Fiji military dictator, Fiji water, Green Inc., human right sanitation, Joel Makower, loggerhead extinct, loggerhead sea turtle, loggerhead stolen, loggerhead turtle, Mother Jones, Mother Jones Fiji, Mumbai climate change, National Marine Fisheries Service, Nick Aster, Nick Aster Fiji, Triple Pundit, Walmart, Walmart Sustainability Consortium, WaterWired
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