You need to read this book. In fact, if you can read only one book between now and the end of the year, I highly recommend it be this one. $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better by Christopher Steiner is a price-point [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Do you have current facts and figures about how much rainforest is being destroyed each day around the world, and for what purpose(s)?
Pinning down exact numbers is nearly impossible, but most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily, and significantly degrading another 80,000 acres every day [...]
A group calling themselves CO2 Is Green is going public with a campaign to propagate one of the biggest misconceptions about the whole CO2 debate: Because it is biologically necessary for plant life, CO2 is, by extension, good for plants and animals, in any and all quantities. The problem with this logic, however, [...]
We are nearing a watershed moment for clean energy but our opponents are determined to break our momentum and deny us the progress our country so urgently needs. Here is Repower America’s Campaign Manager Dave Boundy to share a brief update on the strategy for the coming fight.
The crucial health care debate has center [...]
Could I have gone to the trouble of selling all my unwanted books on Ebay or Half.com? Sure. But I would have only made a few bucks for all that work. Instead, I have donated 52 books in the last couple of weeks to my local library in preparation of my move out of [...]
The Everglades wetlands ecosystem, our country’s largest subtropical wilderness, has already been devastated by a century of destructive human activity. For many years, the NRDC and other environmental groups have been working to stop a gargantuan limestone mining project from causing even more harm to the Everglades, irreversibly destroying critical wetlands and endangered species habitat, [...]
When eating out at restaurants, more often than not the waiter will automatically bring water to your table. And for those of you who do not drink the water that is brought, it just gets thrown away once you pay the check. So this week’s Do One Thing is to make sure to tell the [...]
