Image credit: Good When one Peace Corps volunteer came to understand the flimsy safeguards a “reserve” provided the forest near his post in Paraguay, he was motivated to do something that would provide true protections for the trees. The... 

Photo via Guardian Most cap and trade schemes proposed by governments include provisions that allow polluting companies to buy carbon offsets –initiatives that pay for tree planting in South America or solar panel installation in India and so forth–instead... 

Photo via A Green Living That’s the topic of an ongoing online debate over at the Economist.com . In one corner, green jobs advocate Van Jones , who argues that governments should engage in the active practice of creating green jobs, by, for example,... 

Image: Shefaet, Flickr This one goes out to mig. Mig wrote us and explained that yesterday a distant facebook friend posted this: “Oceans are the single largest CO2 reduction system in the world. Water Vapor is the biggest contributor of CO2 in... 

all images: Gallup.com There have been a number of surveys released in the past few months about shifting attitudes of the American public regarding global warming . The general trend seems to be towards more climate skepticism and issue fatigue, and... 

photo: Christian Steen via flickr. The Maldives definitely knows who’s paying the bills these days… The low-lying Indian Ocean nation has declared the entirety of its 90,000 square mile Exclusive Economic Zone a shark sanctuary , banning... 

The Unclutterer calls them Unitaskers; things that do just one thing and take up space the rest of the time. Mark Bittman says that all you need to cook is “A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons, all... 

That’s the Ady Gil colliding with the Japanese vessel. Photo: Sea Shepherd. I admit I’m sympathetic to Sea Shepherd ’s cause, but this all is just getting weirder and weirder: The latest is that the Japanese Coast Guard has arrested... 

Image credit: Gearless I was quite excited the other day to learn about Robert Llewellyn’s Gearless show in which he will be driving and reviewing a Mitsubishi MiEV over the course of an entire year. (Robert previously filmed a test drive of the... 

Photos: Projeto Tamanduá Very little is know about Silky anteaters, which make their home in the Amazon rainforest , other than the fact that they’re tiny, nocturnal, ant-loving, and of course, incredibly cute. But, in hopes of learning more about...