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30 Oct 2009 IN FASHION & BEAUTY | COMMENTS
Hollywood institutions are taking eco-friendly baby steps, with a few individuals making real strides for environment. But the entertainment industry on the whole has to do more than buy offsets before it can really call itself green.+ READ MORE
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30 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Fox News announced more than a year ago that it would be carbon neutral by 2010, and 24 was the first show to live up to the goal. How'd it get there, and is the rest of the network on track? + READ MORE
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30 Oct 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Ed Norton invited three of his Maasai friends to travel from Kenya to run with him in the NYC marathon (which he's never run before-and it's not easy, he's already having shin splints.). The cause? Conservation back home in Kenya, a nation famous for its runners. Norton first visited Kenya nearly...+ READ MORE
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16 Oct 2009 IN FOOD & HEALTH | COMMENTS
While many climate change and public health specialists argue that climate change will enable infectious diseases to spread like they never have before, others disagree--with some saying that some infectious disease rates will even decline, and others taking the view that the spread (or control) of...+ READ MORE
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16 Oct 2009 IN FOOD & HEALTH | COMMENTS
As the seasons change and temperatures rise due to climate change, infectious diseases could start to spread to new places, and faster, than we've known them to do in the past. Lyme disease spreading to Canada and Dengue to the U.S. are just the beginning.+ READ MORE
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16 Oct 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Matamoros, Mexico is facing an uphill battle against one of the world's worst insect-transmitted diseases, and the Texas border is not far away. How are officials there working to stop the disease from escalating within the town, and from spreading north?+ READ MORE
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16 Oct 2009 IN FOOD & HEALTH | COMMENTS
Infectious diseases could start to spread to new places, and faster, as temperatures rise. With Dengue on the verge of entering the U.S. and other diseases apt to spread in ways they haven't before, new techniques are needed to step up the fight of disease prevention.+ READ MORE
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2 Oct 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
France reprocesses its spent nuclear fuel; should we do the same? Both sides of the argument make a strong case for what they believe is the right answer. + READ MORE
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2 Oct 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
To some, nuclear power is a clean source of energy that we must develop further if we are to move any closer to energy independence. To others, it's a recipe for disaster, either by accident, like the Three Mile Island disaster of 1979, or by design, if (or when) nuclear fuel gets into the wrong...+ READ MORE
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2 Oct 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
Nuclear power still fuels controversy nationwide, over whether it's the source of clean, renewable energy we need, or an invitation for disaster. + READ MORE
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18 Sep 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
Corporations have a vested interest in painting over their non-green initiatives with a pseudo-green image.+ READ MORE
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4 Sep 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Having a child increases a parent's ecological footprint instantly, but if kids are trained right, they can become the environmental stewards that the current generation has so far failed to be.+ READ MORE
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4 Sep 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Some advocates believe the only way to save the planet is to eliminate ourselves from.+ READ MORE
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4 Sep 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
As the world's population grows, wars will escalate and spread as people compete for access to the earth's diminishing supply of available resources.+ READ MORE
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4 Sep 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Overpopulation is wearing down the health of the planet. What's happening to the environment, and is it too late to undo the damage?+ READ MORE
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