lollapalooza2011.com Most Music Festivals Feature Green Vendors and Recycling Competitions–but What About Fan Transportation? All three of the summer’s biggest festival draws—Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Coachella—have some variation on the theme “Green Street.” Most sell food from local and/or organic providers. All have some sort of competition involving recycling. And all festivals are concerned about their […]
Fewer than one in five Americans between the ages of 32 and 52 say they are concerned or alarmed about climate change.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommends that California’s San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant keep its reactors closed.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Se ha inventado alguna alternativa al aire acondicionado para mantener cuartos frescos que sea apreciablemente más barata y/o que utilice mucho menos energía que el aire acondicionado tradicional?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Me horrorizó ver la neblina de contaminación que vi en una visita reciente al Parque Nacional Acadia en Maine, y me dijo un guardabosques que esto se debía a causa de chimeneas y tubos de escape a cientos de millas de distancia. ¿Se está haciendo algo para limpiar el aire en Acadia y otras áreas naturales donde la gente va a respirar aire fresco y disfrutar de vistas espectaculares?
Dear EarthTalk: Commercial whaling was banned around the world years ago, but some nations continue to hunt whales. Why is this and what’s being done about it?
Dear EarthTalk: I couldn’t believe my ears: “genetically engineered mosquitoes?” Why on Earth would they be created? And I understand there are plans to release them into the wild?
A new Humane Society video about exotic birds features Rio’s Jesse Eisenberg. Jesse Eisenberg, Oscar-nominated for his role as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, has teamed up with the Humane Society in order to protect exotic bird species. Eisenberg played the voice of the bird Blu in the animated film Rio, which dealt with […]
How Cities Hold the Key to a Sustainable FutureEdward Glaeser is an economist with a true love for urban living and a deep concern for the environment. His new book, Triumph of the City (Penguin Press), is stuffed with anecdotes, examples, unexpected outcomes and elegant solutions to conundrums of city living in locations ranging from […]
Monsanto and Dow Chemical are using the current Midwest drought to push drought-resistant genetically modified crops to market.
A new study reveals widespread exposure to phthalates and a stain-resistant chemical in amniotic fluid.
