January 29, 2014General The Farmer Was The One Who Fed Us All Not that this is really a surprise to anyone, but there are more studies coming out which confirm and strengthen the prediction […]
January 29, 2014General One Blue Sky Above Us: Pete Seeger Talks About Climate Change…. …and his beautiful song “Rainbow Race.” This video was made in 2008. We’ve hardly moved at all in the past six years. […]
January 28, 2014January 28, 2014General Mixed In Giant Vats This is soooooo ugly. Marcus Eriksen sticks a net into the Los Angeles River, and finds bazillions of eensy-weensy bits of plastic. […]
January 27, 2014January 27, 2014General The Frogs And The Forest The sound of frogs at dusk in Kubah National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia: It sure sounds like a gorgeous place: As well […]
January 27, 2014January 27, 2014General Adam’s Ale And The Devil’s Blood After the recent release of 7,500 gallons of coal-treatment chemicals into their water supply, a whole lot of people in West Virginia […]
January 27, 2014January 26, 2014General A Solar-Powered Amish Buggy! Thanks to ecoblogger George Mokray for this piece of coolness: Illinois inventor/entrepreneur Larry Yoder has retrofitted an old Amish buggy to run […]
January 26, 2014January 25, 2014General California — Rain or No Rain? Last year. This year. A pair of NASA images, taken a year apart, show the profound impacts of California’s current drought, which […]
January 26, 2014January 27, 2014General Why We Do This Consider a finely sharpened blade, slicing through a piece of wood in a cabinet-maker’s workshop. The chisel’s razor tip is parting the […]
January 25, 2014January 24, 2014General Saturday’s Endangered Music: Peru Climate change has been hammering farmers in Peru’s Andean plateaus. For these people, some of the world’s poorest, it’s not an abstract […]
January 24, 2014January 23, 2014General A Victory For The Arctic Good news is rare. Here you go: In a “victory for the Arctic,” a federal appeals court Wednesday ruled in favor of […]