Saturday November 14, 2009

restoring the ecuadorian amazon with mycoremediation

Macrolepiota procera [image: Wikipedia]

Between 1964 and 1992, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped over 18.5 billion gallons of oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Birth defects, cancer rates and general malaise are exceedingly common in the city of Lago

Categories: blog environment health Tags: environment health mushrooms permaculture petroleum pollution social justice soil water

Thursday November 5, 2009

save coal river mountain

As I’ve mentioned many times before, the destructive practices of mountaintop removal coal mining are not just devastating the ecology of the Appalachian mountains, they’re destroying the health and livelihood of the Appalachian community. Please take

Categories: blog community environment Tags: clean energy coal politics pollution

Monday September 28, 2009

how can we improve the air quality of our cities?

Find out on my new post on Aribra.com!
big cities: exhausting and exhilarating

In the big city, on any given day, anything seems possible. Millions of thinkers, dreamers, and doers exchange ideas, creative sparks, and currency. There are

Categories: blog community environment health Tags: air quality clean energy nyc pollution

Friday September 4, 2009

are we living in the age of stupid?

I’m inclined to say yes. And I’d like to confirm my suspicions by watching this:

The Age of Stupid Global Premiere Trailer from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.

This isn’t just a film about climate change and what

Categories: blog movies Tags: climate change humanitarian politics pollution

Monday August 31, 2009

the virtues of raising beef on the pasture

I came across this terrific video where cattle farmer Will Harris describes simply why he raises cows on the pasture. He started his career like most cattle farmers in this country, growing beef in a confined

Categories: agriculture blog food/drink Tags: eating farming pollution sustainable

Friday August 28, 2009

now read this! a web roundup

Here’s a collection of some of the information that’s been shaping my world lately. It runs the gamut, so be prepared (and some of the titles have changed to suit my mood – so there!)

1.“Old” SIGG

Categories: agriculture blog books Tags: animals drinking eating farming pollution soil

Friday August 28, 2009

now see this! crude, sweet crude

We all know by now that petroleum is poison and that it’s time to move on to cleaner & more ethical forms of fuel, right? Well, I guess not everyone is getting the message, including of

Categories: blog community energy Tags: petroleum politics pollution social justice

Wednesday July 29, 2009

oooh that smell!

[Image: Lexington, Mass. Town website]

Have you ever walked into an elevator, a subway car, or any other crowded confined space and been smacked in the face by a toxic cologne cloud?

There are times when this overpowering

Categories: beauty/hygiene blog health Tags: air quality pollution

Sunday July 26, 2009

pimp my dump

What happens when a landfill retires? Find out how the city turns buried trash into public treasure — or a park that trumps Central Park in size — in this video from Thirteen’s series, The City

Categories: blog energy outdoors recycling Tags: nyc pollution trash

Wednesday July 22, 2009

is the gowanus canal really sponge worthy?

The Gowanus Canal Issues, dlandstudio

Most New Yorkers, especially Brooklynites, know the beloved Gowanus Canal is teeming with nasty things: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), petroleum, raw sewage, and even gonorrhea. Since the late 1800s, the canal has been

Categories: action blog environment health outdoors Tags: brooklyn/nyc nyc pollution water