Fast on the heels of the new watering ordinances that took effect June 1, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has begun a cash-for-grass pro...
John DeCock | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green
BPA is a symbol of a much broader problem--our need to evaluate chemicals before they reach the marketplace, and to develop safer alternatives to chemicals we already know to be toxic.
Grist | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
How green is your grooming routine? Shaving is one place where a lot of Americans end up wasting a lot of water -- and other stuff. Grist's Umbra say...
planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
One of our aims at the Planet Green website, is to try and provide people with tips and tricks for saving energy and water. Usually, we round up littl...
AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
AMSTERDAM — The U.S.' chief environmental official said Tuesday that America can learn much from the way the Dutch manage water _ focusing more ...
planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
You can save 60 gallons of water today without spending any money (I'm going to assume you own some of the things that I mention, like a 1000 sq ft ga...
John DeCock | Posted 06.23.2009 | Green
The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) cleared its first hurdle this week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee. I guess you need to be...
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
India successfully coordinated an election involving 700 million participants. Now, it needs to put that effort into bringing them water.
AP | DAVE KOLPACK | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green
FARGO, N.D. — Hundreds of sandbags that protected Jim Brenan's south Fargo home from Red River floodwaters are gone. Now he has deep ruts in what us...
nytimes.com | LARRY DORMAN | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green
"We were a very efficient operation to start with," said Shawn Emerson, the superintendent at Desert Mountain Golf Club, a complex of six courses with...
Craig Rowin | Posted 06.19.2009 | Comedy
Robert Glennon | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green
California has an opportunity to revamp its water-use culture in response to the prolonged drought. But indications so far suggest that most officials would rather dream of new dams.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green
We've all heard about carbon footprints. We know that the stuff we buy and use leaves a long trail of... stuff. A T-shirt involved growing cotton, whi...
Stefan Aschan | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
A hot bath after a long day or a strenuous workout at night can be very rejuvenating. But our skin is a very delicate system.
Michael DeJong | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green
The particulates from our own medicated bodily fluids are so fine that there are no water processing plants in the world that can trap them.
examiner.com | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green
From examiner.com: Massachusetts is awarding more than $986 million in loans for improvements to drinking water and waste water projects. Read t...
Dave Burdick | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green
I love the frantic, attention-span-deprived pace of internet memes. Thanks in no small part to boingboing, the nerd/treehugger/angry media blogger dem...
AP | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
CRESTWOOD, Ill. — Federal agents raided a Chicago suburb's government offices Wednesday to look for evidence of any crimes related to allegation...
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
Germans are brainwashed into drinking bottled water, and requests for tap water at a restaurant are often met with scorn, sour expressions, or downright refusal.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
The Delta, which provides water to nearly two-thirds of all Californians and is suffering from a three year drought, may not have a federal bailout after all.
planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
According to a study by the Environmental Working Group, bottled water is just as polluted as a tap water. In fact, twenty percent of bottled water ha...
Josh Nelson | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
GOP obstruction is literally interfering with the functioning of the Federal government during a time of crisis.
Dave Burdick | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
Here's the easiest go-green effort I've never done: install a low-flow showerhead. So the people at Niagara Conservation were kind enough to send me ...
Anthony Anderson | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
Drink water directly from the source, the natural mountain spring, and store it in glass until consumed. No plastic if possible, no pressured pipes and shipping.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green
Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KRXA 540am in beautiful Monterey, CA! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in Iowa for Earth Day whil...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green