The massive flooding in the Midwest is of such a scale that it can be difficult to imagine how to respond. There are now reports that the flooding will likely have a devastating impact on the Gulf of Mexico as well. As the flood waters travel down the Mississippi River, they carry nitrates from [...]

On Wednesday, Discovery Communications is launching a new cable and satellite channel about the environment called Planet Green with some resources from TreeHugger. TreeHugger, which Discovery acquired last year, is a source of a lot of great material, and I’d like to keep an open mind about Planet Green. However, while remaining open [...]

Recently, the NBC station in San Francisco briefly mentioned an intriguing new organization called Carrotmob and showed a clip that appeared to be from the video below. What makes Carrotmob so intriguing is its community-based approach to promoting environmentally responsible actions by businesses. As the video below demonstrates, it does this by building a network [...]

On Sunday, I had the good fortune of seeing a documentary called A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, which was released in 2007. It was shown as part of a film and discussion series entitled Positive Films for a Positive Future at the public library in Albany, California, which I find to [...]

Treehugger Radio has a great new podcast of an interview with Dr. Wangari Maathai (right), who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her leadership of an unprecedented international tree-planting effort that has changed many lives and strengthened communities in the course of its work.
After explaining some essential services that trees provide (controlling rainfall, [...]