Meatless Monday: The Eating of the Green
Wearing green on St. Patrick's Day brings good luck, they say, but to get the whole Irish experience, eat green, too. Wild greens like dandelion and nettles have been Irish mainstays for centuries....
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Global Wave of New Coal Plants Is Going Bust, New Report Finds
Today, the Sierra Club and CoalSwarm, keeper of the global coal plant tracker database, released a comprehensive report on the global coal pipeline -- and the news is big. The global boom in...
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The Reality of Making Progressive Change in Washington
Did you support passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)? So did the health insurance industry and Big PhRMA, after they cut deals with the authors of the bill. Why would President Obama and...
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Famous Facebook Dog Inspires Community to Take Over Shelter
Arbor, a former stray dog, has brought the Las Vegas community together to advocate for the local town shelter becoming a no-kill shelter. Currently run by the Animal Foundation, a nonprofit, the...
View ArticleTexas: From Shale Boom to Water Revolution
Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought...
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How Social Media Is Taking on the Environment in China
BEIJING -- Nearly one year after the Chinese government officially declared a "war against pollution," a documentary about China's smog titled "Under the Dome" hit the country like a whirlwind....
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The Great Amazonian Pantry: How Eating the Products of the Rainforest Could...
A glass of camu camu juice at Malabar restaurant, Lima, Peru There is a type of river snail -- a churo -- in the Peruvian Amazon, large and meaty, that is especially delicious when slow-braised and...
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Climate Change This Week: The Chinese Connection, Solar Jobs Fly, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. @@ Climate Change, the Elevator Pitch: Richard Alley, Climate Scientist -- and Republican @@ Richard Alley on being a Republican * * The...
View ArticleHow to Take Long Showers and Still Save the World From Drought
Worried about California's water crisis? NASA research says the state only has a one year supply left in its reservoirs and some people are sweating. I was at a gym in Los Angeles and left the water...
View ArticleOceana Convenes World's Top Chefs for Commitment to Serving More Sustainable...
Today twenty of the world's most acclaimed chefs publicly announced their commitment to Oceana's global campaign, Save the Oceans: Feed the World. Though it sounds counterintuitive, protecting our...
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The Rise of Extreme Flooding in the USA
As a nation, the USA is no stranger to extreme flooding. Throughout the summer of 2014 much of the Midwest was submerged under 10 inches of rainfall, destroying crops and engulfing farms. The amount of...
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Why We Will Not Be Using Flow Hives in Our Apiary
As the Flow Hive continues to break crowd funding records, exceeding $5.3 million and counting, and as posts/shares continue to clutter our wall with questions on if we plan to use them, the beekeeper...
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10 Chicagoland Good Food Shifts to Savor
The local food movement sure is cooking in Chicagoland. While we live in one of the most plentiful food generating regions, it's estimated a paltry 6% of our produce is grown in Illinois. Soured by...
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Big Oil Chicanery Threatens Cap and Trade
The Seattle Times ran an article whose headline was so unsurprising I almost didn't read on: "Oil industry not buying Gov. Jay Inslee's cap-and-trade plan." No surprise right? Big Oil's actions tell us...
View ArticleWinston Churchill: "He Who Controls Oil"
Five months ago, the stars were looking aligned for this year's climate summit in Paris. The US and China, the world's largest carbon polluters, had just signed a historic action plan to curb their...
View ArticleFlorida Bans the Term "Climate Change"; or, Orwell Visits Miami
Florida has banned the phrase "climate change," at least as far as the staff of the state's environmental agency are concerned. Also "global warming." And "sustainability" is verboten, too, according...
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Agriculture: It's Where Your Food Comes From
How often do you think about agriculture? I'm not just talking about window plants or pallet gardens that you find on Pinterest - but honest-to-goodness, tractor-in-the-field, cow-giving-birth farming...
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'Green News Report' - March 17, 2015
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another Category 5 storm wreaks devastation in the Pacific; Extreme weather is getting extremely expensive; Scientist warns...
View ArticleWill Rideshares and Taxis Equal Accessible Transportation
Could the future of accessible transportation be right in front of our eyes? There are more than 55 million people with disabilities in the United States and roughly 35 million have reduced mobility....
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Playing Ostrich to Climate, One Utility Reinvests in Coal -- And One Thing...
With the sharply decreasing costs of power from renewables like wind, solar and up-and-coming-batteries, a wide array of change makers in the utility field are stepping out boldly (see watershed...
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