The Endangered Species Act is under attack as the current Administration prepares to leave office. The proposed rule change seeks to limit the circumstances under which proposed actions would require consultation with the Fish and Wildlife Service, and would change the interpretation of the word ‘effect’ as defined in the Act (I’m not making [...]

It is hard to avoid addict analogies when discussing the politics of oil these days.  Just like the junkie who’ll do anything to get one more hit, the GOP is hellbent on squeezing every last drop of oil out of US soil, environment be damned. Why bother to aspire towards cleaner sources of energy [...]

I posted this article from Celcias in the right-hand sidebar links (toward the bottom), but the information in this post is just too important not to highlight here. The article contains detailed recycling tips from an Envionmental Engineering student on some common mistakes that people make while sorting recycling, and even when making purchases [...]

Enough pressure has been brought to bear on Apple, Inc. for them to publish a Jobbs’ memo on the company’s plans to greenify there manufacturing process.
Although somewhat sensationally vilified by Greenpeace, Apple can and should improve its manufacturing processes wherever possible. Kudos to Apple and especially to all the grassroots internet advocates who forced [...]

Treehugger has a post about the imminent arrival of Phoenix Motorcar’s all-electric and Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV) Sport Utility Trucks (SUT).
If you are lucky enough to be a California resident, you can join the waiting list to purchase a Phoenix car at an as yet undisclosed price. The SUT will be available in a plug-in [...]

DaimlerChrysler has announced a new 2007 design for the increasingly popular Sprinter cargo van. These are amazingly popular in Cascadia (doubtlessly more so in Europe in the form of the Mercedes Sprinter), we saw them everywhere last summer.
Now the failing Dodge division is showcasing this successful van by offering a plug-in hybrid version, and [...]

A new ’skywalk’, or 70 ft. extension of metal and glass cantilevered out over the rim of the Grand Canyon has opened on the Hualapai reservation. Its hard for me to imagine how this adds value to the experience of a visit to the canyon, but it certainly has drawn plenty of media attention. [...]

The New York Times recently ran this article on the deterioration of Kentucky’s Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River. The dam’s construction in 1952 created Lake Cumberland, the largest man-made lake east of the Mississippi River. Now the dam’s deterioration is wreaking havoc on a local economy that has become dependent [...]

News of the weird? ..Maybe, but this year’s mysterious and precipitous decline in bee populations has even attracted the attention of the New York Times. As a plant ecologist, I’m all too aware of the role that bees and inspects play in maintaining our food supply and the food supply of countless other species [...]

This site documents how one family has created a small, sustainable living space for themselves within a ten minute bicycle commute of downtown Portland, OR. The 2/3 acre site hosts a bi-level cottage with a sleeping loft, passive solar construction and a gravity fed rain water harvesting setup, and was constructed for only $70,000 [...]