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The Future of Green Building is in Seattle 23 Apr 2013 | 12:30 pm
I have seen the future of buildings. And it is awesome. Today, Earth Day 2013, The Bullitt Center – the “greenest,” most sustainable commercial building in the world – officially opened. I’ve been fo...
Farmed vs. Wild Salmon: the choice is clear 19 Jan 2013 | 12:13 am
Check out this infographic on the health and environmental effects of farmed atlantic salmon compared with wild salmon. Not only is wild salmon tastier than atlantic salmon, it is healthier for both y...
Chasing Ice: A haunting visual record of the climate catastrophe 20 Nov 2012 | 12:39 pm
Glacial. This word is often used to describe an incredibly slow process. It is ironic then, I think, that glaciers and polar ice caps melting at such an incredible rate are providing the most visible ...
Q & A with Stanford’s Green Grid Radio Show 15 Nov 2012 | 01:10 am
Green Grid Radio is a new hour-long weekly radio show from Stanford radio. The show airs Tuesdays, 1-2pm PST on KZSU Stanford 90.1FM in the San Francisco Bay Area and online at kzsulive.stanford.edu. ...
Photo Essay: Fair Trade Social Entrepreneurship in Guatemala 25 Sep 2012 | 06:02 am
On the shores of Guatemala's Lake Atitlan, a local fair trade cooperative named JUSTA provides living wages for traditional Maya women artisans through social entrepreneurship and self-sustaining deve...
Worldwide extreme weather events in 2012 8 Sep 2012 | 03:37 am
The World Resources Institute has put together a nifty timeline showing the most significant extreme weather events thus far in 2012. Climate change has "loaded the climate dice" towards more extreme ...
5 bold ideas to save coral reefs 1 Sep 2012 | 12:15 am
Concerted global action to stop climate change is unlikely to come fast enough to stop serious damage to the world's coral reefs. Authors of a new study argue that marine conservationists need to expl...
Return of the Kings to the Elwha 22 Aug 2012 | 01:54 am
For the first time in nearly a century, an adult Chinook (King) salmon has been spotted in the Elwha river. Since 1913, most of the Elwha river watershed was cut off from the ocean by two dams in Olym...
Promoting Certified Wood Products from Agroforestry Systems 21 Aug 2012 | 01:09 pm
Agroforestry is a key strategy to improve on-farm productivity, increase nutrition, and help the environment - particularly in the developing world. Small landowners and community agroforestry systems...
Greenland experiencing record ice melt this summer 26 Jul 2012 | 02:34 am
By July 12 of this year, 97% of Greenland’s ice sheet was melting. This extremely unusual event is yet another indication that the Arctic is experiencing a major change in climate norms, driven in lar...
