Safety Every Millimeter Counts A body structure meticulously engineered for strength and safety. Learn More Environment Drive Quickly. Tread Lightly. Spirited driving need not spew harmful emissions. Learn More Styling The Lines and Curves of Endurance Its sculpted form expresses a co...
About 90 percent of my night shots come from the wonderful landscapes and dark skies of Oregon, but my love of the stars started young in my home state of New Jersey. It's sad and funny at the same time, but growing up in conglomerate suburb of Philadelphia, New York City, and Atlanti...
Ajo Rojo garlic. Photo: Anne Nester For those who like to get lost in the vast world of heirloom fruits and vegetables, the first National Heirloom Exposition , held mid-September in Santa Rosa, Calif., didn't disappoint. The three-day event -- which drew seasoned farmers, seed savers...
From left to right: Michael Pollan, Walmart's Jack Sinclair, Jib Ellison, Walmart's sustainability consultant, and Edible Education co-teacher, Nicki Henderson. Photo by Irene Florez. You can read her article about the event on Oakland Local. Like or not, Walmart is a force to be reck...
Every step the Obama administration takes towards approving the Keystone XL pipeline means a step towards putting more money into the pockets of Koch Industries. Although the company has denied having an interest in the pipeline (it has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," comp...
"I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list....That didn't look so good, but then someone at...
It should come as no surprise that fossil fuel companies are trying to discredit their biggest competitors: the clean energy industry. Together with their allies in Congress, they are trying to use the failure of one solar company to paint the entire renewable sector as a dangerous ri...
"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." - Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994 Monsanto and Food Inc.'s stranglehold over the nation's food...
A starving dog left in an abandoned apartment for two months, jumped from a third-story window in a desperate attempt to find food. Amazingly the dog survived the fall and helped rescue a puppy still locked inside. The story of one-year-old Pit bull mix, Miracle and a four-month-old p...
More than 60 of the world’s leading apparel brands and retailers, including Adidas , Burberry, H&M , PPR Group , Walmart , Target , and Macy’s , along with the American Apparel and Footwear Association , have pledged to boycott cotton knowingly harvested using child laborers in Uzbeki...
Inhabitat writes , "Last month marked the anniversary of the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, which we all know ended slavery for good 149 years ago, right? Wrong. While that's what we in America are taught in our textbooks, slavery is still alive and well around the wor...
First Lady Michelle Obama is continuing her campaign to inspire the country's youth to get off the couch and to get active by going for a Guinness World Record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. On Tuesday, the POTUS and National Geographic Kids will lead hun...
It's technically not a good thing to anthropomorphize animals, but it's really hard not to when you see this killer whale doing its darndest to sound like a boat's motor. An orca whale approached a motor boat and precisely imitated the noise of the engine -- to communicate? To mock? T...
Last week, the U.K.'s "most effective environmentalist," John-with-an-H Stewart, had his entry visa revoked mid-flight when he tried to visit the U.S. for a speaking tour. All we knew for sure was that customs officials had grilled him for six hours about his plans for his visit, then...
Over 80 percent of rediscovered species still face extinction (08/18/2011) Imagine if your job was to locate extinct species. In 2010, biologists with The Search for Lost Frogs set out on a tropical mission hoping to confirm the existence of frog species not seen in decades. The team ...
This article originally appeared on the BSR Blog . The reaction to Steve Jobs' death on Twitter last night was fast and furious. So much has already been written about his vision, his genius, and the way he changed how we all think about interacting through devices designed in a simpl...
By Jessie Sholl, Experience Life The average household contains about 62 toxic chemicals, say environmental experts. We’re exposed to them routinely — from the phthalates in synthetic fragrances to the noxious fumes in oven cleaners. Ingredients in common household products have been ...
This white paper from Microsoft, Accenture and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory looks at how conducting an IT retrofit of building management tools can have a quick return on investment. Microsoft, in partnership with Accenture and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, deployed s...
Is that really necessary? As the debate unfolds about whether to build a 1,711-mile pipeline to carry crude oil from the tar sands in Canada to refineries in Texas, the focus is on the oil spills and carbon emissions that inevitably come with it. But we need to ask a more fundamental ...
In all of the navel-gazing that climate activists conduct in order to figure out why the world is on the highway to carbon hell, one thing that's easy to forget is what we're up against: Gigantic, tremendously wealthy entrenched interests whose only goal is to maintain the status quo ...
Our Top-10 Products for 2012 look ahead, offering forward-thinking solutions you can put in place now. Greenbuild is one of the highlights of the year as we scout out new, innovative products for GreenSpec and Environmental Building News , and every year we present the Top-10 Building...
, those again? The infamous—and aptly named—Australian boots have never been easy on the eye, but now there’s a bigger reason for them to weigh heavier on your conscience. Animal-rights group Swiss Animal Protection has uncovered horrifying footage of breeders skinning raccoon dogs al...
What I know about Lord of the Rings can basically be summed up in a single Flight of the Conchords song , but someone clearly had a terrifically good time making this recycling-based parody, so I still think it's pretty super. I haven't yet stayed awake through an entire Lord of the R...
Robert H. Socolow In 2004, Princeton scholars Steve Pacala and Rob Socolow published a paper [PDF] in the journal Science that has since become one of the most cited, celebrated, vilified, and contested papers in the history of climate wonkery. The famous "wedges " analysis purports t...
Bikes can be effective tools in protests. Photo: Dan Nguyen Recent weeks have seen the massive, multi-day protests spread from the original Occupy Wall Street encampment in downtown Manhattan to Boston, Chicago, Denver, and many other cities. But largely lost amid the headlines last F...
20 Years of Eco-Surveys Show Americans Know More, Feel Less Empowered By Tilde Herrera Published October 06, 2011 Email | Print | Single Page View Tags: Consumer Trends 1990. It was the year Iraq invaded Kuwait, setting the stage for the Persian Gulf War, and President George H.W. Bus...
My main criticism is that those interviewed only give a partial picture of alternative cancer treatments, especially in regard to diet. We hear a lot about raw foods from David Wolfe in the film. Others mention a vegetarian diet, and one segment shows meat being barbecued while we are...
Associated Press In Wayne, N.J., the Passaic River has overflowed its banks four times in six months. Ten separate billion-dollar weather disasters have hit the United States this year. And in one corner of the ring, with an ice pack on its brow, is the reeling insurance industry. It ...
Josh Haner/The New York Times In brown and red, trees in Montana attacked by the mountain pine beetle. Readers responded to my recent article on forests and climate change with a flood of comments and questions. Here, I’m going to tackle a selected number with a bit of help from the s...
I have a lot of faith in Steven Chu, so I assume the govt. has an intelligent reason for betting on this technology (not sure about GE). However, I don't think that it will be implemented in the way it is being marketed by Solar Roadways. As others have said; building overhead solar s...
