There are people around who remember the days when squirrel was a more commonly served meat on the American table than chicken. The Kentucky Long Rifle , with its long barrel and small caliber, was designed for squirrel hunting (the smaller the caliber, the more squirrel left to take ...
A NASA photograph of the crack across Pine Island Glacier. Normally when icebergs split off from glaciers, it’s called “calving,” but I think it would be fair to say that Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier is about to have a cow. Pine Island Glacier, which is the continent’s fastest-mel...
'Organic cosmetics are not regulated in the same way as organic food and drink,' says the Soil Association's Clio Turton, 'so certification from the Soil Association or another reputable certifier, demonstrates that a product has been checked and approved to the highest organic standa...
Fifth-grader Clara Lazen was just messing around with a molecule modeling kit in class, trying to construct a stable molecule that followed basic chemistry rules. What she ended up with was a completely novel molecular structure , and a coauthor credit in the resulting journal article...
Across the digital universe, brands are asking consumers to click for the good of the planet. GE wants consumers to tag green innovations in their neighborhood on an interactive map and then check in while on Foursquare . Danone puts a call out on Facebook and Tumblr for photos that c...
Land Rover Our Planet /CC BY-SA 2.0 India's remarkable growth in solar power , which TreeHugger has been following for some time, has gained the nation another superlative: According to new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance , India led the world in 2011 for green power growth. ...
Imagine dropping fifty-seven cement caissons, each one the size of a four-story house, on miles of beach and soft coral reefs. It would destroy the marine ecosystem. Our imperfect knowledge already tells us that at least nine endangered species would be wiped out, and no one knows or ...
While these arrays of balled-up sand may look like the work of a nimble-handed artist, they're actually just the remnants left behind where a sand bubbler crab's been snacking. During low tide, the diminutive species, averaging less than a half-inch across, exit their burrows to scour...
Editor’s note : This is your weekly installment of images from Douglas Gayeton and Laura Howard-Gayeton’s Lexicon of Sustainability. We’ll be running one image every Friday this winter, so stay tuned. If you have your own sustainability terms, you can add them yourself to the Lexicon ...
Last week, McDonald’s announced that they would stop using ammonia-treated trimmings in their hamburgers. Dubbed “pink slime” by a USDA microbiologist, ammoniated beef is one of many surprises found in fast food burgers. In the Annals of Diagnostic Pathology , anatomic pathologists at...
The U.S. generates more than 34 million tons of food waste each year, according to the EPA . Sure, you can compost perished produce, leftovers and food scraps. But the best way to lighten your kitchen’s impact on the planet is to stop waste at its source. To help, we’ve compiled five ...
I know football fans feel pretty strongly about doing things exactly the same way every time, lest their switch in underwear or beer brand or whatever be the butterfly’s wing that leads to their favorite team tanking. So I have some bad news for you guys: there will be some changes th...
The Army is still going for Gold and Platinum despite recent legislation calling a halt to LEED spending. Fort Carson is piloting net-zero energy, water, and waste--and expects to meet that target by 2020. The federal government has been one of the biggest supporters of LEED certifica...
See that crack? That's evidence from NASA that Antarctica is just about to get smaller by around, oh, the size of New York City. National Geographic reports : With a gargantuan crack slowly splitting it apart, Antarctica's fastest-melting glacier is about to lose a chunk of ice larger...
Many experienced rescuers prefer to start here. Find a benign reason to approach your neighbor such as, “I’ve been finding my mailbox open lately, have you been having the same problem?” Then, once you’ve opened the conversation with a neutral topic, begin talking to your neighbor abo...
As one of the largest sports organizations in the country, the National Football League has a long-standing commitment to sustainable practices. In fact, for nearly two decades the NFL has been "greening" the management of Super Bowl. This year, however, the NFL has gone further than ...
Mr. Nakahira is well known to us. Last season he spent many days in Taiji driving around with his loudspeaker truck. Mr. Nakahira is a smart man. He has observed the reality in Taiji. He has seen that the dolphin killing has nothing to do with tradition. He has seen how the children i...
Just when it started to seem like we had mapped out pretty much all lifeforms on Earth, biologists say they have now found yet another ark-full -- and all in just one small region of South America. A group of field researchers working in Peru's Bahuaja Sonene National Park recently un...
Melissa Roth (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) Representative corals on day 20 of a temperature change experiment. From left: the cold-stressed coral, the coral kept at normal temperatures and the heat-stressed coral. There’s no shortage of coral news this week. In addition to the...
When I wrote about a rush of solar installations in the UK , I noted that generous government feed-in tariffs were driving that boom. But those tariffs are now being cut substantially. Nevertheless, another solar incentive remains—the solar panels themselves that have been installed a...
As part of an extended interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, Brad Pitt let loose this little gem—a brief, mostly accidental one-off critique of how ridiculous cars are . He made the remark in passing, as a metaphor for something that happens in one of his movies. (Watch the in...
San Francisco International airport has opened a yoga room with a few yoga mats and several chairs. No shoes, food, drinks or cell phones are allowed. Also silence is supposed to be observed in the airport’s yoga room. An official said they are the first airport to offer a yoga facili...
This Valentines Day, honor the special people in your life with a gift theyll love that also helps protect the world around them. Fortunately, there are more ways than ever before to give your loved ones thoughtful, unique gifts that are also great for the environment — and were no...
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), the world’s largest tuna conservation coalition, recently passed a comprehensive resolution that will prohibit its members from supporting the shark finning industry. On Tuesday, the ISSF Board of Directors passed a resolutio...
I’ve been living in Central America the last few months — Costa Rica, for the most part. There have been many interesting experiences along the way, but perhaps the most significant for me is access to the ocean. The Pacific Coast is just a couple hours away by bus. I’m almost 30 and,...
This completely undermines the basic (and patently false) original premise behind Monsanto’s Roundup Ready™ crops. The company claimed that since Roundup was one of the least toxic herbicides on the market, and since it could be sprayed directly on the crops themselves, the proliferat...
Today NRDC released a new report on how local and state governments can stimulate potentially billions of dollars of private investment, to offset the costs of repairing our nation's broken stormwater infrastructure. It's worth a read for policymakers, investors, and anyone who receiv...
Back in 2007, when former CEO Terry Leahy promised to bring in carbon labels for all Tesco products everything seemed rosy. Soon after, the company announced a trial of the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Reduction Label, promising a ‘revolution in green consumption’. Consumers would be able to...
The U.S. Composting Council is making it easier for home gardeners to decide which store-bought compost is right for them by labeling compost products according to proper use. Photo: Flickr/stevendepolo The U.S. Composting Council is taking the guess-work out of choosing the right kin...
