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Bye bye bumblebee: Honeybees aren’t the only pollinators in danger
The honeybee calamity has overshadowed the distressing fate of their native cousins, whose disappearance threatens the future of nearly every blooming wild plant.
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First Vehicle to Home Power System in North America
A version of this article originally appeared at Consumer Energy Report Nissan issued a press release earlier this month to announce that Power Stream will be using the V2H system […]
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Give Solar Panels a Break
When I helped Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger create the Million Solar Roofs Initiative in California a few years ago, we designed it to stimulate mass production of solar panels to bring […]
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Urgent: Tell Your Senators to Protect Public Health – Don’t Roll Back EPA’s Mercury Standards
A big Senate vote this week will determine the fate of mercury safeguards that continue to garner overwhelming support from Americans nationwide. This past weekend the U.S. Conference of Mayors […]
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Coal vs. The Climate
There’s some good news in BP’s most recent Statistical Review of World Energy: in the US, total greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels fell 1.8% from 2010 to 2011. And in […]
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Paternalism in the age of climate change
The outcry over New York's soda ban reveals the murky line between individual and collective spheres -- and the line only gets murkier when it comes to climate change.
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Did 350.org’s Twitterstorm to end fossil fuel subsidies work? Kinda
A storm of tweets cut through the Earth Summit cacophony for a brief moment Monday, but it also reignited old fights between rich countries and poor, and offered a reminder of just how far we still have to go.
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Mayors in Rio, where they’re doing what they can
The C40 cities bring big news to the Earth summit in Rio: initiatives that could significantly reduce carbon and methane emissions.
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Fracking, Climate Action and July 28
“To address the huge threat posed by global warming, I believe it is essential to move as quickly as possible away from natural gas towards renewable energy resources, and to […]
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Wild plants: The best ingredients you didn’t know you had
Plucking seemingly random weeds out of the dirt and sticking them in your mouth may be disconcerting to most city dwellers, but that’s exactly what a group of New Yorkers traveled to New Jersey to do recently.
