Uncategorized
All Stories
-
![]()
![]()
Global food waste explained (with five tomatoes)
Each year, the world produces about 1,471 pounds of edible food for every person on the planet. We only eat about half of that. What happens to the rest? This video breaks it down.
-
Captain Peter Willcox Is a Hero, Not a “Pirate”
Peter Willcox has seen nearly everything. In 1985, he was captain of the Rainbow Warrior when French agents bombed it, killing one of the crew. He and I witnessed first […]
-
![]()
![]()
What the IPCC found: The big news from the new climate assessment
You could read the 36-page summary of the IPCC's new climate report. Or you could just read this, which is much shorter and tastier.
-
Big Clean Energy News Just Keeps Coming: “Solar is Most Economical Option,” Says Energy CEO
On the heels of last week’s release of carbon pollution safeguards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which requires future power plants to deal with their climate-disrupting carbon pollution, news […]
-
![]()
![]()
Park, get set, go: Here’s what it looks like when the weird and the car-free steal your spot
Did you miss Parking Day 2013? Here's your chance to take in some of Friday's shenanigans.
-
![smokestack]()
![smokestack]()
Cleaner air from tackling climate change would save millions of lives, says study
The benefits of a reduction in air pollution alone justify action on climate change, say the authors of a new report.
-
How to find the greenest airline
Just three roundtrip cross-country or trans-Atlantic flights cause almost as much climate pollution as the average American household produces in an entire year. With that in mind, lots of fliers […]
-
![]()
![]()
A Community Solar Gold Standard?
Joy Hughes was living in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, a place with a “tremendous amount of solar potential,” so good that the valley’s residents were being overwhelmed by […]
-
![]()
![]()
Ask Umbra: Is it OK to eat gummy bears?
A reader wonders if gummy bears are the more ethical candy choice. Umbra chews on the question.
-
![tiny man, huge megaphone]()
![tiny man, huge megaphone]()
Ahead of IPCC report, fossil-fuel groups organize climate denial campaign
Next week, the IPCC will issue its first climate assessment report since 2007. So it's time for the deniers to crawl out from under their rocks and scream at the top of their lungs.
