Environment & Climate
The Organic Revolution: Change the System, Not the Climate
What if there were an organic technology that could cut greenhouse emissions in half and literally suck down and sequester carbon dioxide in living soil - bringing the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere down to 350 ppm - the level scientists warn us we must acheive in order to avert a climate catastrophe?
Cook Organic, Not the Planet. Boycott Factory-Farmed Foods.
Stella McCartney is a designer, a businesswoman and an environmental activist, but of the three, she says, fashion will always come first. “It has to, you see. Because the only way for me to start the conversation I want to start is by making a product that you want to buy and that you are going to spend your hard-earned money on. If the product is rubbish, then there is no conversation to be had. If I don’t have a successful business, then I’m an environmentalist who happens to be Paul McCartney’s daughter, and that is a conversation which lasts about three seconds. No one is going to
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A new rule in the US would eliminate food inspectors and lift limits on how quickly pigs can be killed. The impact on workers, animals and consumers would be disastrous.
The Trump administration has proposed a radical change in food safety protection. They’re misleadingly calling it the “Modernization of swine slaughter inspection rule”, but what it really does is roll back progress on protecting the public from serious and sometimes fatal diseases such as salmonella.
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Climate change often evokes images of smokestacks, and for good reason: The single largest source of carbon emissions related to human activity is heat and power generation, which accounts for about one-quarter of the carbon we put into the atmosphere. Often overlooked, though, is how we use land, which contributes almost as much.
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Fenway Park already has its Green Monster, and now environmental activists want the whole ballpark to “go green.”
They are asking the Red Sox to commit to relying exclusively on energy from renewable sources.
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Birthday parties and gender-reveal announcements will certainly lose some of their sizzle in the town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island. Effective April 9, 2018, the town council passed an ordinance banning the sale, use and distribution of balloons.
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A report released Wednesday shows the number of known sites with contamination from perfluorinated chemicals nearly doubled in the last 10 months, with many familiar to residents of Southeastern North Carolina.
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I’ve never been more optimistic about wind power in North Carolina and the benefits it will bring our state. And, given that we’re in the middle of a very unfortunate 18-month moratorium on wind project permits, that’s saying something.
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North Carolina has cut roughly 80 jobs from the main environmental regulatory agency since 2013, and the agency's budget has been slashed by millions of dollars even while the overall state budget has grown.
Gov. Roy Cooper rolled out a plan Tuesday to start undoing some of those cuts.
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The air is dry and the winds are strong Tuesday over a large portion of the central and southern United States. The vegetation is bone dry, and the U.S. Drought Monitor says the region is in “exceptional” drought. All of this is stoking wildfires that ignited late last week and increasing the chances of new fires.
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A 2015 study by the Appalachian State University in North Carolina found that highly manicured lawns actually give off nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that’s 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Why? Owners are more likely to dump lots of nitrogen-based fertilizer in concentrated patches, and that fertilizer breaks down into nitrous oxide.
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