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Once considered an environment that simply couldn’t support life, the deepest darkest reaches of the seas have since been proven a treasure trove of mind-boggling creatures – beautiful and strange, sometimes even nightmarish. The results of a ten-year deep sea census of marine life have ...
Environment
For shiny happy housewives in shiny happy homes, scrubbing bubbles are your best friends when it comes to cleaning the bathroom -–or so advertising execs for household cleaners would have us believe. But after your initial glee at the cute little bubbles that cheerfully dissolve soap scum in ...
Green Living
George Will
Method
As the largest non-profit organization supporting “citizen science,” in its 37-year history, Earthwatch has sponsored over 1000 field research projects in 55 countries across the globe. Earthwatch expeditions and field research centers link volunteers with international ...
Environment
Earthwatch
Green Grid
From Al Gore lecturing Kenneth Parcell about global warming on 30 Rock to the appearance of ‘Recyclops’ on The Office, NBC has unleashed a slew of subtle and not-so-subtle green messages on its audiences this past “Green Week”. But perhaps the funniest bit was Jimmy Fallon’s hilarious ...
Environment
Green Grid
Al Gore
Jay-Z
If more customers knew that Dasani water was simply municipal tap water – the same exact stuff that comes out of their own faucets at home – would they pay a premium for it? Probably not, as notorious eco-pranksters The Yes Men found out during a recent trip to Boston.
The Yes Men and ...
Environment
Water Conservation
Winter may be closing in on us, but that doesn’t mean that we have to stop growing our own food, even for those who live in the cold Northeast. The OrganicNation.tv team talked to Yale Sustainable Food Project director Melina Shannon-DiPietro about the project’s unheated greenhouse, which ...
Green Living
Organic Food
If we build a bunch of wind turbines near communities, people are going to start dropping to the ground in pain because infrasound is affecting their inner ear. Or, at least, that’s what one New York doctor wants us all to believe. She’s wrong – but the problem is, opponents of wind power ...
Environment
Coral seems so peaceful and passive, rippling in the currents of the sea in all its colorful beauty. It’s easy to forget that it’s actually an animal and not a plant. But, perhaps this photo will remind you – captured on a dive in Israel in March, it’s the first documentation of coral ...
Environment
Climate Change
Israel
BBC News
Antioch University is seeking a full-time Chair of the MA in Urban Sustainability Program in Los Angeles.
Antioch University Los Angeles provides rigorous progressive education to prepare students for the complexities of today’s diverse societies. Combining dynamic scholarship and ...
Environment
Green Grid
For college students who love travel, surfing, the environment and helping others, there’s nothing quite like the Eco Surf Volunteer effort . This program – which is truly in the spirit of one of our favorite green celebs and do-gooders, Jack Johnson – takes groups of students to historic ...
Environment
Eco Goats
Green Grid
EarthFirst!
Russians who were looking forward to whale penis leather seats for their $1.45 million bulletproof SUVs are crying in disappointment, and pointing their fingers at environmentalists and Pamela Anderson for this grave injustice.
While the Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition SUV comes with ...
Environment
Russia
A hack of an “environmental scholar” working for an organization that consistently seeks to undermine efforts to fight global warming got schooled on climate change policy by Senator John Kerry during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on November 10th. Kerry rebuked Green’s comments for a ...
Environment
Climate Change
Green Grid
Global Warming
Of all the wacky things that fuel can be made from nowadays – ranging from dirty diapers to confiscated booze – somehow, this one takes the cake. Soon, we may be able to power our vehicles and heat our homes with nothing but air. A biofuel firm called Joule Biotechnologies has discovered a ...
Environment
Green Grid
CO2
“Darling, you look fabulous! What’s your secret?””
“Well, I’ll tell you… I swallowed a tapeworm and I’ve never been thinner!”
Allowing a disgusting parasite that can reach up to 25 feet long to grow inside your intestines isn’t exactly a reasonable way to lose weight. Yet, the Tapeworm ...
Environment
Tyra Banks
It seems too ludicrous to be real: a U.S. Army unit that sought to acquire and refine Jedi-like powers, and trained by attempting to kill goats through mind power alone. But the movie ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’, starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey, is ...
Environment
Eco Goats
Isn’t it nice to look up at a billboard, just once, to see that no one is trying to shove a product down your throat? A joy, indeed – and a nice thing to see at the outset of the holiday season, when, nearly 2 months from Christmas, we’re already being bombarded with “BUY ME!” ads.
Via [ ...
Environment
Green Grid
Appalachian Sustainable Development is seeking a full-time accountant in Abingdon, Virginia.
Appalachian Sustainable Development (ASD) is a not-for-profit organization working in the Appalachian region of Virginia and Tennessee. Formed in 1995, ASD focuses on developing healthy, diverse ...
Environment
Green Grid
Virginia
Tennessee
Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused ...
Environment
CO2
Hummingbirds are so fun to watch, with their colorful little wings that move so fast they’re a blur – but it can be hard to see them up close. One wacky new product allows you to see hummingbirds like you’ve never seen them before – an inch from your eyeballs.
From The Daily Mail :
A new ...
Environment
Green Grid
Virtually all power plants burning fossil fuels release insane amounts of pollution into the atmosphere – but some are definitely dirtier than others. And if you live in the Southeast United States, you’re practically surrounded by dozens of the world’s biggest carbon offenders.
Forbes has ...
