Livestock now use 30% of the Earth's entire land surface, including 33% of the arable land which is used to produce feed for the livestock. Raising animals for food requires 10 times as many crops as we would need if we simply ate the grains directly.

Automakers are increasingly looking to achieve efficiency gains by developing plug-in electric vehicles. But despite support from the Obama administration, EVs are unlikely to grow beyond a minuscule portion of the country's fleet without further Govt aid

After the first oil embargo and gas crisis in 1973, President Carter installed solar panels on the White House to show how to become independent of foreign oil. In 1980 Pres. Reagan took them down, saying "America didn't conserve its way into greatness".

A new lighting standard could save energy and money and reduce global warming pollution. Urge the new leaders at the Department of Energy to strengthen the proposed lamp standards and close the loopholes left behind by the Bush administration.

Could the U.S. military help lead the nation into a clean energy future? Even as the Bush administration sought to suppress science and delay action on climate change, the Department of Defense began working on freeing itself from reliance on oil...

Bold, bio-inspired, vertical and sustainable: those are the traits that architecture of the future will share, if you go by the trends in current cutting-edge concept designs. While some of these architectural concepts will never become reality, others

What do George Bush, Al Gore, National Sunflower Association,Environmental Defense Fund, Bill Gates,Iran, Starbucks, Aspertame, & Joseph Stalin [et al] have in commmon? I'll give you ONE guess: ties to MONSANTO!!!!

S 796, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009, will create green jobs by cleaning up the hundreds of thousands of abandoned hardrock mines, give a fair return to the taxpayer, and protect communities and precious western water resources.

The 1872 mining law is a flat-out giveaway. The AP reported that unlike the coal, oil and natural gas industries, hardrock mining companies don't pay royalties on the estimated $1 billion in minerals they extract from the nation's lands each year.

To arrive at a mutual desire to give from the heart, we focus the light of consciousness on four areas-referred to as the four components of the NVC (non-violent communication) model.