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Weekly Mulch: How to Avoid Fracking and Oil Spills in 2011

Editor’s Note: We’re posting the Weekly Mulch on Thursday this week because of the holidays. It’ll return to its regular Friday morning posting next week. Until then, Happy New Year!
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
2010 was a disappointing year for environmentalists.
This was the year Congress was supposed to pass climate change legislation, but each and [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Green products, green energy

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Ed. note: This week’s Mulch is pint-sized and will run on Monday rather than Friday. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week.
Some people live off the grid, eat local food, and have an energy footprint so minuscule that even the canniest hunter couldn’t track them down. But the [...]

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Weekly Mulch: What’s Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda?

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration’s answers to climate change. The 2011 budget, released this week, promised new loans for the construction of nuclear power plants, and on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House, and other departments detailed steps to encourage ethanol and clean [...]

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Green – from top to bottom…..

In many ways we live in a world where it can feel like we are (or are trying to be) “green – from top to bottom”….and yet, we are not.
Why is it that we see so much information, advertisement, and discussion about – Climate Change, Going Green, Eco Smart, Green Consumer Products – and Climate [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Climate Reform’s Good, Bad, and Ugly

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
The next United Nations climate change conference is almost a year away, and health care is still dominating the legislative agenda in Washington. That means climate reform opponents, from the coal industry to the global warming skeptics, have plenty of time to work, out of the spotlight, to derail progress. [...]

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Distributed Generation – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Part VI
Let’s now look more closely at the realities of running a DG system, in order to be profitable and stay in business. The assumption here is that one is able to build the system within budget, “commission” it (which means get it running, approved, fine-tuned and operating to produce energy), and then provide operation [...]

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Living Better-Living Green: Life Style Choices and Your Health

We’re exposed to thousands of chemicals everyday in our Environment, Food and Water. These harmful chemicals wreak havoc on the immune system and brain and if exposure to these dangerous toxins isn’t reduced, we’ll continue to see an increase in acute and degenerative disease. This article will highlight key areas in our lives that are exposed to numerous chemicals which create both immediate and long term negative effects on our health.

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Climate Community at Pure Natural Diva

Climate Community around the web – recently posted on Pure Natural Diva:
“The Climate Community – is a website/blog designed to do two things.
First – it is designed to provide parents, teachers and students a place to discuss Climate Change. Blog posts are written by the site founders, teachers, students, and others experts. The goal of [...]

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Greening Our Schools, Part II

Greening our schools, through buildings and programs. Part II

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Greening Our Schools, Part I

Greening our schools, through buildings and programs. Part I

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