Category: Green Building LEED News
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Preserving an Appalachian Treasure: American Ginseng
[Editor’s note: This article has been going viral on EcoWatch for days and has been very popular over the last many months. The article is from the 2009 August issue of EcoWatch Journal and the online format of the article is from an older version of our site. I thought with it’s renewed popularity, it…
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Leaders Urge President Obama: Consider Climate in Decisions on Keystone XL, Fracking and Drilling in the Arctic
As reported in an exclusive to the Washington Post today, eighteen environmental, environmental justice and public health advocacy groups sent a letter to President Obama, calling on his administration to embrace clean energy and climate action over an “all of the above” energy plan. The groups applauded the President’s actions to reduce carbon pollution and his commitment…
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Top 10 Priority Areas in Marine Conservation
By Dr. Elizabeth Selig If you walk on the beach and look out at your nearest stretch of the global ocean, it can be hard to fathom the incredible diversity that lies beneath the waves. Our oceans contain an estimated 2.2 million species, the vast majority of which have never been seen or described by…
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Wind Energy Blows Away Records Throughout Europe
By Michael Goggin The data is in, and 2013 went out with a bang as wind energy output soared to new records across Europe. Electricity prices and air pollution dropped as wind energy drastically reduced fossil fuel use during high winter energy demand. Ireland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and the UK all saw noteworthy wind…
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Start small with big New Year’s goals
Feature image: At the start of each year, millions of us resolve to make renewed commitments to healthy living, time with family, philanthropy, financial responsibility and countless other things that better ourselves and our communities. …