84-Year-Old Grandmother’s Crusade to Ban Bottled Water
The star of a new documentary has started a new revolution in Concord, MA. “I’m going to keep on going because I’m too mean to die.” These are the words of Jean Hill, resident of Concord, Massachusetts...
View Article10 Tips on Raising Backyard Chickens
Maintaining a coop has challenges that you might not be aware of. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.Raising backyard chickens is very trendy these days. With news of arsenic in our chicken and the...
View Article23-Year-Old Hasn’t Produced Any Garbage in Two Years
Lauren Singer is out to prove that we can all live with minimal environmental impact. Republished with permission from EcoWatch.Like most young people today, Lauren Singer is aware of her environmental...
View ArticleTwo Young Entrepreneurs Offer Way to Grow Food in Dead of Winter
They call their innovation the "next generation of food supply.”As the Eastern U.S. deals with sub-freezing temperatures and lots of snow, two young entrepreneurs, Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara, who...
View ArticleHilarious Video: Florida's Chief of Emergency Management Mocked for Refusing...
Lawmakers at a state senate hearing laugh at Bryan Koon for dancing around the term. The saga of Florida’s ban of the words climate change is just getting ridiculous.“Even as Florida Governor Rick...
View ArticleDon’t Frack with Denton: A Community’s Fight to Defend Home Rule
The town is the first Texas municipality to ban fracking and has become ground zero for the fracking debate.Citizens of Denton, Texas are still fighting to keep fracking banned within city limits...
View Article10 Reasons Why You Should Eat Local
Some are not as obvious as you might think.Strolling of the Heifers has released the 2015 Locavore Index, which ranks the 50 states (and DC) in terms of their commitment to local foods. This is the...
View ArticleMeet 6 of the World’s Top Environmental Heroes
Representing each of the six inhabited continents, these heroes have won the world’s largest award for grassroots environmentalists.The Goldman Environmental Foundationannounced the six winners of the...
View ArticleWATCH: Avalanche from Nepal Earthquake Rips Through Mt. Everest Base Camp
Harrowing video captures terror of those caught in the sudden avalanche.As the death toll continues to climb from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal, India and China on Saturday, more and...
View Article14 Heartbreaking Photos That Will Inspire You to Recycle
You begin to realize the massive global impact we human beings have. Global pollution has reached unprecedented levels as the trash produced by the more than 7 billion people pollutes the land and sea...
View ArticleYet Another Oil Bomb Train Explosion Proves New Regulations Fail to Protect Us
At least 10 oil tanker cars ablaze as North Dakota town evacuated.The town of Heimdal, North Dakota was evacuated this morning after yet another train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded. A BNSF...
View ArticleWhich Country Will Be First to Go Completely Underwater Due to Climate Change?
In 2085, this small island may become the world's first nation swallowed by a rising ocean due to glacier melt.This country “could become the first state in history to be completely erased by the sea,”...
View ArticleMark Ruffalo to Jon Stewart: We Have a 50-State Plan to Power America on 100%...
The actor and environmentalist is backing Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson in his campaign to ditch fossil fuels and go 100 percent renewable by 2050 in every state in the U.S.Mark Ruffalo was a guest...
View ArticleDrought-Stricken California Orders Largest Recorded Water Cuts for Farmers
Water officials told senior water rights holders, some of whose rights date back to 1903, to stop pumping water in California’s Sacramento, San Joaquin and delta watersheds.The California State Water...
View ArticleRyan Gosling: What Costco Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its Eggs
The actor calls it “appalling” that Costco markets eggs "with deceptive labeling on cartons featuring graphics of birds living out in a green pasture."Costco has been under intense criticism this week...
View ArticleThe Dalai Lama Endorses Pope Francis’ Climate Change Encyclical
Praising the pontiff's landmark document, the Buddhist leader urged everyone to take action even on an individual level to reduce their impact.The Dalai Lama endorsed the Pope’s encyclical on climate...
View ArticleWalter Palmer Paid $50,000 to Kill Cecil the Lion — Now He's the "Most Hated...
The dentist and lion murderer is now in hiding after sparking widespread outrage for murdering a beloved African lion.More sad news on the wildlife front. Yesterday, a Northern White Rhino in a Czech...
View ArticleScary Wildfire Map Reveals a Burning American West
This season is shaping to be the worst one yet for wildfires, as this real-time map shows.Climate Central, a dedicated team of scientists and journalists researching climate change, has put together an...
View ArticleShell Dumps ALEC as Oil Giant Prepares to Drill in Arctic
"ALEC’s rhetoric is too extreme even for a cynical exploitative corporation like Shell,” said Greenpeace.Following in the footsteps of BP and others, Shell has announced that it plans to leave the...
View ArticleObama Slams Koch Brothers at Clean Energy Summit for ‘Standing in the Way of...
It's the first time Obama has singled out the Koch brothers in a climate speech.President Obama has returned from vacation and he said he feels “refreshed, renewed, recharged” and “a little feisty.”...
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