Teal Farm: Living the Future Now

Anya Kamenetz

My visit to the farm of the future, a prototype perpetual agriculture system capable of meeting regional food and energy needs in conditions of global warming, fluctuating energy supplies, and an oil-dependent global economy. (more)

Extreme Solar

Morgan Maher

SUNRGI announces a new solar energy system that makes the generation of large amounts of electricity as affordable as coal or natural gas. (more)

Flowers Losing Their Scent

Bill Machon

Bees aren't pollenating plants because pollution is destroying their scent.

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Estonia's Quick Clean

Morgan Maher

More than 50,000 volunteers cleaned Estonia of illegally dumped waste in one day. (more)

Biofuels and the Rise of Nationalistic Environmentalism

Alexis Zeigler

Democracy as we know it will soon fall at the feet of a nationalistic environmentalism, a movement that may include the destruction of the global poor among its methods of achieving "sustainability." If the current rate of biofuels expansion continues, ethanol plants will be using almost all of the U.S. corn crop within 5-7 years. (more)

Green Gorillas

Bill Machon

The new cartoon and interactive website Gorilla In The Greenhouse educates kids about the environment.

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Up and Away Down Under

Morgan Maher

Sustainable Sydney 2030 offers a community created vision for a green, global, connected city. (more)

Plastic Stew

sati

VBS.tv investigates an enormous "toxic stew" of plastic in the Pacific Ocean. (more)

The Tipping Point: A Global Death and Rebirth Story

Jim Fournier

It felt like the end of the world at the time. The climate had spiraled out of control much faster than predicted. The Arctic ice was already gone in the summer, when a huge ice sheet collapsed sending off a tidal wave that flooded D.C. and left the ocean level six inches higher overnight. Only looking back on it now do we see it as the birth of a new world. (more)

Undersea Subway

Morgan Maher

Hundreds of retired New York City subway cars are being used to turn a once barren stretch of ocean into a teeming ecosystem. (more)

The Green State of Ecuador

William McGillis

The Pachamama Alliance has created a Green Plan to make Ecuador a sustainable, environmental state. (more)

Space Junk

Kal Cobalt

If you think our landfills are full, check out the startling new images of space debris floating around our planet.

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Bat Collapse

Morgan Maher

Thousands of bats are dying in the State of New York from the mysterious "White-nose Syndrome". (more)

Hip-Hop and the Sustainable South Bronx

Propaganda Anonymous

A separation has always existed in this country between the “haves” and the “have-nots.” Environmental Justice is here to help bridge this divide. (more)

The Disciples at Saïs: A Sacred Theory of Earth

Peter Lamborn Wilson

The "new" scientific paradigm we're looking for – which sees the Earth as alive and replaces the dead-matter scientific world view of State/Capital -– can best be found in the underground tradition of hermetic-Romantic science. Its manifesto is a little known, fragmentary 18th century novel. (more)

New Species Revealed

Bridget Algiere

Green- blooded lizards, Myanmar catfish, Tongian White-eyes, and Wobbegong sharks make up some of the newly discovered species on the planet. (more)

Bio or Bust

MaryBeth Bonfiglio

Crossing the country in a vegged-out school bus, BioTour aims "to enliven the sustainability movement while exploring the depths of America." (more)

Attack of the Small-Jawed, Blue Eyed Mutants!

Jennifer Palmer

The human gene code is not unlike the Amazon River basin – both have the potential to cause and cure disease, and both may hold keys to greater levels of shared consciousness. (more)

Lotusland

Erik Davis

In the tony Montecito foothills near Santa Barbara lies Lotusland – a garden of eclectic whimsy, bold inventions, and theatrical juxtapositions that express a recognizably Californian spiritual temperament. (more)

Frozen Food

Adam Elenbaas

The Norwegian government is storing over 2 billion seeds in an underground arctic freezer that is being referred to as "the doomsday vault." (more)

The War in the Mid-West

Morgan Maher

For over 100 years a war has quietly evolved in mid-western Canada. A war for oil, no secret there. What has remained hidden is the extreme level of devastation. (more)

The Trash Man

Jennifer Flynn

From the devastation of the tsunami to post-Katrina New Orleans, the new film Garbage Warrior follows Michael Reynolds' dreams and struggles to create sustainable homes from recycled materials. (more)

Buy Organic, Buy Local, Buyer Beware

Derek Beres

We pay more for sustainably produced items. But we need to be sure that their quality is superior to the conventional goods. (more)

Cleaning Up Soap: Why The Bronner Family Is Washing Out a Few Mouths

Jill Ettinger

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps recently issued cease and desist letters to top "organic" soap manufacturers in an effort to stabilize an industry bubbling out of control. (more)

Modular Homes Go Green

Jennifer Flynn

This ain't your mama's double wide. Designers create modular housing for the green minded. (more)

A User's Guide to Climate Change

Angelina Shannon

If you want to prepare yourself and your community for peak oil and climate change, try the Transition Town approach. (more)

Shift Scenario: Averting Extinction

Jim Fournier

Biologists calls the current loss of biodiversity "the 6^th Extinction." This is not the first time that life on earth almost exhausted its available resources before discovering how to jump to a higher order of complexity. Will we figure out how to make a similar transition? (more)

Salmon Collapse Stuns Experts

Bill Machon

The Sacramento River's Chinook salmon population has almost completely collapsed, leaving experts scratching their heads.

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Deep Sea Devastation

sati

Deap sea bottom trawling upsets an area twice the size of the lower 48 states. (more)

Solar Powered Possibility

Morgan Maher

The world's largest solar power plant will be constructed near Phoenix, Arizona. That is, if the US Congress renews the clean energy tax credit.(more)