Restoring Healthier Rivers for People and Wildlife This fall we will celebrate two major river restoration efforts. The removal of outdated dams on Washington’s Elwha River and White Salmon River will bring the rivers back to life and deliver a wide variety of benefits to the environm...
Great article, Michele.I am not sure why people believe that everything in the current American diet, which has already been shown to be incredibly unhealthy, should be replaced one-for-one. You are absolutely on target calling out the local and sustainable movement for this! I often ...
Twelve talented artists have created editorial cartoons that poke fun at the not-so-humorous issue of political interference in science. This year, they focused on how special interests can manipulate, distort, and suppress the science used to make policy and undermine the public’s un...
Photo by Olga Oslina via Flickr CC The Boreal forest is the world's largest land-based biome. Spreading over continents and covering many countries, the Boreal plays a significant role in the planet's biodiversity and even its climate. Here are 30 facts you want to know about this inc...
Perhaps it’s not that surprising that a mother in Menifee, California, asked the Menifee Union School District to ban all copies of the 10th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary after her child stumbled across the term “oral sex.” What is surprising, indeed horrifying, i...
Range anxiety . If you ever find yourself talking electric cars with an EV hater , it's inevitable you'll hear the term. And yes, it's kinda true -- at this juncture in time, you will not be able to drive an electric car in exactly the same way you drove your gas guzzler -- in most pl...
Gayeton got the idea for the Lexicon project about two years ago, in the middle of a dinner party, when a guest butchered the definition of "food miles." If Gayeton could define and build out the language of sustainability, he thought, he could give people the tools they needed to bou...
Offshore wind has undoubtedly benefited from the state’s distinctive business environment. With stable, long-term policies, and its own transmission network, Texas offers unrivaled business opportunities for the offshore wind industry. Furthermore, the state offers an exceptional comb...
Net Impact's annual Business as UNusual guide gives the inside scoop on what business programs are doing to prepare students for careers that make a positive impact on the world . Each year, we ask current students to profile their program's curricula, activities, career services, and...
Health Air pollution and toxic chemicals take a heavy toll on our health, particularly that of children. Guided by the best science, we are working to make chemicals safer and the air cleaner. Latest Blog Post Environmental Groups Re-assert Legal Efforts to Protect Clean Air August 16...
Washington, D.C.—In a move that came as a shock both in this city and throughout the planet on which it is located, Standard & Poor’s late Monday downgraded Earth from its unique HHH rating—the only one in the galaxy—to HH+. The coveted HHH rating—meaning, “extremely habitable”—has be...
A blood red sky across the African savannah captures a giraffe in its molten glow, with the giant animal cloaked in a beautiful darkness... Silhouette photography like this is a special skill. The photos are taken against a strongly lit background, sometimes with studio lights but oft...
Oil dependence is an issue that can bring together people from all over the political spectrum, as it touches on national security, economics and the environment. So it’s not terribly surprising – although it is encouraging -- that the nation’s first oil-savings bill was passed in a s...
As the world's biggest, union-bustingest retailer, gigantic sack of Chinese lead paint chips Walmart has the opportunity to push more money at sustainability than pretty much anybody else on the planet. Which is why the company, like IKEA before it , is committing to getting 100 perce...
Cross-posted from Strong Towns . The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has just released a report that should be titled "Pretending it is 1952. " Like a broken record, ASCE is again painting a bleak picture of the future if American politicians -- as if they need to be plied ...
are, how much the green economy has grown compared to the rest of the economy and who's actually getting green jobs? Then 1BOG (the innovative residential solar power company) has a great infographic for you. Obviously the image above is just a tiny excerpt. The full graphic is embedd...
Trout Fishing in a Climate-Changed America By FELICITY BARRINGER Associated Press/Garrett Cheen/The Livingston Enterprise Restocking cutthroat trout in a lake near Livingston, Montana. Cutthroat are among the trout species that are expected to lose more than half their habitat by the ...
Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to bring about sweeping culture change is to jettison old ways and jolt the existing culture into a new reality. Anyone who has experienced corporate life in America in the past decade knows that method brings mixed results and often a linge...
As I write, the leak continues – so does our addiction to oil – so do accidents related to oil exploitation all over the world. Earlier this month, Shell admitted liability for two devastating oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 and 2009. Last year, the largest accidental marine oil spill t...
One of the most exciting developments in the auto industry today has to do with the sustainable innovations that make cars run -- improved petrol and diesel engines, ethanol and biodiesel, compressed natural gas, electricity, or some combination thereof. It's a topic that will only be...
When Ford customers order their Focus Electric or C-MAX Energi they will have the option of indicating an interest in the SunPower system. SunPower leads the industry with more than 400 dealers in the U.S., and can support the initial Focus Electric roll out in all 19 markets. A parti...
Voters across Appalachia want stronger clean water protections from mountaintop removal mining: In some of the strongest and most surprising data, the poll reveals intense and broad-based support in the heart of Appalachia for fully enforcing , and even more support for increasing , c...
In the hype over how Google has up-ended the tech world with its purchase of Motorola Mobility , one aspect of the deal hasn’t yet attracted attention – but is potentially the most important. Google entering the hardware business should lead to the one breakthrough the market truly ne...
Some companies are hesitant about becoming “green,” concerned about the costs or considering it an exotic, non-business issue. They think of this as actions to “save the Earth,” which is not their responsibility. However, sustainability is now recognized as a valid business concern. S...
There’s an interesting battle brewing at the site of perhaps the most famous military landing in modern history. According to several published reports , the famed beaches at Normandy on the coast of France where Allied troops launched a historic offensive against Nazi Germany on June...
More livable? A vision for Chengdu Xiqi town center. Courtesy IMC Octave Few countries are urbanizing as rapidly as China, and all that growth has placed tremendous strain on existing cities. There are 171 cities in China that currently have more than 1 million inhabitants, and that n...
In only a handful of years, green building has moved from obscurity to a significant trend in the global construction market. Canaccord Genuity expects its share of the world construction market to be over 20% by 2013. Longer-term, they expect green building practices to become the no...
By Marlo Sollitto, AgingCare.com contributing editor Feeling frazzled? Balancing life with work, kids, bills and managing a household can put anyone on the verge of a meltdown. Caring for others, you probably forget to take care of yourself. But if you’re not healthy, you not only suf...
When winter rolls around, it’s natural to feel a pang of concern at the thought of losing your precious flora to the unforgiving weather and bitter cold, but you don’t have to sit just back and watch the destruction unfold while hoping that at least one of your plants will make it thr...
Dizzying heights, rarefied air and brutally cold temperatures. That’s the Himalayas and surrounds for you – home to the highest peaks on earth; the highest mountain passes too. We’ve compiled seven of the highest that are accessible – passes only the toughest would traverse on foot an...
