Sustainable Agriculture is Blooming in the Upstate! Or is it?!, written 1 month ago, Yesterday I heard some troubling news that demanded a call to action. The Clemson University Student Organic Farm is under the chopping block as a direct result of the current economic downspin. ? As Vice Cha...

Entropy and Energy: Toward a Definition of Physical Sustainability (Paper), written 3 weeks ago, Posted by: Karl Ramjohn A different perspective towards developing an “environmental” approach to defining sustainability… > Entropy and Energy: Toward a Definition of Physical Sustainability �...

Hitchsters.com - Your green ride to the airport, written 1 week ago, Hitchsters is an easy-to-use website that conveniently connects travelers going to and from airports so that they can share a ride (and thus split the fare). The Hitchsters.com matching system makes riding in a car to the airport m...

Obama is not forgetting about fighting climate change, written 4 days ago, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvG2XptIEJk . The Obama administration is not wasting any time is setting up the political structures needed to fight climate change.  One of his first actions will be to establish a federal c...

Poll: US Consumers Eager for Hybrids, Unsure of Performance and Durability, written 2 days ago, A new survey conducted by Ruder Finn Insights, the in-house research division of Ruder Finn, Inc., reveals that hybrid vehicles are increasingly appealing to consumers despite diminishing prices at the pu...

Boxer comes out swinging, written 2 days ago, By David Roberts Today, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, announced that she will introduce two pieces of green legislation in January. Barbara Boxer. The first is a proposal to cre...

Hammarby: Swedish Eco-Suburb of the Future, written 3 days ago, BY ALEXANDER HOGAN Good design can change the world. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the community of Hammarby, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Once an industrial wasteland claimed by gangs as their territory, good design and car...

Save Water with Niagara Conservation Home Eco Kit, written 3 days ago, Unless you live in an area experiencing drought, you may not think about water conservation much, as traditionally water bills are not high. No matter where you live, we should all be conserving water. Niagara Conservation's Wa...

Grounding Connectivity: Do rivers have aquifer rights?, written 1 week ago,  “It is better to be approximately right rather than comprehensively wrong.” When groundwater aquifers are connected to a river, they need to be managed as a single integrated system.  A connected river gains water w...

GOVERNING NANOMATERIALS AND OTHER EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, written 6 days ago, By ADRIAN SMITH and PATRICK VAN ZWANENBERG, STEPS Centre members A recent report by the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) on nanomaterials - reported extensively in the media - illustrates the challenge...

Sustainable Energy Meets Unsustainable Outdoor Lighting, written 3 days ago, I came across the accompanying scene a few weeks ago on my return from a trip to Goblin Valley in southern Utah. We were coming out of Spanish Fork Canyon around dusk on a Sunday evening. The sun had just set behind the Oqu...

Happy World Toilet Day!, written 4 days ago, How would you like to use the bathroom on the side of the road in the middle of a bustling village?  How would you like to eat dinner soon afterwards with no clean water to wash your hands? Today is a day to pay attention to the over 2.5 million people i...

This Saturday: New London Sustainability Fair, written 2 weeks ago, Learn about efforts to reduce energy consumption, increase recycling and support sustainable practices SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 2008 10:00AM – 1:00pm New London Science & Technology Magnet High School 490 Jefferson Avenue, New Lond...

Teaching ourselves to fish, written 1 week ago, Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he'll eat forever. Or so the old aphorism goes. But is it true given the current state of the evidence? In Europe, the crisis is becoming dire as deep cuts to the numbers of fish ex...

Have you hugged your 61 trees?, written 1 week ago, I caught this interesting story on NPR the other day about a professor who used NASA satellite data to calculate an estimate of the total number of trees on Earth.   That estimate is over 400 billion.  (400,246,300,201 give or take - but probabl...

Holiday Stuff #2 - Organic Cotton, written 3 days ago, This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry. A number of clients and readers have asked...

feral kids, written 6 days ago, Barnardos have just come out with a report that claims 50% of adults think kids are 'like animals'. Fucking morons. Did they ask anyone that actually HAS kids? Did they ask anyone that actually lives on the rough estates where these so-called feral kids live? Highly...

Brammo Enertia Brings Bike Battery Breakthrough, written 2 days ago, While the three-wheeled hybrid scooter from Piaggo we featured earlier this month boasts some impressive performance statistics, it's easy to see that it might not be for everyone. The dual front wheel looks a little funky, the co...

I am a vegan. I strive to be eco friendly and organic. I also have one cool dog.

Zebra vs Crocodiles, written 3 days ago, REUTERS/Radu Sigheti Nature is often very cruel. REUTERS Photographer Radu Sigheti was there and can now show it with this sequence of a poor zebra which crossed the Masai river in the wrong place. Click here to see all the pictures of this crocodile attack...