RecycleMania kicks off another season of Green Team Pride as college campuses compete to see who can reduce, reuse and recycle the most on-campus waste. For a 10-week period, beginning in mid-January and running parallel to the college basketball season, colleges and universities take part in an exciting competition that increases recycling participation by students [...]
All your personal efforts to live more sustainably do not make any difference to the world’s environment.
That’s the assertion environmental writer Derrick Jensen makes in his recent article “Forget Shorter Showers,” published in Orion magazine.
The industrial economy is so large, and so much the source of our planet’s environmental woes, Jensen argues, that even if [...]
Friday Night at the Movies is pleased to present the first in a series of four videos from Ethical Markets Media, an independent media company covering the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide.
The Ethical Market Series
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Green Building & Design
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Clean Food
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Renewable Energy
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Health & Wellness
Episode 1. Green Building & Design
Today’s green buildings [...]
You’ve likely made, and perhaps already broken, a New Year’s Resolution or two in 2010. Set an environmental intention instead. An intention is an invitation for transformation.
Here are 10 suggestions to consider:
1. Spend more time in nature. There’s nothing like an expanding appreciation of nature to fortify other environmental intentions. Take a walk every day, [...]
By Lindsay Jones
Reprinted courtesy of Student Conservation Association
I became an SCA intern at the beginning of the summer with the charge of assessing the invasive lionfish population in Biscayne National Park. Lionfish are quickly taking over coral reefs in the Caribbean, eating as many tiny fish and invertebrates as possible – including commercially important juvenile [...]
Losing Our Lakes
Many of the world’s vital freshwater resources are under siege from man and nature. Newsweek has an annotated slide show.
Obama to Attend Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change
The White House has announced that President Obama plans to attend the Copenhagen meetings and will pledge a 17 percent reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by [...]
Today marks a special holiday in the United States known as Thanksgiving.
Initially celebrated as a harvest festival with a distinctly religious flavor, the holiday is now steeped in American legend, harking back to the 1620s when immigrants settled the northeast region still referred to today as New England. In those days, concluding the harvest after [...]
Earlier this month, US President Obama signed an Executive Order on Federal Sustainability commmiting the Federal government to lead by example, adopting more eco-friendly practices and helping build a clean energy economy.
As part of its effort, the administration launched the GreenGov Challenge, in which Federal employees and members of the military are encouraged to participate [...]
Are Coral Reefs Beyond Saving?
BBC News reports that prospects of saving the world’s coral reefs now appear so bleak that scientists have recommended freezing samples in liquid nitrogen to preserve them for the future so that, should global temperatures be stabilized, corals could be reintroduced.
If you’re wondering whether the situation is really that bad, read [...]
Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Over 15,000 marched through the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Okavango Delta, Botswana
This Saturday, October 24th, the International Day of Climate Action, will inspire over 4000 actions in 170 countries, aimed at focusing attention on the number 350. This day may be the most widespread day of environmental activism in history, with the intention of urging world leaders to support a clear solution to the climate crisis: [...]
Copenhagen Talks Last Chance: Gordon Brown
There are now fewer than 50 days to set course of next 50 years and more, PM tells environment ministers from 17 countries responsible for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions
Gordon Brown today warned that the world is on the brink of a “catastrophic” future of killer heatwaves, floods and droughts [...]
