Stopping climate change means building a better transportation system
Our transportation system is responsible for nearly a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. Addressing this means building better public transportation and more sustainable communities. Here’s how we can make the shifts.
Giant water battery cuts university’s energy costs by $100 million over next 25 years
“Universities have a very large energy footprint and we wanted to tackle that and reduce that expense.”
As cities’ interest in green infrastructure grows, so does the need to develop strategies...
“If we want the multifunctional benefits that everyone loves green infrastructure for we need to make sure we are doing everything we can to ensure public money is being well-spent.”
Trump administration plans to open more of California public land to oil drilling, fracking
“Expanding extraction of dirty fossil fuels on our public lands threatens the health of our communities and the future of our climate."
Monsanto wins $7.7b lawsuit in Brazil – but farmers’ fight to stop its ‘amoral’...
Monsanto has long had the upper hand over the farmers who use its products. But the momentum may be shifting.
Japanese fisheries collapsed due to pesticides, new research says
"Let's hope this is a wake-up call for Asian countries and they move to quickly ban the chemicals from paddyfields."
Keystone pipeline spills again, leaking nearly 400,000 gallons of crude oil in North Dakota
"It happens over and over and over and over and over."
In ‘glimmer of accountability,’ executives, loggers charged in 2014 murders of four Indigenous land...
Environmental campaigners called the charges "unprecedented."
EPA to weaken rules to control toxic coal ash in water
Environmental activists plan to challenge these rollbacks in court. Let’s hope they succeed.
Risk assessment: Thoughts on ‘a climate security plan for America’
“A Climate Security Plan for America”, if it had been covered by the press, could actually make a difference in changing the minds of some in the political center more inclined to believe the U.S. military than scientists or activist groups.