According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the leading authority for health within the United Nations system, climate change is a huge factor in the millions of deaths around the globe that are caused by diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.
Director-General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, stated that ‘climate change endangers human health.’ This means that as extreme weather conditions…
A famous rocker and a rapper have signed on for 10 episodes of a new green reality series called Battleground Earth, which will appear later this year on Discovery Network’s new TV station called Planet Green.
Tommy Lee, the drummer for the popular 80s heavy metal band Motley Crue, and Atlanta-based rapper Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, two very unlikely partners…
Did you know that the Subaru assembly plant in Lafayette, Indiana was the first ever car manufacturing plant to achieve zero landfill status?
Known as the Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) Manufacturing Plant, this facility recycles 99.3% of its leftover steel, plastic, wood, paper and glass, and then ships the other 0.7% to be incinerated and used to generate electricity by the city of Indianapolis…
Conde Nast Portfolio.com, an online business news site, listed the ‘toxic ten’ companies that they believe are contributing to global warming through pollution and energy consumption.
Not only are these companies not complying with environmental safety standards set by the E.P.A., but they’re also not following the green standards that they set for themselves…
Since 1837 Popular Science Magazine has been the top-rated source of science and technology news in the word. Since they went online in 1999 with PopSci.com, they’ve reached an even larger audience who continues to crave the latest up-to-date information on society’s advancements.
With such great credibility, it’s hard to ignore PopSci’s latest endeavor to rate the top 50 greenest cities in America…
What do Harvard, Dartmouth, the University of Washington, Middlebury, Carleton and the University of Vermont have in common?
They have all been recognized as top college sustainability leaders by the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card, which is issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute…
St. Patrick’s Day is a 24-hour-long day of festivities, so it would be a travesty if I didn’t give you some great green tips on the greenest day of the year!
I’ve compiled a list tips and advice people can follow to make their St. Patty’s Day both fun and eco-friendly. So if you’re showing your Irish sense of style and wearing all green today, then following these tips will make you even greener…
If you don’t know what Earth Hour is, when it started or who’s involved in it, then here’s your chance to get updated about this amazing worldwide movement.
Earth Hour originated in Sydney, Australia on March 31, 2007 as a massive citywide collaboration between people and businesses to reduce energy consumption. By turning off all their lights for just one hour…
Since I live in Baltimore, it’s always nice to find out good news related to the city’s efforts to protect the environment. I just read an article in BaltimoreSun.com that gave me some hope for the city’s future.
Mayor Sheila Dixon and Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith, Jr. recently announced at the Baltimore Watersheds Conference…
The internet has truly become the quickest and most advanced way to share news, to stay in contact with friends and to discover new ways to live your life. For those of us practicing an eco-lifestyle, the internet has provided countless opportunities to advance our green projects and to share our environmental concerns.
Care 2 is one of the best ‘green’ sites that I’ve ever stumbled upon because it incorporates so many eco-friendly and globally-conscious things at once…