It’s not easy being green, moans Kermit the Frog. Poor li"l fella. Your heart aches for him, singing in his plaintive old voice. Turns out, it’s not easy being a "green" journalist, either. That is, if you report on something as controversial as the Cape Wind offshore project slated for Nantucket Sound.
Environmentalists declared a pyrrhic victory last week when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it would revisit eight cases of Endangered Species Act listing decisions in light of evidence that disgraced former Interior Department official Julie MacDonald exerted "inappropriate influence" over the science behind them.
Industrial giant General Electric (GE) last week introduced a new credit card that encourages consumers to offset the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their spending through the purchase of carbon offsets with reward points called the GE Money Earth Rewards Platinum MasterCard.
Artificial turf has been popular on sports fields for decades, but is it also a good environmentally friendly option for residential lawns?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: A las compañías de agua embotellada les gustaría hacernos creer que el agua potable constituye un riesgo. Pero he oído que en general el agua potable es bastante sana. ¿Es verdad eso?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué alternativas existen a los fertilizantes tradicionales y otras sustancias químicas utilizadas típicamente en los campos de golf?
Dr. Ken Schultz, registered nuclear engineer, trades opinions with nuclear opponent Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Some nuclear advocates are hoping the U.S. will eventually embrace a zero-emissions hydrogen energy economy. Strange as it may seem, nuclear strategists have plans to generate hydrogen from nuclear power.
The after-effects of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl show that when it comes to radiation, there is no safe dose.
Zapping food has never resonated with the American consumer, but a resurgent nuclear industry is pushing it as a way to combat food-borne illnesses.
Although golf courses are large areas of open space, certainly more desirable ecologically than equivalent amounts of paved highway or polluting industrial operations, they are less “green” than they appear.
