An official at the capital's environmental regulator has shrugged off the notion of wearing masks in Beijing for fear of poor air quality, saying mask...
AP | STEPHEN WADE | Posted 07.20.2008 | Green
BEIJING — Beijing's Olympic shutdown begins Sunday, a drastic plan to lift the Chinese capital's gray shroud of pollution just three weeks ahead...
Scientific America | Dan Fagin | Posted 07.20.2008 | Green
ILL WIND: A young boy wears a mask against pollution in Linfen, China. Preliminary results from a study conducted in Tongliang, China, reveal that ch...
Earthfirst | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green
Perhaps it's a fitting tribute to a country that wore the 'Biggest Polluter' crown for so long: a 130-foot, 50,000-lb replica of the Statue of Liberty...
Gavin Newsom | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
San Francisco is one of the greenest cities in the country because we did not wait for Washington. We are taking action now to green our environment and our economy from the ground up.
Graham Hill | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
There are now great composting and low-flow toilets out there, but just by flushing a little less often (number 1 only please!), the amount of water you can save is huge.
Christopher Gavigan | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green
Plastic is essentially unavoidable in today's world, nearly 100 billion pounds are produced in the US alone each year. We are creating over 3,200 pounds of plastic every single second of every day.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green
The issue of air quality during Beijing's "green" Olympics isn't really such a big deal. It's a red herring. A smokescreen.
A. Siegel | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green
It is impressive that, after all these years of idiocy and bad policy making, that George W. Bush is able to shock me as well. And, it wasn't only national leaders who were in shock.
AP | TOM RAUM and JOSEPH COLEMAN | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green
TOYAKO, Japan — A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was "one of the great global...
Los Angeles Times | Leslie Earnest | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
High gasoline prices are fueling bicycle sales, and on some days Michael Hall's blood pressure. At least three times a week, Hall pedals to his job i...
Sinobyte | Graham Webster | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
Despite advertised measures to decrease pollution, as we approach the one month countdown to the Beijing Olympics, the government's numbers rank Beiji...
Los Angeles Times | Jeannine Stein | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green
SMOG, shmog. Exercising outdoors is a way of life in Southern California, and die-hard runners, walkers, cyclists and skaters aren't going to let a br...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green
WALL-E's anti-consumer, anti-corporate message is undermined by the regrettable array of cheap, mass-produced WALL-E tchotchkes destined for the garbage heap.
China Daily | Zhang Haizhou | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green
High-emission or yellow-labeled vehicles will be banned from Beijing roads from July to September to ensure green Olympics and Paralympics as promised...
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green
In countries like China and India, where a new middle class is emerging, poor public transit means cars are favored. This doesn't bode well for air quality, since these countries already have lax environmental laws.
New York Times | Donovan Hohn | Posted 06.22.2008 | Green
Off Gore Point, where tide rips collide, the rolling swells rear up and steepen into whitecaps. Quiet with concentration, Chris Pallister decelerates ...
CBC News | Terry Milewski | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green
CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include pr...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.16.2008 | Green
Virginia governor Tim Kaine set a new standard for politician mealy- mouthedness with a letter to his Air Board. The situation is clear to most Virginia watchers: Kaine is terrified of Big Coal.
TheDailyGreen.com | Dan Shapley | Posted 06.15.2008 | Green
A study of nearly 6,000 children in Munich has found that children are much more likely to develop asthma, allergies and skin rashes if they live near...
Diane Francis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green
America needs an energy intervention right now which will help the environment, slash trade deficits, reduce dependency foreign regimes and finance new technologies. Here are my ideas.
AP | WILLIAM McCALL | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green
PORTLAND, Ore. — In a rare prison sentence for an environmental crime, the owner of a company that repeatedly mishandled waste oil and other haz...
Dan Agin | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green
Between 1925 and 1985, when leaded gasoline was used in America, around 68 million children were poisoned by automobile lead emissions. The evidence is substantial that the corporations involved were fully aware.
A. Siegel | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green
My in-box just was filled with truthiness and deception from the astroturfing Americans for Balanced Energy Choices. Let's take a brief look at this material from America's coal power purveyors.
Green Tech Blog | Elsa Wenzel | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green
Smoke cigars, do a partial load of laundry, drink bottled water, and feel no shame. That's what a campaign against a carbon trading bill is urging. T...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
Major news organizations are drawing...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
** Update below: Nas delivers Fox petition to Stephen...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
A chimp in Japan escaped the sweltering confines of his cage, and a zookeeper with a tranquilizer gun...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Xinhua | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green