Tag: Featured Story
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Vermiculture: An Easy Alternative to Outdoor Composting
If you’ve always wanted to compost but think it’s impossible because you live in an apartment or a house with a small yard, consider composting with worms. Using worms in composting is called vermiculture. It involves keeping special red worms—either Red Wigglers and Red Earthworms—in bins with organic matter in order to break it down…
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Is Your City Listed in Latest Ranking of Bicycle Friendly Communities?
The growing number of people pedaling along the sidewalks and streets aren’t just biking in urban areas. The League of American Bicyclists released its latest ranking of Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC) today, including 32 communities that are new to the list, many of which are suburbs. There are now 291 BFCs in 48 states. [caption id=”attachment_307995″…
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Will Hawaii’s Big Island Ban GMO Farming?
The Big Island of Hawaii County Council is expected to consider a bill on Wednesday, Oct. 16 that would prohibit all open-air growing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) except papayas and other GMO crops now being cultivated. The bill also would prohibit biotech companies from operating on the Big Island. [caption id="attachment_307940" align="alignnone" width="520"] Most papayas…
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Melbourne’s Sustainable Building Program Wins Climate Leadership Award
Cities from Boston to San Francisco offer tax credits for energy efficiency, but an Australian municipality stands as a model of efficiency. Melbourne won an award at the C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards in London for 1,200 Buildings, a program that incentivizes commercial property owners to install solar panels, LEDs and more. Commercial building owners account…
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First-Ever Footage of Aging Tar Sands Pipelines Beneath Great Lakes
National Wildlife Federation By Beth Wallace This past July, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) conducted a diving expedition to obtain footage of aging oil pipelines strung across one of the most sensitive locations in the Great Lakes, and possibly the world: the Straits of Mackinac. Footage of these pipelines has never been released to the public until now. [caption…