Solar panels and parking lots have teamed up for what some in the solar industry are calling extraordinary dual use.
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Floating Islands, Filtered Water
Kania constructs bio islands from a mesh fabric made from recycled plastic bottles.
Golf Course Makeover
Just a few years ago golf courses were considered an environmental abomination, wasting precious water, spewing runoff contaminated with fertilizers and insecticides, and replacing wild meadows and woodlands with monotonous manicured landscapes to serve the country club set.
A chance to close the judicial takings loophole
This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, a case that raises the question of when, if ever, a judicial decision constitutes a taking of private property.
Scary green monsters
Contemporary children are so drenched with eco-propaganda that it’s almost a waste of resources. Like acid rain, but more persistent and corrosive, it dribbles down on them all day long.
Environmental Education: The Science of Fear
Fear mongering is effective because it feeds our emotions, but do such tactics actually help improve life on earth?
Finding Our Way Out – Restoring Our Vital Link to Nature
Today there are signs that we have grown increasingly complacent about our natural lands to the point where we risk not knowing how to find our way out…outdoors that is.
Exploring Nature in Cyberspace
We hate TV, but we have a favorite show…we hate electronic eavesdropping, but we love it when it is used to capture a fiendish criminal. We love to hate it. We hate to love it.
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea Made Better?
America is about to rediscover her national parks. To great fanfare, Ken Burns’ epic documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” premieres on PBS this fall.
Nature’s Lost Children
With an ever increasing mound of scientific research indicating that kids who spend time outside tend to be smarter, happier, and healthier, the idea that children need nature is not novel.