Linda Platts

The Beauty of Parking

Solar panels and parking lots have teamed up for what some in the solar industry are calling extraordinary dual use.

Linda Platts

Floating Islands, Filtered Water

Kania constructs bio islands from a mesh fabric made from recycled plastic bottles.

Linda Platts

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.

Reed Watson

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.

Readers' Forum

Is “nature deficit disorder” a pandemic or a farce? Share your thoughts about environmental education

Megan Gurdon

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.

Holly Fretwell

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.

Carol Ferrie

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.

Brian Yablonski

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.