From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Real Food Challenge: Uniting Students for Just and Sustainable Food

College students across the nation are coming together to demand ‘real food’ – local, organic, fair trade food via college farms, farm-to-cafeteria programs and other initiatives. The Real Food Challenge loosely defines ‘real food’ as a holistic term they’re using to bring together a lot of different ideas people have about just and sustainable food. [...]

Read the full article →

Green Retailing 3.0: An Interactive World of Green Internet Shopping

In the past few days, we’ve seen a lot of bleak stories about how the retail industry is struggling to make ends meet due to consumers limiting their spending. Dire predictions have been made about the many outlets that won’t survive the season, as people do everything they can to save money – including not [...]

Read the full article →

Macedonians Plant Six Million Trees in One Day

Extensive wildfires in Macedonia over the past two summers destroyed millions of trees, but the hills and forests of this Balkan country will be green again before too long. Thousands of Macedonians came together in a major reforestation drive, and planted six million trees in a single day.
From Reuters:
“Our goal is to make Macedonia “greener” [...]

Read the full article →

Green DIY Holiday Décor: Wine Bottle Candle Holders

If you’re looking for some cheap, green ideas for holiday décor that don’t look like a fourth grader’s art project, Design Sponge has instructions for wine bottle candle holders that look chic and cost far less than store-bought décor. And no, this doesn’t entail simply sticking a taper candle into the mouth of a wine [...]

Read the full article →

More Pine Forests Succumbing to Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation

The bark beetle problem extending from New Mexico to British Columbia is getting worse, turning the region’s signature pine forests from green to rust red. Montana has already lost a million acres, and the news in Colorado and southern Wyoming is even worse. In Montana’s capital city, Helena, loggers are racing to cut down infected [...]

Read the full article →

Solar Panels Decorate Graves in Spanish Cemetery

Graveyards take up a lot of space. Before the growing population became a pressing problem, people didn’t think too much about the efficiency of dedicating large swaths of perfectly good land to store skeletons for an indefinite length of time. By now we should know better – we’re wasting perfectly good land and if we [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries