By Lester R. Brown People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect [ … ]
Tag: pollution
Bicycling: The Present, and the Future (infographic)
We’re big fans of bicycling here at sustainablog: from the large scale economic and community impact, to smaller efforts that promote cycling and even incorporate it into unlikely activities. So [ … ]
Greenpeace Clothing Campaign Calls Out Nike, Adidas, Puma and Others for Their Toxic Ways
Are you aware that the textile industry is one of the top users and polluters of water? Fiber for one cotton t-shirt requires 713 gallons of water. And traditional wet-dye [ … ]
E-Waste Management: The Big Picture (infographic)
Electronic waste (or e-waste) presents a number of challenges: its growth, its toxicity, unethical approaches to recycling… the list goes on. And while it’s a big issue in the United [ … ]
Saving Civilization is Not a Spectator Sport
By Lester R. Brown Given the enormous environmental and social challenges faced by our early twenty-first century global civilization, one of the questions I hear most frequently is “What can [ … ]
Plan B – A Plan to Save Civilization
By Lester R. Brown There is much that we do not know about the future. But one thing we do know is that business as usual, including our continuing failure [ … ]
Lowering Income Taxes While Raising Pollution Taxes Reaps Great Returns
By Lester R. Brown As economic decision makers—whether consumers, corporate planners, government policymakers, or investment bankers—we all depend on the market for guidance. In order for markets to work and [ … ]
Why Toxic Coal Waste May End Up In Your Food
There is a long history of the US pushing industrial waste onto agriculture and our water supplies (water fluoridation, anyone?), and it continues today with the government’s hope to spread [ … ]
Why “Organic” Fertilizers are Not the Solution to the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico
[social_buttons] From the comment streams and emails I’ve been getting about recent posts, it is clear that many people believe things that are not actually true about the environmental profile [ … ]
B.S. And Organic Marketing – Figuratively and Literally
[social_buttons] The large-scale Organic dairy cooperative, “Organic Valley” has just sunk to a new low in the practice of “I will market against my farmer neighbors by stoking consumer’s fears.” [ … ]
Emissions from Plastic Manufacturing Damaging Cattle DNA
Courtesy of Scientific American and Environmental Health News, another reason to despise plastic. According to an article by Matthew Cimitile, researchers believe that airborne pollution from plastics manufacturing may change [ … ]
Help Schlumpy Get 1 Billion Plastic Bags Off of the Street
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/4MbTVC1BWaY&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Schlumpy? Huh? Schlumpy’s an 8-foot plastic bag ball touring the country to build awareness of the 100 billion plastic shopping bags Americans use each year. That’s right… billion! Want [ … ]
Plastic Bag Fees Stalling for Economics or Politics?
The New York Times reports that various plastic bag-reduction initiatives around the country are stalling – or flatlining – due to economics. The plans in the works in places like [ … ]