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Bottled Water Mania: South Korea Sells H2O from Demilitarized Zone
The bottled water industry has branded itself by importing water from pristine streams and mountain springs in some of the world’s most exotic places: Fiji, Tahiti, the Swiss Alps. Now you can go ahead and add North Korea’s Demilitarized...
EcoMeme: Global Warming ‘Debate’
Remember when “Rowdy” Roddy Piper body slammed Mr. T during their boxing match? T was winning. Piper was frustrated. The body slam was utterly against the rules and unsportsmanlike, yet highly entertaining. The global warming debate going on in ...
Report: GMO Crops Require Extra Chemicals to Combat Weeds
A few months back, alarming news reports like this ABC news video surfaced about the rise of superweeds. But the sensational story failed to focus on the most important point: these menacing superweeds are found in fields where GM crops are planted....
Sonoma Honored for Being Slow
How does a popular wine country town just outside of San Francisco become America’s first “cittaslow” city? Apparently, as Sonoma discovered, by just being itself. Being slow is considered a bad thing in many parts of the world, but in Sonoma...
Brits List 10 Quirky Ways to Reduce Your Environmental Impact
Who says you have to be serious while saving the planet? Definitely not Envirofone, the UK’s leading mobile phone recycling company. They recently did a survey asking Brits to share their favourite tips on how to reduce their environmental impact...
The Color of My Car-bon
Imagine driving along the road and seeing puffs of green or red smoke coming out of the car in front of you. If the new conceptual device created by artist Karolina Sobecka were to enter production, it could happen. Sobecka is in the process of dev...
Will Proposed Biop Plan Restore Salmon and the Economy? A Portland Court Must Decide
Living in the Northwest, salmon is close to my home – and heart. That’s because the salmon restoration issue in the Northwest isn’t just about conservation. Like many other environmental issues, it’s also about jobs and the e...
EcoMeme: Land Con$ervation
Thanksgiving is for lots of things – feasting on turkey or vegetarian alternatives with family, watching or tolerating football, and if you’re celebrating it in the U.S., contemplating the origins of the country. European colonists here lear...
Supreme Court Will Rule on Florida Shoreline Protection Program
It’s a classic feud predicated upon the idea I have my land, now you cannot have yours. In this case, the land is the pristine white beach that stretches along the Florida Panhandle, a beach that has been restored over the past 30 years throug...
In: Convoys. Out: Carpools
Commuting could take on a whole new meaning with the Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) research project funded by the European Commission. The project, based on the concept of linking vehicles together using wireless sensors, is aimed a...
Big Pharma One of Our Biggest Polluters
A new study has found that the American health care sector accounts for 8 percent of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. The study, conducted by University of Chicago researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Associa...
Grounds for Change Giveaway
Coffee makes the world go around. Well, at least my world anyway. Without it, I’m a bit like one of Snow White’s dwarf’s – sleepy, grumpy and dopey. But I won’t drink just any coffee. Bad coffee doesn’t get past my lips. It not onl...
It Came from Outer Space
Energy, that is. With few energy resources of its own, Japan is literally reaching for the stars in its attempt to turn unlimited clean energy into reality by 2030. The nation’s plan, known as the Space Solar Power System (SSPS), involves posi...
Turning Old Industrial Sites into Wildlife Habitats
Unsightly, decaying and unused, the “brown” industrial lands found throughout the United States serve only to remind people of changing technologies and economic downturns. The lands used to house factories and warehouses that hummed wit...
KISS My Carbon Footprint
Anyone who subscribes the KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid) philosophy will appreciate the results of this new study recently completed by Thomas Dietz and his colleagues at Michigan State University. In a first of its kind study, the researchers examin...
EcoMeme: Gene Flow and GMOs
You gonna eat that? Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that once planted in the wild, genetically modified organisms, such as bio-engineered fruit, grain or vegetables can change native, wild plant neighb...
Rescue Dogs Get New Leash on Life
The casting call went out last January, not to big Hollywood agents but to animal shelters and rescue groups across the country. Looking for four-legged crooners, black and white, who can get along with others on tour, do the old soft paw on stage, ...
Erin Brockovich Goes to Washington
Watch out Washington, Erin Brockovich is coming your way. And it’s not a social visit. She’s on a mission to shake, rattle and overhaul the nation’s toxic chemical laws, in particular the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The TSCA, which wa...
Green or Greenwash? Southwest’s ‘Green Plane’ Takes to the Skies
Passenger airplanes may never be carbon neutral but many airlines are attempting to find ways to reduce their carbon emissions and become more environmentally-friendly. Some airline, such as Air New Zealand, have been testing alternative fuels. Sout...
Measuring the Eco Pawprint of Your Pets
Cats and dogs are the latest animals to fall under the microscope of green living with a new book called “Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living.” Written by two New Zealand architects specializing in sustainable livin...
UN Questions Green Credentials of Biofuels
Biofuel usage has increased considerably in recent years, mostly driven by government mandates to find cleaner fuel options. But a new UN report brings into question how environmentally friendly these biofuels actually are. The report, from the Unit...
Wisconsin Brewery Lights Up Hospital the Green Way
As a rule, hospitals aren’t all that keen on the alcohol industry. Alcohol, after all, is seen as causing many of the accidents that bring victims through their emergency room doors every day. But one hospital in LaCrosse, Wisconsin is starting to...
Berlin’s Red-Light Scene Goes Green
In Germany, prostitution is legal and provides work for an estimated 400,000 people. But like many industries, it has been hit hard by the economic downturn. In an effort to attract more business, one Berlin brothel is offering an ‘eco-discoun...
The Skinny on Being a Ralph Lauren Fashionplate
For good reason, Ralph Lauren is distancing himself from this extremely altered photo of model Filippa Hamilton, who at 5′10″ and 120 pounds was allegedly fired for being too fat to wear the designer’s Town and Country fashions. L...
Your Role in the Copenhagen Climate Talks
I wouldn’t make a very good diplomat. The veiled dance and coded signals of international political negotiation would drive me crazy. There are two months before world leaders gather in Copenhagen, Denmark for a United Nations Summit to hammer ...
This Place Is a Dump…We’ll Take It!
Could converting the huge amounts of garbage sitting in landfills around the world into biofuel be the answer to the growing energy crisis and a means of wrangling out-of-control carbon emissions? Scientists in Singapore and Switzerland think so. Th...
EPA Taking Heat Over Toxic Emissions from America’s Coal Plants
America runs on coal. It creates half of our electricity. And the unclean technology producing this source may be killing our children, grandchildren and the future unborn, not to mention our natural environment. Is the fed sensing the urgency to li...
Ad Drought Closes Gourmet and Modern Bride Magazines
Gourmet Magazine, an American classic, found a slump in add sales spelled the recipe for disaster. That’s why Conde Nast Publications is closing the oldest food magazine in the US along with Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, and the parent magazine ...
Climate Change Could Make Your Meat Taste Bad
We already know that we should eat less meat for the sake of the planet – the United Nations has said reduced meat consumption would help curb greenhouse emissions. While many ardent environmentalists are vegetarian, initiatives like Meatless M...
Rio De Janeiro’s Eco Barriers: Protecting the Environment or Hiding the Slums?
Debate is raging over Rio De Janeiro’s proposed eco-barriers designed, according to officials, to protect its endangered Atlantic coast forest. There’s no question that the Atlantic forest, which has over 20,000 plant species, 950 bird species a...
