Biking Kenowa Hills seniors punished: woodtv.com Who Knew Biking to School Could be Considered a Prank? On the second to last day of school, 60 seniors from Kenowa Hills High School in Walker, Michigan, rode their bikes to school. It wasn't an improvised things either, as they had pol...
hustles to pass the next food and farm bill , there’s been a lot of discussion about how little government support goes to fruit and vegetable farmers compared to the Big Five commodity crops (wheat, corn, soy, rice, and cotton). The graphic below from the Union of Concerned Scientist...
Conference of the Parties (COP) Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) Working Group on the Review of Implementation (WGRI) Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol (ICNP) Working Group on Article 8(j) Working Group on Protected Areas
Poaching for food and for the international pet trade are two of turtles' biggest threats, especially for certain high-demand species like the American bog turtle or the Roti Island snake-necked turtle. Habitat loss is another problem, since many turtle and tortoise species depend on ...
While the health benefits of biking are well-documented for both cyclists and the planet, it turns out that the U.S. economy is a bit more in the pink thanks to all that pedaling. Sure, the simple act of cycling instead of driving can reduce carbon footprints and trim waistlines, but ...
The excitement is really starting to build as we count down the days to our first Model S deliveries. We are ahead of schedule and can’t wait to put our first Reservation Holders behind the wheel! We’ve been looking forward to this day for over three years, and the buzz around the off...
for Android phones uses your camera to measure air pollution. Created by University of Southern California's Robotic Embedded Lab, the app has the user take a photo of the sky which is then sent to a central computer that compares the luminance value of the sky to algorithmic models f...
its much simpler than that, and its already in place. like your idea, all Starbucks has to do is change the wording of their employees' script. Starbucks has ALWAYS had a "for here cup" which is a ceramic mug they serve their coffees in and just wash themselves onsite. Whenever I am i...
What do you call a report that makes major math mistakes, pulls language directly from other publications without citation, and fails to disclose the researchers’ financial conflicts of interest? In the fight over fracking, it might just be called “peer-reviewed” science. The most rec...
Giant mice are eating all the endangered baby birds Here is a dog riding a bike (all by himself!) Wooden light bulb is the most magical-looking LED bulb we’ve seen Stunning photos drive home the destructiveness of tar sands G8 summit might have actually done something about climate ch...
foray into sustainable eyewear was more than a passing fancy. Less than a year after it debuted a line of bio-based frames synthesized from castor seeds, the Italian luxury house is poised to introduce the first-ever sunglasses made with “liquid wood.” The material, which Benetton cur...
NASA satellites give us a global view of what’s happening on our planet. To explore how key parts of Earth’s climate system change from month to month, click on one of the maps below.
Ray asked DeGeneres if she missed any particular food since going vegan, “Honestly I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals. That’s just me, because I did it for a lot of different reasons, but if you’re doing it for health reasons and it’s not an animal issue for y...
Contracts for Difference – long-term instruments to provide stable and predictable incentives for companies to invest in low-carbon generation; Investment Instruments – long-term instruments to enable early investment in advance of the CfD regime coming into force; Capacity Market – t...
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) tools began increasing in popularity a few years ago as sustainability-minded companies sought ways not only to better understand their products and mitigate their impacts, but also to communicate their efforts to consumers. These tools are data management ...
Giant mice are eating all the endangered baby birds Here is a dog riding a bike (all by himself!) Wooden light bulb is the most magical-looking LED bulb we’ve seen Stunning photos drive home the destructiveness of tar sands G8 summit might have actually done something about climate ch...
Sustainability certification and ecolabeling have been around for a generation. My organization, the Rainforest Alliance , just turned 25 and founded its forestry certification program 23 years ago. So it's a fair question to ask: What good has it done for the planet in that time and ...
Commentary by Captain Paul Watson I would like to thank everyone around the world for the incredible support over the last week that I spent in a Frankfurt prison. It is greatly appreciated. The people of Sea Shepherd Germany have been wonderful and I have been happy to see so much su...
Gardner is refreshingly down-to-earth, and optimistic about the sustainable food movement. And he practices what he teaches — he grows his own vegetables in a backyard garden, and also recently acquired five laying hens. He champions sustainable food on campus, and spearheaded the Sta...
I arrived to find a diverse crowd of around 300 people. Members of the Occupy Wall Street womens caucus, Women Occupying Wall Street (WOW), were giving a shout of solidarity to Occupy Maine. The people of Lafayette, Ind.; Bend and Portland, Ore.; Chicago and a handful of other cities...
[Editor's note: Susan Hunt Stevens is the CEO of Practically Green, a company that works with companies -- including CA Technologies, which is included in this article -- to help engage employees on sustainability using games and social media. Want to learn more? Check out this video ...
Written by Betty Schueler of Maryland One day, while out and about with a friend, we found ourselves near our local animal shelter . On a whim, I suggested we stop in and see the animals. There were dozens of animals at the shelter ranging from little bitty guinea pigs to huge mastiff...
Utilities often claim that allowing customers to run their meter backward (by generating electricity on-site, e.g. from rooftop solar) can affect their bottom line because these customers don’t pay enough to cover the cost of maintaining the grid. In at least one case, however, a util...
If you feel guilty about the environmental footprint of your iPhone , don't compound it by buying electronic speakers. Instead, go with the eco-amp , an amplifier made from 100% FSC certified post-consumer recycled fibers. © eco-made The eco-amp is the debut product from eco-made , a ...
© April Streeter In Portland, any excuse for bike weirdness. 1. Visit Portland. See How It's Done. For awhile there (2 years, to be exact), Minneapolis was top dog on the U.S. cities' bicycle-friendliness list that Bicycling Magazine produces. And why not? That city has a huge proport...
One of the most misunderstood issues surrounding the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is its impact on U.S. gasoline prices. NRDC, Oil Change International and ForestEthics Advocacy released a report, Keystone XL: A Tar Sands PIpeline to Increase Oil Prices , today that take a ...
Hirschenbein adds, “A lot of the studies that came out linking saturated fat to heart disease don’t control for the quality of saturated fat or important lifestyle factors. There is no distinction in the studies, for example, between very healthy, 100-percent grass-fed beef versus mea...
Captain Watson’s arrest is based on allegations of violating “ships traffic” in Guatemalan waters, after a clash in 2002 between fishermen on the ship Varadero who were illegally poaching sharks and the Sea Shepherd’s ship, Ocean Warrior. After apprehending the Varadero in Guatemalan ...
Fuck him, fuck his "parishioners, and fuck everybody who agrees with him. He's electioneering from the pulpit, so the communist, socialist, nazi foreigner in the WH should personally go to his "house of god" and collect all the back taxes he should be forced to pay. He's also damn stu...
There are all kinds of futuristic-looking energy-efficient light bulbs on the market — not just the traditional piggy-tail model, but liquid-cooled bulbs that look like glass jellyfish , and bulbs with gills like a mushroom or fins like a Cadillac. But for our money, this wooden bulb ...
