Obama Ate Some Dog as a Kid. Romney Strapped His on the Roof of a Car. Who's...
/Public Domain By now, you're probably well aware of the tale of Mitt Romney and Seumus, the dog who "loved" (according to Ann Romney) to ride strapped to the top of the family car on long road trips....
View ArticleCommunity Supported Aquaponics Takes Off in the UK
From Will Allen's Growing Power to a community project giving free food to the homeless, we've seen plenty of community-minded applications of aquaponics—a variation on hydroponics that farms fish and...
View ArticleOnly 1/4th of Gulf Residents are More Concerned About the Environment After...
that "About one-fourth of our respondents said that as a result of the spill, their views on other environmental issues such as global warming or protecting wildlife had changed." And that number...
View ArticleHarvesting a Climate Disaster
Farmers went to Washington yesterday. Members of a coalition representing more than 80 agricultural organizations rallied on Capitol Hill to demand passage of a new farm bill that has been stalled in...
View ArticleUrban Multifamily Passivhaus in Malmö is Cool and Modern
There is a lot of discussion going on in North America right now about whether the Passive House standard is too tough and inflexible for the climate. There is no question that it is tough, and can be...
View ArticleHow Much Do People Everywhere Hate Monsanto? New Report Shows Global...
!— but it's also generating more opposition than ever, all over the world. A report out yesterday illustrates the struggles against Monsanto, and the agribusiness model it embodies, being led by...
View ArticleClimate Change Will Starve the Poor Even More Than Previously Thought
/CC BY 2.0 So here's your ultra-depressing news of the day: indicates that we're considerably underestimating the impact climate change will have on the world's poor. Rising temperatures and extreme...
View ArticleTennessee Passes Law Allowing Creationism, Climate Denial to be Taught in...
/CC BY 2.0 Hey, remember that law that would encourage teachers introduce "alternate hypotheses" to evolution and climate change in the classroom? The one that was a product of the American...
View ArticleViper Eel, More Undersea Creatures in X-ray Exhibit
-ing. But what about from the inside out? The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is giving people a chance to see animals from another perspective, with a traveling exhibit called “X-ray...
View ArticleWeekday Vegetarian: Spicy Three-Bean Chili
This recipe for spicty three-bean chili got mixed reviews at the dinner table last night. I liked it very much, my daughter found it a bit too spicy for her taste, and my husband didn't like it at...
View ArticleElectric Vehicles a Good Environmental Choice Everywhere in US, Study Finds
and it deserves to be put right on top: "No matter where one lives in the United States, electric vehicles (EVs) are a good choice for reducing global warming emissions and saving money on fueling...
View ArticleYou can't buy a better agriculture
The foundation of humanity’s food supply is crumbling.The United Nations now estimates that more than 20 per cent of the Earth’s cultivated soils have been significantly degraded, while in the United...
View ArticleUSDA Map: "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food"
to get started. Tweet Pin It Follow @foo RSS for Rachel Please enable JavaScript to view the comments. Related 21 Lessons in Sustainability from the Great Depression Why Energy Scarcity Makes Economic...
View ArticleAir Pollution from Transportation Causes Around 7,500 Early Deaths per Year...
can also help a lot with air quality issues, especially if the power grid is being cleaned up in parallel (something that we have to do for all kinds of reasons, including global warming). Via GCC See...
View Article3 Lightweight Fabric Planters for Easy, Portable Container Gardens
Container gardening makes growing your own vegetables and flowers accessible to urbanites with small spaces, but it is also the frugal way to garden if you can’t build raised beds, test soil in your...
View ArticleThink Natural Gas Leasing Makes Homeowners Money? Think Again (Video)
Water Defense has just released their latest anti-natural gas drilling video, attempting to shed some light on what the reality is about leasing your land for natural gas drilling or selling off the...
View ArticleTreeHugger Interviews the Philippine Mine-Stopping, Goldman Prize-Winning...
to access the nickel ore, producing millions of tons of toxic waste in the process. “Father Edu” Gariguez's courageous grassroots battle against the mine has earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize....
View ArticleThus Far, 2012 is Hottest Ever Recorded in the US
, 2010 the Warmest Year on Record: NASA! (the internets love NASA), and, now, that which you'll find above. Yes, spring 2012 was the most scorching spring ever recorded; so sayeth the National...
View ArticleTiny Bug Memorials Pay Homage to Fallen Insects
Most people probably wouldn't hesitate to step on an errant roach or swat at a pesky housefly. After all, like a gazillions insects are dying every day, and no one ever really seems to miss them. But...
View ArticleShade-Grown Coffee Isn't Just for the Birds
. The orange-billed nightingale-thrush, an insect-eating bird, lives on Costa Rican 'shade' coffee plantations. Clearing wooded "shade" plantations for open farmland doesn't just hurt biodiversity, it...
View ArticleTexas College Converts its Football Field into a Working Farm
/Video screen capture This may come as a shock to fans of Friday Night Lights, but Texas isn't all about football. At least, Paul Quinn College in Dallas isn't. The school took its football field and...
View ArticleHow To Sell The Greenest Coffee: In Mason Jars, Delivered By Cargo Bike
Coffee is one of those products where you have a lot of choices and options, and can really push your green credibility. A lot of people are willing to pay a bit more for Fair Trade coffee, but a new...
View ArticleAsking if Organic Food is Just Better For Your Health Isn't the Right Question
/CC BY-ND 2.0 All day I've been mulling over the Stanford study on the benefits of organic foods on individual health, sort of dreading everything about it—especially the tedious public reaction and...
View ArticleDiscovery to Air Frozen Planet Marathon on Earth Day (Attenborough Version)
, there's always something special that happens when Sir David Attenborough narrates and nature documentary. That's why this Sunday, on Earth Day, we'll be glued to our screen to watch Discovery's...
View ArticleNaked Clothes: High-Tech Garments that Disappear with Heat
fashion project, INTIMACY, does a number on our notions about the nature of clothes and the extremes we go to make and wear them. Exploring the relation between intimacy and technology, the high-tech...
View ArticleU.S. is Pretty Much on Track to Stop Funding Clean Tech Altogether
? David Roberts points us to this graph from a newish report from the Breakthrough Institute, the World Resources Institute, and the Brookings Institution, and, as you can see, it's not pretty. And...
View ArticleThis Blog Action Day, Say No To GMOs & Factory Farming
Science & Technology /CC BY 2.0 Let's link together two food and environmental issues getting some much needed light shone upon them this October: 1) labeling of genetically modified food --...
View ArticleFDA Issues New “Sweeping Rule” To Reduce Use of Antibiotics in Livestock
/CC BY-NC 2.0 The FDA has until recently been unforgivably slow to act on limiting and banning the use of antibiotics in livestock but a new order could change all that. The FDA just enacted a new...
View ArticleWith 13% of World's Undiscovered Oil, Nations Continue Resource Scramble in...
/CC BY 2.0 We've covered for some time the not-so-slowly growing scramble for fossil fuels in the Arctic, only to increase as the region warms and eventually becomes ice-free at least in summer. In...
View ArticleClimate Change Hitting Europe Hard, Going To Get Worse
/CC BY 2.0 Massive global investors are warning that climate change is a grave threat to our economy. Prominent scientists are calling for a moratorium on fossil fuel infrastructure. New York and New...
View ArticleGreen Rural Design Aims to Slow Urban Slum Growth
/CC BY 2.0. Street scene in Addis Ababa. Life in a well-planned city can be about as green as it gets, but rapid urbanization in the developing world is taxing the ability of cities to provide...
View ArticleMassive 100,000 s.f. Greenhouse Planned for Brooklyn Rooftop
/Video screen capture Farming is getting decidedly futuristic and increasingly urban. Just the other day I was writing about a huge meat packing plant being converted into a 93,500 square foot...
View ArticleGlaciers in Karakoram Range Buck Worldwide Trend, Put on Mass Instead of...
/CC BY 2.0 Some new research done by a team of French scientists confirms that glaciers in the Karakoram range (west of the Himalayan range and often mentioned as part of the same set of mountains)...
View ArticleKenyan Teen's Invention Saves Lions, Helps Farmers
. Young inventor Richard Turere with his family's cattle. A 13-year-old inventor in Kenya has come up with a low-cost, eco-friendly way to protect his family's livestock that could also serve as a...
View ArticleOutlaw Chicken Keepers Keep the Faith in Nashville
/Video screen capture When I saw the video title "Underground Chickens", I assumed I'd be seeing a subterranean version of this cool chicken tunnel system. But this topic is more down-to-earth, if...
View ArticleAsk the Experts: What's Being Done To Combat Rising Allergy Rates in Kids?
/CC BY 2.0Allergies seem to be much more prevalent now than ever before. Are we making progress on figuring out what is going on and fixing the problem? Robyn O'Brien from The AllergyKids Foundation...
View ArticleTell President Obama You Want an End to Factory Farming!
Last October TreeHugger was on the media sponsors of Farm Sanctuary's first Conference to End Factory Farming. It's a hugely worthy cause and an absolute imperative if we're going to combat climate...
View ArticleFair Trade Chocolate, Tea, Spice and Coffee Sales Jump 75 Percent, Study Says
- Women in Honest Tea's Fair Trade fields in Korakundah, India. A bite of Alter-Eco’s Dark Chocolate and Quinoa with a cup of rooibos superfruit tea from Choice’s organic Jane Goodall tea collection....
View ArticlePolar Bear Protection Plan Ignores Their Biggest Threats
/CC BY 2.0 The plight of polar bears has always been a bit more complicated than most of the other species marked for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Unlike the mostly at-hand, regional...
View ArticleWhen Neighbors Meet to Compare Energy Bills, Much Bigger Ideas Are Born
/Video screen capture When I posted about the award-winning Transition Streets program, I wrote about neighborhood groups which coached each other in energy conservation and lower carbon living. But...
View ArticleWalmart's Gives Itself a Green Pat on the Back With Its New Sustainability...
/CC BY-SA 2.0 Walmart has just released its latest sustainability report, covering how much it has reduced waste, increased locally grown produce, increased renewable energy usage, and a whole host of...
View ArticleSeven Out of Ten Americans Agree: Climate Change Leads to Extreme Weather
/Public Domain Q: What do all of these events have in common: Record-breaking heat this winter, an uptick of extreme weather events like droughts and snow flurries, a super hot summer in 2011. A:...
View ArticleNorth Sea Gas Drilling Rig Leak Reduced by One-Third
/CC BY-SA 2.0 On the second anniversary of the BP oil spill, here's an update on the status of another offshore energy accident: Reuters reports that the relief well started by Total at its Elgin...
View ArticleAsk the Experts: Why Don't More Companies Use Ethically-Sourced Ingredients?
/CC BY-ND 2.0What's the biggest factor preventing more companies developing ethical sourcing policies for their ingredients? Ben Packard from Starbucks answers: "In my mind, the biggest factor holding...
View ArticleWineries For Climate Protection – the Manifesto!
are conscious of the fact that vines are very sensitive to climate change. Increasing temperatures can compromise the quality of the wine, and hence, the living conditions of those in the industry....
View ArticleEco Wine Review: Cline Cellars 2010 Cool Climate Chardonnay
Cline Cellar's 2010 Cool Climate Chardonnay is a tricky little vixen. The nose is dancing with floral highlights and warm peach aromas that you half expect it to be a dessert wine. But this is one of...
View ArticleAsk the Experts: What's the Greatest Resource Scarcity We Now Face?
/CC BY-ND 2.0We're facing serious resource constraints in a number of key areas, what's the most critical of these and what's the biggest factor in creating that scarcity? Janet Larsen of the Earth...
View ArticleWhy Cuba's Sustainability is Not an Accident
and agriculture because it had no other choice. Although that's true to some degree, it's an unfair generalization in many ways. Cuba is home to the Caribbean's largest and best-preserved wetland...
View Article10 or So Things You Should Know About the Future of Feeding the World
/CC BY 2.0 There is widespread agreement that the global food system—a clumsy euphemism for the incredibly complex international network of farmers, distributors, and retailers that attempts to feed 7...
View ArticleFarms Use 60 Times More Land Than Cities: It's Time to Develop Terraculture
/Video screen capture When I posted on Jonathan Foley's 5 point plan for feeding the world, I focused on his suggestion that we need a LEED-type certification system for sustainable farming. But...
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