Two California scientists have been honored for their research into air pollution, outdoor and indoor. This year’s winners of the $200,000 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, John Seinfeld and Kirk Smith, have shown the far-reaching nature of the problem.

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From Green Right Now Reports
Thousands of climate activists and concerned citizens rallied all over the world on Saturday for Climate Impacts Day (May 5) to show that climate change is already degrading their communities and to call for solutions.
Groups around the world, in Canada, Israel, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Thailand, India and dozens more locales, [...]

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Speaking to a group of citizens two years ago in the tiny town of Dish, Texas, where extensive gas fracking operations had flared into a major issue, then-newly appointed EPA Region 6 chief Dr. Al Armendariz made remarks about the EPA’s enforcement “philosophy” that have now cost him his job.
Dr. Armendariz’ comments came to light last week when Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) highlighted them in a speech on the Senate floor and called for an investigation.

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College students looking for ways to make the world more sustainable found ways to use manure, coal byproducts, rice hulls and even spinach to save energy or create needed products from waste materials.

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The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has joined the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, and other leading organizations to formally oppose S.J. Res. 37, a resolution by Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla) that employs the Congressional Review Act to reverse the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants.

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Leading US environmentalist Bill McKibben has announced the latest action by 350.org to try to show the public that climate change is rapidly destabilizing the planet, and threatening the future of humanity.
The new worldwide action, called Connect the Dots, will take place on May 5, across the planet, with local groups expressing the urgency of climate change with demonstrations specific to their region.

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If you’re looking for green films to watch, check out these latest winners from the 2nd Annual San Francisco Green Film Festival. The films were selected from among more than 40 screened at the festival, which drew 2,000 participants and concluded March 7….You’ve Been Trumped…Urban Roots….Blood in the Mobile…Coalition of the Willing…Sushi

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San Francisco’s Green Film Festival kicks off this week, with 40 films from around the world and dozens of directors and speakers slated to appear at showings from March 1-7. The second annual festival also will feature US premieres of foreign films, such as Waking the Green Tiger, a chronicle of China’s rising eco-awareness, and Just Do It: A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws, which follows activists in Great Britain on a whirlwind of zany actions to stop polluters. See snapshots of these two films, and two other fascinating works, Urban Roots and Blood in the Mobile, below.

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Meryl lit up the night in her gold couture gown by Lanvin as she accepted her third Oscar for The Iron Lady at the 84th Oscars last night.The queen of Hollywood appeared far from iron-like is a glowing gold gown that also happened to be green. The dress, which flowed and draped in several impossible directions, was created with sustainable fabric.
Streep’s custom creation came together with the help of Colin Firth’s wife, Livia…

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They’re kept for a year or so and then they go out of style. They are outgrown. They get stained. Some people throw them away while others collect them in ever-bigger piles in the back corners of their closets.
They’re blue jeans, and Terri Daniels of Prescott, Ariz., has a unique use for them. She cuts them up and sews them together with king-sized bed blankets, recycling them into reminders of home for deployed American soldiers.

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Thinking of popping this question this spring?
You can do it with green style by offering your desired a ring with a history, an antique diamond that’s on its second or third go-round.

One of several antique diamond sets sold at Brilliant Earth

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Groups protesting natural gas drilling have focused on the threat to water supplies. They point to the modern drilling or “fracking” methods, which shatter rock deep beneath the earth, opening fissures that threaten water stores; and they cite cases of wells being contaminated near fracking operations in Pennsylvania and Wyoming.
Now new research by three Cornell University scientists suggests that fracking could cause even more havoc with the atmosphere

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