Pedestrian braves the street, avoiding the un-shoveled sidewalk. Image credit: The Hook, photo by Hawes Spencer Having grown up where snow up to the windows was normal, it is with amazement that I view my fellow Southeastern Pennsylvanians dealing with serious snow. Two honest-feet fell Friday night; and, another two feet are predicted starting tomorrow night. Pretty crazy. Unless... More »

photo via Flickr The UN’s top climate official and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, Rajendra Pachauri, has penned a novel that reportedly mixes global warming lectures with steamy sex scenes involving a male protagonist that resembles Pachauri himself. An engineer by training, Pachauri has endured the recent failings in Copenhagen and the recent attacks on the Intergovernmental... More »

Photo via UC Berkeley A recently published report is exposing some shocking exploitation of the Amazon’s natural resources –and this times it… Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post:  Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad  Read More →

Image credit: Lollie-Pop /Flickr With Tesla officially filing their IPO papers , it seems like renewable energy is entering a new era of marketability. Such small successes, however, may not be representative of trends. … Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source:  RETECH 2010: Challenges and Opportunities in Renewable Energy  Read More →

A new federal agency charged with reporting on climate change is being formed.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will set up the Climate Service using members of the National Weather Service and other NOAA offices. Climate operations have been spred out among NOAA offices, but with more and more requests pouring in for information concerning climate change,... More »

Photo via World Sports Tribune Much has been made of this year’s generally crappy Super Bowl ads. But in the green community, one ad has been showing up repeatedly on just about every enviro blog out there: the Audi “Green Police” ad. We even covered it here before the game , where it was already causing a stir. And that stir isn’t over the product or the... More »

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Photo via Syracuse I have a challenge for you: try to come up with a company that better exemplifies the archetype of the nefarious, greed-driven, monolithic corporation than Exxon. Besides Haliburton. You have until the end of this blog post to do so, and it’s a tall order: Exxon is behind one of the most infamous environmental catastrophes of our time , it makes more gross... More »

Image credit: Good We have all seen “buy local” campaigns, but what about taking it to the next level: Investing locally ?… Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original:  Support Local Business: Help Build One  Read More →