The defective Chinese drywall situation in the United States first came to light in November of 2008, when the Herald Tribune reported that homeowners in the Sarasota-Bradenton area of Florida were discovering that their homes’ sheetrock walls were eating away the wiring. In fact, the problem may predate 2008, as ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts this week, about Architecture, Children and Families, Design, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government, Pollution, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
In a warming world, dominated by excessive rain in some areas and drought in others, arcology designers propose a Nevada city that would rely on landscapes right out of Frank Herbert’s classic novel, Dune (which was made an equally classic film of the same name). The Sietch, Nevada urban ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts this month, about Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Population, Recycling, Smart Growth, Water, Weather
In 2006, Keith Collins approached Kaplan Thompson Architects, about tackling sustainable home construction in the form of a studio/workshop for himself and his wife. This led to the development of the BrightBuilt Barn, a beautiful 700-square-foot home constructed on the Collins property in Rockland, Maine, a climate known for ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts this month, about Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Design, Economics, Education, Energy Saving, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Recycling (1 comment)
Jill Richardson broke the news. Richardson, a tirelessly accurate researcher and environmental writer (as well as, apparently, a tireless reader), found the information quite by accident on the Boulder Daily Camera’s online news page. Essentially, the article tells the story of six farmers who threaten bankruptcy and other dire ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Food, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
Scientists and hydrologists tell us that the world is running out of water. This is true from Arizona and Bangladesh to Vietnam and Zimbabwe, because even though every drop of water on the planet remains in some form or other, much of it has been redistributed via global warming or ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Lifestyle & Behavior, Poverty & Development, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water, Weather (2 comments)
In a paper released today in the journal Nature, a study conducted by H. Damon Matthews - a professor at Montreal's Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment - attempts to correlate global warming to carbon emissions. Matthews, along with fellow researchers Nathan P. Gillett, Peter A. Stott ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June, about Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Emissions, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Pollution
Preliminary reports from Norway's Arctic research station indicate that methane levels rose 0.6 percent in 2008. Methane, one of the gases implicated in climate change, accounts for about 18 to 20 percent of greenhouse gases, and contributes to nearly as much warming as all of the other non-CO2 ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Pollution
For most people, it's hard to be sympathetic toward sharks, especially after the likes of such films as Jaws, a shark trilogy that left its negative imprint on the psyches of many Americans young and old. In spite of that, sharks are an essential aquatic species. Think of them ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
As the battle over mountaintop removal, or MTR - also known as surface coal mining - heats up, with six current protestors unable to make bail, it seems a good time to outline a chronology of this practice, which environmentalists say has turned parts of Appalachia into a wasteland. The U.S ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in May, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Pollution, Water (8 comments)
At CASCADE Clean Energy, Inc., researchers have developed a system that uses "smart" microbes to recover energy from wastewater, including sewage. CASCADE is a spin-off from Quantum Intelligence, Inc., whose CEO, Dr. Charles Zhou, was the lead researcher on the Waste Water Works (WWW) technology. The name CASCADE is an ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in May, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Green energy, Industry & Business (4 comments)
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