Gene Karpinski, the president of the League of Conservation Voters, e-mailed out a one-line response to Obama’s win that said it all. "America embraced change today. And the planet will be better for it." Here is what other green groups had to say.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that it is launching a new conservation fund called the Earth Profits Fund.
An independent scientific panel took the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to task last week for failing to protect the health of the American public.
America’s third largest grocery chain, Safeway, announced last week that it will stop selling plastic baby bottles made with Bisphenol A (BPA).
An overwhelming majority of those aware of the environmental destruction wrought by mountaintop removal coal mining are opposed to the practice.
The problem, really, is that we in the land of plenty don’t actually see water.
The U.S. solar industry is at an all-time high, but it still hasn’t caught up with Europe.
It may be called “beach nourishment” but dredge-and-fill sand operations used to create more beachfront for condos is anything but nourishing.
Sure nightclubs are frivolous halls of drinking and dancing—but across the country they’e starting to take control of their energy and waste.
Environmentalist Bill McKibben has a new cause: getting everyone clued in about the number 350, the parts per million of carbon emissions that we need to return to in order to sustain life on earth.
