Radiohead just released their latest album, The King of Limbs, and a special newspaper to go with it. The band is offsetting the resulting emissions through the program Carbon Retirement. This video explains how that offsetting works. Radiohead just released their eighth studio album, The King of Limbs. Accompanying the album at various locations across […]
Wieden + Kennedy for Levi’s. Crumbling Cities Have Never Been So CoolYou may have seen the ad online. Grainy black and white, backed by a plucky roots-flavored rendition of the classic Snow White tune “Heigh-Ho.” The scene: Braddock, Pennsylvania. We see, in succession, people climbing into well-fitted denim work clothes, busting up a wall with […]
Twenty percent of the world’s northern rockhopper penguins are now coated in oil.
Millions of tons of broken-down plastic waste particles are floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Two stars of the HBO hit series Mad Men reprise their roles in an online video to make a pitch for high-speed rail. Two of the stars of HBO’s Mad Men–Vincent Kartheiser (who plays the aggressively earnest Pete Campbell on the show) & Rich Sommer (who plays the nerdy head of the ad agency’s TV […]
U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Daniel Bowles Can We Provide Clean Water Without the Plastic Waste? International World Water Day is held on March 22 each year. But does one day dedicated to such a massive global crisis—the lack of clean drinking water—really lead to change? Despite a recent U.N. poll suggesting that Americans want […]
The Mountaintop Removal Roadshow Will Coal or Renewables Fuel Our Future?The ongoing tragedy in Japan likely means that nuclear will play a smaller part in our energy future, both in the U.S. and globally. This is for psychological and political reasons, as much as rational concerns. The rational argument is that no matter how small […]
The president has pledged support for new nuclear power in the U.S. but questions remain regarding its safety.
Coast Guard officials have determined that a new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico polluted Louisiana beaches over the weekend.
A report from PBS Newshour details the terrible wake of destruction left by Japan’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.A report from PBS Newshour details the terrible wake of destruction left by Japan’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. It includes widely circulated amateur video by residents in Sendai, taken by those who narrowly escaped to high ground and […]
