One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast, New Orleans still lies in ruins with rebuilding efforts moving at a snail’s pace that serves a few while leaving out most. The question is who is getting left out and why? This is my second time in the city and I immediately hit the ground [...]

Governor Joe Manchin may be popular amongst the leading Democrats in Washington, but with many folks in Raleigh County, West Virginia his name is mud. In Raleigh County’s Coal River Valley sits Marsh Fork Elementary. Marsh Fork is an elementary school that is surrounded by a massive coal mining operation that includes [...]

Another quick parsing of the green news on the tip of all our tongues… Japan looks to cut its oil dependence, specifically within the transportation sector, by 20% over the next 24 years. I’d say thats nothing to write home about except that my government can’t even cut oil dependence by 5% let alone 20… Care to [...]

The Feds are inching toward getting completely behind ethanol as a solution to fossil fuels. They’re forking over $1.4 million to some Purdue researchers to genetically develop a tree species that can be row-cropped in fallow farmland for the production of cellulose, the sugar-containing component required for ethanol production. California does it’s part for restoring wetlands [...]

Steve Fobister is a representative on the Grassy Narrows Band Council with Forests Portfolio. After the Earth Justice Gathering July 10-14 he composed this summary of his thoughts about the actions as well as about the injustices faced by Indigenous people when dealing with the Canadian Provincial government or the logging industry. [...]

Its a guarantee that whenever a war breaks out, the natural environment takes a back seat to just about everything. The fighting in the Middle East (Lebanon and Iraq) has created an immense pool of environmental tragedies that will continue to fester until long after the fighting stops and people are forced to deal [...]

The Jumpstart Ford campaign has been gathering user-submitted photos from supporters depicting the various ways they are choosing to get off oil, be it showing off their new hybrid, riding their bike to work, handing their Range Rover keys back to the dealer or simply just spreading the message by holding a banner. Now, its [...]

The Sakhalin Oil and Gas project off the coast of Russia’s Far East has slogged along for more than 10 years. Recently, amid funding failures and questions around the impacts of the project, NGOs worldwide have come to the aide of the local population fighting against the largest oil and gas project in human [...]

I’m not sure whether to weep or celebrate: beer from the melting ice-caps of Greenland. The first-ever Inuit micro-brewery is at max production as orders are starting to come in from all over Europe for the new better-tasting beer that uses water from the melting ice-caps of the Arctic and Greenland. It is claimed that the Greenland [...]

I don’t actually know how cage wrestling works in the United States, not being a big fan of the World Wrestling Federation myself. But I think how it works is they set up a big cage in the ring and the object is to prevent your opponent from escaping, and whoever can escape first wins.