Can Cigarette Butts Be Recycled?
A San Diego innovator pays $3 a pound for cigarette butts. But whatever can you recycle them into?
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Oregonians Embrace Ethos of Reducing Consumption
Nonprofit finds that 88 percent of Oregonians surveyed agree that reducing consumption is a good thing.
CSI: Wildlife — Solving Mysterious Animal Deaths
Carol Meteyer solves cases of mysterious wildlife death using advanced forensic skills to help prosecute people who kill animals in violation of federal law.
From Siberia to the Tropics with a Thermometer
Marine biologist Steve Katz has tapped a Russian family's multigenerational measurements of the temperature of a Siberian lake to explain how climate there is part of climate everywhere.
Is LEED the Gold Standard in Green?
A lawsuit challenges the claims of the nation’s foremost green building effort — the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED certification) program.
Designing for Impact and Emotion
Two recent design international conferences exult in the future of design, which can be harnessed to solve social problems as well as sell mobile phones.
Old Buildings Combine Sustainability, Preservation
Studies suggest the greenest building is the one already built — a pleasing message for historic preservationists.
The Last Mountain: A Scary Movie About … Coal
In his film review of "The Last Mountain," Lewis Beale describes a horror flick about environmental degradation and predatory capitalism.
Energy Conservation Through the Lens of Faith
An ecumenical effort to combine spirituality and sustainability adds solar panels and wind turbines to the pantheon of religious symbols.
The Tastiest Enemy: Eating Invasive Species
The idea that if you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em has found new resonance in the battle against one particularly voracious invasive species, the lionfish.