To Save Forests, Think Blue And Not Just Green

To Save Forests, Think Blue And Not Just Green

'Blue haze' is a natural occurrence over heavily forested areas around the world but natural does not always mean good.  Still, while blue haze may be formed by natural emissions of chemicals,…
Think Outside The Box By Thinking About The Box

Think Outside The Box By Thinking About The Box

By thinking about packaging size and shape, major environmental gains can be made, says Renee Wever, who will defend his thesis on this topic at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) on…
Ancient Rainforests Laughed At Climate Change

Ancient Rainforests Laughed At Climate Change

A research team led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway, University of London, analyzed spectacular discoveries of 300-million-year-old rainforests in Illinois coal mines and came to a…
The "Green Ratings" That Weren't

The "Green Ratings" That Weren't

Is anyone else out there as cynical as I am about Newsweek's 2009 Green Rankings for the largest 500 corporations in the United States? I have to grant that the efforts put forth by the top five…