National Trust Releases 'What's Your Beef?' Report
A recent report from the UK's highly respected National Trust has confirmed: Feeding cattle on grass throughout their life-cycle is the most environmentally sustainable way to raise beef.
A recent report from the UK's highly respected National Trust has confirmed: Feeding cattle on grass throughout their life-cycle is the most environmentally sustainable way to raise beef.
John Feffer | Posted 04.17.2012
Just about every commodity we depend on is becoming scarce: oil, natural gas, key metals, rare earth elements, and even arable land. As a result, like greedy little kids with a cookie jar, we are scraping the bottom to get all that remains.
Murray Rosenbaum | Posted 04.13.2012
It is very risky, but if we could make an elevator to space, we would be using a less wasteful and less dangerous way to explore the stars.
Christopher F. Jones | Posted 05.22.2012
If we cannot agree to say no to projects that will entrench the use of fossil fuel energy -- even if they offer some short-term benefits -- we cannot hope to prevent global warming.
Jon Anda | Posted 05.14.2012
Blame it on the recession or natural gas prices or politics or whatever else. But we cannot deny that we are in green financial crisis, and one that is steadily worsening.
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb | Posted 04.08.2012
We should let our workers rest from their labors; and the Earth should be allowed to rest, too. Social, spiritual and ecological sustainability intertwine.
Andy Mannle | Posted 03.12.2012
One of my heroes, evolutionary microbiologist Lynn Margulis, died this past Thanksgiving. Here are some of her most surprising, and fascinating revelations
Ryan Black | Posted 11.22.2011
Recent scientific information indicates that burning biomass -- trees, for example -- can actually increase global warming pollution, even compared to fossil fuels.
Peter Lehner | Posted 09.30.2011
By 2025, new cars and light trucks will go about twice as far on a gallon of gas, compared with today's vehicles. The difference will save Americans $80 billion a year at the pump and reduce our oil use by 3.1 million barrels per day by 2030.
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 08.14.2011
How does the fact that conservative Christianity is coming out in favor of manmade climate change match up with the current slate of potential Republican Presidential candidates? Not very well, actually.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 08.13.2011
Most of us aren't going to row to work, give up our cars or even convert to clean energy any time soon. But rather than further risking the Earth's wrath, there is one thing we can all do.
Posted 08.07.2011
As countries around the world struggle to reach an agreement on an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, the voluntary international carbon trading market ...
Terry Tamminen | Posted 06.20.2011
Wars in the Middle East and oil rig blowouts in the Gulf have given us gasoline in the range of $4 to $5/gallon. Growing concerns over asthma-inducing...
William S. Becker | Posted 05.28.2011
Several times recently, we've heard this argument: When it comes to securing America's energy future, we need "all of the above" -- coal, oil, gas, nuclear, solar, wind, and so on. That is a not an energy policy; it's a cop-out.
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.27.2011
Every super hero has a nemesis, and the EPA's Jackson has the 112th Congress under the leadership of John Boehner doing everything it can to stop progress toward fuel efficiency and clean energy.
Mason Inman | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite the radiation now spread across Japan, New Scientist points out fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power -- mainly because of air pollution
Dan Lashof | Posted 05.25.2011
Rockefeller's proposal would not explicitly deny the problem -- it would just make it impossible for the EPA to do anything about it, at least when it comes to the largest sources, such as power plants and refineries.
Christopher Mims | Posted 05.25.2011
The Climate Post offers a rundown of the week in climate and energy news The Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mic...
Christopher Mims | Posted 05.25.2011
Historically, the better we get at efficiently using a resource, the more of that resource we use. But perhaps it's time to lay this "rule" to rest,
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger For the environmental community, this coming year offers a chance to regroup, rethink and regrow. Two year...
Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
In the sense that businesses need to consider the risks and opportunities inherent in managing natural resource pressures, they represent similar challenges. But we see a few differences between the two.
Ronnie Cummins | Posted 05.25.2011
December 7, 2010, Cancún, Mexico - On a beautiful sunny morning, marching down the Avenida Tulúm, our five thousand strong brigade of climate change...
Christopher Mims | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.K.'s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has rounded up a trove of cutting-edge scientific research that paints what may be the most accurate portrait of Earth's future to date.
Ronnie Cummins | Posted 05.25.2011
The Good News: Growth of the Global Grassroots Dolores Hildalgo, Mexico - Sunday November 28 On a beautiful sunny afternoon several hundred campesin...
Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 05.25.2011
Right now heavy-duty trucks -- a huge part of the way we move products around in this country -- are clocking just 6 miles per gallon. And the technology is there to move that number -- by a lot.
Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.18.2012