The 3 Most Environmentally Dam...

Apr 15, 2016 by

The 3 Most Environmentally Damaging Habits You Might Be Able to Change

[Translate] Environment If going green seems complicated, here are a few key choices that can have a big impact on the planet we call...

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SHTF Ready Housing Collective ...

Apr 14, 2016 by

SHTF Ready Housing Collective Pretty Sweet

[Translate] David Friedlander  LIFE EDITED Architecture Techno-urban utopianists predict a future where people will live in...

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OIL INDUSTRY’S SUPPRESSI...

Apr 14, 2016 by

OIL INDUSTRY’S SUPPRESSION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE BEGAN IN 1940’S, DOCUMENTS REVEAL

[Translate]   By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams   VIA TRUTHDIG Tim J Keegan / CC BY 2.0 A trove of newly uncovered documents shows...

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FRACKING’S TOTAL ENVIRON...

Apr 14, 2016 by

FRACKING’S TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT IS STAGGERING, REPORT FINDS

[Translate] by Samantha Page CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File A new report details the sheer amount of...

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CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS SWARM B...

Apr 14, 2016 by

CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS SWARM BILL NYE’S FACEBOOK PAGE, NASA SHOWS UP TO HELP SMACK THEM DOWN

[Translate] By Jen Hayden  DAILY KOS   Now THAT’s an awesome selfie Everyone’s favorite Science Guy, Bill Nye, shared an...

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CALTECH’S 2500 ORBITING ...

Apr 13, 2016 by

CALTECH’S 2500 ORBITING SOLAR PANELS COULD PROVIDE EARTH WITH LIMITLESS ENERGY

[Translate] FUTURISM NASA In Brief The Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI), a collaboration between Caltech and Northrup Grumman, has...

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GOOD NEWS ON CLIMATE CHANGE &#...

Apr 13, 2016 by

GOOD NEWS ON CLIMATE CHANGE ….. AND BAD NEWS

[Translate]   Global emissions may have peaked—but temperatures are rising at record speed, threatening a massive sea-level rise...

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COULD SANDERS’ SOCIAL JU...

Apr 13, 2016 by

[Translate] Could Sanders’ Social Justice Ideas Really Work? Take a Look at These Places   By Fran Korten, YES! Magazine | Film...

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WASTED FOOD LAYS A HEAVY BURDE...

Apr 13, 2016 by

WASTED FOOD LAYS A HEAVY BURDEN ON THE CLIMATE

[Translate] TRUTHDIG  Tim Radford     About one-third of all food produced never reaches a plate. (Taz via Flickr) This Creative...

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Is the 1% Really the Problem?

Apr 13, 2016 by

Is the 1% Really the Problem?

[Translate] Economy Unpack the numbers on America’s highest earners and there’s a stark division between the well-off and...

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WALL STREET’S FRAUD OF T...

Apr 13, 2016 by

[Translate] Richard Eskow  AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE In April 2006, while Goldman was preparing an RMBS backed by Countrywide loans...

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Meet Monsanto’s Evil Twi...

Apr 13, 2016 by

Meet Monsanto’s Evil Twin, an Industry That Does Major Damage and Gets Shockingly Little Attention

[Translate] Food Chemical fertilizer pollutes the environment, disrupts the climate and damages human and animal health. By Martha...

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HOW A PAPER PLANT IN ARKANSAS ...

Apr 13, 2016 by

HOW A PAPER PLANT IN ARKANSAS IS ALLEGEDLY POISONING THE PEOPLE OF CROSSETT

[Translate] Tech & Science By Emily Crane Linn NEWSWEEK The Georgia-Pacific’s aeration pond in Crossett, Arkansas. The...

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Not All Greenery Is Good: 10 H...

Apr 12, 2016 by

Not All Greenery Is Good: 10 Hazardous Houseplants

[Translate] Personal Health Sometimes trouble comes in pretty packages. By Larry Schwartz / AlterNet Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com...

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Infographic: How Ocean Polluti...

Apr 12, 2016 by

Infographic: How Ocean Pollution Impacts Marine Life—and All of Us

[Translate] Environment Much of the plastic we produce ends up in the ocean, where it kills fish, sea turtles and marine mammals. By...

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HOW CORPORATE INVERSIONS AND C...

Apr 12, 2016 by

HOW CORPORATE INVERSIONS AND CONGRESSIONAL GRIDLOCK GOT BEAT

[Translate] Money & Politics You don’t necessarily have to pass a bill to get something done in Washington. How...

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WE’RE OUT OF TIME ON CLI...

Apr 11, 2016 by

WE’RE OUT OF TIME ON CLIMATE CHANGE. AND HILLARY CLINTON HELPED US GET HERE. BY NAOMI KLEIN

[Translate] THE GUARDIAN   Naomi Klein Clinton’s conviction that she can get the fossil fuel companies on board is mistaken: this...

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The ‘Careful, Thoughtful...

Apr 11, 2016 by

The ‘Careful, Thoughtful’ Approach to Indian Point Is to Close It

[Translate] Environment Federal agencies have found New York’s twin reactors to be high-risk for earthquakes and terrorist attacks....

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Move Over Pesticides: Could Tr...

Apr 11, 2016 by

Move Over Pesticides: Could Traditional Plants Hold the Secret to Saving Crops From Pests?

[Translate] Environment Researchers are building on age-old practices to reduce food loss in Africa. By Rachel Cernansky / Ensia  ...

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STUDY: POLLUTION LEADS THOUSAN...

Apr 11, 2016 by

STUDY: POLLUTION LEADS THOUSANDS OF MOTHERS TO GIVE BIRTH PREMATURELY EACH YEAR

[Translate] TRUTHDIG     Los Angeles from the sky. (Jared eberhardt / (CC BY-SA 2.0)) Air pollution contributes to 16,000 premature...

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THE 10 BEST HOUSES OF 2016

Apr 11, 2016 by

THE 10 BEST HOUSES OF 2016

[Translate] Point of View METROPOLIS MAGAZINE Vanessa Quirk Hog Pen Creek Retreat, Lake Flato Architects Courtesy Casey Dunn The...

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NEW URBAN MECHANICS: THE START...

Apr 11, 2016 by

NEW URBAN MECHANICS: THE START-UP THAT WORKS WITHIN CITY GOVERNMENT

[Translate] Rebecca Greenwald  METROPOLIS MAGAZINE Courtesy The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics In 2010 Boston Mayor Tom...

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POVERTY IS NOW A REGIONAL PROB...

Apr 11, 2016 by

POVERTY IS NOW A REGIONAL PROBLEM

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green Abandoned homes in West Baltimore / Reddit Inequality is only growing across the U.S. as incomes...

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE ...

Apr 11, 2016 by

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (MARCH 16-31)

[Translate] THE DIRT  by J.R. Taylor A new public square in the Fawwar refugee camp in the West Bank, June 2014 / Adam Ferguson/The...

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THE DRONES ARE COMING

Apr 11, 2016 by

THE DRONES ARE COMING

[Translate] THE DIRT  by Jared Green Drones / South Park There are expected to be 20 million unmanned aerial vehicles or drones in...

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CAN TECHNOLOGY SAVE OUR CRUMBL...

Apr 11, 2016 by

CAN TECHNOLOGY SAVE OUR CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE?

[Translate] THE DIRT  by Jared Green Mississippi collapsed bridge / Wikipedia “The infrastructural situation in the U.S. is bad,”...

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TRANSFORMING SPACE MUST BE SEE...

Apr 11, 2016 by

TRANSFORMING SPACE MUST BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED

[Translate] David Friedlander  LIFE EDITED Architecture How LAAB fulfilled on the brief must be seen to be believed. Some of the...

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TREATING SOIL A LITTLE DIFFERE...

Apr 11, 2016 by

TREATING SOIL A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY COULD HELP IT STORE A HUGE AMOUNT OF CARBON

[Translate] by Natasha Geiling CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Shutterstock   Climate change is a massive problem with the potential to...

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TEA PARTY WAVE WASHES UP ̵...

Apr 11, 2016 by

TEA PARTY WAVE WASHES UP ‘ANTI-PARKS CAUCUS’ IN CONGRESS

[Translate] by Mary Ellen Kustin — Guest Contributor CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker, File In this Monday,...

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WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD...

Apr 11, 2016 by

WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD SCIENCE JOURNALS

[Translate] Climate by Joe Romm CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Shutterstock   A deeply flawed new study tries to challenge the basic...

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