If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Anyone in pursuit of job security should take a look at the oil spill cleanup business. With about 10,000 spills on America’s waterways every year — or one spill every 53 minutes — there’s plenty of work. And if […]

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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, drummer for the Grateful Dead music group, for his book, Drumming at the Edge of Magic. […]

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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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The question of cutting down or preserving old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest has been a controversial issue for years. Now a specific tree in the forest — previously thought of as economically useless — is adding fuel to the already heated debate.
Bark and needles from the Pacific yew tree contain the drug taxol, which […]

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