Last week, Scott Stringer, the Borough President of Manhattan in New York City, called and presided over “Transportation 2030,” a convocation of city officials, administrators, directors of NGO’s, authors and others whose focus has been moving the public around New York City — and elsewhere. The issues, like the City itself, were monumental: how... Read More...
Sustainable farming is getting a new crop from a grain, lupin, long used primarily as animal feed. Lupin is native to northern Europe, does not require spraying with Roundup to survive, and has more protein and less fat than soy beans. Read More...
One litany that is sung at every convocation of Republican presidential hopefuls is that the EPA must go; it is environmental regulations that are strangling our industrial might and keeping it from employing every American who wants a job. None of the candidates refer to the regulation-free era before the Clean Air and Clean... Read More...
After making $7.2 billion from July to September, and letting an oil spill gush for weeks before stopping it, Shell offered the affected communities 50 bags of rice, beans, sugar and tomatoes as disaster relief. You have to ask, does anyone in the oil industry have any sense of shame? Read More...
There's a new study that proves what we know: making your building more energy efficient really saves you a lot of money. Read More...
This article on Northwest's biggest polluters of the region's air points out the problem: as long as the EPA's fines cost less - a lot less - than the remedy of the cause of pollution, companies will continue to pollute as a business decision -- and the people in the region will continue to... Read More...
With climate change bringing unprecedented storms to many sections of the country, a lot of homeowners are probably dreaming of installing their own electric power systems as they sit waiting for the restoration of their electricity at the end of downed power lines. Their timing is not far off: solar power is moving into... Read More...
Getting the price of solar down to where it can compete with fossil fuels per watt generated is crucial for our future. Optical cavity furnace technology, developed under the aegis of the NRE, takes us a big step down that road. Read More...
Last month, Thomas DiNapoli, the Comptroller of the State of New York, wrote in the Huffington Post that “short term profits at the expense of environmental protection and human rights often cost companies more in the long term.” He was not talking as an environmentalist, but as an investor, part of his job as... Read More...
This terrifying personal account of a woman who opened her farm in Pennsylvania to hydrofracking, brings us the hard reality of the process; of what really happens to any environment where it is used. Sensitive readers be warned. Read More...
