But Martha’s blog was bigger than the council’s territory. She made changes on the home front — besides the “unlimited fruit and veg” thing, she reported a “special visitor at school who wears a white coat and hair net,” who checked what kids were eating and what they were throwing aw...
“Real estate is the largest source of clean energy in this country, and it’s very inexpensively tapped.” So said Tony Malkin, the president of Malkin Holdings, owner of the Empire State Building . Malkin spoke this week at the annual Energy Efficiency Forum in Washington, D.C., and he...
Last week, we wrote about the rather amazing prank pulled by the Yes Men : they faked the malfunction of a booze-spewing oil rig replica at a faked Shell Arctic drilling launch party, and the internets went wild. So, first, read about the multi-layered stunt—they also released a fake ...
Europeans have been doing it since 1997. The Chinese saw fit to do it in 2004. And over a billion Indians will start doing it this January. Meanwhile about 95 percent of Americans want to do it at any given time — but can’t. And, as with many past liberation movements, the Americans w...
by Taryn Kiekow , Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Do you care about whales? Do you ever use the internet giant Yahoo!? Then you should know that Yahoo! Japan is selling whale and dolphin products on its website, including meat...
Our human tendency toward innovation and ingenuity, coupled with our advancing technology, is helping to come up with solutions for saving some of the other species on Earth from becoming endangered, or even extinct. From low-tech ideas used in novel ways, to altogether new technology...
Sure, you want to ditch the pesticides and grow healthy, organic produce in your home garden . But when bugs and other critters start taking over, it’s tough not to reach for the spray bottle to keep them at bay. Resist the urge, and utilize one of the many all-natural methods for det...
SunShot Grand Challenge Summit got off to a roaring start this week in Denver, as Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $10 million in prizes for the teams that can develop the most affordable rooftop solar power model for the U.S. market. Against the current trend in falling oil and ...
Interface Frayed fishing nets and other detritus on the beach at Danajon Bank in the Philippines. A pilot program aims to give fishermen an incentive to collect the nets rather than dumping them. Abandoned and lost fishing gear makes up about 10 percent of the trash that collects in t...
Since the end of the 19th century in both Europe and the United States, philanthropic groups have been involved in the collection and distribution of clothes to the poor. The Salvation Army started up in the United States in 1870, at a time when the U.S. population was less than 40 mi...
The Bank of England has been authorised to plough a minimum of £5bn a month in printed money into UK banks in the form of six-month low interest loans made available through a so-called Extended Collateral Term Repo, in an attempt to bolster confidence that the government will support...
Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the largest health care providers in America, has a clear mission: improve health. In a surprising and welcome twist, KP is publicly recognizing that climate change threatens that mission. “One of the largest health care providers” glosses over it a litt...
Amazonian Communities Occupy the Belo Monte Dam Site To Free the Xingu River On the Eve of the Rio+20 UN Conference, Community Resistance Calls Attention to Brazilian Government's Unsustainable Energy Policy Amazon Watch, International Rivers, Movimento Xingu Vivo FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS...
Three hundred indigenous people, small farmers, fisherfolk, and local residents occupied the Belo Monte Dam project, removing a strip of earth to restore the Xingu's natural flow and "freeing the river." Participants gathered in formation spelling out the words "Pare Belo Monte" meani...
Subway, the fast-food restaurant that built its reputation on being better than a burger joint, is taking significant steps to appeal to health-conscious eaters. Faced with thousands of consumers begging for more meatless options and this Compassion Over Killing campaign , the sandwic...
When I first saw this house in Ho Chi Minh CIty on Homedit , I had no idea how tall it was and thought it was huge. But it's not; those aren't balconies, they are planters, which do a wonderful job of shading the house, allowing for cross ventilation, providing privacy and acting as v...
: Any style of physical yoga (or meditative yoga) in a heated room can fall under the “hot yoga” umbrella (or sauna, to be more accurate). The temperature can vary from 80 degrees to in excess of 100 degrees. If you are in excellent physical health and like to sweat profusely, give ho...
When a record number of Americans are on food stamps , it takes a special sort of lawmaker to suggest the moral policy position is to cut spending on food stamp programs in order to sustain tax cuts and subsidies for the very rich. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala) is that special sort of la...
Nick Maravell has been farming organically and cultivating heirloom seeds on a leased 20-acre plot of land in Potomac, Md., for over three decades. Nick’s Organic Farm is an anomaly in wealthy, suburban Potomac, where McMansions dominate the landscape, and its location has made it pos...
DEET (diethyl-meta-toluamide), a common ingredient in mosquito repellents, has been linked to nerve damage. A new study by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, published in the Journal of Neurochemistry , found that DEET-based mosquito repellents interfere with proper ...
As long as you’re in the safety of your home, though, Lucas Brunelle’s film Line of Sight looks like an amazing white-knuckler about underground bike messenger races, which apparently routinely scare the shit out of motorists and pedestrians in cities around the world. Brunelle follow...
Apparently, Jersey is were it's at, at least for solar power installations this year: PV Magazine reports on new stats for US solar power installations , showing that New Jersey has knocked California down a notch. In Q1 2012 New Jersey installed 173.8 MW of solar power, while Califor...
Straddling the borders of India and Pakistan, Kashmir may be one of the most hotly contested places on the planet -- but despite being at the center of a tumultuous boundary dispute, the people that call the region home share in common something far more important: a love of nature. A...
If your nature hike goes seriously awry, your cell phone will probably be your best chance of survival — if you can get signal, you can let people know where you are. If you can’t get signal, well, it is basically a hunk of metal. But, it’s a hunk of metal that can (if absolutely nece...
Beth Terry's Plastic Free/Promo image Plastic is a wonderful thing. It's used in medical devices, it is indispensible in industry and manufacturing, so many things that we use every day would be impossible without it. But you can have too much of a good thing, and you can misuse it. S...
For mothers and for women, the US is not the place to be — Canada is. An annual survey of 370 gender experts has placed the US 6th in regard to the best places for women among the world’s biggest economies. At the top of the list — ahead of German, Britain, Australia, France and the U...
Written by Lori Whitney of Pennsylvania Dante was born two years ago to a pair of siberian huskies. He was the last born and the breeder had to pull him out of the birth canal and revive him. He was three times smaller than any of the other pups, blind, had an overbite, and his skelet...
Fans of the Albuquerque Isotopes baseball team are in for a treat this season when they see the newest member of the club energetically running on the field. He is a 6-month-old blind puppy named Stevie Wonder. Stevie is a shepherd mix that was adopted by pitcher John Ely after he met...
In the letter, Sprint and Microsoft say that the PTC has enabled the wind industry to slash wind energy costs by 90 percent since 1980. The companies call it a big reason why companies like them are buying increasing amounts of wind energy. According to the EPA, Microsoft is the third...
NOAA National Ocean Service /CC BY-SA 2.0 We should all rightly congratulate Australia for creating the largest network of marine reserves in the world. However taken as a whole we're falling pathetically short of what needs to be done to protect oceans. The Zoological Society of Lond...
