Melinda Tuhus I took the train from New Haven, Connecticut, to New York City on October 5, for the big rally called Occupy Wall Street (OWS) that’s supported by labor unions across the city. On a picture-perfect fall day, thousands gathered in Foley Square near City Hall. While OWS organizers and union leaders exhorted the […]
Increased jellyfish numbers threaten the Mediterranean coast and other tourist hotspots.
Many companies claim to support a cure for breast cancer while pushing unhealthy, and even cancer-causing, products.
Adam Corlin transformed a Santa Monica property into a conceptual billboard supporting ocean protection efforts with the help of graffiti artists Risk and Retna. For three months this summer, massive blue and black tarps draped over Adam Corlin’s Santa Monica property in what seemed to be a gigantic construction project. When Corlin bought the neglected […]
patagonia Last fall, I received a Lidia Parka from Patagonia for review. Free stuff is awesome. Things that I’d never pay for (Cajun-spiced goji berries, washable maxipads with smiley faces) are 100% more appealing when gratis. For every dozen or so strange eco-freebie that a magazine or blog is sent in hopes of a favorable […]
Environmentalist, activist and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai leaves a legacy behind.
After a listeria outbreak leads to illness and death, a new effort is launched to investigate and detect food-borne illnesses.
Why Geothermal Deserves More Support Among alternative energy, wind and solar get all the media attention, all the glamour. Yet both suffer from intermittency, from the problem that their power sources wax and wane. Solar disappears at night and weakens when clouds interrupt, while wind has its own unpredictable schedule. By contrast, geothermal draws on […]
Canned tuna has a mercury problem and its “dolphin safe” restrictions are under attack.
