Tag: News
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SunPower Awards Engineering Curriculum Grants to California Schools
Today, SunPower awarded schools in four California school districts a total of $85,000 in grants to support the implementation of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula for students. The grants were facilitated in partnership with Project Lead The Way […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Gripping Report and Film Reveal How Fracking Boom Destroys Texans’ Lives
Shelby Buehring was born in South Texas and bought a home there in 1995, but he has grown to hate the area. That’s because the area’s fracking boom caused his wife, Lynn, to depend on an inhaler to help her breathe properly amid an atmosphere rife with thick black smoke, strong stenches and other environmental…
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House Passes Trio of Damaging Anti-Environment Bills
By Mary Beth Beetham and Sandra Purohit The first week of February was a trying time for wildlife conservation. The U.S. House of Representatives literally waged a week-long war on wildlife and wildlands, passing three anti-wildlife bills. [caption id="attachment_321967" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The first bill, H.R. 3590, the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreation Act, came…
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House Passes Trio of Damaging Anti-Environment Bills
By Mary Beth Beetham and Sandra Purohit The first week of February was a trying time for wildlife conservation. The U.S. House of Representatives literally waged a week-long war on wildlife and wildlands, passing three anti-wildlife bills. [caption id="attachment_321967" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The first bill, H.R. 3590, the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreation Act, came…
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3 New Studies Show Benefits of Eliminating Pesticides on Cotton Fields
Field schools that train farmers in alternative methods of pest control have succeeded in nearly eliminating the use of toxic pesticides by a community of cotton growers in Mali, according to a new Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations (FAO) study published yesterday by the London-based Royal Society. The study was conducted in two…