By John DeFore
It’s probably unavoidable that people living in this age of technological wonders, when faced with issues as daunting as global warming, will secretly trust science to invent a way out of them. Recent media attention to “geoengineering” schemes is just one example — the idea being that, if humans have put things […]

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By Barbara Kessler
Earth Day is 38 years old and still going strong. That says something about our nation’s commitment to the environment, or at least the commitment of those who’ve kept conservation issues – clean air, clean water, pure food — on the table all these years.

Photo © 2008 by Kim Komenich | Distributed […]

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By Shermakaye Bass
It’s no surprise that Big Energy gets the role of Goliath in Mat Hames’ and George Sledge’s Fighting Goliath: The Texas Coal Wars, a documentary produced and narrated by Robert Redford and The Redford Center at Sundance Preserve that follows a recent chain of events in which coal companies tried to fast […]

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With Earth Day coming next month, we want to hear what you’re doing to go green right now. Share success stories, offer tips or just words of encouragement for others. Just click the link below for instructions on how to post your voice comment using your wireless phone. And check back to listen to what […]

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By Harriet Blake

Photo: Port of Long Beach
In 1989 the Exxon Valdez spilled 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s pristine Prince William Sound slathering wildlife and the untouched rocky shores with an inky, sticky coating of oil. The event created a powerful visual image of the sort of damage ocean ships can cause. A […]

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By John DeFore
Environmentalists in Texas aren’t pleased with the way the state handles pollution regulation, and they’re lobbying for change — not in the Austin statehouse, but with those tasked with regulating it at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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By Barbara Kessler
Environmentalists have long been nudging consumers to think about the real cost of the paper products that they use, to understand that toilet paper and paper towels exact a price in the loss of the trees required to make them.
This green price tag is highest when manufacturers of household paper goods use […]

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By Harriet Blake
The day is coming when grocery shoppers will no longer be asked the familiar question, “paper or plastic?” Or if they are, the question will be about a different kind of plastic and a new sort of paper.
The current standard grocery store plastic bag, which is made of a limited resource - […]

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By John DeFore
Readers who share entrepreneur Shai Agassi’s enthusiasm for a future of all-electric autos might get hot under the collar viewing Chris Paine’s 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? If you thought the hurdles to phasing out gas-guzzlers were mostly technological, the film is a brutal eye-opener.
Structured like a whodunit, the movie first […]

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By Barbara Kessler
Drying the laundry on the clothesline faded into disfavor sometime in the mid 20th Century when it descended from the commonplace to become a mark of poverty, even shame.
Consider the vernacular: You wouldn’t want to be “hung out to dry” or caught “airing dirty laundry in public.” Or would you? […]

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By Barbara Kessler
U.S. lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, are poised to enact controls to reduce carbon emissions that would ease global warming…and that’s heating up some serious activism in the United States.
In Vermont, a group of young organizers has decided to seize the moment and push for Congress to take the boldest possible steps on […]

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