Archives for the ‘News and Media’ Category

Consider Dumping Your Newspaper In Favor of Your Iphone

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Energy, News and Media, Products and Shopping, Recent Posts, Resource Waste Reduction, Technology

Ditching your newspaper subscription will improve your envirohuman impact.



Weekly Green News Blurb | You Should Know Vol. 2

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Climate Change, Energy, News and Media, Recent Posts

Big Environmental News shaping up that you may not have heard through traditional means



Weekly Green News Blurb | You Should Know Vol. 1

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 13th, 2008 • Category: Health, News and Media, Politics, Pollution, Recent Posts

Showcase of overlooked environment-related news stories from the past week.



Environ|Mental: Why to Carry Out Environmental Dialogue

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 12th, 2008 • Category: News and Media, Recent Posts

Keeping ways to improve our envirohuman impact in the spotlight is dependent upon our continuing dialogue.



Commentary: Should Candidates Green their Campaigns?

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: News and Media, Politics, Pollution, Recent Posts

What does more than $1 Billion in campaign spending mean for the environment? We’d like to know what the Presidential candidates are doing to limit their campaign’s envirohuman impact!



Five Simple Ways to Green Your Life Today

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Chemicals, Climate Change, Household, News and Media, Products and Shopping, Recent Posts, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction, Transportation, Workplace

Check out five simple approaches to a greener life, starting today!



The Greendex: How do You stack up?

By Matthew Philip • May 26th, 2008 • Category: News and Media

We recently came across a very interesting piece of consumer research: the Greendex courtesy of National Geographic Online.
While most research looking at various countries’ impact on the environment is measured by the actions taken by the governments, the Greendex is a consumer based survey that ranks countries’ envirohuman impact based on the individual consumers’ green-related [...]



White House Interferes in Emissions Case

By Wesley Joseph • May 20th, 2008 • Category: News and Media, Politics

Story quoted from the AP on May 20, 2008. Report Charges Interference on Emissions
The story begins:
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency initially supported giving California full or partial permission to limit tailpipe emissions, but reversed himself after hearing from the White House, a Congressional report says.
Sounds like politicians meddling in science-based decisions for [...]



Polar Bear Listed, “Endangered”

By Wesley Joseph • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Climate Change, News and Media, Politics

Polar bears have been listed on the “Endangered Species” list, although environmentalists did not get the win they had hoped for with this case. They had wanted for this to push legislation to combat global warming.
From the New York Times’ May 15, 2008 story, “Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species,” we will get [...]



Commentary: Why Gade’s Resignation Matters

By Wesley Joseph • May 6th, 2008 • Category: News and Media, Politics, Pollution

If you have been following the controversy over why Mary Gade was forced to resign from her post as head of the U.S. EPA’s Region 5 Office in Chicago, you may have encountered the question, “So what? People get fired unfairly all the time. Why does this matter so much?”
If you’re just joining [...]