With climate change we'll get more droughts, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and tornadoes. With home owner's insurance we'll get higher rates, exclusions on coverage and denial of coverage altogether. Where are we headed?
We love it when a plan comes together. And one just did for the incomparable Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor watershed on the north shore of Long Island.
When Hurricane Irene hit New York City on August 28th, turning out to be a nonevent, residents breathed a sigh of relief, but many upstate farms were not so lucky, including Monkshood Nursery, where several Ecocentric bloggers had a CSA membership.
Sally Reuther, CEO of Annapolis Hybrid Marine, sells electric marine motors and educates people about the benefits of electric propulsion in her efforts to make the Chesapeake Bay swimmable again.
In the spirit of evolving holiday habits — from office parties and their regifting opportunities, to gifts of selfless service — here are our top 10 last-minute gifting game-plans.
On Dec. 4, 2011, 120 designers, data scientists, developers, marketing professionals, food policy experts, and USDA employees, participated in Food+Tech Connect's Farm Bill Hackathon. Here's one account.
Join Riverkeeper Boat Captain John Lipscomb and Carol Knudson from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory as they put Hudson River water quality to the test.
Keeping blackouts at bay is no doubt a stressful job. But a new NERC report is wrong in finding that cooling water rules could threaten grid reliability.
Dear McRib, Word on the street is that you have been discontinued, again. Is it true? I’ve been trying to avoid you, but you are on TV, blogs, websites, newspapers... everywhere. People love you and I don’t understand why.
A few weeks ago Congress dismissed the USDA's healthy school lunch reform proposals and decided to count pizza sauce as a vegetable. Sound ridiculous? It is.
With little public attention, two significant decisions came out of a follow up to a previously canceled meeting on hydraulic fracturing held by the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC).
In which our intrepid intern, Margaret Riche, recounts last weekend's Farmers' March on Wall Street, an event that united farmers, community gardeners, advocates and occupiers in addressing the corporate stranglehold on our food system.
Heroic Endeavors: A Watershed Moment – Public Rallies to Protect New York’s Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Estuary. Again.
After The Hurricane: CSAs and the Power of Community
Why It’s Possible to Kill Fewer Fish and Still Keep the Lights On
