U.S. Atmospheric Researcher Wins International Award
A senior research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will receive a prestigious award for his contributions to improved understanding of climate change and atmospheric circulation systems.
Isaac Held will accept the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award at a ceremony in Madrid in June.
In a more than 30-year career with NOAA, Held [...]
More Taxi Companies Turning to Greener Operations
Mike and John Schmidt long had dreamed of opening their own taxicab company in the Midwestern college town where their family had lived for several generations.
Opportunity knocked in 2010 when the business plan the brothers brought before the city council in Madison, Wisconsin, was approved without a hitch. They had startup capital from the sale [...]
Polluted Water Kills Millions Each Year
Only about half the world’s population has piped water at home — and only a fraction of that is safe to drink.
Jamie Bartram is director of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Barbara Wallace is director of corporate and foundation relations for the School of Public Health at the [...]
Biotech and Organic Farming: Coexisting Peacefully
Agricultural biotechnology and organic farming can coexist — even thrive in the same food-supply chain — despite the fact that some proponents of organic farming have been at odds with the scientists who genetically engineer seeds.
So say Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak, co-authors of Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food, [...]
Snapshot: Post-Hurricane New Orleans
These days, seeing New Orleans clearly is harder than it used to be. And it was never easy to get a reliable read on the place. That was always its allure — to the world that came from afar, and to its own citizens, too. New Orleans, if only for a moment, could become whatever [...]
Good News, Bad News About Oceans
With World Ocean Day on June 8, we have been reading up on the topic of trash that is dumped in the world’s oceans. Here are a few things we found:
Good news: People are the source of trash found in the oceans, which means people can stop trash from entering the oceans.
Bad news: Laws to [...]
“Clean Stoves” Would Save Lives, Cut Pollution
This Mother’s Day weekend, most of us will enjoy a home-cooked meal — maybe even breakfast in bed. We’ll probably take it for granted that the meal was prepared in a clean kitchen, where the air is safe to breathe. But for nearly half of the world’s population, cooking at home is a deeply dangerous [...]
Bikes Rule Washington on May 12
Why bicycle? For the environment. For your health. For your pocketbook. For the pure fun of it.
May is National Bike Month, and May 12 is Bike to Work Day here in Washington.
A lot has been written about bicycling as a means to reduce one’s “carbon footprint” — if you’re not driving a gas-powered engine, you’re [...]
Earth Day 2011: A Billion Acts of Green
In recognition of the power of millions of individual actions, Earth Day 2011 will be organized around A Billion Acts of Green®: Personal, organizational and corporate pledges to live and act sustainably. At over 45 million actions to date, A Billion Acts of Green® campaign – the largest environmental service campaign in the world – [...]
8th Panorama of Ecofilms – “Windows to our Planet”
Cinematographic meeting of six countries, through the unconventional eye of 17 Greek and foreign directors
On Wednesday March 30, 2011 at 18:30, the Panorama of Ecofilms – “Windows to our Planet” opens its doors for the eighth consecutive year by the Hellenic Company for the Environment and Culture. This is a unique festival organized completely by [...]
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