The Vermont Yankee atomic reactor goes permanently off-line today, Dec. 29, 2014. Citizen activists have made it happen. The number of licensed U.S. commercial reactors is now under 100 where once it was to be 1,000. Decades of hard grassroots campaigning by dedicated, non-violent nuclear opponents, working for a Solartopian green-powered economy, forced this reactor’s corporate […]
Q: What do Google, 223 other businesses, 14 attorneys general, 11 U.S. senators, and more than 25 environmental, public health and clean energy organizations all have in common? A: They all told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that renewable energy should play a strong role in reducing emissions from existing power plants under its proposed […]
The world’s three biggest carbon emitters—the U.S., China, and the European Union—have all announced emissions goals or limits in the past few months. That’s great news, but global fossil fuel demand continues to rise, and with it, so do climate change’s risks—to the economy, to the environment, to security, to human health and to people […]
Sustainia, a Scandinavian think tank, and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) have partnered to produce the Green Guide for Universities, which offers tangible solutions to address environmental sustainability from some of the top universities in the world. The guide contains 23 case studies in sustainability from universities such as Yale, Cambridge, Peking and Copenhagen University. […]
In a victory for fisheries, recreational sportsmen, Native tribes, wildlife, local communities and the environment, President Obama Tuesday put Alaska’s Bristol Bay area permanently off limits to oil and gas development under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953, something those groups had been seeking for decades. “Alaskans have been fighting to preserve Bristol […]
Very likely you’ve been hearing a lot more about grains like quinoa, barley and spelt in the last few years. You’ve probably seen them cropping up on the menus of the sorts of restaurants that focus on healthy, organic, sustainably grown and raised foods. Americans are falling in love with these “ancient grains,” reports BBC News. […]
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