How water bottles create cheap lighting in Philippines...
A simple initiative in the Philippines is bringing a bit of brightness into the lives of the country’s poorest people.
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Weed dating: Young farmers go looking for romance [VIDEO]...
You’ve heard of speed dating, but if you’re a young farmer, you might want to try weed dating.
read moreBarclays Center: Ugly, an insult to Brooklyn, and already leaking...
If you hate the Barclays Center project in Brooklyn — and if you don’t…
read moreEverything you need to know about where Obama and Romney stand on energy policy...
Clean energy is an important part of the economy of Colorado, which is the location of the first presidential debate on Oct. 3.
read moreBill Moyers Exposes the Stranglehold the Corporate & Right-Wing Alliance Has on Our Democracy...
A special report from the legendary veteran journalist on the American Legislative Exchange Council.
read moreLiving Under Drones — Chilling First-Hand Testimony of Escalating Drone Attacks by the US...
Drones unleash shocking psychological and social damage to whole families and communities…
read moreFox News Suicide: A Cry for Help in a Medium Gone Mad...
While working on a primetime newscast, I learned that viewers love car chases and TV bosses love ratings.
read moreUnexploded Ordinance In Gulf Pose Risk To Offshore Drilling, Experts Warn...
Gulf of Mexico permit activity up after deadly Macondo blowout
read moreUrban living: Good for the planet, but bad for our brains?...
A few weeks ago, I flew from the wide open spaces of Grand Junction, Colo., to New York, the city I now call home.
read morePork barrel spending: How Big Ag lobbyists use federal dollars to protect factory farms...
There’s more to pork than the Baconpocalypse.
read moreWall Street’s War Against Your City...
Across America, schools, roads, and water systems are for sale to the highest Wall Street bidder.
read moreWater Is Life
[Translate] Paul Hawken’s 2009 Commencement Speech There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Mornin’ boys how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?” –David Foster Wallace The late David Foster Wallace began his 2000. Kenyon College [commencement speech] with this little allegory. Commencement speeches are hopefully short, impactful and worthy of the ears of a group of graduates eager to receive their diplomas. In Paul Hawken’s commencement speech at the University of Portland he says, “What I want you to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a deep innate wisdom in...
read moreSupport for fracking regulation drops even as Wyoming finds new groundwater pollution...
In March, nearly two-thirds of Americans thought there should be more regulation of fracking.
read moreObama blocks sale of Oregon wind farms to Chinese company...
Citing national security risks, President Barack Obama on Friday blocked a Chinese company from owning four wind farm projects in northern Oregon …
read moreIn a climate-crazed world, how can we plan for the future?...
We can we make good planning decisions in the face of climate uncertainty?
read moreAround One Park, a Fight to Blunt the Great Elephant Slaughter...
Now that I’ve been on a safari in Africa, this really breaks my heart that these elegent creatures are being slaughtered for ivory.
read moreHina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan Foreign Minister: Drones Are Top Cause Of Anti-Americanism...
The foreign minister of Pakistan told a gathering in New York on Thursday evening that the top cause of anti-Americanism in her country is…
read moreWhy Chevrolet’s “Big Month” for The Volt Means Less Than They’d Like You To Think...
We’re a long ways off from a post-carbon car revolution.
read moreHigh schoolers run a solar-powered treatment plant that will give clean water to 750 families in India...
Well, maybe we can temporarily relax our crotchety notion that we are overconsuming unthinking pigs..
read moreThis London butcher is selling fake human meat, and it is INCREDIBLY TRAUMATIC...
Have you ever wanted to live the life of an Argentinean soccer player?
read moreThe drought is so bad that the British have to eat ugly vegetables...
After a months-long dry spell, Sainsbury’s has decided to settle.
read moreDeadly connection: New report on extreme weather and climate change...
Climate change is having a steroidal effect on extreme weather.
read morecorporate accountability and workplace...
A special report from the legendary veteran journalist on the American Legislative Exchange Council.
read moreBrainwashed by Junk Food? New Study Reveals Fast-Food Logos “Imprinted” in Children’s Minds...
Children’s brains are branded very early in life and that could be bad news for some kids.
read moreBeware! 5 Depressing Stories About Food in the News This Past Week...
As we continue to manipulate nature in detrimental ways to ensure our comforts, we put one of our great needs at risk.
read moreMitt Romney Endorsed Bonkers Quack Science of ‘Cold Fusion’ as America’s Energy Solution...
Romney’s answer to our energy woes “were based on nothing more than experimental errors by scientists in Utah.”
read moreOnly a Revolution in Our Thinking Can Save Us From a Water Crisis...
Cynthia Barnett’s new book, “Blue Revolution” issues a call for an American water ethic.
read moreConfined dining: A primer on factory farms and what they mean for your meat...
By now, you know that not all meat is created equal.
read moreKeystone XL Video Shows TransCanada Construction Crew Dropping Tree Near Protester...
A new video released by Keystone XL pipeline opponents shows a powerful logging machine dropping a tree perilously close to a protester in a Texas forest.
read moresome humor for “seniors”...
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags..
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