Environmental

John McCain: We Know You by Now...

A. Siegel | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green


A. Siegel

The case against John McCain is quite stark in terms of claims and the realities when it comes to support for renewable energy.

Where Are the Women in the Green Stratosphere?

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 10.21.2008 | Green


Marguerite Manteau-Rao

It appears, that 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling are not enough. Never mind, we shall be like ants, patiently building a different world, one tiny green step at a time.

HOTELS TAKING "GOING GREEN" TO NEW TOPS WITH GREEN ROOFS

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 10.10.2008 | Green


Stefanie Michaels

Hotels are looking for new ways to run more efficiently and looking to nature to give them some ideas. The latest in green technology is allowing hote...

Switzerland- voted #1 Green Country in the World

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green


Stefanie Michaels

Hello fellow "Greenies"- I'm Stefanie Michaels. I am also known as Adventure Girl from Adventure Girl.com. I am excited to be a part of Huffington Pos...

McCain Could Have Gone Experienced, Female, Light Green; Instead, He Chose a Dark Future

A. Siegel | Posted 09.05.2008 | Green


A. Siegel

John McCain had a choice. He could have gone 'green' (or at least light green) when choosing a female Republican governor. He actually had multiple 'light green' options in front of him.

Following the Lead of a 10-year-old

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 08.25.2008 | Green


Gillian Caldwell

For many us, our work as organizers did not begin until much later in life, but for Nikos Spiridakis it is already in full swing.

California Puts Green Chemistry Under the Microscope

Joel Makower | Posted 08.19.2008 | Green


Joel Makower

What strikes me as a big problem is the opposition of the chemical industry toward basic policy steps that would level the playing field for green chemistry.

Greening Hollywood: For Love Of Water

Paige Donner | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment


Paige Donner

Crowning the first-ever Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles, L.A.'s premier "green" and sustainable film festival - was Sunday night's open air scree...

Life Cycle: Green Shoe Fetish

Simran Sethi | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

In terms of Mama Earth, your walking shoes definitely walk all over her. They have plastic components that produce emissions when manufactured AND during their decomposing process.

Life Cycle: Life After Desk

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

Often, the greenest consumer route is not buying new products made with Earth-friendly methods but rather scoring used products made with traditional, possibly heinous methods. Reduce, reuse, then recycle.

Life Cycle: Shit Happens

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

Despite being chemically treated, sewage water is still rife with birth-control, anti-depressants and other pharmaceuticals we once ingested.

Life Cycle: All That's Fit to Print

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

OK, it's just newsprint. But we journalists tend to get excited about it. More than 50 million newspapers hit stands and porches every morning in this country (double that in China). A tree falls. Many trees, really--200 million per year, just for newspapers.

Environmental Racism Takes Hold In California

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green


Olivia Zaleski

Don't we all deserve clean air? The answer seems obvious, but in the predominantly Latino, Black and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Southern Los An...

Life Cycle: The Beginning

Simran Sethi | Posted 06.16.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

To make real progress, we have to not only change our products and behaviors but gain real context for those changes, and real reverence for the incredible life cycles of the things we use.

Welcome to The New World DisOrders -- They Are Legion

Carol Maric | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics


Carol Maric

If Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton can be relegated to the ranks of "Autism" these days, then The New World does seem perilously close to being upside down--as I have always suspected.

World Of Waste: America's Mass Consumption In Images

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 05.05.2008 | Living


Olivia Zaleski

Look at this image. Chris Jordan Pan out . . . Chris Jordan Pan out a little more . . . Chris Jordan, Plastic Bottles, 2007, 60x120" That ...

Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...

Greening Hollywood: Bioneers Host Ed Begley, Jr.

Paige Donner | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living


Paige Donner

Ed Begley, Jr., resident Rockstar of the Hollywood Green Movement, spoke at last Tuesday's Venice Beach Bioneers meeting held at the Electric Lodge.

GasHole: Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny

Leaders are forever promising a vigorous campaign of alternative fuel initiatives. GasHole recaps a thirty-year history of alternative fuel promises made by U.S. presidents.

Keeping Students Awake ... and More Productive ...

A. Siegel | Posted 04.20.2008 | Living


A. Siegel

Energy savings are not even the tip of the iceberg in real benefits, in measurable impact from "going green".

April is Earth Month -- Mother Earth, Motherhood -- The Holiest of Holies

Paige Donner | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living


Paige Donner

The month of April is a celebration of Earth. What is more synonymous with Earth than Mother? And yet, just as we are recognizing the serious conseq...

Talking Green with Cameron Diaz

Marianne Schnall | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living


Marianne Schnall

With Earth Day upcoming on April 22nd, I thought I would share some exclusive excerpts from my interview with Cameron Diaz, which includes her own personal motivation and tips for going green.