Chemical Crusader Sandra Steingraber
An Interview With Sandra Steingraber, a Biologist Who Crusades Against Chemicals and Writes Eloquently About Their Consequences…
E’s Green Home Picks: Cooking, Painting, Sleeping
PAINTING RAINBOWS There are lots of toxin-free paint options today, but Lullaby Paints has zeroed in on the baby/kid market; wall paint that is “safe enough for kids to paint with.” The paint—which comes in squeezable pouches ($24.95/quart; $68.95/gallon)—doesn’t have any of the chemical additives known to be neurotoxicants, carcinogens and allergens. That means no […]
Behind The “Hockey Stick”
The “hockey stick” is a line graph that’s become a superstar. The diagram is embedded at the center of the war between climate change believers and deniers. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (Columbia University Press) is the story of the graphic told by one of the scientists who […]
Building a Better Building
The six-story, $30 million Bullitt Center in Seattle is a veritable crystal ball for what commercial office buildings will look like in the future.
New Worries for New Yorkers
New Worries for New Yorkers: The Spectra Pipeline Under Construction in New York City—including Tribeca & Chelsea—Poses Serious Dangers
The Science Underminers
A Review of the Book: The Inquisition of Climate Science by James Lawrence Powell
The Unlikely Conservative
A Review of the book What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel.
Green Valentine’s Day Delights
CAN YOU SUSHI? Eden Organic has lots of non-traditional baskets that would make for fun Valentine’s gifts. One of our favorites is the Eden Sushi Basket ($65), a wicker basket filled with everything you need to make sushi, including Lundberg Family Farms organic white sushi rice and from Eden’s line: a bamboo sushi mat, wasabi […]
Grading Sustainability
It would be nice to be able to rank companies, to know exactly which are good stewards of the environment and have beneficial social policies.
Capturing Nature’s Pulse
An airport is one of the last places where you expect to connect with nature. But that’s how it goes in California’s Silicon Valley. At the Mineta San José International Airport, real-time images of a wilderness area less than 10 miles away are wirelessly transmitted to a series of 42-inch LCD monitors. Nighttime displays might […]