PLANET

We've only got one planet, and it makes our lives possible. We can no longer take it for granted.

Can a Video Game Teach Sustainability?

by Rik Langendoen

posted Mar 15, 2010

In an entertainment subculture famous for violence and resource exploitation, one video game offers lessons for urban sustainability.

Plug In Your Ride

by Rik Langendoen

posted Mar 10, 2010

Networks of electric charging stations—key to the acceptance and use of electric vehicles—are starting to appear around the world.

A Greener Blue Cheese

by Christina Rebuffet-Broadus

posted Mar 10, 2010

French dairy farmers have turned their attention to farming practices that can sustain not only the future of the emblematic Roquefort cheese, but also the future of their work and their land.

Green-collar Jobs in Newark, New Jersey

posted Mar 09, 2010

A weatherization program in Newark, New Jersey, is creating jobs and helping low-income residents save money.

African American Farmers Go Organic, Bring Healthy Food to Southeast

by Mark Winne

posted Mar 05, 2010

The Southeastern African-American Farmers Organic Network (SAAFON), helps members convert to organic agriculture, and organizes a farmers market in a park that was once off-limits to them.

A Future for Agriculture, A Future for Haiti

by Beverly Bell

posted Mar 04, 2010

Haiti's way forward is tied to food sovereignty and a renewed focus on local agriculture.

The City We All Want to Live In

by Carl Anthony

posted Mar 04, 2010

How to make our cities just, inclusive, and green.

A New Generation Builds Beyond Racism

posted Mar 04, 2010

Youth take the promise of Obama and put it into practice.

Intentional Integration in Pennsauken, N.J.

by M. Paloma Pavel

posted Mar 04, 2010

Pennsauken, pop. 36,800, established a Stable Integration Board to oversee real-estate transactions and other efforts, and a multicultural community has flourished.

Just Cause Broaden's Fight for Tenant's Rights

by Berit Anderson

posted Mar 04, 2010

Two organizations working on opposite sides of the Bay Bridge realized that they would be better able to serve low-income tenants by working together.

10 Land-Use Strategies to Create Socially Just, Multiracial Cities

by Carl Anthony

posted Mar 04, 2010

Carl Anthony, founder of San Francisco's Urban Habitat Program shares strategies for just, green cities.

Drafting Nature's Constitution

posted Mar 02, 2010

Video: Simply regulating pollution will never really stop it. Mari Margil of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund discusses why we need a fundamental change in the way we use law to protect nature.

Sweden Labels Food With CO2 Data

by Jeff Raderstrong

posted Feb 28, 2010

The Swedish government announced new food guidelines that recommend eating habits based on greenhouse-gas emissions.

Bolivia to Host Climate Summit for the People

by Margit Christenson

posted Feb 26, 2010

Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for an alternative climate-change conference, this one involving governments as well as non-governmental organizations, indigenous groups, scientists, and environmentalists.

After Copenhagen: How Can We Move Forward?

by Tom Athanasiou

posted Feb 24, 2010

Copenhagen brought poor nations and grassroots groups into partnership. Our chances of preventing climate catastrophe now rest on the ability of this new alliance to communicate to the world’s richest and most powerful peoples that the emissions emergency is, above all things, a crisis of justice.

Food Rules for the Rest of Us

by Berit Anderson

posted Feb 18, 2010

Michael Pollan's real food message is important, but it's also a question of access.

Living Water Garden on the Fu and Nan Rivers

posted Feb 16, 2010

Photo Essay: A look at China's living water garden in Chengdu. This floating ecological living machine—a gorgeous botanical garden—is restoring open sewage canals.

Putting "Real" Food on Campus Plates

posted Feb 15, 2010

Hai Vo, a student at the University of California Irvine helped found the Real Food Challenge, a national student movement to bring ecologically sound and community-based food to campus cafeterias.

Crude :: Film Trailer

posted Feb 11, 2010

What is the real price of oil? This 2009 documentary investigates the $27 billion class action environmental lawsuit against Chevron for pollution.

DIRT! :: Film Trailer

posted Feb 11, 2010

The Earth's most overlooked natural resource is right beneath our feet.