Backpack Blues
A new study reveals toxic levels of phthalates in kids’ back-to-school supplies.
Currents
Clocking Fewer Miles
Car Buying Is Down and We’re Driving Less. Has the Love Affair with the Car Come to an End?
Climate Politics
Climate Politics: Heatwaves, Droughts and Glacier Melts Make Global Warming Difficult to Deny, But There Are Still Plenty of Climate Deniers Out There…
The Missing Topic
The Candidates Are Talking, But Not About Climate ChangeA voter perusing the Romney/Ryan campaign website would have a difficult time scrounging up any mention of climate change from among the laudatory praise of “carbon-based energy resources” and the startling dismissal of renewable energy as “politically favored” but a “failure.” The Obama/Biden campaign platform doesn’t fare […]
Eating Healthy on a Budget
A handy guide from Environmental Working Group helps you choose healthy food options (recipes included) without overspending.
Osprey
A documentary that follows the lives of extraordinary aquatic birds. Osprey is an up-and-coming documentary by Connecticut-based director Jacob Steinberg. The project is centered on the narrative story of a pair of ospreys and their family returning to Long Island Sound from South America. The aquatic birds are documented as they hunt, care for their […]
Live from West Virginia
Activists Get Serious About Challenging Mountaintop Removal Mining
Support Grows for GMO Labeling
A citizen’s initiative to label GMO food in California known as Proposition 37 is drawing nationwide support.
Obama Pushes Wind Power
On the campaign trail, Obama emphasizes his support for wind power and renewable energy tax credits; Romney stands up for coal.