If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The first ever “tree clause” in a book contract allows environmentally minded authors to symbolically replace the trees used in the printing of their works.
Harper & Row in San Francisco developed the clause at the request of Mickey Hart, […]

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Earth Corps, a new YMCA program expanding across the nation, is allowing high school students the opportunity to take charge and promote environmental issues and actions.
Created in Seattle, Wash., the original program quickly grew from 270 participating students to more than 1,500 students from 43 different schools. Earth Corps programs are now under way in […]

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If you keep the environment in mind while shopping, your efforts are making a difference.
The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) recently tracked several environmental issues on behalf of the supermarket industry and found that consumers are changing their purchasing habits to help the environment. These findings should help change the way the industry does business.
The institute, […]

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Wetlands are to nature what kidneys are to the human body.
By using these natural kidneys as filters, a South Carolina county is processing wastewater in an energy efficient manner while leaving the wetlands unharmed.
In Horry County — South Carolina’s fastest growing county with Myrtle Beach as its hub — a sewage disposal system is dumping […]

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Can you make it to the recycling center before using your last unit of oxygen? Do you know what percentage of the world’s energy the United States uses?
A new board game that combines environmental trivia with actual planet-saving activities has hit the store shelves. While playing Earth Alert, participants can learn about recycling, rainforests, conservation, […]

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