The island Djurgården in central Stockholm as seen from the northeast. Credit: Javier Martin/Creative Commons.
Sweden may be famous for such notables as filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, peacemaker Dag Hammarskjöld, IKEA, Absolut Vodka and meatballs, but it’s also at the forefront of tackling the...
Aug
25
This Sunday at 8 p,m. EDT*, CNN will present The Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America, a special, one-hour documentary on the heated controversy over the mountaintop removal method of coal mining at Spruce No. 1 in West Virginia.
Hosted by Soledad O’Brien, the program explores the...
Aug
12
Photo: Betsy Crowfoot
Solar panels plaster the steep roofs of antiquated brick cottages. Sleek sky-scraping wind turbines spin over pastoral farms while sheep and cattle mindlessly graze below. Electric trams packed with commuters squeal by ancient cathedrals. And everywhere you look, people are...
Jul
28
by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica
June 20, 2011, 4:36 p.m.
In this April 23, 2010 photo, a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site is seen near Burlington, Pa. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)
Over the past year, five states have begun requiring energy companies to disclose some of the chemicals they pump...
Jun
21
by Abrahm Lustgarten – ProPublica, May 9, 2011
Hydraulic Fracturing - Photo EPA
For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire.
The peer-reviewed...
May
10
We’ve said this before, but few people truly know that the primary source of the air we all breathe comes from single celled organisms, largely phytoplankton and algae. These organisms use the sun’s energy to produce oxygen that collectively make up about 80% of the air we breathe.
The...
Apr
25
By Keith Shackleton
In my 10′ X 20′ community garden plot, I may produce the equivalent of one week’s food for myself and my wife. If I really concentrated on maximizing production, I might be able to double that. If we depended on our garden plot to supply our food needs, we...
Mar
31
Small-scale farmers can double food production within 10 years in critical regions by using ecological methods, according to a report released this week bu the United Nations. The report calls for a fundamental shift towards agroecology (the application of ecological principles to the production...
Mar
16
