Announcing HuffPost Green: Our New Eco-News and Opinion Section

When we picked June 4th as the launch day for HuffPost's new Green section, little did we know the Democratic nomination would be decided just the night before.

So today, as well as celebrating the culmination of a historic primary race, we here at HuffPost are also celebrating the kick-off of HuffPost Green.

Ever since we launched HuffPost, environmental issues have been a significant part of our focus -- indeed, part of our DNA. In fact, long before HuffPost was even a twinkle in our eye, I was championing, via the Detroit Project, the need to push the nation's energy policy in a more sustainable direction -- better both for our environment and our national security.

And our HuffPost community has made it clear that you are interested in learning about -- and talking about -- living in a more environmentally-friendly way.

So as we continue the Huffington Post's expansion, creating a go-to destination for the latest and most useful Green content was a logical next step.

HuffPost Green features up-to-the-minute news stories, blog posts, video, and community forums. The focus is on eco news and trends -- from the latest scientific findings and environmental legislation to the latest green lifestyle tips. The section will also feature advice on sustainable investing and highlight eco-friendly businesses such as renewable energy, green building, recycling and organics.

While bringing about real change is critically important -- we don't think going green has to be like taking your medicine. So don't expect any finger-wagging (well, not too much anyway). We're not interested in being greener-than-thou -- just greener today than yesterday. Our philosophy is pretty simple: it's not about some people doing everything, but everyone doing something to make the world a more sustainable and better place to live.

And to ensure that we are bringing you the smartest, freshest, and most useful green content, we have partnered with two of the world's premiere green media brands -- Discovery's popular sustainable-living website, TreeHugger.com, and Planet Green, Discovery's 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network.

TreeHugger will provide its blend of timely blog postings, video features, news items, and forums where users can interact. Planet Green will contribute highlights of its original green lifestyle programming -- content for people of all ages and backgrounds. And our editors will infuse this green mix with the usual HuffPost style and attitude.

So please click here to check it out. And, most importantly, send us any ideas you have for HuffPost Green, including any green news items you think our readers would like to see.

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Comments

[Katerbee]

Great addition! I look forward to learning more about living better/simpler/cleaner/greener from the veterans... posts as well as the comments here. This year I've eliminated harsh household cleaners, started a better effort of sorting my recyclables, reuse bags & refuse new ones. I bought the Green pages directory. I have cotton dinner napkins cut out and ready to sew in order to eliminate paper napkins. I just ordered a compact kitchen composter (can hardly wait for its arrival) and have reduced driving in favor of my Chevrolegs. Cheers!

[JulieSA]

Have you ever had an article about the damage that invasive exotic plants cause to wildlife habitat? This is one of the main causes of loss of wildlife habitat.

Please feature articles about the benefits of native plants vs the destruction that invasive exotics can cause.

[ojorae]

homo sapiens is the worst of the invansve species

[JulieSA]

The biggest danger to wildlife is habitat fragmentation. Please address that on this blog.

[H.L. Mencken]

The endemic difference in Hillary and Obama is merely a scintilla in policy but historic in scope!"One small step for man.... for Hillary; a giant leap of mankind" [sic passum] ! On one hand there is a serendipitous neophillia of youthful energy and a new elan vital of the goal of ridding America of racial prejudice and bias that has excited American youth to a frenzy!Finally after 200 years of Americans social, economic, skin color disadvantage a black man can be President! Moreover after a 100,000 years; the beginning of civilization, finally a female Homo sapiens has demonstrated her capabilities and worthiness to govern a giant tribe!For the first time in the history of Homo sapiens civilization males voted to naturalize their patriarchy and elect a female leader! Is the audacity of hope for american female rights a passage issue?

[racetoinfinity]

A crucial addition. I'm very glad it's here now.

[UNCLEJOE]

Arianna,
In 190767, I wrote a documentary fort my college newspaer, Energy Independence. It covered all the options for our attaining Energy Independence with the pros and cons concerning our environment. the documentary was made into a TV film. Although my study was made 32 years ago, it still is an informative essay on our energy options today.

I even have the young Sen. Ted Kennedy's response to my documentary in his personal typwritten letter; I had mailed al the US Senatrors a copy of my Documentry in 1976.
Since it is six pages long, It wont fit in the blog format. Would you be interested in receiving a copy on my ENERGY INDEPENDENCE 1976 in your Email as part of yourHuffPost Green?
Respectfully,
Uncle Joe

[brainuser]

I'm surprised this new section's kickoff didn't include a post by Dave Roberts.

[dana94591]

Good idea! Thanks, Arianna!
Obama '08

[Wagnerunm]

Be careful of the green movement readers. Wasn't it curious how overnight Bushco suddenly jumped on board the global warming argument and said we have to do something about it? What changed? Did the international bankers that control this country sense yet another mechanism to get Americans to accept some oppressive legislation thereby stripping more of the little rights we have left away? You betcha. Bush got his marching orders and we'll all go along to "save the environment" and acquiesce to "carbon gas taxation". Yup, that's the stuff you exhale. You'll now be taxed for breathing. Laugh now but wait and see what they dream up and sneak in pass our compliant Congress.

[Silknspark]

Wagnerunm,
You get it.
Thank you.

[The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker]

Global tax to the UN, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!

Uh, wait. Who proposed that legislation, again?

[raw915]

How about Colleen's Green Team?

"I'm currently looking for a sponsor to team up with to help me spread the message about slowing global warming. This sponsor should be as invested in the environment as I am. Did I mention you get your name or logo on my booty? Cheers!"

http://www.6footsix.com/

[raw915]

Green: Plant a garden, no matter how small. And maintain it and harvest something from it. Learn how to live off the land, because the day will come too soon when grocery stores have few food items. You can choose to survive or starve.

[realistic2008]

Not only the gorvernment has the responsability to protect the environment, we as citizens have a greater one for we demand unsustainable materialistic selfish pleasures.

Millonaires building bigger and bigger mansions which demand lots of energy and resources particularly water and generate a great amount of waste.

Men and women who demand bigger and bigger cars and the enire population that values eccentricities as a good way of life.

If we continue abusing the planet we soon won't have one.

What can we do?, save water, reduce/eliminate as much waste as possible, save energy no need to have a house like a Christmas tree, do not litter, if you don't need it don't buy it, bring your own bag to buy groceries, eliminating the need for plastic bags.

[JulieSA]

The Farm Bill that recently passed has many programs that affect the environment, some for the better, some for the worse.

Huge pieces of legislation like this have a far-reaching effect on the environment, and yet i saw ZERO discussion of this on this blog. I wish that people who put themselves forward as "environmentalists" were a little more sophisticated on the issues.

[McLaren]

We had to turn the heat on this morning, on June 4th, on the 40th parallel, at 1,000 feat above msl.

There is no proof of the theory of carbon gases affecting the climate. In fact, the proof is that warming happens first, and then carbon levels rise, not the other way around.

I fully support conservation and clean energy, and I live with a small "carbon footprint" not that it means anything. I just don't want to pollute more than necessary. But to bring socialism into our lives based on events that would happen whether we lived here or not is insane.

I look forward to seeing an Exxon ad here soon. At least it will prove the HuffPo believes in the market.

[LiberalBuzz]

Oooooo, the boogieman word "Socialism"

Rather have socialism, whether your idea of what you think it is vs the nonsense we have that is shoved down our throats that this is all natural, that spewing trillions of tons of filth into the air makes NO difference to our climate.

Free Market is just another way of saying Corporate Fascism is good for America.

[The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker]

Liberalbuzz, we haven't had "free market capitalism" since cave times. Please do not confuse corporatism with the free market. Corporate fascism is about as protectionist as you can get, and very similar to Communism, in fact. Imagine right and left extremes coming full circle and meeting on the other side. I'm not fooled by it, and I hope the rest of the world isn't either.

So tell me: Are you trickster or tricked?

[Silknspark]

McLaren,
You get it too!
Thank you.

[Synoia]

Let's be precise here. What are the actual items under socialism your fear? What is it you'll loose?
List the topics, and the issues, and then we can have a discussion.

I'll start.

Under Socialist Health care, one can go to any doctor. Acute conditions are treated promptly, chronic less so, you have to wait. No insurance rejections, no pre-existing conditions, no rape of the public purse as under Medicare part D.

Perfect? No.

Now to the next topic, over to you...

I suspect what you fear is totalitarianism, and your have that here with a peculiar US twist, under the guise of "fighting the Global War on Terra"

[Dap]

Dear Arianna,

I've been poking around the Green page for awhile since it first came up, I think it was a great idea and in keeping with the fine Huffington post commitment. Thank you all for your efforts.

I was wondering if there has been any consideration for a science section to be added also? Agape.

[crotairlogan]

Dap
I' ve been green since 1967. I live in the North West which has been blessed with great natural beauty. In the 50's my Granma taught the names of plants and how compost was good and also cheap. I began a vegetarian diet in 67 too. It was called macrobiotic. The green movement didn't begin here at Huff Post. It began along time ago when folks grew there food and live stock. With prices the way they are now maybe the city folk will find a bit of land and grow their own vegies.

[Dap]

Dear crotairlogan,

I'm happy to know you're green, me also, Henry David Thoreau is my favorite author. I been into our natural world for fifty years had early experience with living on the farm mostly weekends with my Dad, nice to have some company. I'm of the mind you have misunderstood what I meant.

I've been around here for 3 years as Huffington Post has gone through many stages, I was happy to see the green page added. I always wanted to get to your part of the country to see the rain forest. Agape.

[Dap]

P.S. Just a reminder as to what I'm speaking to, David Sloan Wilson's post in March.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sloan-wilson/should-the-huffington-pos_b_92891.html