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Good Hood: Paving the Way in Sustainable Streets

Jan 31, 2013 12:03PM

Shedding smokestacks and corrugated steel warehouses for solar-paneled bus stops, native plants and special pavement, a stretch of road on Chicago’s West Side will soon become one of the nation’s most sustainable streets.

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Peaceful Spirits: Living Spiritual Laws in Prison

Jan 31, 2013 12:03PM

Workshops aimed to help guide inmates to new ways of thinking and approaching everyday decisions using kindness and self-reflection offer promising results.

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Creative Reuse: New Life for Old Bedding

Jan 31, 2013 12:03PM

Reusing, recycling or repurposing a worn-out mattress is better than adding another to the 20 million or so that annually end up in landfills. These green tips will help you—and your conscience—sleep easy.

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Worse & Worse: Fracking Goes Radioactive

Jan 31, 2013 12:02PM

Grassroots Environmental Education has issued a report expressing major concerns about the fracking that’s underway in several states and planned for many more. The practice can release substantial quantities of deadly radioactive poisons, bringing them to the surface, where they have the potential to pollute air, water, soil, food crops and animal feed.

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Dirty Pool: Great Lakes Under Siege by Global Warming

Dec 27, 2012 01:47PM

Climate change is aggravating the effects of devastating algae blooms in the Great Lakes by increasing the intensity of spring rains that wash phosphorus into the water.

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Cut Abuse: Government Steps In to Curb Greenwashing

Dec 27, 2012 01:47PM

Everyone has jumped on the “green” bandwagon—but which products are really eco-friendly? The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued updated green marketing guidelines intended to stop advertisers from making deceptive or unqualified claims.

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People Power: Modified Bicycles Recycle Electronic Waste

Dec 27, 2012 01:47PM

A Harvard graduate has invented the Bicyclean device, which helps people in Third World countries separate valuable recyclable materials from the mountains of refrigerators, computers, cell phones and other electronic e-waste dumped in their “backyards” by richer nations.

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Zapped Tap: UV Light Cleans The Big Apple’s Water Supply

Dec 27, 2012 01:47PM

New York City has opened the world’s largest water disinfection plant, using ultraviolet (UV) light as a sanitizing agent to eliminate pathogenic microorganisms that can cause nausea, cramps, diarrhea and more serious ailments.

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Shell Game: Turtles Facing Extinction Get Help

Dec 27, 2012 01:47PM

A new 50-acre Turtle Survival Center near Charleston, South Carolina, will house some of the world’s most endangered freshwater turtles and tortoises and maintain living groups, or assurance colonies, of species facing uncertainty in the wild.

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Repair and Reuse: Mending a Throwaway Culture

Dec 27, 2012 01:47PM

In The Netherlands, citizens in dozens of locations are gathering one or more days a month at Repair Cafés to socialize while mending clothes and broken household items, and the concept is spreading.

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