Clorox Becomes Latest Firm to Adopt Integrated Sustainability Reporting PC Power Management Market to Boom as Energy Prices Rise Canadian Truckers Can Now Earn Carbon Credits from Fuel Efficiency HP, Intel, Sony Join Alliance to Source Conflict-Free Minerals Chevy Invests in Offset Pr...
Carmakers to reveal universal charging system A collaboration of car makers including Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche, and Volkswagen are to present their new Combined Charging System at the 15th International VDI-Congress and Exhibition Electronic Systems for Motor Vehicles in Baden-Ba...
For a long time, the holy grail of solar photovoltaics (PV) has been "grid parity," the point at which it would be as cheap to generate one's own solar electricity as it is to buy electricity from the grid. And that is indeed an important market milestone, being achieved now in many p...
that the USDA's nutrition guidelines are seriously out of step with food subsidies. The government recommends people eat fruits and veggies as nearly half their daily intake, and protein as less than a quarter -- but they subsidize meat in totally different proportions. We whipped up ...
Back in his White House days, President Bill Clinton was notorious for his love of burgers and other high fat foods. He gained weight, and in general, was not taking care of his body. In 2004, after feeling a tightness in his chest, Clinton underwent quadruple bypass surgery. He made ...
Barbara Fraser is a freelance journalist based in Lima, Peru. Her work has appeared in EcoAmericas, The Daily Climate, The Lancet, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Health News, Science World, National Catholic Reporter, Catholic News Service and other publications. Sh...
Madness! And I don't mean the British band... The corn ethanol supporters are probably not very familiar with the concept of opportunity cost. Either that, or the subsidies and high corn prices are just to juicy to give up. Only about 20% of all the corn grown in the U.S. now goes to ...
We've often examined the debate over which is greener, buying local or buying fair trade (or organic, or seasonal...). Typically each has their own pros and cons depending on situation. A new infographic from Ethical Ocean lays out the deets, including the economic benefits of local a...
From Energy Self-Reliant States (via Climate Progress ): "The Germans have installed over 10,000 megawatts of solar panels in the past two years, enough to power 2 million American homes (or most of Los Angeles, CA). If Americans installed local solar at the same torrid pace, we could...
The US Green Building Council (USGBC) is implementing major upgrades in LEED certification standards for buildings in 2012 in response to criticisms. Critics say LEED ratings don't go far enough - that adding up a bunch of points for green features doesn't necessarily result in a buil...
Our Ever-Changing Earth: NASA's Power of Perspective A special Web event with NASA's Chief Scientist Oct. 12, 2011, 1-2 p.m. ET Teachers and students are invited to join NASA's Chief Scientist, Waleed Abdalati, for this live webcast. Dr. Abdalati—an Earth scientist—will share his stor...
) had way too much time on her hands during the weeks leading up to Halloween. This super-detailed, super-funny (and hopefully super-light) AT-AT pet costume was created by Katie Mello for her dog Bones — that is, an All Terrain Armored Transport as seen in The Empire Strikes Back . M...
For a nearly 100-year-old company, Clorox is showing itself to be quick to adapt to trends in sustainability. For its second sustainability report, published today, Clorox has become one of a small number of global firms to integrate CSR reporting with financial reporting. The shift t...
Packaging is too often a manifestation of excess and waste. All that extra cushioning. All of those individually wrapped parts. Not to mention packaging that is not easily recycled. Product manuals and accessories that are often just thrown away. Eighteen months ago, I reported on the...
The following is an op-ed piece by Jim Halter, vice president of construction solutions for Waste Management. It does not describe the views or opinions of Earth911. Find your local recycling solution for construction materials For architects, builders and suppliers, Greenbuild is lik...
Photo: Allison Samuels One night in June, a young artist in cutoff jeans and paint-spattered Nike high-tops was walking down Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, a neighborhood in Brooklyn. In his hand, he carried one of the main tools of his trade: a bucket brimming with wallpaper adhesive. ...
Photo: David This essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission . For connoisseurs, Barack Obama's fund-raising emails for the 2012 election campaign seem just a tad forlorn -- slightly limp reminders of the last time 'round. Four yea...
The American Society of Landscape Architects has just released a massive database of 479 case studies describing the successful application of ”green infrastructure” techniques that collect and process rainwater naturally before it flows into receiving waterways as polluted runoff. Th...
will be unveiling its "sequenced inverter" and directing it at commercial-scale applications using crystalline silicon modules. The firm's technology is a unique twist on optimizing the power in a solar string. ArrayPower's direct current to pulse amplitude modulated (“PAM”) current c...
Turning recovered fiber into recycled paper products efficiently is dependent on the quality of feedstock and the technical ability of a manufacture to de-ink, clean, and re-pulp the fiber. Contaminants such as food scraps, plastic, and metal make it more difficult for manufactures an...
Thank you, Leslie, for recognizing InterfaceFLOR’s leadership in the product transparency movement. It was very exciting to witness the coming of age of the transparency meme during Greenbuild last week, and I was impressed with the collaborative label design from P+W and C/S. With a ...
10 Tips for Growing Fruit Trees at Home (Slideshow) Photo: LOLren /Creative Commons There's not much that can compare with plucking off a juicy peach from your own fruit tree. From spring's sweet cherries to fall's crisp apples, fresh fruit is one of nature's most delicious products -...
Tea Party rallies in favor of Gibson Guitar, ignores reasons instrument-maker is under investigation (10/10/2011) This weekend around 500 people showed up for a rally and concert in Nashville, Tennessee. The rally was in support of Gibson Guitars, a US-company currently under investig...
Got milk: 3 percent of greenhouse gases from milk production (04/21/2010) Just less than 3 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions come from the production of milk, according to a new study by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Covering dairy producing animals fr...
Everyone has heard of Papua New Guinea but few know much about its western neighbour – West Papua. Comprising the western half of the Papua New Guinea island; the province has been ruled from Indonesia since 1963, when the UN, with the proviso that the native Papuans be given the chan...
You might remember when we covered the hot new documentary Vegucated – a film about three meat lovers who take a vegan challenge and get their minds blown after seeing first hand some of the shocking truths about animal agriculture. After doubling attendance records and winning Best D...
On Friday, October 7, the killers managed to drive a pod of what seemed like false killer whales into the harbor area. At this stage, a part of the pod managed to get passed the banger boats and was swimming towards to open ocean. The banger boats chased after the frantically, but gav...
Wired has posted a series of photos of seed vaults, storage units that bank tens of thousands of seeds in an attempt to preserve biodiversity against threats of extinction and climate change, and we can safely say they're the creepiest way of ensuring that species survive. This is som...
Dale Vince, the founder, of Ecotricity, didn’t start out planning to build a business worth an estimated £100 million. In fact his primary concern, living out of a van on top of a hill in Stroud in 1991, was generating enough electricity to meet his own needs. Two decades later, he is...
Image courtesy of Pecan Street Inc. It’s a job that would make working as a United Nations switchboard operator seem simple. Out in Austin, Texas, the federally funded Pecan Street smart grid test bed is asking plug-in cars, rooftop solar panels, smart appliances and household batteri...
