Brita Belli The Clearwater Festival Is the Perfect Merging of Music and Environmental Awareness, Particularly for KidsI had plans to sit and enjoy several bands at Sunday’s Clearwater Festival, but my going-on-6-year-old had other ideas. Instead, we began at one of several playgrounds on site, enjoying the sounds of Balkan Beat Box rising over the […]
The Rio + 20 Earth Summit grapples with the need for action on climate change and declining interest from key world leaders.
Christopher Weber Neighborhoods with High Vacancy Rates are Coming Down. What can Environmentalists do to Soften the Impact? Coming soon to a city neighborhood near you: wrecking crews. Cities are demolishing large numbers of vacant houses to try to stabilize the values of the surrounding homes. 60 Minutes reported that Cleveland, for instance, would destroy […]
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A new program helps veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to find a future in organic growing.
Folk Music, Family Fun, and Environmental Awareness at the Clearwater FestivalAs a college student, I overhear a lot of conversations regarding music festivals. Talk mostly centers around the big names (Lollapalooza in Chicago, Coachella in California, Bonnaroo in Tennessee) and related music activities (I don’t think I need to elaborate here). But there are a […]
Watch the phenomenon of midnight sun, when the sun shines for 24 hours in the summer. Shot by Joe Capra, this film is a time lapse of Iceland’s landscape bathed in the golden light from the sun that never fully sets during the summer. With only a car and his equipment, Capra traveled the country […]
Nature lovers can now identify their favorite trees just by taking a picture of their leaves. Created by scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, Columbia University and the University of Maryland, Leafsnap allows users to find the common name, scientific name and pictures of trees they identify. It is the first collaborative app by the three […]
