Just in time for South Africa to host the World Cup, a group of Harvard students have created a way to provide energy from a soccer ball. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the sOccket . The Caribbean nation of Anguilla may be lush with tropical forests... 

Photo via EcoStiletto Actress Gabrielle Anwar –most famous for her Scent of a Woman tango with Al Pacino and her current role on USA’s Burn Notice knows that the lessons you learn as a kid are the ones most likely to stay with you–whether... 

Image credit: Solar One If you are anything like me, you can be supportive of a particular piece of legislation. But that support doesn’t always turn into action. From clean energy legislation to local feed-in tariffs , there is plenty that law... 

Photo via Marcin Wichary Google’s PowerMeter tool is taking a bite out of the slow progress we’re making toward a smart grid by jumping over utilities that move at the speed-of-molasses and putting energy data in front of users right away,... 

Image credit: PETA Much like Blythe’s excellent slideshow on PETA porn , I’m never quite sure what to make of PETA . On the one hand, the constant focus on View original post here:  PETA’s at it Again: Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door... 

Photo via steepways @ flickr Get your Oscar celebration rolling early at Global Green USA ’s Pre-Oscar Party, where a host committee that includes James Cameron, Adrian Grenier, Woody Harrelson, and Orlando Bloom put together an evening of performances... 

Photo via Earthwatch Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute , a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds... 

Physical conflict between anti-whaling activists and Japanese whalers has been growing. Here, members of Sea Shepherd throw stink bombs aboard a Japanese whaler. Photo: John via flickr. Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has set a deadline for Japan... 

Credit: Flickr via kate.gardiner If only the headline were true. The truth is, leaders in the Great Lakes region are crying for help in the fight against Asian carp . Barack Obama, who just happens to be a former Illinois senator, has opposed plans,... 

An artistic, abstract image of the pollution plaguing Big Stone Lake. Photo by Mary Taffe . Mary Taffe has lived in Ortonville, Minnesota , on the eastern side of Big Stone Lake, for her entire life. But for the past four summers, her family has been...