Earth 2.0: Yes We Can
The financial crisis has made obvious the obvious: that we live in a truly new and global world.
The financial crisis has made obvious the obvious: that we live in a truly new and global world.
Deborah King | Posted 10.23.2008 | Style
eIt's everywhere we turn these days--the bad news about the economy. It's one more fear piled on top of all the other fears festering in our guts. He...
Daphne Zuniga | Posted 10.14.2008 | Green
Environmental justice is about protecting the people who live next to our power plants, oil refineries, manufacturing plants, incinerators, and waste treatment facilities.
Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 10.08.2008 | Green
The view from a hovering helicopter affords perhaps the best vantage point from which to observe and capture the Earth's beauty -- and fragility. I re...
Van Jones | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green
I am willing to concede that Wall Street and the big bankers need some propping up. But while we are at it, we should find a way to bail out the little people -- and the planet.
Simran Sethi | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the life and death of everyday things. Your Styrofoam lunch container of Mooshu pork is labeled with...
Simran Sethi | Posted 09.04.2008 | Green
Large, corporate pig farms are home to deep vats of untold tons of pig crap, called "lagoons," which regularly overflow or seep past inadequate lining into the earth.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living
Last week, astronomers uncovered new planets in the celestial lounge: we'll wonder how quickly they'll take our jobs, then we'll build a border fence around the planet. That's just the kind of worldly neighbors we are.
space.com | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
Planet hunters say it's just a matter of time before they lasso Earth's twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy. Mom...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.19.2008 | Living
Much has been made recently of Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". He is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon and six months ago he was diagnosed with pancr...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Living
I find the idea of life on other planets enormously uplifting: life is a miracle. But the idea of our civilization finding life on other planets fills me with apprehension.
New York Times | DENNIS OVERBYE | Posted 03.11.2008 | Home
In the end, there won't even be fragments. If nature is left to its own devices, about 7.59 billion years from now Earth will be dragged from its orb...
Linda Keenan | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business
The move was preceded by the triumphantastic sounds of the EWF horn section heard around the rarefied precincts of the World Economic Forum.
New York Times | ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
A Bush administration program for improving climate research across 13 government agencies has clarified some scientific questions, but is saddled wit...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush's brother Jeb...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on Campaign Trail...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Last week, Black Friday heralded the unofficial kickoff of the 2008 winter holiday...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living