AltWeeklies Wire
Leave No Child Inside: How Nature-Deficit Disorder is Affecting Our Kidsnew
Despite all the benefits that outdoor play offers, more and more kids are spending their time inside instead of out. In fact, according to a recent report put out by the National Wildlife Federation, children are spending half as much time outside as they did 20 years ago.
Boulder Weekly |
Dana Logan |
07-21-2008 |
Children & Families
Leader in Recycling Has Large Eco Footprintnew
Marin Sanitary Service started the first countywide curbside recycling program in the nation and opened the first indoor resource recovery center, but Marin residents still dispose of more waste than most other areas of the country, and an awful lot of it is not recycled.
Pacific Sun |
Samantha Campos |
07-18-2008 |
Environment
Tags: Recycling, environment
Want to Reduce Global Warming? Start with Your Platenew
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the American meat industry produces more than 60 million tons of waste annually--five tons for every U.S. citizen and 130 times the volume of human waste.
San Antonio Current |
Jim Motavalli |
07-16-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Are Delaware and New Jersey Exploring Alternative Energy Solutions Pennsylvania Should be Looking at?new
While the debate about offshore drilling continues to underscore the environmental policies of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, Philadelphia's neighbors to the south and east are planning for a different kind of offshore energy.
Philadelphia Weekly |
John Steele |
07-14-2008 |
Environment
A Look at the Ecological Impacts of the Big Sur Wildfiresnew
Big Sur enthusiasts may be horrified to see the wildfires turn postcard-quality forests into black moonscapes. But scientists remind us that fire is a critical ingredient in Big Sur's fire-adapted beauty, and the ecological challenges arise less from the flames than from human meddling. As long as the wildfires are burning, their precise ecological impacts will be shrouded in smoke -- but experts do have a sense of how the flames will affect non-human life in Big Sur.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
07-11-2008 |
Disasters
Citizen EnCana: The Double Life of the World's Second-Largest Natural Gas Co.new
Canada's largest energy company has created jobs, brought investment and poured money into rural communities across the Canadian Prairies and the western United States. It has also left a trail of farmers and ranchers who say the company has ruined their land, made them sick and killed their livestock.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Adrian Morrow |
07-10-2008 |
Environment
The San Diego Zoo Hopes to Help Companies Mimic Naturenew
The biomimicry unit would connect educational institutions and companies with the zoo's vast collection of plants and animals, along with the zoos expertise. Zoo CFO Paula Brock sees biomimicry as both a way to help the world move toward a greener future and bring a different kind of green into the zoo's coffers.
San Diego CityBeat |
Eric Wolff |
07-09-2008 |
Animal Issues
Ecoholic: Fireworks Trash the Planetnew
I've always wondered whether fireworks are polluting. Any idea?
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
07-07-2008 |
Advice
Fighting for Green Technologies ... and Some Venture Capital, Pleasenew
The flow of capital toward alternative energy and other green technologies has risen from a trickle to a torrent which last year equaled tens of billions of dollars. Much of that money comes off one street in Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area has already become a green tech hub. But the Southland is also a potential center of the emerging industry. We looked into a few of the mad scientists hoping to do well, do good, and do the hustle.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Nathaniel Page |
07-07-2008 |
Environment
Environmentally-Friendly Burials Save More than One Kind of Greennew
Dienna Genther's coffins have an obvious marketing appeal to those seeking a "green" burial, something that has become increasingly popular over the last few years. Yet she emphasizes the reduced financial burden on the deceased and their families when explaining her business motives. She speaks soberly and doesn't come off as an idealist as much as she does a tradesperson.
Weekly Alibi |
Marquis Dufek |
07-01-2008 |
Environment
Global Mushroom Culture Hits Idaho Forestnew
An unusually fecund mushrooming season has filled the Idaho forest with an international rainbow gathering of commercial morel pickers who step slowly through the trees filling buckets with the valuable commodity.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
06-27-2008 |
Environment
Newest Buzz on Colony Collapse Disordernew
Why bees thrive in the city, promote life on earth and deserve a guerrilla movement.
North Bay Bohemian |
Alastair Bland |
06-27-2008 |
Environment
Green Sex Toys: A Veritable Whole Foods of Fuckingnew
I may be a rookie when it comes to the ball-stretching world of L.A. erotica, but really, the sheer volume of environmentally sound substitutes available to so-called sexual deviants (so-called by my grandmother, anyway) boggles the mind.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Coco Tanaka |
06-27-2008 |
Shopping
Superfund, or Superfraud?new
The EPA wants you to look at the Milltown Dam and see Superfund restoration at work. Look further and see the costly truth.
Missoula Independent |
Patrick M. Klemz |
06-26-2008 |
Environment
Louisiana Perks Up for the Emerging Carbon Trade Marketnew
The rapidly evolving industry — dubbed the "cap-and-trade" market — pays sellers, typically landowners, for sequestering carbon dioxide by growing trees and plants that remove it from the atmopshere with the potential of limiting the level of pollutants that contribute to global warming.
Gambit |
Mollie Day |
06-25-2008 |
Environment
