Here's how they did it, and how we can too This is what can happen when citizens and government agree that it's worth spending a bit more for clean, carbon-free power : German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity – equal to 20 nuclear power stations a...
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Experts measured a dead dolphin that washed ashore near Chiclayo in northwestern Peru. Did offshore oil exploration play a role in the recent deaths of nearly 900 dolphins off the northern Peruvian coast? Peru’s fisheries minister said last week tha...
Like many young Dominicans, Federico left for the US when he finished school to look for work, ending up in a Spanish store in New York. After 20 years working seven days a week he grew tired of the long hours and yearned for his homeland and the tropical climate of the Caribbean. He ...
Christopher Leinberger writes in the New York Times about a study he just completed for the Brookings Institute that looked at the correlation between walkability and property values. The study, Walk This Way , looked at Washington DC in particular, but Leinberger says its lessons app...
The action matters more than the reason – Does it really matter why Goldman plans to invest $40 billion in clean energy? Not really. The investments are all that matter. I’m sure that if you go over the $260 billion invested last year in clean energy you will find many investors with ...
Associated Press Zoo Boise in Idaho used the proceeds from a modest admissions fee increase to finance a conservation program for tarsiers that dwell in the eroded rain forests of the Philippines. Zoo Boise, a small city zoo in Idaho, receives a lot of praise in the zoo community for ...
The situation of the power grid was very strained during the winter 2011/12. Besides the scenarios described in the Grid Agency report of 31 August 2011 the shortage of natural gas in February 2012 was followed by an unexpected event which added to the load on the electric grids, resp...
Thanks to Conservationists' Efforts 30 years ago, efforts began to save the California condor, an iconic species on the brink of extinction. Since then, a lot of progress has been made, and the last count revealed 405 known California condors. The population is split between 179 indiv...
A still from the documentary Eating Alabama. People in Alabama love to gather and, when they do, it’s usually around football or religion and it is always fortified with plenty of food and drink. What would happen, the organizers of a recent event called the Alabama All-Star Food Fest...
A lovely film. A huge thank you and well done to CEFTA and everyone who made the rescue possible. It's wonderful to see the hens gradually realise they're not confined to those hideous prisons any more. Their innate sense of curiosity comes out as they explore their new spacious surro...
Today is International Day of Action For Women’s Health and a renewed push to ensure that every woman and girl has her right to bodily autonomy recognized worldwide. To mark the day the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights is launching its Call for Action 2012: Full Recogni...
A look at Portland, Oregon's compost bins, which are part of a greater effort to see a dramatic reduction in waste by 2015. Photo: Flickr Portland, Oregon’s great experiment in compost expansion and waste reduction is paying off, an update to the program suggests. The program, which b...
privatelands /Video screen capture This is an idea that's been around since it was patented by Phillip Carlson in 1975, but it's never been carried out. Now San Luis, Arizona, right on the US-Mexico border, is preparing to bring it to life: a 3,000 foot tall tower built to generate cl...
It’s sometimes difficult to fully sympathise with a problem when it’s happening a long way away. It can seem so distant and unconnected to your own life, like it’s someone else’s problem, not mine. But when I read the new Greenpeace report on a certain fast food chain’s links to rainf...
Feeling pressure from the upcoming Rio+20 Summit , Brazilian leadership recently vetoed parts of a new forestry code that would have opened up the Amazon to further deforestation. It was just a month ago that the country’s Congress approved a major overhaul of its 1965 forestry law , ...
Health Happens Here /Video screen capture When Fashion designer Ron Finley made headlines last year it wasn’t because of his day job, but because of a garden he planted along an L.A. sidewalk. The food forest, as the designer turned urban farmer describes it, was started on a parkway ...
We love our lawns and gardens. Sadly, however, the average suburban lawn uses six times the hazardous chemicals per acre as conventional farming. Per hour of operation, a gas mower emits 10 times as much hydrocarbon as a car. Then, of course, there are
Tanya Wexler’s new romantic comedy “Hysteria” is deeper than it appears on the surface. The film uses the real and little-known history of the vibrator and hysteria in Victorian England as a backdrop for the fictional story of an ambitious young doctor, Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy)...
Fears the UK will use gas-fired power stations to deal with its looming energy crisis rather than turn to renewable sources have seen the country drop out of the top five most attractive countries for clean energy investment. The UK dropped to sixth out of 40 countries in Ernst & Youn...
Where would we be without our faithful , furry companions? In addition to the love and courage they bring to our everyday lives, animals can also be a source of tremendous inspiration. In China this month, one remarkable stray dog earned the cheers of thousands when it completed an am...
David Byrne describes his years of riding bikes in the New York Times, and explains the impact of the Bike Share program that is starting in New York this summer: This is major. It will make New Yorkers rethink their city and rewrite the mental maps we use to decide what is convenient...
Welcome to Dispatches , your round-up of the latest news from the frontlines of the War on Women. Have a story from your state or an idea on how to push back? Share them here and fight back against the War on Women. In Georgia state and federal authorities are investigating two fires ...
With summer finally upon us, those with gardens will be rolling their sleeves up, ready for the annual sprucing up session. But before you dump every weed in sight in the compost bin, contemplate the culinary possibilities of keeping them around. ‘There is lots of really good stuff th...
A new and nationally representative survey illustrates the benefits that the national network of publicly funded family planning clinics bring to millions of poor and low income women each year and underscores the destructive reality that extensive cuts to the Title X program have on ...
A new report backed by EDF Energy will today call on London's 33 boroughs to consider becoming Green Deal providers that would help finance and install home insulation measures, in an effort to ensure the success of the government's flagship energy efficiency loan scheme. London borou...
Decorating with natural specimens doesn't seem to be fading from design schemes anytime soon. And while coral is exquisite, and sea horses are quirky and quaint – there’s no need to raid the reefs for marine creatures such as these when you can create your own charming inhabitants of ...
Wind, solar and other renewable energy markets and industries continue to grow at faster rates than those of their respective national economies. Yet, in large part still developing their businesses, their staying power, or financial sustainability– be they involved in wind, solar, ge...
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Experts measured a dead dolphin that washed ashore near Chiclayo in northwestern Peru. Did offshore oil exploration play a role in the recent deaths of nearly 900 dolphins off the northern Peruvian coast? Peru’s fisheries minister said last week tha...
"... [Dr. David] Heimbach's passionate testimony about the baby's death made the long-term health concerns about flame retardants voiced by doctors, environmentalists and even firefighters sound abstract and petty. But there was a problem with his testimony: It wasn't true. Records sh...
Don't jump or dive in as the depth may vary and there can be unseen dangerous things such as shallow water, broken glass or other sharp objects. Don't go in near weirs, locks, pipes and sluices. These and some other water features are often linked with strong currents - these dangers ...
