Liz West/CC BY 2.0 After serious declines in 2008 and 2009 bottled water sales in the United States have bounced back, in a serious way, hitting a new record high in volume in 2011. New figures... Re...
Do you ever just get the urge to clean up some litter? Well, three of my Kennedy Elementary School friends, Zach, Ben, Joey, and I did just that this morning. 45 minutes, two miles, and approximately...
OK, this is a pretty oversimplified depiction of the relationship between corporate interests, farmers, and consumers — but that means it’s a good starting point for anyone who isn’t sure how... Read...
Stuart McMillen, who wrote and drew that cool comic about reindeer on St. Matthew Island, has a new comic comparing human industry to ecological development after the Mt. St. Helens eruption. I know,...
Newtown grafitti/CC BY 2.0 In a historic vote Wednesday, the L.A. City Council voted overwhelmingly to enact a ban on plastic bags -- becoming the most largest city in the United States to push... Re...
@joefoodie/CC BY 2.0 In a country where a diner can get a free 72-ounce steak (5,760 calories, 480 grams of fat) -- if eaten with a shrimp cocktail, baked potato, salad, roll, and butter within an......
Martha Payne had some sad-ass lunches at her school in Scotland — unsatisfying food that sometimes had more hair than vegetables. So the 9-year-old decided to start a blog with photos and vital... Re...
Via UWGB Inside: Sometimes it’s the UW-Green Bay alumni who can speak most powerfully to the UW-Green Bay experience. That is the thought behind the new alumni display in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall.... Rea...
Waste can have a life beyond the landfill. Consider the extraordinary efforts we undertake to secure a barrel of oil. Lives lost from wars. Oil-rig blowouts. Cancer clusters downwind of... Read more ...
Map of Life/Screen capture Yale and University of Colorado scientists are building the ultimate digital map of biodiversity called the Map of Life. The website will eventually show the current... Rea...
© April Streeter In Portland, any excuse for bike weirdness. 1. Visit Portland. See How Its Done. For awhile there (2 years, to be exact), Minneapolis was top dog on the U.S. cities... Read more NOW ...
We love wildlife! We love watching it in high definition on our TV screens while David Attenborough says something droll to ease the trauma of looking at a whale penis. (SO FLEXIBLE.) But apparently....
May 17th, 2012 - The annual Ecology Runner Kids JFK Elementary School Earth Walk effort was a huge success. Some 250 students and teachers cruised the streets of Grafton, Wisconsin (USA) cleaning... ...
Photo: Pesticide Action Network North America Anyone who’s been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insects. It makes a strange kind of sense, then, that their... Rea...
The humble reusable bag is now a fashion statement, walking billboard, and so ubiquitous that there are even donation drives so you can pass them onto those who can’t afford to buy them. There’s... R...
Newtown grafitti/CC BY 2.0 While there are plenty of bans on plastic bags at the city level in the US, with the approval of a ban of plastic bags at point of sale in Honolulu county, Hawaii... Read m...
Walkscore/Screen capture How Does Your City Fare? Walk Score is expanding the services that it offers so much that at some point theyll have to change their name. We recently wrote about their new......
L.A. gets a bad rap for its car culture. But it turns out that Americans’ addiction to milk, cheese, and other delicious dairy products plays just as big a role in the city’s smog problem these days....
bitchcakesny/CC BY 2.0 Kids at Snugg Middle School in Florida dont just learn about history -- they make it. For the last four years, students and faculty at Snugg have celebrated Earth Day by... Rea...
Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0 I had a rowing buddy killed by a cement truck turning right in front of him; at the time it was said that sideguards, rails in front of the rear wheels, might have saved him.......
su-may/CC BY 2.0 Shwopping: its a new word for a not-so-new- concept. Its a combination of shopping and swapping and in England you can do it at any of the 340 Marks & Spencer stores. By... Read ...
Many thanks to Sam Davidson of Cool People Care for the article. Whether you’re a casual runner who jogs a few miles every once in a while or you’re a serious marathon runner logging long miles,... R...
It’s no secret that a run around the block can be very rewarding for an individual. However, some are turning that “me” time into something more than just a therapeutic jog. It’s called eco-running,....
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay was notified this week it has been selected for inclusion in the free, downloadable book, The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition. The.....
AZTI-Tecnalia/CC BY 2.0 As bacon persists in making appearances in startling manifestations, and food trucks maneuver into place to stake their claim in the world of food fads, a group of food... Rea...
Miran Rijavec/CC BY-SA 2.0 Anyone thats spent any amount of time in India knows that plastic litter is everywhere and its a growing problem—to the degree that if somethings not done to stop it... Rea...
psyberartist/CC BY 2.0 Theyre lurking in public restroom trashcans across America: tons of crumpled up paper towels, tragic little sheets destined for the landfill after a single use. There... Read m...
We recycle for a number of reasons. We recycle so raw materials are conserved, when we use recycled materials it involves a smaller amount labor used, less pollution, also it also saves energy and......
YouTube/Screen capture Nothing ruins a pleasant stroll through the park quite like having to dodge a minefield of dog poop. But thanks to a novel new waste receptacle system being tested in Mexico......
65 Million for the Asia-Pacific Region A recent forecast predicted that electric bicycle sales would reach 47 million by 2018, with the vast majority of those (42 million units) going to China.... Re...
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