Waiting for the ball to drop last year, I put a few handfuls of black eyed peas in a bowl of water to soak over night, and my Cuban friend put out 12 grapes for each of us to gobble down at the strike of midnight. We were preparing for a bountiful 2010 and working a little superstition to help it al[...]
The EPA is taking public comments on the pesticide Triclosan, which may be, among other things, an endocrin disruptor and is ubiquitous in the environment.
In which the Ecocentric bloggers make a list and check it twice. True to form, they put in some pretty tall orders. Are you listening, Santa?
A lot of things were said this year, some of them wise and some decidedly not. Check out our picks.
Marissa Guggiana, a meat purveyor from northern California, writes the way people should flip pancakes - lightly, skillfully, joyfully - and you can't help but be inspired by her portraits of the new culinary superstars.
New York continues to be the only state in the country to establish a moratorium on horizontal hydrofracking, although Governor Paterson's Executive Order doesn't include the vertical form of drilling.
FIJI Water and its parent company, Roll International, are using a lot of water -- and making a lot of dough -- at the expense of surrounding communities.
Can New York City seafood be local again? A number of seafood-centric writers and scientists, including Paul Greenberg, Mark Kurlansky, Carl Safina and others recently gathered along with a dozens-strong audience to tackle that infrequently-asked question.
With decades of environmental advocacy and community activism behind her, Manna is a force to be reckoned with. Today she serves on the Rosendale Town Board and is the Environmental Director for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater.
Have you ever heard a homeowner bemoan the bamboo they planted for the way it took over the yard? The stalk-y grass is doing the same thing to the market for eco-friendly goods -- popping up all over the place.
Now that hacking is a household term, it seems a good time to better understand how the re-configuring or re-programming information systems works. On December 4, about 100 well-intentioned New York area sustainable food advocates, converged and spent twelve hours – hacking.
2010 witnessed some highly-coordinated environmental advocacy work on the controversial shale-gas drilling process known as fracking. New York State is among the key battlefronts on what may very well become the environmental issue of the century.
Very Superstitious…New Year’s Foods
What’s Next on the Fracking Front?
Our Hero: Manna Jo Greene of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
