Tag Archives: Green

By Michael Casey VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Over the past five years, fishermen in the Pacific Northwest have found themselves increasingly impacted by climate change. As the oceans absorb … Continue reading →

Next week, 1500+ thought leaders from diverse industries and sectors will convene in San Jose, CA to explore the existing technologies and systems that are shaping the future of buildings, energy, transportation, food, water, supply chains and cities. Can’t make … Continue reading →

by Lloyd Alter (@lloydalter) © smartped A hundred years ago all the smart young people were cruising the streets of New York and London on the Autoped, a gasoline powered folding scooter. In our earlier coverage of it we quoted: This … Continue reading →

The (surprising) greenest city in the US is? by Melissa Breyer (@MelissaBreyer) CC BY 2.0 Madison Corney of CCA Baldi Middle School/flickr A new ranking lists the country’s most sustainable cities for 2015; number one might not be what you’d expect. … Continue reading →

by Tom Szaky, Guest Writer (@tom_terracycle) © Shutterstock John Tierney’s opinion piece in the New York Times’ October 4th Sunday Review, “The Reign of Recycling,” appeared to make a compelling case against the perceived benefits of recycling. Driven principally by arguments … Continue reading →

Oils wells operate near homes and other residential areas in Los Angeles. A recent report finds lapses in oil well oversight pose a public health risk. by Julie Cart – California’s oil regulatory agency concedes that it has allowed serious lapses in … Continue reading →

Diverting precious water from California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is misguided — and the Senate must stop it from happening. Growing up on his family’s pear ranch in the rich delta headlands a two-hour drive east of San Francisco, Brett Baker spent … Continue reading →

BY SAMANTHA PAGE CREDIT: COURTESY CELTIC RENEWABLES Dr Eve Bird works with bacteria in Celtic Renewables’ lab, which has come up with a way to turn whisky waste to biofuel. A professor in Scotland figured out how to turn waste … Continue reading →

By JOHN TIERNEY IF you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling. It’s likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal. You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps … Continue reading →

by Michael Graham Richard (@Michael_GR) © Tesla I’m not kidding, there’s a bioweapon defense mode… Tesla has been teasing us for years with the Model X, its second vehicle to be built on the second-generation platform developed for the Model S. … Continue reading →