Energy efficiency has often been called the "low-hanging fruit" of our battle against climate change. An appropriate metaphor, as Climate Progress's Joe Romm points out, because energy efficiency "grows back."
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Posted 04.12.2012
A cockroach crunched underfoot may not seem like a model of strength, but scientists have discovered that bug skeletons are tougher than we think. I...
Stefanie Penn Spear | Posted 04.29.2012
Ultimately, one of our biggest mistakes is the rush to exploit resources without regard for the consequences or the long-term costs. What takes nature billions of years to create can be destroyed in just minutes with heavy machinery.
The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.25.2012
A super-hard ridge pattern inspired by scorpions takes the sting out of erosion in a new paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Lan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.05.2012
Kaichang Li was wading in the surf off the Oregon Coast when he spotted the future of superglue. Beneath the surface, a group of blue mussels anchored...
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.29.2011
Architect to the urban aviary set, Street Artist XAM is one rare bird. Averaging one per week over the last year, the California born former graffiti ...
Kenny Ausubel | Posted 12.17.2011
Nature is sending us extravagant distress signals these days. We'd better get really good really fast at reading her mind. The stakes are too high to keep drinking the collective Kool-Aid.
Doug Demeo | Posted 10.24.2011
There can be no quick fixes, no magic bullets and no wearisome blame games. A conversation about what constitutes an enduring economy is something that we all have a vested interest in.
Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
The business logic for protecting nature has always been a harder sell than making the case for other green initiatives. Dow is now tackling this issue, working with The Nature Conservancy to try and make the business logic clearer.
Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011
In its infancy, our little blue orb was a perfect place serenaded by little more than the swoosh of winds and the ebb of ocean tides. Enter humans.
Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's my attempt to capture the most important stories that affected the greening of business in 2010 and my predictions for the future.
Kenny Ausubel | Posted 05.25.2011
The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan" By Kenny Ausubel Co-CEO and Founder, Bioneers Opening the Bioneers Conference, October 15th, 2010,...
Adele Israel | Posted 05.25.2011
At the 2010 Alliance for Sustainable Colorado Regional Sustainability Roundtable in Rifle last month, I was introduced to a very intriguing new ventur...
Dana Ullman | Posted 11.17.2011
Because skeptics of homeopathy today indulge in spreading misinformation about homeopathy, this blog aims to set the record straight, and is packed with references to confirm the veracity of what is asserted.
Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Is it possible that we forgot to look to nature? The ecosystems around us have adjusted their processes so that they can survive, sustain and thrive. What can we learn from them?
Dana Ullman | Posted 11.17.2011
When a person experiences relief from any treatment, conventional or alternative, one should not necessarily assume that a real healing has occurred.
Yahoo! News | Ben Hirschler | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON (Reuters) -- The amazing eyes of a giant shrimp living on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could hold the key to developing a new type of super h...
Kenny Ausubel | Posted 05.25.2011
We stand at the threshold of a singular opportunity in the human experiment: To re-imagine how to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.
Neil Wagner | Posted 05.06.2012