War in Ukraine: Chernobyl Update
March 12 2022 UPDATE Thirty-five years ago the world’s worst nuclear crisis occurred at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear facility. Today Chernobyl is back in Russian hands ! Russia’s incursion into the […]
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Paris Climate Agreement – Read and Weep
U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]
Coming this summer: books, museums, cities
Looting the ancient world – cities, sites and tombs are being robbed to fund militants and deliberately destroyed to erase our history Solar projects – follow Impulse 2 (solar […]
Chernobyl at 30
Today is Chernobyl ‘s 30th anniversary– and the impacts of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster (yes, they say, worse than Fukushima in 2011) are still being felt in […]
Berta Caceres: Enviro Activist Murdered
This is heartbreaking news! Environmental activist Berta Cáceres – who defied the government of Honduras for the land rights of indigenous people—was laid to rest on March 7 after being […]
Solar Flight: Around the World
Solar Impulse 2 has landed in Hawaii on the 12th leg of its 35,000 km flight around the world — powered entirely by 70,000 onboard solar cells and manned by […]
Earth Heroes: Next Gen Coming Up
Thousands of students in architecture, engineering, environmental science, health and other fields in the US, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and Europe are going to make a big difference for the […]
Earth Hour: Turn out the lights 3/28
Earth Hour March 28, 8:30-9:30 p.m. local time. Do it for the planet and the solidarity of all people. Today, the Eiffel Tower, Brandenburg Gate, and the Vatican turned out their […]
Welcome Spring! Lights out March 28
Welcome Spring! Earth Hour is coming March 28, 8:30-9:30 p.m. local time. Ask your city or town to turn out the lights. And at home or at work, take one hour […]
Go Green Today! (March 17)
Happy St. Paddy’s Day! Skip the pint and take a few steps today — even tiny ones– to green the planet by what you’re doing. Turn off the power strips […]
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