Spring Gardening 2010: Compost Is In, Chemicals Are So Out!
Are home gardeners going to be hoodwinked this season into buying more chemicals to feed their crops and contaminate their entire zip codes or will they smarten up and go organic?
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Paterson proposes closure of 41 parks and 14 historic sites. If we lose our public land, we all become trespassers, except for the wealthy.
Are home gardeners going to be hoodwinked this season into buying more chemicals to feed their crops and contaminate their entire zip codes or will they smarten up and go organic?
It's simple: if green choices help us save money, look cool, get more dates or improve our children's chances of getting into a great college, then people are far more likely to embrace them.
Recent abuses suffered by GE's "green" workers -- who are now suing GE -- confirm our worst fears that there's little guarantee so far that green jobs are going to be good jobs.
Even if a coal-fired power plant sequestered 100 percent of its carbon pollution, it would not be "clean."
African Americans in a four-state poll believe that everyone, including the government and individuals, can do something to reduce climate change. And they want Congress to enact climate change legislation.
Not only does the one place that deals in more paper than any other within a 10 mile radius not recycle, they pretend they do by having containers that say "recycle."
Climate change has the greatest impact on challenges like malaria, poverty, gender inequality and HIV. It's the overlying issue that must be tackled first if we're to handle everything else.
Through CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) I was able to participate in farming when I had the urge to connect with my food, or wait until my weekly veggie share appeared on my doorstep.
A new authoritative report shows that the U.S. has fallen to 40th out of 40 developed nations in making the public and private investments necessary to be technologically innovative in the future.
In case you didn't catch it, the World Bank's top official for Africa just thumbed her nose at the dozens of renewable energy companies lining up to build clean energy in Africa's dirtiest economy.
While one day of snow in this Mediterranean city doesn't mean anything on a grand scale, it did force me to differentiate wacky weather from a changing climate.
An America that isn't dependent on foreign oil from unstable reigions and unfriendly nations is what we want to be.
