Replacing Fossil Fuels in a "Clean Energy" Economy Three towering smokestacks rise from the fossil fuel-fired Schiller Power Station in the quaint New England city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built more than 50 years ago, Schiller is a striking example of a dirty, coal-burning power plant constructed during the mid-20th century. An archaic plant exempted […]
It may sound like an unusual pairing—protecting endangered species by putting them in the circus—but Ringling has become an actor in this new arena. In 1995, Feld Entertainment, Ringling’s corporate parent (which also owns the Disney on Ice and Siegfried and Roy shows), established the Center for Elephant Conservation (CEC), a $5 million, 200-acre Asian elephant breeding and research facility in Polk City, Florida. Since 1992, when Ringling began a breeding program, 15 elephants have been born, more than anywhere else in North America, including zoos.
The Grassroots Take on General Electric in the Battle To Clean Up the Hudson Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival draws a crowd of thousands every year, people young and old who gather under the shady trees of Croton Point, New York to listen to folk songs drift out over the celebrated river. And although it […]
When Frank Lloyd Wright and his associates were designing the famed Johnson Wax building in Racine, Wisconsin, in the early 1930s, he abruptly halted work on the project to fix a problem. A dam had broken on a pond on his Spring Green, Wisconsin estate. The resulting view outside the window upset him so much that he couldn’t continue on the project until it was fixed. The aesthetic of the pond was necessary for him to be productive. So he bid that all his associates stop working on the Johnson drawings to fix the dam. Although the buildings he designed were ultimately to be virtually windowless, the final interior mimicked a forest with light coming down through a canopy of tree-like pillars.
A Century of Navigation, Mineral Mining And Oil And Gas Activity Has Left The Louisiana Coast Cross-Cut By Canals and Spoil Banks, Threatening A Remerkable And Delicate Swamp Ecosystem.
Scrapping or breaking up ships is a labor-intensive business that for cost reasons is often carried out in Asia with little or no regard for the environment or worker safety. But that will change if the growing field of "green shipbreaking" bears fruit.
Finding Common Ground on Housing and the Environment Thanks to colleagues at the Coalition for a Livable Future, Tasha Harmon, a housing advocate in Portland, Oregon, doesn’t worry so much about missing regional planning meetings anymore. “If Mike Houck from Portland Audubon is there and housing comes up, he’s as likely as anyone to speak […]
Lester Brown’s new group links the media & economy, with the goal of creating a vision and to map out a plan for an economically sustainable global economy.
Kenaf, a long-fiber plant that originated in the East Indies and is grown in the U.S., Thailand and China, is a relative of okra and cotton that is now making inroads as a wood substitute.
Congress Compromises On Children’s Health
