are always up to something to help their community, whether it be supporting local businesses at events, saving clothes from landfill or raising much needed funds for great charitable causes.
• The EU Commission has known since 2002 that glyphosate causes malformations. This was the year it signed off on the current approval of glyphosate But this information was not made public. On the contrary, the pesticide industry and Europe’s regulators have jointly misled the public...
VF Corporation's $2 billion purchase of Timberland has the potential to put the resources of a major conglomerate behind Timberland's sustainability work, while spreading the outdoor gear company's deep-green expertise to VF's stable of businesses. Timberland will be joining VF's othe...
Because of the state’s benign weather, disease-causing organisms and insects do not die from the frosts, blizzards, and subzero cold snaps that kill bugs and pathogens every winter in colder growing areas. Basking in the same balmy climate as the state’s active retirees, Florida’s pes...
The Surfrider Foundation is seeking a full-time web developer/programmer to build out our existing web properties and to develop new ones to further our mission and enhance our global brand. The candidate should excel at website coding and at developing database driven applications. T...
Don’t buy into these long-running but bogus claims. By Brittany Risher You probably already know that going for a swim within 30 minutes of chowing down on a sandwich isn’t going to cause you to cramp up and sink helplessly to the bottom of the pool. But there’s plenty more lame summe...
The Report on Carcinogens is a congressionally mandated document that is prepared for the HHS Secretary by the NTP.[National Toxicology Program] The report identifies agents, substances, mixtures, or exposures in two categories: known to be a human carcinogen and reasonably anticipate...
The goal of the Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides is to help shoppers reduce their exposure to pesticides. EWG states that “the health benefits of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables outweigh the risks of pesticide exposure,” but pesticide intake can be lowered “substantially by avoiding...
This month the Environmental Protection Agency made public the names of 150 chemicals that were investigated in health and safety studies but whose identities were withheld as confidential business information. European Pressphoto Agency Oil broken down by dispersant in the Gulf of Me...
Biologists in Massachusetts recently announced that over the last six weeks, five adult gray seals were found shot on Cape Cod beaches. Biologists from the International Fund for Animal Welfare's Marine Mammal Rescue and Research team discovered the cases in the course of standard str...
As you probably already know, male goats are called bucks or billies, and female goats are called does or nannies, but the results of some strange genetic modification have given rise to a new term altogether, "goys" -- transgender goats which are essentially females in male bodies. S...
The Obama administration's initiative to fight food deserts will help, not harm, mom-and-pop stores. Photo: arbyreed Gary Nabhan and Kelly Watters are right that it will take a diversity of new and expanded fresh food stores to truly solve the crisis of inadequate access to healthy fo...
American Express started Small Business Saturday to encourage shopping at small businesses and raise money for Girls, Inc., a nonprofit that educates young women entrepreneurs. It worked: Participating merchants reported a 27 percent increase in sales over the previous year. 1.2 milli...
While a cow or goat may respect a property fence, pollen knows no such boundaries. Even if a farmer plants a field of non-GMO (not genetically modified) corn, she may still end up with some genetically engineered material on her farm if GMO pollen "drifts" over from a neighbor's field...
Corporations, conservation, and the green movement (10/21/2010) The image of rainforests being torn down by giant bulldozers, felled by chainsaw-wielding loggers, and torched by large-scale developers has never been more poignant. Corporations have today replaced small-scale farmers a...
Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage (along with Nadya Zhexembayeva), shared a few examples of companies that are doing a great job on embedded sustainability and those that still have work to do in his presentation at Sustainable Brands 11 . Laszlo compared Chr...
Verizon received approval from the state of California last week to end automatic delivery of its printed white pages, providing customers with an online, electronic version of the residential listings. Photo: Creative Commons, by Gentle Just weeks after San Francisco passed a law pro...
Certainly having NREL in state provides not only the institutional knowledge but also the credibility for Colorado’s renewable energy program to flourish. In fact, Ecotech Institute, the nation’s first and only college entirely dedicated to renewable energy and sustainable design, cho...
Transmilenio buses ready to meet peak traffic demand, Bogotá, Colombia. Photo credit: EMBARQ When it comes to changing the way we use energy, cities are at the center of the action. On June 2nd, I had the pleasure of speaking at the C40 Summit in São Paulo, Brazil. The C40 Cities Clim...
Irrigation controllers never constantly run. All irrigation controllers run on very low power in-between watering events just to keep their clock and schedule running. Think of it like a DVD player with a clock on the face, it only really uses power when it's playing a DVD, the power ...
The Intermountain Power Plant outside Delta, Utah, one of the nation’s largest coal-fired plants. The Environmental Protection Agency, facing intense opposition from Congressional Republicans and industry over a broad range of new air quality regulations, said Monday that it was delay...
Rapid transit buses, like these in Los Angeles, reduce emissions and are cheaper than light rail. Photo: Chris Cross-posted from the World Resources Institute . The post was written by Manish Bapna, WRI's executive vice president and managing director . On June 2, I had the pleasure o...
The culture in the Pacific Northwest tends to favor the environment — even over power. What the East Coast robber barons did not take into account when planning their solar coup was the overwhelming natural beauty of Teanaway — even where the forests have been logged. Perhaps members ...
As the young market matures, revenue from carbon management services will increasingly outweigh that from software purchases. Services will grow from 55 percent of the total market in 2010 to 67 percent by 2017, Pike predicts. And while most services revenue today comes from consultin...
Buy locally and in season . When produce is in season, it’s more plentiful and it should be less expensive than other times of the year. Use the free Locovore app on your smartphone or Epicurious’ online Seasonal Ingredient Map to find out what is in season right now. Pick your own . ...
Septa On the Market-Frankford subway line of the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority, batteries will capture some energy that is generated when a train brakes, and hold it until it is needed. Subway trains need a lot of electricity to get going, turning electricity into kinetic e...
This week, The Great Animal Rescue Chase brings you the story of a young woman in New Zealand who heard a soft meow during her daily jog. You won't believe the extent of her persistence in tracking the sound and the simple twist of fate that led her to a desperate kitten just as she w...
Mattel has reacted to Greenpeace protests over the origin of its packaging, directing suppliers to put a freeze on purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper, and pledging to create a sustainable procurement policy. On Tuesday Greenpeace activists unfurled banners on Mattel buildings in several...
Four months ago, environmental activists celebrated a hard-fought victory in the Antarctic sea when Japanese whaling vessels appeared to have abandoned the practice of hunting whales under the guise of 'scientific research' -- but the shift in direction seems to have merely been geogr...
“However you try to define meditation, its not that.” –Swami Brahmananda Through many years of being involved with meditation we have seen how easily people miss the point, mainly because they take the practice and themselves too seriously. Many “try” to meditate but their minds are ...
