Food & agriculture – Oct 28
MIT: Human-generated ozone will damage crops
Chuck Walters of Acres USA: an organic hero
Call to use leftovers and cut food waste
Myths that waste energy in the kitchen
Waste
Population, health & pollution – Oct 19
Are boys an endangered species?
Mother fears ‘stinky neighborhood’ caused son’s cancer
Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls: study
China’s surplus of sons: Geopolitical time bomb
Harbor seals may help determine effect of eating toxic fish
The age of scarcity industrialism
The end of the age of cheap abundant energy marks a watershed in the history of industrial society. The rise of resource nationalism in recent years is one foreshock of a transformation that promises to leave little of today’s conventional economic wisdom unshaken.
Renewables – Oct 17
Prospects for organic solar cells damaged By questionable reports
Human waste can help save planet: Indian expert
California fuels expert Alex Farrell makes case for low carbon fuel standard
Waste – Oct 16
Britain’s trillion-page mountain stacks up
Plastics recycling industry needs more feedstock
Appliances on ‘sleep’ mode still suck power
Cities – Oct 12
Book Review: How to Build a Village
Seattle’s recycling success
Portland gives bike rentals a spin
Nuclear – Oct 9
Nuclear power primed for comeback
Mafia clan accused of trafficking nuclear waste
Water – Oct 9
Los Angeles warns of water cuts, higher rates
Will Southwest’s economy dry up?
Shampoo, coffee, etc., harming fish in area rivers
Waste – Sept 27
From Scotland to the Channel Islands the cry goes up: ‘Banish the plastic bag’
Making sewage water good to drink
Electricity consumption – Sept 20
The right to dry (clothesline liberation)
Household energy use rising
Power prices set to surge
Energy efficient appliances should be made compulsory, says UN expert
Energy industry – Sept 20
Shell exec: Coherent energy policy needed
Oil industry flares $40 billion a year in gas
Chevron offers online energy game
Unexpected details – Sept 20
When eco-keener meets enviro-slacker (relationships)
How green issues are changing our language
Making garbage visible in all its stinky glory
High gas prices could make you skinnier