Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
Countries in Central America and the Caribbean rank highest on the Happy Planet Index list of places to live a long, sustainable life. Senate testimony begins on climate and energy legislation. The Bell Labs office park in New Jersey...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
Retired professor wants to build car-free village in a San Francisco suburb. Rock snot is invading New York. Vermont farmers change cows' diets to lower their emissions. Coal mining costs five times more in deaths than it provides in...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
President Obama issues an Earth Day proclamation sounding a call for protecting the environment, developing renewable energy and creating measures to fight global warming (read the full proclamation here). Switchboard readers share what Earth Day means to them. Robert...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
In the news this week: GM and Segway unveil a two-seat electric vehicle that runs on a lithium-ion battery and travels up to 35 miles per hour (Huffington Post, Fast Company, Wired's Autopia blog). NRDC's Luke Tonachel wrote about the...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
In the news this week: Turn out the lights, please! Earth Hour is on Saturday at 8:30 pm (find out which sites will go dark). NRDC's Rob Perks makes sense of the EPA's mountaintop removal announcements on his Switchboard blog...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
President Obama goes to Canada. Grist, the Thin Green Line and Green Inc weigh in on the trip and the President's stance on the tar sands. Switchboard bloggers write about it here. The Arctic is burping nitrous oxide, a...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
Fast Company lists the ten best green jobs for the next decade. EcoGeek says the Obama administration needs to re-tool the Bureau of Land Management. On Green Inc., Kate Galbraith writes about a mileage tax as an alternative to...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
Governor Schwarzenegger convened a two-day Global Climate Summit this week. NRDC Senior Scientist Peter Miller blogged about the Summit here. Andrew Revkin covered Obama's video message to the summit meeting in this post. Frances Beinecke, Liz Barratt-Brown and Jake...continued→
Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment
Sustainablog suggests ten ways to change the world through social media. Salon interviews British journalist Rose George about environmental health issues connected with human waste. It's Getting Hot in Here blogs about what green jobs could do for Navajo...continued→
