Environmental News of the Day

The following is a guest post by our friends at Saybrook University’s Organizational Systems Program (a 3p sponsor) – designed for students who want to understand the nature of organizations, collaborative practices, and transformative change. By Jay G. Cone, Ph.D. student in organizational systems, Saybrook University Three organizations I work with are undergoing restructuring. In [...]

Combination of a warm winter & increased natural gas production is making natural gas the fuel of choice.

A team of U.S. researchers that has been examining the impacts of radiation exposure on flora and fauna in Chernobyl will be conducting a similar long-term study in Japan.

As Gasland director Josh Fox's arrest stole the attention, politicians heard important testimony about fracking.

A neat and complete list of the not-to-be-missed green fashion shows. Plus, exclusive pre-New York Fashion Week interviews with designers like Costello Tagliapietra and Crop by David Peck.

Belly Armor claims to protect pregnant women against non-ionizing radiation.

Residents of Alaska and neighboring British Columbia have known for years that the cedars are dying. Now scientists know why.

Amir planted a garden in the hills of LA's largest park 40 years ago and few people still know about it

A map produced by Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science provides the energy use of each NYC block, broken down by purpose and quantity.

Appliance manufacturer Miele is among the first to use new DuPont packaging film that both saves energy and reduces waste, the companies say. The skin packaging (pictured) is based on DuPont Surlyn, a highly transparent polymer designed to protect susceptible, three-dimensional component surfaces. The product is the result of joint development work between DuPont, machinery [...]

Starting this Wednesday, colleges and universities will have a single portal for reporting their data to some of the biggest sustainability rankings in education. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education is launching the free Campus Sustainability Data Collector to collect information for The Princeton Review Green Rating, Sierra magazine’s Cool Schools [...]

Ecologix Environmental Systems, an Atlanta-based wastewater treatment company specializing in the oil and gas industry, has designed a mobile integrated treatment system for hydraulic fracturing that allows the re-use of water for future drilling. Using dissolved air flotation technology, the system can treat up to 900 gallons per minute of frac flowback water. The sped [...]

Insurance commissioners in California, New York and the state of Washington said that insurance companies must disclose disaster response and risk management plans for increasingly severe storms and wildfires, rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change. The new state regulations reveal the insurance industry’s role in mediating the country’s response to climate change, [...]

Siemens Government Technologies Inc. is to build the U.S. Army’s largest solar photovoltaic system at the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. The 4.465 MW solar photovoltaic power generating system is part of a wider $16.8 million contract to implement energy-conserving upgrades. U.S. Bancorp, the U.S.’s fifth-largest commercial bank, is planning to invest hundreds [...]

Data center energy management firm Power Assure Inc., has announced an integrated data center power monitoring and analytics system that it says improves the reliability and energy-efficientcy of data centers. The system uses Power Assure’s secure cloud-based EM/4 Energy Management software and Raritan’s intelligent power monitoring products. It provides accurate, real-time information on infrastructure performance. [...]

The pace of innovation in high technology carries a price: difficult, even toxic conditions for workers assembling electronics in China, according to employees, worker advocates and documents.

An examination of the whale's ribs and vertebrae indicates that it was probably struck by a large vessel in a coastal shipping lane.