By Joshua Farley, cross-posted from Solutions Journal, courtesy of the Land Institute Editor’s Note: This article is part of a regular section in Solutions in which the author is challenged...
By David Roberts Mitt Romney promises to revoke federal support for the wind industry. That might not go over well in swing states like Iowa, where the booming wind sector has wide, bipartisan su...
By Sharon Kelly A report from the University of Buffalo that called fracking "safer" was misleading and riddled with errors. But in failing to disclose the authors' connections to Big Oil, it sho...
Many questions left unanswered for Indigenous representatives impacted by Arctic drilling and Alberta Tar Sands who travelled to The Hague, Netherlands The Hague, Netherlands. Today, Indigenous rep...
At about 11:30 pm on Sunday night, May 20, a dozen activists from Occupy Spokane and Wild Idaho Rising Tide converged in Spokane, Washington, to protest megaloads of oversized equipment bound for Albe...
On May 19th, roughly 200 people gathered in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, to participate in a colorful march organized by Croatan Earth First! on Occupy Well Street’s Day of Action Aga...
NOTE: This report from Worldwatch Institute, on World Biodiversity Day, undoubtedly contains crucial information on the species loss the world is confronting, and approaches to stem the tide of ecolog...
Washington/Idaho Megaload Resistance At about 11:30 pm on Sunday night, May 20, a dozen activists from Occupy Spokane and Wild Idaho Rising Tide converged in Spokane, Washington, to protest megaloads...
By Leslie Chang Stanford Professor Christopher Gardner says all the nutrition studies in the world couldn’t convince Americans to change their diets. He knows what is finally doing the trick, t...
Note: Aldo Leopold is spinning in his grave… –The GJEP Team by Ellen Cantarow, May 20, 2012 Cross-Posted from TomDispatch When workers drilling tunnels at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, b...
Cranes stand around tsunami-crippled four reactors, from left, Unit 1 to Unit 4, at Fukushima Dadi-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP /Kyodo New...
May 22, 2012/The Hague, Netherlands – Today, Eriel Deranger, spokesperson and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) addressed Shell executives and shareholders at Shell’s Annual G...
Environmental scientists have known that high levels of the toxic element, mercury, have been accumulating in the Arctic Ocean for some time. It was believed to be mostly caused by atmospheric source...
A chick's chances throughout life will depend on a good environment and good parenting in its earliest months. One of the ways that chicks can get ahead is to have an extra relative looking after them...
The kind of deluges that in recent years washed out Cedar Rapids, IA, forced the Army Corps of Engineers to intentionally blow up levees to save Cairo, IL, and sent the Missouri River over its banks f...
Where will the water be? That is the critical question for the future as climate changes occur forcing water to change its habits. Climate change projections indicate a steady increase in temperatur...
By Adrian Hale A new book by Lynne Curry covers everything from how grass becomes beef to the basics of butchery -- with plenty of recipes along the way.
By Greg Hanscom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll tells us why ExxonMobil pulled its funding from climate denial campaigns -- and why we may never be able to hold the company accountable f...
By David Roberts What would a future that makes sense look like? What would it mean to do it right, to stay within carbon and other resource limits while enjoying a high quality of life?
By Grist staff Did you know that if everyone in the country wanted to eat their daily recommendations of fruit and vegetables we wouldn't have nearly enough? See the big picture of American farmi...
Your ideas for changing the world may be desperately important. But if you can't find a way to engage the interests of the people around you they may never take off, argues John-Paul Flintoff...
NOTE: When GJEP traveled to Chiapas, Mexico in March, 2011 to investigate the impacts of the recently announced REDD+ agreement with California and Brazil, we discovered that the project was tightly l...
Winnemem Wintu Tribe needs 4-day closure of 400-yard section of McCloud River to Perform Girls’ Traditional Coming of Age Ceremony May 21, 2012, Redding, CA – The Winnemem Wintu Tribe will hold a...
By Ellen Cantarow Fracking companies are storming rural Wisconsin, bringing money and misery with them. But they're not after natural gas: They're mining sand crucial to drilling operations every...
By Twilight Greenaway Do you have something to say about the $85 billion bill that will shape the nation's food and farming landscape for the next five years? Congress is digging down into the de...
By Sen. Bernie Sanders We can't afford to give away more than $110 billion to the oil, gas, and coal industries over the next decade. That's why I've introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act.
Note: Guess what? Cutting forests to pulp them into paper or burn them for energy is a bad idea for the climate. Shocking, just shocking… –The GJEP Team May 14, 2012 When wood is used...
By David Roberts To understand the promise of renewable energy for the U.S. military, start as far from D.C. as possible -- say, with a company of Marines in Afghanistan.
One of the problems with an all electric car is charging them. As opposed to gasoline stations, there are far fewer opportunities to charge electric vehicles. Shai Agassi hopes Israel is ready to...
Cross Posted from the Indypendent The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the three would-be NATO protesters arrested on Wednesday who...
Cross Posted from the Indypendent The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the three would-be NATO protesters arrested on Wednesday who...
The duo behind eco label Goodone, Nin Castle and Claire Farrell, aren’t afraid of taking on new challenges. Next up: showing the big boys that green is good and persuading the press to say goodbye t...
Cross Posted from The League of Conservation Voters The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is an organization that writes voting-ready state legislation to hand to overextended politicians,...
Cross Posted from The League of Conservation Voters The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is an organization that writes voting-ready state legislation to hand to overextended politicians,...
Chile: high court blocks Patagonia hydro scheme Cross-Posted from WW4 Report, Mon, 05/14/2012 Chile’s Supreme Court on May 11 issued a ruling blocking construction of the Cuervo hydroelectric da...
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) may have sold off land contaminated with chemical weapons and radioactive material buried at an RAF base in North-East Scotland, according to reports. The Scottish Enviro...
Note: As people around the world increasingly mobilize against the myriad crises threatening the lives of people and the life support system of the planet, it is not surprising that the authorities ar...
In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists have used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for the region over the last 1000 years. The s...
A laser is a device that emits light (electromagnetic radiation) through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of photons. The term laser originated as an acronym for Lig...
You may have seen pictures of women in Africa cooking their daily meals on a small cookstove. These cooking implements look remarkably similar to the portable charcoal grills an American family might...
By Claire Thompson New awards roll out the “green carpet” for old buildings that have been given eco-tastic upgrades you probably can’t even see.
By Ask Umbra A reader wonders what to do with all the CD cases he no longer needs. Umbra has the answers.
Combining stress-busting know how with Ayurvedic tradition, Dr Wakde’s Natural Health Clinic is the place to go when you need a natural solution for stress and aches, says a revitalised Ruth Styles...
RAF Kinloss in Moray, Scotland, at the centre of an investigation into radioactive contamination and chemical weapons buried at the site...
A powerful earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing six people and felling homes and church steeples around the historic city of Ferrara.
By Jim O’Grady The New York City Beverage Association is buying ads on hundreds of subway cars and buses, hitting back against the city's anti-soda campaign.
1. Join UNAC on May 20 in Chicago 2. UNAC statement against police repression in Chicago 3. Protest NATO & Banks at Greek Consulate Sat, May 19 – 6:30 ...
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 9:40 pm by Shahid Buttar In the wake of this week’s House votes on the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act — which left the NDAA’s domestic military detention provis...
Want to lose weight but find it hard to hit the gym three times a week or eating 1,500 calories per day? You might not have to do either. New research suggest sleeping more could be enough to keep the...
By Frank Ackerman The Breakthrough Institute is missing the point: Carbon pricing can't do the whole job alone, but that doesn't mean we should dismiss it outright.
by Amy Goodman, May 17, 2012 Cross-Posted from TruthDig Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago. This week, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Or...
By Ruy Teixeira Conservatives take note: A new poll shows a decisive majority of Americans believe protecting the environment is good for the economy.
by the Center for Biological Diversity FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.— The U.S. Forest Service awarded one of the largest-ever tree-cutting contracts in the history of the national forest system today to a timber...
by the Center for Biological Diversity FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.— The U.S. Forest Service awarded one of the largest-ever tree-cutting contracts in the history of the national forest system today to a timber...
Received from ECOTERRA Intl. Yesterday, 16. 05. 2012, in Frankfurt, Germany the general Public Prosecutor to the Higher Regional Court requested a preliminary extradition arrest warrant against Capta...
By David Roberts The feds just sold 400 million tons of mineable coal at bargain-basement prices to a company that's now going to strip-mine public land and screw the climate.
By Marianela Jarroud, cross-posted from IPS Teófila Anchahua raises guinea pigs in Peru’s southern highlands with the help of a microloan. Credit:Julio Angulo/IPS SANTIAGO, May 11, 2012 (IPS) ...
By Twilight Greenaway When Thomas Keller, the iconic chef at The French Laundry, made a point to privilege flavor over sustainability in the New York Times recently, he did us all a disservice.
Two scientists involved in Spice project to simulate the cooling effect of volcanoes had submitted patents for similar technology. . By Erin Hale, cross posted from The Guardian, Wednesday 16 May 2...
Raising a family can be a difficult matter. But does it make one happy or miserable? Of course part of the answer is that it depends... Contrary to some scholarship and popular belief, parents expe...