A recent study of male Chinese workers has found that the infamous endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) causes sperm counts and concentrations to drop. Additionally, it found that the “quality” of the sperm was worse, meaning lower sperm motility (the…
Portland to Get a Transit- & Bike-Only Bridge
Cars have gotten a hugely disproportionate bulk of transportation funds in the U.S. for decades, over half a century even. But with more and more people realizing this is bad for our health, bad for our pocketbooks, bad for the environment,…
Thanksgiving Recipes for Vegans (Part III)
Rounding out this series on vegan Thanksgiving recipes (see: Thanksgiving Recipes for Vegans Part I and Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes Part II), here are four more good recipes for a full (or more than full) Thanksgiving dinner. Vegan Shepherd’s Pie I love…
Innovative Grassroots Sustainability Projects
Want to be inspired by some truly progressive sustainability projects being created by common folks? If so, I highly recommend checking out Working for Green, a website that documents noteworthy grassroots, sustainability projects around the country. The website founder, Susan…
New York City Cyclists Getting Nearly $1 Million for Wrongful Arrests
Cyclists get mistreated, illegally ticketed, and poorly protected on roads all over the U.S. Why people don’t realize that cyclists save them time (while a biker may block your way for a short time, he or she does so much…
Peru to Add 200 MW of Renewable Energy in 2012
Peru is not a renewable energy giant, for sure. But it, like many countries around the world, is taking climate change and peak oil seriously and is looking to do its part. Peru is planning to implement 6 renewable energy…
Tesoro Refinery on Fire (California)
Bad news in the Bay Area. The Contra Cost Blog reports: There’s a fire burning at the Tesoro Refinery in Martinez. The following was issued by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services…. Instructions: Residents of Clyde and North Concord are…
Activists Who Tried to Shut Down UK Power Plant Going on Trial
114 UK activists were suspected of “conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station,” the UK’s 3rd-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and arrested “in a night-time police raid” at a school in Nottingham in April, 2009. 20 of these activists are…
1st Prize for the Protection of the Environment Goes to Friends of the Earth Middle East
OK, to clarify, the inaugural Prize for the Protection of the Environment from the Aristotle Onassis Public Benefit Foundation has been awarded to Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)…. (I’m sure there are numerous other “environmental protection prizes” out there.)…
WWF – Fourfold increase in fires magnifies threat to Brazil’s Cerrado
The Russian wildfire disasters may be over (this year, at least), but climate change and people illegally setting fire to forests to make way for farmland are also causing great fire damage in Brazil. WWF reports: Brazil’s crucial Cerrado region…