Editor’s Note: Canada is dismantling the nation's entire ocean contaminants program as part of massive layoffs at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Among the scientists terminated are ones who have conducted landmark research about global pollutants for decades: Peter Ross, who ...
Above, find a satellite snapshot of Oakland. Below, see a similar photo of nearby, but much richer, Piedmont, California. Per Square Mile/Public Domain Even from space, it's easy to tell which neighborhood is poor and which is rich. It's pretty straightforward: richer communities can ...
Tim De Chant at Per Square Mile has noted that rich urban areas have way, way more trees than poor areas in the same city. In fact, the difference is so stark that income inequality can be seen from space . The satellite images above are low-income West Oakland and high-income Piedmon...
Photos and videos from supporters and support rallies around the world
The National Academy of Sciences did a great service to science early this week by holding a conference on “The Science of Science Communication .” A centerpiece of the two-day meeting was a lecture titled “Thinking That We Know ,” delivered by Daniel Kahneman, the extraordinary behav...
If the organisers of this weekend’s Take the Flour Back protest against the genetically modified wheat trial at Rothamsted in Hertfordshire were hoping for a bit of publicity ahead of the event, they won’t have been disappointed. The protesters threat to 'decontaminate' the trial, if ...
According to this chart from the CDC, fast-food burgers have more than tripled in size since the 1950s, going from four ounces (i.e. a quarter pound) to a whopping 12. And if you think that’s bad, the average soda is six times as big as it used to be. I don’t know what’s worse, the id...
Record growth over the last year pushed the UK green goods and services market past the £122bn mark, according to new government figures that reveal the low carbon economy now employs almost one million people. The sector grew 4.7 per cent against the 2009/10 figure of £116.8bn , prov...
collaborative consumption movement empowers people to thrive despite economic climate. Instead of looking to the government or corporations to tell us what we want or create a solution for our problems, we take action to meet our own needs in a creative fashion. This is our power sour...
So, just how did his meat-free diet enhance his career? Lewis says , “In the spring of 1991 – eight months after beginning to eat vegan…I was drinking 24 to 32 ounces of juice a day. I ate no dairy products. And I had my best year as an athlete ever! You have total control over what y...
The pro-coal T-shirts at the Chicago hearing. (Photo by Lauren Kastner/Beyond Coal.) A version of this post originally appeared on Climate Progress . Apparently unable to find real activists, the coal industry paid astroturfers $50 to wear pro-coal T-shirts at an Environmental Protect...
Many would agree that Intel has a world-class corporate social responsibility (CSR) program . But like every other company, this sustainability leader often struggles with measuring and monetizing its CSR program to bolster the business case. Just because you can't always monetize you...
After visiting a great many large organic farms to research my book, many of them your suppliers, it seems to me undeniable that organic agriculture has industrialized over the past few years, and that Whole Foods has played a part in that process–for good and for ill … And as I tried...
The National Academy of Sciences did a great service to science early this week by holding a conference on “The Science of Science Communication .” A centerpiece of the two-day meeting was a lecture titled “Thinking That We Know ,” delivered by Daniel Kahneman, the extraordinary behav...
Do you happen to head up a massive multinational oil concern? Curious just how much it'd cost you to snag the long-desired right to drill in the Arctic? Well, have I got a number for you: $4 billion. That's about how much you'll have to fork over to wage a successful all-out lobbying ...
My business partners and I both kind of have our own urban farm things going on. We were talking one night over beers, and we both admitted that we had thought about opening a farm store. But we were concerned about retail spaces being really expensive. We kept our ears to the ground ...
John Harrington, a shareholder who owns 100 shares of McDonald’s stock, wrote several arguments in favor of his resolution. The logic is familiar: one in three children born in 2000 will develop diabetes; the ties between aggressive marketing and healthy eating; and the “loophole” the...
Animal advocates are calling for an investigation after a mountain lion was shot and killed by authorities in Santa Monica, Calif., this week. The mountain lion was first spotted before 6 a.m. walking along Arizona Avenue and was then discovered by a janitor who saw him in an office b...
Captain Paul Watson Meets with the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica Enrique Castillo Sea Shepherd supporters in Venice, Italy rally to support Captain Watson Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd Director of Investigations Scott West took a quick train trip to Stuttgard, Germany today to...
Photo: BestPhotoStudio /Shutterstock A controversial new children’s book, “Vegan is Love,” has put author Ruby Roth on the defensive , publicly debating psychologists and parents about the morality of a vegan lifestyle for children. But for most parents, a better question to ask might...
Vancouver Canucks player David Booth is getting quite a bit of negative attention after taking to Twitter to post photos and video of himself killing a black bear while he was on vacation in Alberta. Animal advocates, and even some hunters, are taking a major issue with the fact that ...
Kara began her writing career with TreeHugger.com in January 2005 and is also a contributing writer for TriplePundit, 1-800-RECYCLING.com, Sierra Club Green Home, EcoSalon and her local Newport Patch. Beyond the moat that surrounds her Newport, Rhode Island home, Kara has backpacked M...
Keeping a coupon book is frustrating. Deals have expiration dates and sorting through junk mail is tedious, and not to mention bad for the environment. Nearly 100 million trees are cut down annually to make junk mail in the U.S., according to the Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition....
I was in Hawaii earlier this month, spending time with Sierra Club volunteers, and I was struck by the clout the Club's Hawaii Chapter wields in state politics. They are a force to be reckoned with, and I came away very impressed with chapter director Robert Harris. On May 4, I sat in...
The three top killers in the United States are no longer heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Stroke just moved down to number four. Number three is now COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, meaning respiratory disorders such as emphysema. We know we can prevent and even help tre...
Solar hot water has been a commercialized technology for many, many years now. It had its heyday back in the 1980s when it seemed like everyone was putting a system on his or her roof. Even my dad, the ultra-conservative New York City money manager put one on our house in Connecticut ...
If you're curious how a blueway differs from a water trail, Interior Department spokesman Adam Fetcher emailed this explanation to MNN: "A National Blueway encompasses the entire river, headwaters to mouth, and its watershed. It is recognized for integrating land and water management ...
Within just a few months Georgia has had empty women’s health clinics that provide abortions burglarized and equipment stolen to arson investigations that doctors and lawmakers fear are connected to the contentious 20 week abortion ban passed during the 2012 legislative session. Each ...
This is the age for big battery claims. We need breakthroughs, and it looks like we’re getting them. I talked to Grant Norton, a mechanical engineering professor at Washington State, who’s pioneering tin-based anodes for lithium batteries. The value of tin has long been recognized, No...
I don’t remember much about playing checkers as a kid, but I do know that my favorite moves involved multiple hops across the board. This is exactly what China is doing now. They are not content to corner the market on low cost manufacturing, they are instead going after the bigger pr...
