Chinese officials recently announced dietary guidelines aimed at cutting its citizens’ meat consumption by 50 percent. The guidelines have found support among the climate community and international celebrities including former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and director James Cameron. Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron on set to film a new PSA for WildAid’s 5 To Do Today campaign. Photo credit: Vern Evans A […]
By Peyton Fleming Sierra Leone dropping import duties on household solar appliances. Foundations putting up millions of dollars to kick start India’s ambitious renewable energy efforts. Iconic brand companies committing to 100 percent clean energy at facilities worldwide. When Sustainable Energy for All CEO Rachel Kyte addressed the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial this month in […]
By James Hoggan My years of research for I’m Right, You’re an Idiot, as well as decades of experience in public relations, have persuaded me that we humans have a fickle relationship with facts. We paint a picture of the world according to facts that appeal to us, and we unconsciously blur the edges or […]
Something that cynics will find remarkable just happened: A big, bipartisan majority in Congress passed the most important new environmental law in decades—The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, passed by the Senate on June 7. It finally fixes the biggest problems with America’s badly broken chemical safety system. Here’s what […]
By Emily J. Gertz Scores of people around the world were murdered last year while trying to protect their communities from illegal mining and logging, palm oil agriculture and other industrial development projects, according to a London-based environmental and human rights organization. The number of confirmed killings—185 activists across 16 countries—increased by 59 percent from […]
Today marks a special day for astronomy enthusiasts. The summer solstice and June’s strawberry moon will coincide for the first time in nearly 70 years. Full strawberry moon. Anca Emanuela Teaca / Alamy In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and the official start of summer. The solstice […]
This land is our land—it’s a promise as American as the Constitution. But for decades, Big Coal has treated our public lands as their land, destroying pristine wilderness areas to mine the dirty coal driving climate change. Between 2009 and 2014, companies mined enough coal on public lands to put more than 3.9 billion metric […]
For consumers who want to avoid bisphenol A, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has created the first easily, searchable database of nearly 16,000 processed food and drinks packaged in materials that may contain this hormone-disrupting chemical, better known as BPA. The list was compiled from a little-known food industry inventory and is now available at EWG’s […]
Public transportation users in Washington, DC, can now hitch a ride on a self-driving, 3D-printed bus. Olli, created by Arizona-based Local Motors, officially hit the streets of the nation’s capital Thursday. Using an app similar to Uber or Lyft, ride-seekers can order the bus to pick them up and drop them off at their destinations […]
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