A short unhappy life – The baby calf starts in a free range grazing environment until it is about 6 months old. It is then transported to a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) where it will live the rest of its life – probably another 7 months. Here the steer will be fed a grain [...]

Read More...

“The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.” Bill Mollison, Gardening for the Future of The Earth “Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall [...]

Read More...

Lately I have realized that I’m even more concerned than I was before. I am talking about our bodies – how to protect ourselves from harmful chemicals in the environment. Is this even still possible? My professor in the Global Conversation Course, points out that nothing can be dealt with in isolation, issues are interconnected. [...]

Read More...

On June 25th at noon in corresponding time zones around the world people will join hands on beaches and in cities for the second annual Hands Across The Sand event to show opposition to expanded offshore drilling and to call for clean energy solutions for a sustainable planet. Florida surfer and restaurant owner Dave Rauschkolb [...]

Read More...

Researchers at Penn State University have developed a technique of separating oil from tar sands, using ionic liquids (salt in a liquid state), which could substantially reduce the environmental impact of that industry. The new process could also be used to extract tar and oil from beach sand after oil spills. For more information Tweet

Read More...

By G. Rendell – Originally published on the Getting to Green blog at Inside Higher Ed A lot of the people I talk to use the words “green” and “sustainable” interchangeably. If I’m tired, occasionally I do it myself. But the difference between the two is significant. One’s subjective and relatively easy (although hardly the [...]

Read More...

Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation The National Parks Service We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished [...]

Read More...

6 Lessons the Climate Movement Can Learn from Dr. King’s Legacy It’s Getting Hot in Here – Ethan Nuss Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Smoke and Mirrors Inside Higher Ed Over the past few years, as the [...]

Read More...

This C.E.F. music video, of sorts, highlights the cleanup and restoration efforts of the NOAA Marine Debris Program. Marine Debris: An Ocean Story from C.E.F. on Vimeo. Music by Gregg Lehrman Edited by Danny Ledonne Footage by NOAA Tweet

Read More...

Monday, October 4, 2010 is a date now forever etched in the minds of Hungarians in what has been declared this country’s worst chemical toxic spill accident. “Hungary declares state of emergency’ the headlines read Tuesday morning at breakfast. As an English speaker living in Hungary I am informed at the delayed rate of those [...]

Read More...