Who’s the greenest roommate in the land?

Green Right Now Reports Got a rabidly green roommate who times your showers, follows you around turning off lights and has lined all the window sills with edible plants? Apartments.com is looking for the Roommate of the Year Turn this difficult experience into a winning proposition: Nominate him or her for Environmental Roommate of the [...]

How the top kill operation works (if it works)

From Green Right Now Reports We’ve had to learn a lot while watching the excruciating efforts to cap the gushing BP oil well deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The latest lesson on the chalk board is about deep sea pressures. The water pressure is so great at a mile below the surface  (about 2,640 [...]

Try watermelon limeade from Emeril’s new summer cook (and no-cook) book

Watermelon Limeade works straight or as a margarita mixer. (Photo: Emeril's Farm to Fork: Cooking Local, Cooking Fresh) From Green Right Now Reports With temperatures hitting the 90s this May even in unlikely places like Connecticut, it’s time to think about slushy drinks. (And possible revisit the idea that global warming does exist?) The recipe [...]

Bald Eagles nesting successfully off the California coast

From Green Rigth Now Reports Bald Eagles continue to recover from their dangerous decline in the last century, and this week  enthusiasts can celebrate the successful hatching of two bald eagle chicks on Santa Rosa Island off the coast of California. Bald Eagle chicks (Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service) The chicks are the first [...]

Chicago’s Greenheart Shop promotes eco-shopping with heart

By Lynette Holloway Green Right Now Colorful messenger bags and totes created from re-purposed construction netting, recycled rice bags and Cambodian silk. Screen-printed cotton outfits designed by the Chicago- and Cambodia-based Malia Designs. Divine chocolate made from cocoa beans sustainably grown in Ghana. These are just some of the finds at Greenheart Shop , a [...]

Chicago’s Greenheart Shop promotes eco-shopping with heart

By Lynette Holloway Green Right Now Colorful messenger bags and totes created from re-purposed construction netting, recycled rice bags and Cambodian silk. Screen-printed cotton outfits designed by the Chicago- and Cambodia-based Malia Designs. Divine chocolate made from cocoa beans sustainably grown in Ghana. These are just some of the finds at Greenheart Shop , a [...]

U.S. wind industry full of promise but facing turbulence?

By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now It’s clear that America wants wind power. At the WINDPOWER 2010 conference in Dallas this week, industry advocates, governors from three states, energy company executives and even a former president all said it: Bring it on. Surveys show it too. A March poll commissioned by the American Wind Energy [...]

Coalition of environmental groups calls for a hold on arctic drilling

From Green Right Now Reports As the Obama Administration ponders whether the gulf oil disaster should dictate any changes in the plans for additional offshore oil drilling, a coalition of environment groups is saying no way, baby, no way to drilling in arctic seas. They’ve put together an ad campaign that will be running on [...]

Mingyang Wind Power opens U.S. office in Dallas

From Green Right Now Reports Mingyang Wind Power Industry Group, the third largest wind energy company in China, announced today that it will open a Dallas-based operations office. The new office will be a hub for the global expansion of the company, which is not government owned. Mingyang is backed by the Industrial and Commercial [...]

Greenpeace finds use for spilled BP oil

From Green Right Now Reports Many environmental groups responded to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico by calling not just for the clean up at hand, but also for the U.S. revoke its recent approval of offshore drilling in certain arctic regions. The gulf calamity raised the spectre of what could be [...]

Survey shows shoppers want more healthy food, and less packaging

From Green Right Now Reports Mambo Sprouts Marketing, a retail marketing firm that produces newsletters and coupons related to healthy and alternative food choices, recently surveyed 600 consumer to see precisely what they were really looking for in grocery items. Quinoa salad, a gluten-free dish (Photo: Mambo Sprouts) Given that the 600 adults surveyed online [...]

Western grid can handle extensive wind and solar power, study shows

From Green Right Now Reports A U.S. government study released today is optimistic about bringing wind and solar power onto the western grid. The analysis by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) shows that the Western grid can accommodate a large input from wind and solar operations without extensive and expensive upgrades. (Photo: WestConnect) With [...]

Lester Brown: Reclaiming the Streets

(Lester R. Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, is the author of Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, available at the Earth Policy website. The excerpt here, released this week, was adapted from Chapter 6, Designing Cities for People. Brown’s discussion of reorganizing cities seems increasingly pertinent as the oil disaster in the [...]

Building a sky-high farm in New York City

By Sommer Saadi Green Right Now Five farmers in Brooklyn are out to set a record: to plant the largest commercial rooftop farm in New York City. Last week, the Brooklyn Grange team, with the help of volunteers and a rented crane, hauled 1.2 million pounds of a soil and compost shale mix from Pennsylvania [...]

Report shows UK’s offshore wind power could easily outstrip oil and gas in North Sea

Green Right Now Reports The leading renewable energy trade association in the United Kingdom, Renewable UK, is celebrating a report released today that shows that offshore wind power generation in the North Sea could eclipse the power generated by oil and gas production in the same region. Offshore wind in the UK could supercede oil [...]

One Maine way to keep prescription meds out of the water supply

From Green Right Now Reports Two years ago, an AP investigation found that America’s medicine habit had a boomerang effect. Discarded and excreted medicines — heart and mood drugs, tranquilizers and hormone treatments — that had been flushed down the toilet were turning back up in drinking water. (Yes, that’s how our managed water cycle [...]

Pesticides, ADHD and what we can do about it

By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now After reading today’s news about yet another study linking pesticides to yet another health issue, in this case ADHD, I thought maybe this time, we’ll pay attention to this dark undercurrent in modern life. Perhaps now, with 3-7 percent of kids affected by ADHD, and the disorder possibly triggered [...]

ADHD triggered by pesticides?

From Green Right Now Reports A  study published in Pediatrics today points to pesticides as a possible cause of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The study’s team of academic researchers sampled the urine of 1,139 kids and found that those with the highest pesticide residues in their urine from organophosphate pesticides also were more likely to [...]