The deadline to apply for the 2012 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program, providing twenty $5000 scholarships to graduating high school students, is Jan. 31.
Earth Day Canada recently launched the scholarship for students who have distinguished themselves through environmental community se...
Wisconsin, USA -- Europe burns heaps of garbage, getting lots of electricity and some heat. The United States does not. Proponents say incineration shrinks the waste and produces heat and electricity while reducing the need for landfills and the diesel-drinking trucks tasked with taking trash to o...
For regions with adequate space and little recycling infrastructure, disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint than recycling or incineration...It is claimed the practice of shipping PET bottles to China for recycling is an ecological nonsense. Not true, says our study
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E-readers are everywhere, even at my local library. But what about the trees? You told us about reading the newspaper online vs. getting the print edition, so now tell us about e-books. Does reading on my Kindle represent a win for the environment?
Environmental analysis can be an endless balancing...
Introduction to 10 Things You Can Do to Help Save the Earth
Going green is easier than you think. There are little things you can do every day to help reduce greenhouse gases and make a less harmful impact on the environment. Taking care of the Earth is not just a responsibility -- it's a privilege...
A brief piece that shows a comparison between recycling during World War II and today.
War is generally defined as an armed conflict between two nations, implying some measurable geographic set of boundaries. The United States has indeed been in many such wars in the last century - from World War I...
Celebrate No Trash Week by not making any! Get some friends together, advertise to your email address book, announce it on your blog, post flyers (previously used paper, of course) at your work and school! Tell everyone it's happening, then participate!
How do you participate? Strive to make no tra...
Nations around world look at a banby Joan Lowy
Imagine a world without plastic shopping bags. It could be the future.
There is a growing international movement to ban or discourage the use of plastic bags because of their environmental effects. Countries from Ireland to Australia are cracking down...
San Francisco just put a law in effect making it mandatory to recycle and compost!
Very interesting! The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco voted 9 to 2 for a mandatory composting and recycling program law. The intention is to aggressively reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and have the city send n...
Oil spills don't just happen when drunk supertanker captains screw up. There are small spills all over waiting to happen.
I keep noticing this so I had to write about it. Little tiny oil spills waiting to happen. There is one in my carport that I have to look at everyday. Someone who doesn't ...
Our third Green Adventure took place this past weekend, April 4th - April 7th, 2009, at Quail Springs (http://quailsprings.org) and was a huge success!
Sara Laimon, Guzel Gjenasaj and Amy Frame led ten students of Environmental Charter High School. They spent four days learning about permaculture, ...
On March 2, 2009, Common Vision visited Environmental Charter High School to promote the planting of fruit trees and recycling in artistic and upbeat ways.
Common Vision and Green Ambassadors allied to plant fruit trees around the community of Lawndale.
Groups of students and Common Vision members...
Being green is not something you only do at home or at school, but EVERYWHERE!
On Saturday March 28, the softball team played proud and hard in the Westminster Tournament. After a long day, during their snack time, the girls had Gatorade bottles and orange peels left over.
Practicing being Green A...
"We the people here in Boise, Idaho have strong family and community based views and values. We love and care for our children and the community in which we live with a deep passion." - Corey S. Godfrey
Idaho is one of the few states that still has vast amounts of natural beauty to admire and...
The American public suddenly has woken up. Who can blame us? Compared to other countries we never really had to deal with high energy prices.
Our society believes in securing an easy and good life with luxuries unfathomable in other parts of the world. We take for granted our big cars and trucks, h...
