A person might wonder how images of a bunch of mirrors in a desert would yield beautiful -- and important -- photography. Welcome to the work of Jamey Stillings. In January 2013, our friends at the Forward Thinking Museum launched a gorgeous permanent online exhibit of...

Water is one of New York City's most important resources. As of May 1, however, an important and significant water data collection program in New York City will be suspended due to funding cuts, according to the USGS. The program collects information about water levels, flow...

It used to be that carnival sideshows toured rural areas with freak shows and snake oil salesmen, creating excitement with outlandish claims, only to confuse and disappoint, then beat it out of town. Nowadays, it's landmen looking to sign rural landowners on to fracking leases, and if it weren't for...

Co-authored with Robin Madel.

Given the recent billion-dollar sale of Instagram, it's clear that the look of those faded, yellowed photos from the 1970s are all the rage. EPA, not usually known for having its finger on the pulse of pop culture, recently posted hundreds of its "

This year is the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA). You might know that this major piece of legislation was passed by Congress in 1972 with much credit given to Richard Nixon. You might not know that it almost didn't happen because after it was passed by Congress,...

When Sally Reuther was eight, she and her cousins built a raft on the four acres behind their grandmother's house in Kentucky, intending to float it on a little land-locked pond. They spent two days building it out of whatever wood they could find, even 'borrowing' one of her grandmother's...

Like Rodney Dangerfield, groundwater gets no respect. So says Michael 'Aquadoc' Campana. Groundwater is being depleted at an unsustainable rate and since many people don't know where their water comes from they're not aware that this is a problem. Visualizing.org wants to change that with its latest data...

The most common chemical compound on earth, water, is everywhere. We're familiar with water's diverse natural expressions from fog, rain, streams and rivers to oceans, lagoons, groundwater and springs. In a special appearance, water flows through the Cathedral of St. John the Divine's The Value of Water: Sustaining...

Did you know that last week was World Water Week? Every August, aqua enthusiasts from around the world celebrate -- and voice concerns -- about water, and every year, World Water Week takes on a different theme. This year's theme was "Responding to Global Changes: Water in an Urbanising...

When you think about renewable energy sources, what comes to mind? Solar panels or wind turbines, maybe even hydropower? You're probably NOT thinking about trash, or to be more precise, municipal solid waste.

Covanta Energy wants you to think differently. They already turn your trash into energy and New...

Sometimes I think the planet would be much better off without us. At least it would be much healthier.

Last week, I was eating a nice cup of New England clam chowder for lunch when a journal article in the Proceedings of the National...

Cross Posted from The GreenFork Blog

In this week's New York Times Charles Duhigg detailed the problems public drinking water and wastewater utilities face when they attempt to raise rates to upgrade and repair infrastructure. Duhigg cites an EPA estimate that "$335 billion would be needed...

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Charles Duhigg's recent New York Times article, "That Tap Water Is Legal but May Be Unhealthy," was certainly scary. It let us know that drinking water systems in the United States are in sorry shape and, with over 60,000 chemicals in our industrial inventory,...

Think you're sustainable in your plastic use? You use cloth shopping bags and recycle all the plastic you can, so you're good right? Try this exercise. Pick a room in your home or office and stand in the middle of it. Now look around and see how much plastic there...

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Noting the problems associated with large scale consumption of bottled water, the Take Back the Tap campaign asks people to choose tap water over bottled water, but a recent New York Times article by Charles Duhigg, Toxic Waters: Clean...