One of the nation's most popular sports is going green. NASCAR, hardly synonymous with environmental innovation, can now claim that ⅓ of all its ven...
treehugger.com | Brian Merchant | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green
The Dalai Lama urged governments to put the great global concern before domestic politics, and to take serious action in slowing the rise of global wa...
wired.com | Aaron Rowe | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
[A] team of researchers from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History ordered tuna from 31 sushi restaurants and then used genet...
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
Over course of the next year, I will be traveling through Latin America, reporting on the important and innovative work of world-changers at the grassroots
washingtonpost.com | Andrew Higgins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
Peat, formed over thousands of years from decomposed trees, grass and scrub, contains gigantic quantities of carbon dioxide, which used to stay locked...
treehugger.com | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
After discovering nearly a million users had modified their consoles to play pirated games via the Xbox live service, Microsoft gave them the boot fro...
Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky/Katherine Goldstein | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green
HuffPost in conjunction with Hopenhagen.org is sending one person to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference to both represent concerns of peo...
Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
On tiny homes, happiness, Freud's nephew, the 'Story of Stuff,' and why massive change will only come about when people realize their lives are better for making a change.
Paul David Walker | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
The Good News: The good news is that the cold waters from the north came in today along with the ducks that have been playing in the arctic all summe...
Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
If this summer was the coming out party for the electric car, Washington was the host. They may seem unlikely bedfellows, but I'm convinced the EV companies have learned how to play politics.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
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.
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."
Han Shan | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green
To defend itself in a major environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, it appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.
Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
A new Campaign for Safe Cosmetics report reveals that some children's face paints contain heavy metals such as lead, nickel and cobalt that can cause lifelong skin sensitization and contact dermatitis.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
Reid and the Senate now have the responsibility to ensure that long-term clean energy R&D efforts are given the funding they desperately need to secure America's leadership in clean energy innovation.
Ari Solomon | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green
We believe that because animals can't write a book, compose a symphony, or do algebra that we're so much better than them. What a load of bullshit.
Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
Maybe re-learning to make things and grow things needs to be done for the acts themselves. Maybe we'd actually be happier being a bit more connected, even at the price of convenience.
Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.
Janet Ritz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
President Obama may deserve criticism. But trying to undermine his presidency, his legitimacy, his personal safety, especially in a time of war, is unpatriotic at best.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
The media needs to get over the superficial, celebrity-soaked fad approach to environmental journalism and deliver something that people want: more and better in-depth environmental news.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Rising waters, shrinking glaciers; Slouching to Copenhagen; A Republican breaks ranks? ... PLUS: Even energy companies are...
treehugger.com | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
[G]oogle mentioned they wanted to bring on a smart meter-like device that would allow anyone the ability to monitor their energy use with PowerMeter. ...
nytimes.com | Kate Galbraith | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
Apple has become the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce over climate policy....
treehugger.com | Brian Merchant | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
Daniel Suelo wasn't poor, a victim of bad luck, mentally ill, or even uneducated. He just decided that he wanted to have nothing to do with money. So ...
Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
The Edward Burtynsky Oil exhibit is on display now until December 13, 2009 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This exhibit features l...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green