environment

A group of radiation-poisoned Torontonians stricken and dying on the sidewalk. Rescue teams with Geiger counters, stretchers and gas masks. This was the scene at several locations in downtown Toronto today where Greenpeace activists staged the aftermath of an accident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.

Target Shooters in the Mt. Hood national forest in Oregon have literally trashed the place.

 A new organization simply called Plant A Billion Trees has set out their goal in their name. Over 279,000 trees have been planted though $1 donations. 

Eco-consciousness was a dominant theme throughout this event. The concerns are now common knowledge, and solutions are surprisingly revealed through grass root efforts.

Brighter Planet, a company which offers products that help individuals and companies fight global warming, has teamed with Bank of America to provide customers credit cards that can reduce their carbon footprint and fund

The relative recent development of thin film photovoltaic solar panels is now deployed in solar roof shingles which seems to gain popularity.

The Internet is so big, it’s easy to miss shopping resources, especially if you’re environmentally conscientious. Here’s an easy guide to green shopping online:

Illegal in eyes of law - but a celebration of the planet in the eyes of nature lovers...the newest "green" underground trend you might not have heard about.

Greenpeace managed to stop illegal fishing in the Mediterranean sea. They caught an Italian fishing vessel 25 km from their legal limit and they were able to save a baby turtle that was stuck in the driftnets which again is illegal.

This came from Reuters and if you ask me, I say that the researcher from the University of Exeter in Britain who said this is full of Sh%$#. Oh yes!!! This research was a waste of money. Let’s keep polluting the air so that the forest stay alive. Ya right. The way I see it we got to stop polluting, and that includes stopping deforestation, to keep our green lands alive.

The CPA includes 14 member groups so far, including Citizens for a Healthy Rural Neighborhood of Perry. They’re primarily based in Western New York, though the CPA is a statewide group, with other members in New Hampshire and Ohio.

The Argentine Minister of the Environment (and activist) Romina Piccolotti talks about "environmental discrimination" -- the connections between global warming and social and economic justice.

Wind farm opponents have called on Steuben County District Attorney John Tunney to investigate their wide-ranging allegations against a county agency, municipalities and individual officials.  The Franklin County District Attorney’s office is conducting a grand jury investigation into wind farm-related abuses, and Delaware County is also investigating alleged criminal activity.

Rainwater is one of our society’s greatest forgotten urban resources. We design our developments to drain rainwater from our property turning streets in to rivers. From there, water is directed down storm drains and forgotten about. Here's a few easy tips to start using some of this water as a resourse.

Despite the massive amounts of scientific evidence showing humans are to blame for climate change, a new poll finds that only about half of Americans (47%) say the earth is warming because of human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels.