Finding the Toilet in Stockholm
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.26.2008 | Green
A report authored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the Stockholm International Water Institute, and the International Water Ma...
Nancy Edwards Cronin | Posted 08.21.2008 | Green
I recently happened upon another possible reason why the Olympic swimmers in general are getting faster and faster. Would you believe it could be the water?
Elizabeth Royte | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green
It's easy to be disdainful of bottled water if you've got no problem with tap -- but more than 29 million people's drinking water missed the mark on either health or reporting standards.
Joseph Romm | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics
In theory McCain should know that the West is going to get hotter and drier. Needless to say, Coloradans do not see things the way that the senator from Arizona does.
Bob Burnett | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
It's said our primeval ancestors had a simple arithmetic system: "One, two, three, many". That describes the focus of many 2008 voters, whose concern...
David Sassoon | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green
More than half the residents of New York State rely on a fabled watershed for their supply of pure, fresh water. But underneath the 2000 square mile formation sits a trillion dollars worth of natural gas.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home
If you think you can trust Pickens, remember he contributed $3 million to the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth that buried John Kerry's 2004 presidential candidacy in a cesspool of lies.
Wall Street Journal | Stephanie Chen | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
Charging for checked luggage and legroom isn't enough for some carriers -- starting today, coach passengers flying aboard US Airways Inc. must pay for...
Chelsea Green | Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
As the globe's temperature rises and the earth's weather patterns go haywire, water is quickly becoming a hot topic in the US and elsewhere. Floods ar...
Rob Runyan | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home
Dealing with one sector without thinking about the other is one-hand clapping. That's why we have popular alternative fuels like ethanol that don't factor in the drain on water resources.
John Sauer | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Each day in developing countries more children die unnecessarily from water-related diseases than there are people in my hometown on Long Island, NY.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
Israel and its surrounding region suffers greatly from water shortages. Water is a national concern, and if there is one thing that concerns everyone ...
Simran Sethi | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
While the production of soap--or anything, really--has environmental repercussions all its own, the pretty smells in our personal care products have been linked to not-so-fine human ailments.
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.
Collin Dunn | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
Summer is heating up, and all the pools, barbeques, lawn-watering and the like that put our water use under the microscope, even more than it is the r...
Zem Joaquin | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green
Imagine the possibilities if you were able to accurately gauge and monitor a building's carbon footprint...
Michael Graham Richard | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green
Oil prices are high, and everybody's looking for a quick fix. People in the media know about this, so they are scrambling to find "energy" stories, and as always, many unscientific ones make it through.
Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green
Rather than focus on the been-there-done-that tips for going green, I thought I'd highlight some of the, er, quirkier ideas I came across while researching my book.
Perry Yeatman | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green
If there is a lesson we can take from once dominant US industries it is that we have to find new models for economic growth. We have to learn to do more with less.
TheDailyGreen.com | Brian Howard | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green
With water bills rising and many water tables going down, it makes eco-sense and dollar cents to conserve. Here are five painless ways to get started....
Treehugger.com | Lloyd Alter | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green
Getty Images Why is everything running out at the same time? We did a series on Planet Green where we looked at why those basic things that we ta...
Planet Green | Collin Dunn | Posted 05.30.2008 | Green
The United States--and most of the developed world in general--has some of the finest water in the world running through its taps. To help see where...
Palm Beach Post | RACHEL SIMMONSEN | Posted 05.29.2008 | Green
UPDATE: Celine Dion's hefty water bill may have been the result of a broken water main, the Palm Beach Post reports. *** Imagine filling a 50-gallon...
Claudia Ricci | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living
There is immense power in words. Whether we hear them as spoken or written messages, words create new states of mind.
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John Sauer | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics