Greenpeace: Apple is IT’s Dirtiest Company Greenpeace: Apple is IT’s Dirtiest Company Bad Apple? That’s what Greenpeace says in a new report that evaluates the use of fossil fuels 8 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day From Your Seat 8 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day From Your Seat Maybe making Ea...
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Brilliant stuff. The Arctic is one of the most delicate environments on the plane - iIf you want bitter irony, consider this: The arctic is not only particularly vulnerable to the kind of oil spills that we saw a year ago in the gulf of mexico, it's also the part of our planet that's ...
Talk about the efficient use of space: if you're going to have roads (and hopefully you'll have bike lanes), why not put that space to work producing energy? Called the Solaroad , the project is the brainchild of Dutch research firm TNO . The idea is pretty straightforward: a layer of...
Top 10 ways you can stop climate change Try these 10 ways to reduce your carbon footprint today (Credit: Twm™ via Flickr). Ever wonder how your tiny carbon footprint really impacts the big picture of climate change? Though you might feel like your lifestyle is insignificant compared t...
‘Green bloggers: win a trip to India to cover World Environment Day 2011, on June 5!’ How would you like to win a trip to India to do something you already love doing – blogging!? Here’s a chance to flex your writing skills and to be a part of the World Environment Day global movement...
How Does Earth Day Fit Into Your Plan? (Cartoon) Click to enlarge "Earth Day Planning" by Option-G This the first in a series of daily cartoons we'll be running on TreeHugger, exploring a variety of green themes and ideas through visual art. View the entire comment thread.
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold is a film about product placement, funded by product placement. Hence the title. This meta documentary follows Spurlock as he woos advertisers to support his project. It took him nine months to secure the first sponsor – Ban Deodora...
All six species of sea turtles found in American waters green, hawksbill, Kemps ridley, leatherback, loggerhead, and olive ridley are either threatened or in danger of extinction. After the disaster, more than 400 sea turtles were rescued from oily waters, but more than 600 carca...
New York City's mayor Michael Bloomberg puts birds on things, if by "birds" you mean solar panels and "things" you mean the city’s myriad defunct landfills. The so-called greening of brownfields is a nationwide trend, since landfills and other plots of ruined land close to or even wit...
World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day (04/22/2010) The biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the deforestation crisis: we are living in an age when environmental issues have moved from regional problems to global ones. A generation or two before ours an...
Agriculture: it doesn't have to steamroll the environment to be productive. For over 40 years, Earth Day has served as a call to action, mobilizing individuals and organizations around the world to address environmental challenges. Agriculture, often blamed as a driver of these proble...
Recycle at the recreation area. Gather cans and bottles at the soccer field, baseball diamond, public pool or park. Involve the whole team and make a display showing how much waste was produced and captured for recycling during a typical day. Host a swap party to reuse past treasures....
Green feels niche, not normal : 50% of Americans think green products are for “Crunchy Green Hippies” or “Rich Elitist Snobs.” Green products cost too much : cost is the top obstacle, it’s like a sustainability tax, but Americans feel a social and emotional cost of feeling different o...
Kate Galbraith Grass at the City Hall in Midland, Tex., may not fare as well under outdoor watering restrictions issued because of a severe drought. The severe drought across Texas has hit the oil and gas city of Midland especially hard, as I reported in Friday’s New York Times and Te...
Of course, maps like this probably won't do anything to encourage people to move away from a nuclear power plant when scenarios are only "what ifs" but information visualization like this could do something to discourage support of yet more nuclear power plants, and bolster support of...
New York City Department of Environmental Protection New York City is offering homeowners 55-gallon rain-collection barrels. It’s raining barrels. New York City is giving away 55-gallon rain barrels to homeowners to help conserve water and reduce pressure on the city’s sewer system, w...
Google's Oklahoma wind farm will be built this year. Photo: Marcin Wichary It's getting a bit hard to keep up with all of Google's green investments these days -- $168 million put into a big solar power plant project one week; $100 million for the world's largest wind farm the next. B...
For environmentally conscious students, choosing a school with green principles is getting a little easier. This week the Princeton Review, the test prep firm and creator of popular college guides, and the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization in Washington, released t...
Clara Barton Famous for nursing countless injured, sick and dying patients, she also played a very important role in establishing the Red Cross in the United States. Additionally, she participated in the women’s suffrage and anti-slavery movements. Even though she was exposed to war a...
With a year-long commitment to giving back, it’s safe to bet 1% for the Planet members, NGOs, and fans don’t need a holiday to remember the environment. But as Earth Day turns 41 this Friday, we noticed a coincidence that we couldn’t pass up: there are 41 songs on our compilation albu...
Tigers are admired by many people. The big cat is revered, admired and feared in equal parts, by millions of people around the world. If forests are emptied of every last tiger, all that will remain are distant legends, zoo sightings, and one massive breach of trust. A home for tigers...
On Monday in the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Thad Altman will be introducing a competitive market amendment allowing independently built renewable energy systems to sell electricity to the grid, as well as an amendment ensuring the long term success of the net metering program. T...
The program is not without its question marks. Responsible recycling of ewaste is incredibly difficult to track into today’s global marketplace. Ewaste dumps in Africa, and toxic ewaste separation camps in China highlight the need for more sustainable design in electronics. Most elect...
The blog was started partly as motivation to get going on her own balcony. Which she does with a vengeance. After just one growing season (this is England, where things grow very easily and beautifully), she reported that she had grown and harvested : potatoes, beans, tomatoes, courge...
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and spray a 13×9-inch baking dish with cooking spray. In a small bowl, stir together ground flax and water. Set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and clove. In a large bowl, beat together granulated suga...
It is important for everyone working or advocating around energy to understand how the power mix is expected to change in the next 20 years or so. To that end, I've pulled a chart out of the consulting firm Black & Veatch's "Energy Market Perspective ," an analysis of U.S. energy mark...
At 2.6 MWs, this will become the largest solar power station in the Southeast. 18,000 solar panels are being added to the roof of the assembly building, an area of about 10 acres. The plant itself, at $750 million, represents the largest industrial investment in South Carolina history...
One by one, FD&C food dyes — those that had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — have been taken off the market in the U.S., and there are now only seven left. The rest have been removed because they are toxic, carcinogenic, and may cause hyperactivity. Pedia...
