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A Pasadena Family Turns its Backyard into an Urban Homesteadnew
Melting ice caps, unchecked global oil consumption, mind-boggling volumes of trash accumulating in landfills -- the problems facing our planet are so big, it's tempting to tune them out. But when you talk to the Dervaes family, the founders of a home-based sustainable living resource center in Pasadena called Path to Freedom, it's the smallness of things you walk away thinking about.
Pasadena Weekly |
April Caires |
04-28-2008 |
Environment
A 'Green Vision' for Indiananew
It is imprudent (some might say criminal) to continue to ignore or deny the pollution that places Indiana among the most toxic states in the nation.
NUVO |
Thomas P. Healy |
04-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment, Indiana
In the Wake of Katrina, Congress Now Requires Review of Corps of Engineers Decisionsnew
But it does not require the Corps to heed the reviews -- or the reviewers.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
04-23-2008 |
Environment
Green Fatigue: Is Anyone Else Sick and Tired of Eco-Chic?new
The most inconvenient truth of all, it turns out, is this: The Green Movement might make you feel warm and fuzzy, but it won't stop global warming. Really want to save the planet? Wear your old clothes, drive your old car, and save up for solar panels.
Phoenix New Times |
Staff |
04-22-2008 |
Environment
Alternative Fuels Aren't Solving Phoenix's Air-Pollution Problemnew
And it's doubtful that they will anytime soon.
Phoenix New Times |
Ray Stern |
04-22-2008 |
Environment
We're All Destroying the Earth, and Buying an Organic Handbag Ain't Gonna Helpnew
These days, helping the environment is Big Business. It's not just media hype, and not just sweatshirts made from post-consumer Diet Coke packaging.
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
04-22-2008 |
Environment
Have a Green Daynew
Twenty-four ways you can help the planet, from how you wake yourself up in the morning to how you get drunk at night.
Chicago Reader |
Mick Dumke |
04-21-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment, Earth Day
California Shows Us How Not to Fight Global Warmingnew
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown are moving forward with new ways of forcing significantly more density upon L.A. and other cities. But the debate is being dominated by the smart-growth movement, unsettling several top global-warming scientists and researchers, who say the sweeping land-use proposals being considered have little basis in science.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
04-18-2008 |
Environment
Five New Ideas That Could Change the Worldnew
All right, so you've mastered some steps to greening your life [insert hearty applause], but so far no fairy dust has descended to save us from... well, ourselves. Crap.
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
04-18-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Green Buying Binge is Doing Us Innew
What started all those years ago as a valiant effort to nudge residents to get with the three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) has morphed into a fervent consumer campaign that has vanquished "reduce." It's not just evidenced by my new supersized recycling bin, but also by the endless variety of ways we're encouraged to be "green" while indulging unabated our addiction to shopping.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Cash |
04-18-2008 |
Environment
Stalled Great Lakes Water Compact Progressesnew
A new draft of the Great Lakes Basin Compact has been tentatively agreed to by Wisonsin Gov. Jim Doyle, Senate Democrats and once-reluctant Assembly Republicans. Legislatures in four of the eight Great Lakes states have already approved the current version of the compact.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
04-18-2008 |
Environment
Scientists Cautious About Ocean Iron Fertilizationnew
As companies position themselves to profit from the practice of dumping iron in the sea to boost the production of phytoplankton, some of the scientists who conducted the first experiments are sounding a cautionary note.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
04-17-2008 |
Environment
San Jose's Solar Power Playnew
Mayor Chuck Reed puts some political muscle behind his vision with a push to make green building mandatory.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Erin Sherbert |
04-17-2008 |
Environment
Conservative Think Tank Plans Assault for Earth Daynew
The globe isn't warming. Nuclear power is green energy. Mining is good for Mother Nature and even better for the poor. Welcome to Earth Day, Utah style, courtesy of The Sutherland Institute.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Ted McDonough |
04-17-2008 |
Environment
Seven Things Portland Should Do to Get Serious About Being Greennew
Sometime between Gov. Tom McCall's speeches and Al Gore's Nobel Prize, Portland ceded the green crown. Here's how to get it back.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
04-16-2008 |
Environment
