In Canada, caribou herds are declining, in part, environmental groups say , because of tar sands development. The Canadian government’s response? Kill the wolves. The country’s plan, which involves poison bait and Sarah Palin’s favorite sport — shooting wolves from planes — is meant “...
How She Leads is a regular feature on GreenBiz.com that spotlights the career paths of women who have moved into influential roles in sustainable business. Hannah Jones, Vice President of Sustainable Business & Innovation at Nike, is responsible for stewarding Nike's global sustainabi...
Any cyclist who pedals around San Francisco will soon learn about the Wiggle , a bicycle route that weaves a delightfully flat path across this city of hills. But the Wiggle, just one mile long, can save cyclists from only so many hills. Soon San Franciscans will have a new option for...
We have no problem getting on board a holiday that's all about love, but love based on commercialism? That's a different story -- and no matter how much you care, that super-sized ruby-red plush heart with the cupid arrow shooting through it is just going to be exiled into a dark corn...
If you knew 5 minutes before the Titanic hit the iceberg, would you say - I and my family and friends are all going to die OR what steps can I take to give them the best chance possible to survive. (btw - the very best research on long term survival points to not personal, but immedia...
Newly-appointed Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey will hit the ground running today, joining Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in sending a clear signal that green growth and green jobs will remain at the heart of the Coalition’s strategy for economic recovery. Visiting ...
Shareholder groups that pressure companies to release greenhouse gas emission data could have more strength behind their arguments, now that a study found share prices increase when companies voluntarily disclose information on their emissions. Looking at press releases issued over 10...
We all have heard of groups, websites and apps that help people swap their stuff or give their old items to folks who want them. They're all great ways to keep things out of landfill and reduce how much we consume. But Team CORA wants to go one step more and connect you with people wh...
In Fast-Track Technology, Hope For a Second Green Revolution With advances in a technique known as fast-track breeding, researchers are developing crops that can produce more and healthier food and can adapt and thrive as the climate shifts. by richard conniff In Zambia during the cur...
Every year, humans consume 70 million tons of seafood. Though this is an astonishing volume—one that has a serious impact on ocean populations —it cannot compare to sperm whales which consumer more than 100 million tons of seafood annually. Most of this consists of squid and small fis...
This is the first in a Rocky Mountain Institute series on the steps business leaders can take to seize the economic and competitive opportunities outlined in Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era . If you've have heard about Reinventing Fire , Rocky Mountain...
Looks delicious! Image by Angela Rutherford Puerto Rico needs to get rid of FOUR MILLION invasive iguanas, some of which can grow to be six feet long. Short of passing a law requiring every man, woman, and child on the island to eat one iguana, what do you do about that volume of unwa...
The Isles of Shoals (above) are common patrolling grounds for the plastic hunters of the Rozalia Project. Photo: Flickr/PHOTOPHANATIC1 Off the eastern coast of the U.S., out from the border between New Hampshire and Maine, the Isles of Shoals rest peacefully in the early morning. Unde...
The roughnecks who straddle throbbing nacelles 150 feet in the air, one hand on a safety rope and the other gnarly with gearbox lubricant, are about to get the reality show (episode) they deserve, thanks to the Weather Channel. What happens when people stop being polite and start clim...
Has the economic pressure really had that extreme an impact? I remember just a few years ago that managers believed that doing good for their communities was critical to their business and their reputations. Over the 15 years I consulted to Cisco, I heard President (then Chairman) Joh...
"I've got all the Fortune 500's annual revenues from the past few years and their correlating carbon footprint data in a .csv file." "I have the API for Green Guide and would be happy to share it." "I've got data from the World Bank Climate Change portal in several formats that make i...
MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has invented a method for creating solar cells for solar panels from the photosynthesizing molecules in grass clippings and dead leaves . Called photosystem I, these molecules contains chlorophyll, and can be mixed onto a flat piece of glass with zinc ox...
Here’s your nature porn for the day: a long exposure of the night sky over the aptly-named Very Large Telescope array in Chile. Dude, that’s what’s under, or rather over, all the light and air pollution in the sky. Short of moving to the middle of a 40,000-square-mile desert, of cours...
About a year ago, several of us attended a meeting in Washington at which a prominent smart growth leader was showing a presentation on “the business case for smart growth.” Much of it was based on the need for everyday, face-to-face business communication within companies and the nee...
Kraft Foods, maker of the iconic Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner and other food and beverage products, announced that 36 of its manufacturing facilities in 13 countries have achieved zero waste, sending no trash to the landfill. Photo: Flickr/srboisvert Kraft Foods , maker of the ico...
Your next step is to assess how much energy your home consumes per month. This is a good way to see if solar power is right for you, and what percentage of your monthly costs you can offset with solar. For example, the EIA’s latest evaluation of electricity use in American homes shows...
Greentech Media has provided detailed analysis of the SolarWorld China solar panel dumping trade claim and provided a platform for perspectives on all sides of this dispute. We've published more than 20 pieces on the topic since the claim was filed in October of last year. But in sitt...
Gas shale wells are expensive to drill and complete as well are the cost of the leases on which they are drilled. Even though initial gas production from shale wells is huge, the low price has depressed the amount of cash companies are receiving. As a result, producers are spending we...
The plug-in hybrid (PHEV) version of Toyota's best-selling Prius hybrid , which is debuting in the U.S. next month and will be commercially available in 14 states this Spring (national rollout in 2013), was first supposed to be rated at around 87 MPG-equivalent. This alone would have ...
What triggers you to press one of those share buttons above? Or email this post—or any website link—to a colleague or friend? ? Think about it. Because the keys to knowing why people share things are the keys to so-called "viral" solar marketing. Before we get to why we share, let's t...
According to NBC 10 Philadelphia , Catanoso plans to have the events up and running by Memorial Day weekend, but animal advocates are speaking out. “I think it’s disgusting and I think it’s cruelty to animals,” Atlantic County SPCA president Nancy Beall said to NBC 10 Philadelphia. Af...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). (Photo by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.) A few weeks back, we reported on a study out of Iowa University that tested supermarket pork for antibiotic-resistant Staph bacteria (aka MRSA). The researchers fo...
An MIT scientist has developed a quick and dirty way to harness solar power using “anything green, even grass clippings.” So basically, solar panels made out of yard waste. This technology is way, way, way, way below the efficiency of commercial solar panels: It converts 0.1 percent o...
This year, some football fans (and their accommodating loved ones) may have found the Super Bowl Sunday's most dramatic moment wasn't part of the game at all. Amid the clamor that is most television advertisements for the Big Game, a commercial from SeaWeb had something a little diffe...
