Brune to Walmart Executives an...

Jun 9, 2015 by

Brune to Walmart Executives and Shareholders: Living Wages, Living Planet Hitched Together

[Translate] By Dean Hubbard  SIERRA CLUB Image Source: Screenshot from the video of Michael Brune speaking. Last Friday Sierra Club...

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G7 Leaders Agree On Action To ...

Jun 9, 2015 by

G7 Leaders Agree On Action To Limit Global Warming To 2 Degrees

[Translate] Climate by Samantha Page CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Michael Kappeler/Pool Photo via AP   Group of Seven (G7) leaders agreed...

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BREAKING: Court Throws Out Cha...

Jun 9, 2015 by

BREAKING: Court Throws Out Challenge To Obama’s Climate Change Rule

[Translate] by Katie Valentine CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: shutterstock   The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia threw out a...

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Streams and Rivers Left Vulner...

Jun 9, 2015 by

Streams and Rivers Left Vulnerable to Pollution Under New “Clean Water Rule”

[Translate] WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE The new Clean Water Rule, issued by the US EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, reduces the...

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EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton sol...

Jun 8, 2015 by

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton sold out Honduras: Lanny Davis, corporate cash, and the real story about the death of a Latin American democracy

[Translate] Want to know why Clinton’s State Dept. failed to help an elected leader? Follow the money and stench of Lanny Davis...

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‘We Are In a Revolutiona...

Jun 8, 2015 by

‘We Are In a Revolutionary Moment’: Chris Hedges Explains Why An Uprising Is Coming — And Soon

[Translate] The status quo is doomed but whether the future will be progressive or reactionary is uncertain, Hedges tells Salon. By...

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IN LOS ANGELES, AUTOPIA MEETS ...

Jun 8, 2015 by

IN LOS ANGELES, AUTOPIA MEETS NOIR

[Translate] THE DIRT – BY JARED GREEN In 1971, architectural historian Reyner Banham wrote Los Angeles: The Architecture of...

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5 Medicinal Herbs You Can Grow...

Jun 8, 2015 by

5 Medicinal Herbs You Can Grow in Your Backyard

[Translate] These herbs aren’t just for cooking — here’s how you can use them to treat ailments from asthma to anxiety....

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8 Staggeringly Beautiful Photo...

Jun 8, 2015 by

8 Staggeringly Beautiful Photos to Celebrate World Oceans Day

[Translate] Environment The jury is out on whether life on Earth began at the bottom of the ocean, but make no mistake: Life on Earth...

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The United States just lived t...

Jun 8, 2015 by

[Translate] May’s extreme downpours made history Lindsay Abrams SALON.COM The United States just lived through its wettest...

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THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING

Jun 8, 2015 by

THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING

[Translate] BYCASEYCOATESDANSON  A great film and screening — not to be missed! For the last 20 years, notorious activists “the...

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WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THE AMAZON ...

Jun 8, 2015 by

[Translate] Mark Plotkin is an ethnobotanist, studying the traditional uses for plants in Central and South America forests. He works...

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OU...

Jun 8, 2015 by

[Translate] Casey Coates Danson TED Speaker...

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RAINFOREST PROTECTION

Jun 8, 2015 by

RAINFOREST PROTECTION

[Translate]  RAN We Fight For Forests Even if you live thousands of miles away from the nearest rainforest, they are essential to...

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WILL TPP KILL THE POST OFFICE?

Jun 8, 2015 by

[Translate] Dave Johnson  AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE Corporations are notorious for sneaking things into laws and regulations before...

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Opponents Of Obama’s Carbon Po...

Jun 8, 2015 by

Opponents Of Obama’s Carbon Pollution Rule Are Trying Nearly Everything To Take It Down

[Translate]   by Ryan Koronowski CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Shutterstock When the Obama administration unveiled its plan to make...

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THESE CAFES ARE TURNING GARBAG...

Jun 6, 2015 by

[Translate] Taste of Waste By Madeleine Thomas   GRIST Last year the popular British grocery chain Tesco threw away more than 60,000...

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EVER HEAR OF A SELF-HEALING BU...

Jun 6, 2015 by

EVER HEAR OF A SELF-HEALING BUILDING? JUST WAIT!

[Translate] Delft University of Technology CRACKS OUT By Ana Sofia Knauf   GRIST Some potentially good news for green architecture:...

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CAN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT STILL ...

Jun 6, 2015 by

CAN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT STILL SPY ON ME?

[Translate]   TRUTHDIG Surveillance reform explainer: can the FBI still listen to my phone calls? Lone wolves, roving wiretaps,...

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TWILIGHT OF THE PROFESSORS

Jun 6, 2015 by

TWILIGHT OF THE PROFESSORS

[Translate]   By Michael Schwalbe, CounterPunch  VIA TRUTHDIG Derrick Tyson (CC BY 2.0) This piece first appeared at...

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BIG OIL SOON TO BE EXTINCT

Jun 6, 2015 by

BIG OIL SOON TO BE EXTINCT

[Translate]   By Pamela Alma Weymouth   TRUTHDIG Shutterstock (First published by 3BL Media Media/Justmeans) What do Big Oil and...

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THE TIDE IS TURNING AGAINST AL...

Jun 6, 2015 by

THE TIDE IS TURNING AGAINST ALEC IN THE RENEWABLE ENERGY BATTLE

[Translate] by Samantha Page  CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: PRNewsFoto/Duke Energy Powerful interests are facing off on the future of...

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A ‘HOUSE OF HORRORS̵...

Jun 6, 2015 by

A ‘HOUSE OF HORRORS’: Thousands Of Michigan Residents Subject To Contaminated Drinking Water

[Translate] by Rupali Srivastava  CLIMATE PROGRESS Unsafe drinking water worries Flint, Michigan, residents. CREDIT: Shutterstock...

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THE CASH DONATIONS HILLARY SIM...

Jun 5, 2015 by

THE CASH DONATIONS HILLARY SIMPLY HAS NO ANSWER FOR

[Translate] The Clinton Foundation’s business relationship with 20 foreign governments raises real questions about her judgment...

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COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: HOW CAN ...

Jun 5, 2015 by

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: HOW CAN WE HELP THE BEES?

[Translate] The government wants to protect pollinators, but what can we do individually? SALON.COM – STAFF (Credit: Smudge...

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RECLAIM YOUR LIFE FROM TECH WI...

Jun 5, 2015 by

RECLAIM YOUR LIFE FROM TECH WITH THIS PEPPER GRINDER

[Translate]    LIFE EDITED Behavior It’s becoming harder to ignore the fact that pervasive technology use is having a corrosive...

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FOLLOW-UP FRIDAY: TINY HOUSE P...

Jun 5, 2015 by

FOLLOW-UP FRIDAY: TINY HOUSE PROJECTS GO EXTRA MILE

[Translate] David Friedlander  LIFE EDITED Architecture Sometimes this site features cool projects whose consummation is on some date...

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DUTCH TEEN’S OCEAN-CLEAN...

Jun 5, 2015 by

DUTCH TEEN’S OCEAN-CLEANING INVENTION TO LAUNCH NEXT YEAR

[Translate] The Ocean Cleanup By Liz Core GRIST Don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Netherlands has an unstoppable deluge of unusual...

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AL GORE INSPIRED AN OPERA ON C...

Jun 5, 2015 by

[Translate]   By Ana Sofia Knauf   GRIST Move over, Power Point presentations and IPCC reports! Climate change has a new medium:...

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90 PER CENT OF OUR FOOD COULD ...

Jun 5, 2015 by

90 PER CENT OF OUR FOOD COULD BE LOCAL – BUT ONLY IF WE NIX BIG AG!

[Translate] Jamie McCaffrey By Madeleine Thomas  GRIST A new study from the University of California, Merced shows that as much as 90...

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