During the past seven campaigns, we have saved the lives of over 2,781 whales and exposed illegal Japanese whaling activities to the entire world. Last season, we were able to save more whales than the Japanese whalers were able to kill. Eight hundred and sixty-three (863) whales are ...
I'm pleased to let you know that my book, Suck It Up: How capturing carbon from the air can help solve the climate crisis , is being published today as an Amazon Kindle Single. Please buy the e-book here for just $1.99. The book reflects two years of reporting and my best thinking abo...
Canadians spend around $60 billion annually on restaurant meals , which represents about 30% of their food budget . Since nutritional information on restaurant menus is extremely rare and often tucked away in hard to find places (online or in a book behind the counter somewhere that y...
More surprising is the absence of basic information essential to evaluating what Walmart is actually accomplishing. Take, for example, the share of Walmart’s electricity that comes from renewable sources. There have been thousands of news stories and blog posts on the company’s renewa...
The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climati...
Researchers at Dartmouth University have found startlingly high levels of arsenic in brown rice and brown rice syrup-based products such as organic baby formula and cereal bars. The researchers tested 17 infant formulas, 29 cereal bars and 3 energy shots and reported their findings in...
The rise of urban gardening has been a major theme on TreeHugger in the past few years, and efforts to bring fresh and local produce to city dwellers have become sophisticated and ambitious. In Minnesota, a group of young adults is taking abandoned lots around the Twin Cities and conv...
The Philadelphia Eagles still may not have decided what to do with DeSean Jackson , their star wide receiver, but they have determined how to power its new stadium, Lincoln Financial Field . The football team on Friday announced a partnership with wholesale-power-generation giant NRG ...
What do you do if you are a federal judge who sent an inappropriate email about the president? You file a complaint against yourself, obviously. Chief Federal Judge Richard Cebull was outed this week after sending a “racially charged” email to his home address and several other contac...
The new round of funding may reassure ARPA-E watchers who were disappointed in the last round. Announced just last week, that one included $30 million in funding for new technologies related to natural gas vehicles , specifically for lightweight tanks and other equipment that would ma...
Our skin is our face’s calling card, and it can say so much about you. It’s no wonder that we strive for healthy, radiant, glowing skin that helps us to look young and healthy! It can be a challenge to find a skin cream that works these anti-aging miracles on our skin, and an expensiv...
Do you feel sluggish, heavy and dull these days? Have you tried all sorts of diets and failed to lose those pesky pounds? I hear you. For the past many years now, I’ve been trying to trim down, and my focus has been on what I eat (and avoid). But recently, a fitness expert told me som...
Many years ago, while on vacation, I had the opportunity to watch a group of children between 10 and 14 play together at the apartment complex where I lived. I had watched them over a period of several summer days, and had begun to realize that they were self-regulating in many ways. ...
Chris Murphy of Smart Little House called in for this one VOCs (Volelite Organic Compounds) are chemical compounds that vaporize into the air when they dry, so we breathe them in and cause a variety of health and environmental issues. Chris kind of surprised us when he said that not...
Last month, nearly 50,000 hens were discovered after having been abandoned and left for dead at a farm in Stanislaus County, CA, rented by A&L Poultry. Officials estimated that they were left without food or water for more than two weeks. About a third of the hens had already died of ...
NLP Solar Sales Training : Improve your closing rate by learning all about solar sales. Learn everything you need to know about giving solar presentations this fall with NLP Solar Sales Training . The NLP Solar Sales Training course covers important steps in the solar sales process in...
March 11, 2012, will be the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster . Almost a year ago, nearly 20,000 people in northeastern Japan died in a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that led to multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. To say that public con...
What will it take to get Bisphenol A out of our food sources? This chemical is a building block for polycarbonate plastic (think hard plastic water bottles) and epoxy resins (think the lining of soup cans and aluminum soda cans). When it is heated or exposed to an alkaline environment...
Ferrari Farms Opts for Ground-Mounted Solar Installation Friday, March 2nd 2012 5:57 PM By GetSolar Staff. Ferrari Farms in Linden, California, recently went through solar upgrades, joining a growing number of businesses in the California area that have increased their renewable energ...
Back in the mid-1980s the leather-clad metal band Judas Priest found themselves embroiled in a trail that was both horrendously sad and almost comically absurd. The court case (which didnt go to trial until 1990) involved a double suicide of two Nevada teens, Raymond Belknap and Jame...
So I was enjoying a recent post on a Zombie app that motivates runners. It's an audio experience. You can hear them coming. But someone else has come up with a real-life experience. A running club that features hungry zombies that chase you. And off we go. The Zombies, Run! app, which...
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Indian Point nuclear plant, about 35 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. A future without the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y., may be fine or dire, depending on your point of view. Columbia University Law School’s Center for Cli...
“All technologies that produce power irregularly are a burden on the grid. With new central inverters, power plants with a capacity of 4 to 8 megawatts can help keep the regional grid stable. For the past year, we have been using inverters that even provide reactive power at night, wh...
Agent Orange, or 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid), used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War, is nasty. It is linked to cancer, cell damage, severe hormonal disruption, reproductive problems and birth defects. Invented during World War Two, 2,4-D is one of the oldest legally a...
SOLAR TODAY, the award-winning magazine of the American Solar Energy Society, has provided industry-leading editorial from solar visionaries for more than 25 years. Along with feature articles, each edition includes innovators in the field, green investing, new technology and all the ...
With New York Fashion Week Fall 2012 just behind us and Spring 2012 fashion almost upon us, it's easy to get lost in limbo when it comes to what to wear--and buy--now. Enter LovingEco . The members-only site that sells ethical products at up to 70 percent off is currently featuring my...
Over the past year, we’ve covered much of Unilever’s sustainability progress, including a goal to double it’s renewable energy purchases and a 40% reduction in its carbon emissions . Unilever recently announced additional goals aimed at magnifying its positive impact on the world. At ...
Ten members of the 306 rescue squadron, an Air Force Reserve unit, will practice their medic skills on anesthetized live pigs this weekend at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. According to reports, the intention is to injure the pigs so they have wounds similar to the ones comb...
Last month, GREY2K USA learned that a businessman named Nguyen Ngoc My announced that he intends to build greyhound racetracks throughout the country , starting with a track in Ha Tinh Province. This expansion occurs at the same time that dog racing is dying in most parts of the world...
Water scarcity via Shutterstock It's said that while a person can survive without food for weeks, without water they would perish in a handful of days. But a new report on water scarcity, just published on PloS ONE, shows that 2.7 billion people endure the meagerest of water rations f...
