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Religious Awakening
A review of Sacred Acts: How Churches are Working to Protect Earth’s Climate by Mallory McDuff
05.01.12 |
Slice of Life: Water Is a Precious Resource
Transforming Rooftop Water Tanks in New York City
05.01.12 |
By transforming 300 rooftop water tanks in New York City into large-scale public works of art, New York City residents along with celebrated figures in art, music and science, will redefine the…
Continue Reading »Making Solar Affordable
Solar Leasing Is Taking Off—But Does It Make Financial Sense?
05.01.12 |
You would think everyone would want to capture the free energy provided by the sun. Yet since its initial burst in the 1970s, solar energy has spread remarkably slowly, largely due to the upfront…
Continue Reading »A Brewery with a Conscience 
Mother Earth Brewing Crafts Beer with an Environmental Ethos
05.01.12 |
Only the solar panels on the roof tip off visitors to Mother Earth Brewing’s serious environmental streak. The beer company founders, Trent Mooring and his father-in-law Stephen Hill, built a…
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Keeping the “Grand” in Grand Canyon
05.14.12 |
Earlier this year, hikers and nature enthusiasts rejoiced at the Obama administration’s decision to protect one million acres of public land around Grand Canyon National Park from new uranium…
Continue Reading »Starving Farmers
05.07.12 |
Eric Holt-Gimenez, executive director of the FoodFirst Institute for Food and Development Policy, says that of the one billion people who are chronically hungry, 70% are farmers!
Now in the world of…
Continue Reading »Blocking Environmental Progress
04.30.12 |
When New Jersey governor Chris Christie first planted his foot in the way of a proposed train tunnel project designed to relieve traffic congestion along the Hudson River, much of the nation’s…
Continue Reading »Carbon Free in the USA?
04.22.12 |
If every American family improved their household energy performance and installed solar panels, we’d go a long way toward zero carbon emissions. Solar panels on a majority of houses at one time…
Continue Reading »The Government’s Fishy Business
04.15.12 |
Recently, conservation groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect coral reefs by allowing the overfishing of parrotfish, a colorful fish species that spends its days…
Continue Reading »The New Environmental Frontier
04.08.12 |
Lately the concept of “interim uses” has begun to receive a lot of attention. It’s a wonky phrase most often uttered by scholars and city-hall bureaucrats. Nevertheless, it represents a dynamic…
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