What's more disturbing than the poisonous algae in Grand Lake St Marys is the apparent helplessness of the people who live and work on the lake to do anything about the farm runoff that causes it. Read More...
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The 10,000-Year-Old Problem: Annual Food Plants
The next great thing in the survival of our species is perennial grains and legumes instead of the annuals that require tilling and fertilizing every year. Read about what this will mean for you -- and the Earth. Read More...
The Perils of Hydrofracking, on Film
The documentary, "Gasland," covers the impact of drilling gas wells by hydraulic fracturing, described here as "polemical and quite frightening." Read More...
Environmentally Friendly Dry Cleaning Arrives
No more toxic perc is used to clean clothes in these new, ecologically friendly dry cleaners in Oregon. Time to as your local drycleaner to do the same. Read More...
PA Gas Well Blows Fracking Fluid into Old Growth Forest
A blowout of a gas well in Clearfield Country, Pennsylvania, gushed gas and fracking fluid 75 ft into the for 16 hours. It got very little media attention, which was focused on its big brother in the Gulf. Read More...
The Bees Have It: They Monitor the Air Around German Airports
Testing the honey of local bees for toxins like lead and other heavy metals is the way the air around Dusseldorf Airport and seven other German airports is monitored. Read More...
Environmental Justice Eyes Users as well as Producers
In this thought-provoking Q & A interview, an environmental lawyer talks about paying for environmental costs and points out that the users of polluting sources have to bear their share of the cost. Read More...
Wild Birds & Farmed Fish — a Sustainable Combination
Veta La Palma in Spain is a fish farm where the fish live in freshened sea water and birds eat (some of) the fish. Read how a commercial outfit recreated a wildlife habitat and is profitably growing better and healthier fish because of it. Read More...
Keeping Warm, Keeping Cool: Natural Ways and Unnatural Consequences
Mary Ebbets never thought she’d want to be back in her old leaky farmhouse. It had taken her and her husband years to save up the money for a new house, and a lot more time to get the new house built on another part of their farm in Eastport, Maine. She loved her... Read More...
Big Fuel Cell Takes 500-Unit New Haven Condo Off the Grid
Bruce Decker, the developer of a 360 State Street in New Haven, has provided it with a 400KW fuel cell that will light and heat the building, as well as provide hot water and warm the swimming pool, taking it off the grid. It's the first fuel cell for a large US residential building. Read More...