Sustain Our Earth

Young adults overwhelmingly value health insurance and don't believe they are too healthy to need it, according to survey data published Wednesday. The findings of the poll by the Henry J.

What are the most common excuses for not "doing the green thing"?  Convenience?  Lack of education/ information?   Unclear value?  How do you go green conveniently yet still have your eco actions add up?

A good portion of our sustainability consulting is really about transformation.  Specifically, rethinking approaches to how we do business.  On an individual level, personal transformation takes form in discovering hidden treasures in daily habits that unite conscious habits and routines with eco awareness and eco actions to take.   Most of us recognize that change can be unsettling.  It can be scary, and too often it is just easier to slip back into a traditional and comfortable way of doing things.  However, implementing effective sustainable change does not have to be a laboring process.  Yet, to manifest global sustainability change, it takes each of us doing our part.  How can we make it easier?

When it comes to honey bees, more mates is better. A new study from North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland and the U.S.

If you want to understand the massive gulf between Democrats and Republicans on climate change, look no further than the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Australia's rush to acquire airconditioners and fridges is creating a greenhouse gas time bomb, which the Greens and environmental groups say existing regulations, including the carbon tax, are ill equipped to defuse.

Invests in mitigation as Asian cities, African farmland are seen at risk over the next 10 to 20 years.

Electric vehicles like the Nissan Leaf and Honda Fit EV used to languish on dealership lots for months. A pricing war with aggressive incentives and cheap lease deals has changed all that.

What if you could grow and sell food in the same place? That is the radical idea behind Ben Greene's The Farmery project. Can this revolutionize our current food transportation system?

There is substantial opportunity to incorporate next-generation nuclear energy — through either large, advanced reactors or emerging SMR designs or both — more significantly into a productive strategy for reducing carbon emissions in the long and...

Nearly all the money has been spent, and the California Solar Initiative is winding down. The direct CSI subsidy for installing PV panels on your house, which started at $2.50 per watt is now just $0.20 per watt.

The Kudankulam nuclear power plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has finally begun operations following a landmark Supreme Court of India ruling approving the project.

Corporate America worked hard to build massive loopholes into the tax code for itself, and by golly it is working just as hard to keep them. U.S.

A vast majority of voters want Congress to maintain the interest rates on federal student loans at their current level or lower them, a poll released Tuesday found.

For the past four years, Global Good has been working on the Passive Vaccine Storage Device, an insulated container that will help to keep vaccines fresh for more than a month at a time.

Decision comes despite intense resistance from advertisers who see it as a “nuclear first strike.”

Insurance industry criticised for blocking recovery of highly potent greenhouse gases.

After a record cold spring, all-time high temperature records were broken in Alaska during the past few days as a "heat dome" took control.

The southern half of the U.S. has been rapidly depleting its groundwater over the last decade, according to new scientific research

The Obama administration is making a second attempt to systematically account for the dollar damage from greenhouse gas pollution, even with no consensus on how to forestall global warming or whether to do so.

How can our cities function like healthy ecosystems?

Solar Decathlon Team Las Vegas designed DesertSol - a super resilient solar-powered home in the Mojave Desert

The failure of the mainstream media to note that it is the growth in oil consumption that fell, and not actual oil consumption -- leaves many with a false impression that perhaps the world is beginning to wean itself off of oil, notes Robert Rapier.

The top electric car city in the US... San Francisco? LA? New York? Portland? What do you think?