Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Stripped of their cultural heritage by the brutality of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese seem to be in a headlong rush to what they think they want and need--the material excess of the West.
ProPublica | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about...
Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.
Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Due to our inability and slowness to adequately describe and respond to the threat, certain areas of our coasts and oceans have become overwhelmed by plastic.
Brendan Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
How many epidemics and Katrinas will it take to expose the myth that the U.S. economy is somehow exempt from the threats of climate change?
Progressive Book Club | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books
Progressive Book Club In the annals of urban design and city planning, no book holds a higher place than The Death and Life of Great American Cities ...
planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
About one quarter of the oil consumed in this country is used for industrial purposes. Plastic production is the most obvious example, as awareness gr...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
Here at HuffPost Green, we think there's nothing more inspiring than enjoying the beauty of nature, and sunsets are top of the list! Check out these b...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
In this hilarious video from Grist TV, Umbra Fisk interviews Parks and Recreation's Aziz Ansari about his enviro musings, including his proposal that ...
Perry Garfinkel | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
A series of beautiful lakes in Udaipur, Rajasthan are in danger. These lakes a major magnet to the city -- one of the reasons 1.2 million tourists who visited the city last year nicknamed it "Venice of the East."
Gary Hart | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
I've always been puzzled by our efforts to leave a private legacy for our children while neglecting our public legacy, the character and quality of our commonwealth and its resources that we also leave to our children.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Is the Copenhagen climate change treaty dead? I'm not willing to say that yet, but it's pretty depressing here at the last pre-negotiation session und...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
In contrast to the developing world's clear, specific position, the E.U. seems to act as if these climate change negotiations just started, as if talks haven't been going on for years since Kyoto.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
Forbes has put out a list evaluating the toxicity of the 40 largest US metropolitan areas. The results may surprise you. Atlanta topped the list for m...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
If Obama fails to grasp soon why his idea of reform has alienated key parts of his base -- and if he fails to do something to bridge that divide -- the result could be a full scale mutiny by 2010.
Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books
Bill McKibben Progressive Book Club Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis By Al Gore Rodale, 2009 There's been a certain amount of debate ...
Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
We humans have been in a comfortable denial, enjoying the convenience of throwaway items with no thought to the consequences. Now we face a planet despoiled by toxic plastic.
Tom McNichol | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
Don't expect any of these companies to admit they have a poor environmental record. In fact, to hear the top polluters tell it, they're as green as Al Gore.
Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
Every kid fantasizes about living in a tree house, but some people are making that childhood fantasy into an all grown up reality. Have a look at this...
James Hoggan | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
With premature obituary notices popping up all over, it's probably time to ask: Who is killing Copenhagen?
Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
Blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, site of a long battle between Massey Energy and local residents who want it to be a site for wind turbines instead of coal mining.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
I really don't know what to make of this video. At the least it's very entertaining, but I don't know if it will woo the likes of Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David to the altar!
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
Someone just sent me on of the best videos on climate action I've seen to date. As they say in the video, if our children knew that our world's lead...
Huffington Post | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Starting Sunday October 18, HuffPost hosted the inaugural No Impact Week, where people around the globe examined and reduced their ecological footprin...
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green