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Jeremy’s iron will: On-screen villain plays the good guy in anti-waste doc

Jeremy’s iron will: On-screen vil... Posted by admin in Article, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Infrastructure, Pollution on 07 16th, 2012 | No Comments

Jeremy Irons has played some serious douchebags: Scar , Claus von Bülow , Simon Gruber , the ultimate caricature of the 1% in Margin Call , the cauldron in Once Upon a Halloween (oh, did you miss that one?). The point is, it’s...

Date with disaster: Adventurers sail through wave of tsunami debris

Date with disaster: Adventurers sai... Posted by admin in Climate & Energy, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure, Pollution on 06 29th, 2012 | No Comments

Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen The Pacific Ocean is a pretty darned big place. The hull of the 72’ former racing yacht, Sea Dragon, not so much, especially when crammed full of research equipment and 14 full-sized human-type people...

Rio hangover: 50,000 people rallied for the Earth Summit. Did it do any good?

Rio hangover: 50,000 people rallied... Posted by admin in Climate & Energy, Environmental Issues, Living Green, Pollution on 06 27th, 2012 | No Comments

The Earth Summit is mercifully over, leaving us all to wonder: What the hell happened last week? Did the end result justify the 3,600 tons of CO2 generated by the U.N. delegation alone? And has anyone seen my pants? Rio+20 was like...

Romney opposes mercury rule, beclowns himself again

Romney opposes mercury rule, beclow... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Coal, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Pollution on 06 20th, 2012 | No Comments

Photo by Austen Hufford . Today marks a symbolic vote in the Senate: Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is putting forward a Congressional Review Act resolution [PDF] that would stop the EPA’s impending standards on mercury and other...

Getting used to being in charge of the planet

Getting used to being in charge of ... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure, Living Green, Pollution on 06 11th, 2012 | No Comments

Last week’s news about the tipping-point study in Nature ought to prompt some serious thinking. It is becoming increasingly clear that the decisions made by people alive today will determine the fate of life on Earth for centuries...

Did you say ‘sea-level rise’? You liberal.

Did you say ‘sea-level rise’? Y... Posted by admin in Climate & Energy, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Living Green, News, Pollution on 06 11th, 2012 | No Comments

Photo of Beijing smog by jaaron on Flickr. Last week, the Chinese government demanded that foreign embassies stop reporting independent air pollution measurements . The U.S. Embassy in Beijing, for example, has a monitor on its roof...

Tsunami debris on the West Coast could be ‘far worse than any oil spill’

Tsunami debris on the West Coast co... Posted by admin in Climate & Energy, Infrastructure, Pollution on 06 8th, 2012 | No Comments

Last year’s tsunami in Japan threw 1.5 million tons of debris into the ocean. It’s starting to show up on the West Coast — a soccer ball here, a motorcycle there, a 66-foot, 165-ton dock . According to the Associated...

Life recycle: How e-waste recycling gives your gadgets a fresh start

Life recycle: How e-waste recycling... Posted by admin in Article, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Pollution on 05 31st, 2012 | No Comments

Click for a visual tour through an e-waste collection center and a recycling facility. If e-waste disposal had a late-night infomercial, it might go something like this: Congratulations! You bought an iPhone 6S! Now you can spend...

Life recycle: How e-waste recycling... Posted by admin in Article, Infrastructure, Pollution on 05 31st, 2012 | No Comments

Click for a visual tour through an e-waste collection center and a recycling facility. If e-waste disposal had a late-night infomercial, it might go something like this: Congratulations! You bought an iPhone 6S! Now you can spend...

Why are U.S. taxpayers subsidizing coal mining?

Why are U.S. taxpayers subsidizing ... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Infrastructure, Pollution on 05 17th, 2012 | No Comments

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Big Coal’s new anti-Obama ad reeks of desperation

Big Coal’s new anti-Obama ad reek... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Environmental Issues, Pollution on 05 17th, 2012 | No Comments

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Re-Whiting History: Richard White on managing our un-pristine planet

Re-Whiting History: Richard White o... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Indoor Environment, Pollution on 05 8th, 2012 | No Comments

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Diving deep: Susan Shaw, ocean crusader and environmental health pioneer

Diving deep: Susan Shaw, ocean crus... Posted by admin in Indoor Environment, Oil, Pollution on 04 8th, 2012 | No Comments

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What’s the deal with EPA carbon rules for existing power plants?

What’s the deal with EPA carbon r... Posted by admin in Article, Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure, Pollution on 03 27th, 2012 | No Comments

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Raging hormone disruptors: Common chemicals cause trouble even in small amounts

Raging hormone disruptors: Common c... Posted by admin in Climate & Energy, Food, Indoor Environment, Infrastructure, Living Green, Pollution on 03 26th, 2012 | No Comments

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McDonald’s ditches Styrofoam … ... Posted by admin in Article, Food, Indoor Environment, Infrastructure, Pollution on 03 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

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Robot jellyfish will use water for fuel, spy on you

Robot jellyfish will use water for ... Posted by admin in Indoor Environment, Infrastructure, Pollution on 03 21st, 2012 | No Comments

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Behold H&M’s new green colle... Posted by admin in Article, Infrastructure, Pollution, Recycling on 03 21st, 2012 | No Comments

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Gasoline Versus Diesel Oil for Orga... Posted by admin in Air, Environmental Economics/Politics, Environmental Issues, Gas, Health, Indoor Environment, News, Oil, Pollution on 03 5th, 2012 | No Comments

The exhaust fumes from gasoline vehicles contribute more to the production of a specific type of air pollution-secondary organic aerosols (SOA)-than those from diesel vehicles, according to a new study by scientists from the Cooperative...

Every last bite: Why wasting animal protein is unethical

Every last bite: Why wasting animal... Posted by admin in Article, Climate, Energy, Environmental Issues, Food, Gas, Health, Pollution, Water on 03 1st, 2012 | No Comments

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