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Although we face an uncertain future where water is concerned, with creative thinking and flexibility we will meet our needs, even in the face of shifting precipitation patterns and increasing populations.
Silent Spring, Carson’s fourth book and her third best-seller, “played in the history of environmentalism roughly the same role that Uncle Tom's Cabin played in the abolitionist movement. In fact, EPA today may be said without exaggeration to be the extended shadow of Rachel Carson. The influenc[...]
Buying local food is an easy and delicious way to support small farmers and local economies, and often to reduce your picnic's "carbon foodprint" by cutting down on the fossil fuels required to get it to the party, and almost always to reduce the amount of petroleum-based chemicals used in its produ[...]
The Green Music Group “Eat Local” Challenge presented by Guster and the Eat Well Guide ended June 18, with the group’s website receiving more than 12,000 hits over the course of the11-day challenge. Fans were asked to eat a meal made entirely of local organic foods and submit a photo of their [...]
Climate models for New York City predict that sea levels in New York Harbor will rise by two feet over the next 50 years and four to six feet by the end of the century. This will dramatically affect the city and, in particular, those areas surrounding the harbor. Surprisingly, when asked if they kno[...]
After a long day in the sweltering sun (or windowless cubicle, depending on your situation), few beverages are quite as enjoyable as a nice cold beer. Fortunately, craft brewers have preserved tradition and thirst-quenching deliciousness by rejecting the industrial beer model.
As with corn ethanol, the Brazilian version of "renewable fuel" is not exactly what the industry touts. The Brazilian sugarcane sector is still characterized by a predominance of manual labor in the context of a land ownership structure that has remained practically unchanged since colonial times an[...]
“All I need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family,” sang the second grade class of the Tuckahoe School on Earth Day. The school, in Southampton, New York, recently won a grant to build a community garden on school grounds, one of five across Suffolk County awarded funds [...]
Enter desalination, or the process of removing salt from water to create a seemingly endless supply of drinking water. There’s no question that the idea of a drought-proof supply of drinking water is a tantalizing one, especially in water-challenged areas. But, as most of us learn pretty early in[...]
Greenmarket Interview: As Seasons Progress, Ask What Farmers Crave
I am personally thrilled about the appearance of anything leafy – greens that I can pick in my garden or greens that someone picked not far away. But how did the farmers feel about the new spring arrivals? All those people who actually work the land, sow the seeds and watch them grow, what were th[...]
