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Edible edifice: The offices of tomorrow

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 15 (News Report) - The office buildings of the future will be intelligent - and tasty too

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Earth Tipping Point Study In Nature Journal Predicts Disturbing And Unpredictable Changes

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Stephanie Pappas - Jun. 07 (News Report) - Earth is rapidly headed toward a catastrophic breakdown if humans don't get their act together, according to an international group of scientists.

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Winds of change brewing

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Jo Chandler - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Beddington argues, pragmatically, that while much is uncertain about the longer-term, the challenges of the next 20 years are clear: population growth (another billion people by 2025); urbanisation; and climate change as a consequence of the greenhouse

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Yellowstone says it may need to import grizzlies to improve genetics

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

billingsgazette.com - By Brett French - Jan. 05 (News Report) - Yellowstone National Park has asked its fundraising partners to come up with $1 million a year for six years to expand its lake trout eradication effort at Yellowstone Lake, and by 2022 the park may need to import grizzly bears from other regions to increase the animals’ genetic diversity Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/yellowstone-says-it-may-need-to-import-grizzlies-to-improve/article_cab0939e-363e-56db-8a66-2dfeaa60ff77.html#ixzz1ic4jJBtC

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Soil Erosion Far Worse Than Reported In American Farmlands

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Joanna Zelman - Apr. 13 (Special Report) - If the American classic song is right and â€œthis land was made for you and me,â€* then why are we paying to have it destroyed?...

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State and municipal governments fertilize local food craze

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

hcn.org - By Nathaniel Hoffman - Mar. 08 (News Report) - Over the last 80 years, federal policy has increasingly put small farmers at a disadvantage by massively subsidizing a centralized, industrial agriculture system that produces cheap food. Activists have spent decades pushing federal reforms, such as organic standards, with incremental success. Now, a surge of state and local government policies that promote local food and small farms as engines of economic development is making waves in Washington, D.C., (see map at right). In 2008 and 2009, for example, at least 13 state legislatures passed bills encouraging the growth of farmers markets. Arizona removed barriers to selling beef and lamb at market, while New Mexico, Washington and other states made it easier for those on public assistance to buy food at farmers markets. Some states directed limited funding toward the infrastructure and promotion of such markets.

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Your mail on an electric delivery cart: Postal Service goes greener

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Nov. 01 (News) - The US Postal Service and other government agencies are trying to make their transportation fleets more eco-friendly. ...

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Review: Chevy Volt — electrifying

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter - Oct. 21 (Review) - GM has succeeded in making an outside-the-box electric vehicle that's alluring almost any way you look at it, including under the hood.

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Exploring the Vast Potential of a Strange New Industry

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

0u812.wordpress.com - Oct. 01 (Opinion) - Our pressing need to develop a more sustainable society also provides the opportunity for entrepreneurs to develop niche markets which may someday leave the corporate giants of today in the dust, where they belong.

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Government agencies make plans to reduce federal carbon footprint in next decade

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Sep. 22 (News) -

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Could This Be A Crime?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

climatestorytellers.org - By Subhankar Banerjee - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement. Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, for all little creatures that we don’t see... for all life. We need stories and actions from every part of our earth. So far, global warming communications have primarily focused on scientific information. I strongly believe that to engage the public, we need all fields of the humanities. It is to this end that I founded ClimateStoryTellers. And there is much action: globally, 350.org and Climate Justice Movement; nationally, organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity; and state-based initiatives such as New Energy Economy in New Mexico. These groups give us hope that a bold – not weak – climate movement will continue to move forward with renewed energy. Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles. It will require major government action to control pollution–and–polluters and to start a low–carbon–society.

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Wind vs. Coal: The Fight for a Mountaintop

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By TOM ZELLER Jr. - Aug. 15 (News Report) - At least one study has shown that a wind project could be a feasible alternative to coal mining here, although the coal industry’s control over the land and the uncertain and often tenuous financial prospects of wind generation appear to make it unlikely to be pursued. That, residents say, would be a mistake.

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Mississippi River pours as much dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico as BP

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The New Orleans Times-Picayune - By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Every day during the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, contractors sprayed an average 140,000 pounds of Corexit dispersant onto oil slicks on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and into the oil being released a mile below.

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Pressure Rises to Stop Antibiotics in Agriculture

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Margie Mason, Martha Mendoza - Dec. 28 (Special Report) - The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat. The boar gored Kremer in the knee with a razor-sharp tusk. The burly pig farmer shrugged it off, figuring: "You pour the blood out of your boot and go on."

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Africa: Cash for Climate Change?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Link TV - By Erin Coker - Dec. 04 (News Analysis) - China and the U.S. may be patting themselves on the back for proposing CO2 emission cuts, but African nations are boiling mad. Africa accounts for 14% of the world's population, but emits only 3% of its CO2. Amid floods in the continent's east and drought in the west, Africans accuse the developed world of timidity, and some are calling for climate reparations.

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UN: Fight climate change with free condoms

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Maria Cheng - Nov. 18 (News Report) - "As the growth of population, economies and consumption outpaces the Earth's capacity to adjust, climate change could become much more extreme and conceivably catastrophic," the report said.

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What is Sustainable Food Anyway?

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Change.org - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - Have you ever noticed that once a discussion goes on long enough, certain phrases start to lose meaning? Everybody merrily tosses terminology around, rarely stopping to think what each term really means. Some phrases seem to balloon, taking on connotations they weren’t designed to carry, and other phrases get pared down into a specific meaning until they are slivers of their former robust selves. Such confusion is present in the food-obsessed corners of the Internet; with so many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak, the sustainable food conversation is getting a bit muddled. I was tipped off to this fact when fellow change.org blogger Amanda Kloer posted the following comment to a recent post of mine: Perhaps this is a dumb question (I'm no expert on food), but to me it seems like people often use the terms “sustainable" and "healthy" as synonyms. Are they? Is sustainable food really about getting more leafy greens into people or is it really about creating a food system that keeps the environment healthy and doesn't abuse animals or workers? If it's the former, why don't we call it the "healthy food movement"? If it's the latter, then can we have sustainable burgers and fries with sustainable milkshakes?

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Second wolf pack confirmed in Washington

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 14 (News Report) - State biologists have confirmed a second wolf pack in Washington state, this time in a remote area of Pend Oreille County.

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The Seinfeld Hearings

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Randy Barnett: - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - If you suspect this week's Senate confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor will be, like "Seinfeld," a show about nothing, you are probably right. To understand why, we need to revisit an era that remade how lawyers and the public think about law, and especially the Constitution. In the 1930s, academics developed a philosophy they called "legal realism" to undercut judicial resistance to "progressive" statutes such as laws restricting the hours a baker or a woman could work. Legal realism elevated just results over the rule of law. It saw analysis of "the law" as an after-the-fact rationalization that allowed reactionary judges to conceal their empathy for the oppressed. Because legal realists believed judges inevitably made law when they ruled, they thought judges should decide cases with progressive ends in mind.

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Op-Ed Contributor - A Homespun Safety Net - NYTimes.com

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Barbara Ehrenreich - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - Finding little relief, and lots of pain, in the American safety net, those slipping into poverty turn to family and friends.

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Security Forces Crack Down on Defiant Protesters in Iran - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Thomas Erdbrink - Jul. 10 (News Report) - TEHRAN, July 9 -- Anti-government protesters tried to gather outside Tehran University on Thursday, despite a heavy police presence and sharp warnings from the governor of Tehran that the planned demonstration was unauthorized and would be met with a "crushing response."

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Street Farmer - NYTimes.com

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elizabeth Royte - Jul. 01 (Other) - Can Will Allen make the inner city the next front in the good-food movement? Will Allen, a farmer of Bunyonesque proportions, ascended a berm of wood chips and brewer’s mash and gently probed it with a pitchfork. “Look at this,” he said, pleased with the treasure he unearthed. A writhing mass of red worms dangled from his tines. He bent over, raked another section with his fingers and palmed a few beauties.

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From bush to bike - a bamboo revolution

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Kieron Humphrey - Jul. 01 (News Report) - On the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, next year's crop of bicycles is being watered by Benjamin Banda. "We planted this bamboo last year," he says, "and now the stems are taller than me. When it's ready we'll cut it, cure it and then turn it into frames."

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Power lurks in Oregon forests ?

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OregonLive.com - Jun. 26 (News Report) - Tucked into a sprawling, 1,200-page climate change bill before Congress today is a tiny paragraph that touches the federal forests covering a quarter of Oregon. It says these lands, that already give us trails to hike and clean water to drink, can provide renewable power for our toasters while helping to replace long gone lumbering jobs. .

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Northwest's biofuel boom goes bust ?

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OregonLive.com - By Scott Learn, The Oregonian - Jun. 07 (News Report) - The biofuel downturn has been a national phenomenon, Van't Hof noted. Oregon's plants are likely to be restructured under Chapter 11 proceedings or sold, not shuttered. And the federal plans for more biofuel use in coming years leave Oregon in a good position to capitalize as the industry grows, he said.

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