EarthTalk Q&A

How Green is Burning Man?

The Burning Man festival is famous for its avant-garde art installations and performance art, but greens worry about its environmental impact.

Fixing that old car and keeping it up and running might be the greenest thing you can do if you ride has seen better days.

The sheer weight of all the human infrastructure and development is causing Manhattan to sink, and sea level rise isn’t helping…

One result of our putting so many greenhouse gases into the atmosphere could be an interruption in the Gulf Stream’s flow leading to another ice age…

The Pebble Mine Project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay is still brewing as backers challenge Biden shutdown in the legal system….

The storage, sorting and transmission of unnecessary spam emails consume copious amounts of energy, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

Some environmentalists think carbon offsets are just another form of corporate greenwashing.

Amphibians — frogs, toads, salamanders, newts — are in decline around the world and may be headed for extinction if we don’t help them soon.

Fiberglass may resist adverse weather conditions better than other materials, but should we really be using so much of it in our boats?

Electric and infrared grills are making the old-fashioned gas and charcoal varieties obsolete — at least environmentalists hope so….