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Derek lives in southwestern New Mexico and digs bicycles, simple living, organic gardening, bouldering, and permaculture. He loves good food, with fresh roasted chiles right at the top of his list of favorites. Catch up with Derek on Twitter, RebelMouse, Google+, or at his natural parenting site, Natural Papa!

Saudi Prince Plans To End Country’s “Oil Addiction”

When the world’s largest producer and exporter of oil sets a plan in motion to end its own oil addiction and move to a low-carbon economy, it speaks volumes about the potential for our global renewable energy aspirations. Perhaps just a few short years ago, the idea of Saudi Arabia moving away from an oil-based

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for an assistant curator of horticulture at a botanical gardens, a hydrologist at the US BLM, a deputy commissioner for urban parks, a water resources program leader, and more. In partnership with Important Media and Green Job Post, we are excited to bring you

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for a forest conservation manager, an executive director for a butterfly organization, a science teacher at an arts charter school, a science teacher at a private school in Costa Rica, and more. In partnership with Important Media and Green Job Post, we are excited

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for the director of a clean electronics organization, the manager of responsible mining and energy at a major conservation organization, an environmental coordinator at an iconic National Park, a product sustainability manager, and more. In partnership with Important Media and Green Job Post, we

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for an executive director for a conservation organization, a biologist for a state fish and wildlife institute, a director for an ocean conservation program, a community manager for a leading home-sharing site, and more. In partnership with Important Media and Green Job Post, we

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for an environmental health consultant, a professor of evolutionary ecology, a water project manager for a conservation organization, the managing editor for a renowned environmental magazine, and more. In partnership with Important Media and Green Job Post, we are excited to bring you a

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for a project coordinator at a composting initiative, a science and sustainability teacher, a nutrition educational program coordinator, a communications professional for a global research organization, and more. In partnership with Important Media and Green Job Post, we are excited to bring you a

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for a program manager for a resilient cities organization, a conservation specialist, a customer service position for a Fair Trade company, a full-time legal fellow (paid) at an environmental foundation, and more. In partnership with Important Media and Green Job Post, we are excited

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for a director of a climate and forests fund, a sustainability program manager at an iconic National Park, a human rights investigator at the Fair Food Standards Council, a policy analyst at a sustainable agriculture organization, and more. In partnership with Important Media and

This Week’s Top Conservation & Science Jobs

The top conservation & science jobs for this week include listings for a regional director for a conservation corp, a crew member for a river cleanup organization, a program manager for a rainforest organization, an adventure travel guide, a farm manager at an heirloom seed company, and a food system policy analyst at Earthjustice. In

Reduce Electric Bills For Decades With Renewable Energy

Originally published on Cost of Solar. If you’d like to reduce your electricity bill, it can pay to do a full energy and efficiency audit of your home, and to then take action on some of the lower-hanging fruit of efficiency measures, such as adding better insulation, installing a smarter thermostat, switching to LED lighting,

Our Epic Future: Which Energy Future Will You Choose?

The recent drop in gas prices in the US, while a boon to consumers, is no indication of the viability or longevity of fossil fuels, and continuing to bet on coal, even so-called “clean coal,” or on seemingly-abundant natural gas, isn’t a good move for anyone except the coal power industry. With all that we

Major Global Coral Reef Bleaching Events Predicted For 2015

Warm ocean temperatures in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans could be bringing major coral bleaching events to reefs around the world in 2015, according to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest forecast. Coming fresh on the heels of 2014’s severe coral bleaching events, this prediction doesn’t bode well for one of the

Free Climate Change Adaptation Seminar for Journalists

If you follow the science, climate change is a very real, and potentially very disruptive, influence on just about every human activity. And while climate change journalism has been making huge strides in continuing to bring this huge issue of global warming to light, even amidst a heavy skeptic/denier presence in some sectors of the

The Film That Environmental Organizations Don’t Want You To See

According to the filmmakers behind this recent release, this is the film that environmental organizations don’t want you to see, in part because it reveals the truth behind the world’s most destructive industry. That industry is not what you would expect, and in a world of limited resources, it’s surprisingly not nearly as popular of

The Film Everyone Needs to See: Plastic Paradise

The wide adoption of plastics for making everything from single-use shopping bags to toys to gadgets and electronics has been a boon for the consumer, but an environmental disaster for the planet. Being able to cheaply reproduce almost any shape in mass quantities has made it possible to make and distribute vast quantities of plastic

Powerful Documentary Claims a Future of 100% Renewable Energy is Possible

“The Future of Energy is a powerful documentary that captures the movement across the United States to transition to renewable energy and what everyday people are doing to help foster that shift. It’s a positive film about the renewable energy revolution, and a love story about the countless individuals and communities that are re-imagining their

Five Gallon Challenge Adds Drought Awareness to Ice Bucket Challenge

You probably can’t go more than five minutes on any social media platform without seeing videos of people doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which has been a massively successful fundraising vehicle for the organizations working to find treatments for those with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. While there has been

Can Poverty Be Reduced through Environmental Protection of Natural Areas?

[Originally published at Inspired Economist] Little is known about the mechanisms through which ecosystem conservation programs affect poverty, but scholars are now accumulating evidence about the effects of environmental programs on social outcomes. A recent article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights the progress being made by researchers in Costa

KB Home and SunPower Collaborate on Home Solar Energy Storage

Houses in select KB Home communities located in in Irvine, El Dorado Hills, and San Diego, CA, will be able to not only generate their own clean energy with home solar power systems, but will also be able to store that energy, thanks to the pilot program in a collaboration between SunPower and KB Home.

Greenpeace to LEGO & Shell: Everything Is NOT Awesome

LEGO is awesome. Kids and adults have been using the iconic interlocking plastic building blocks to learn and create and entertain themselves for decades, and it’s hard to find anything not to like about LEGO. Except when it comes to greenwashing the image of one of the planet’s corporate parasites, Shell, which is working to

Cut Food-Related Carbon Emissions In Half By Not Eating Meat

Our modern lifestyle is packed full of behaviors and habits and products that have high carbon emissions attached to them, so there are plenty of areas in our lives that we can address and reduce our own personal carbon footprint. We can reduce phantom (vampire) power draws in our homes, we can upgrade to a

One Electric Vehicle Data Logger to Rule Them All: MyEV

Electric vehicle owners tend to be a pragmatic and data-driven group, and while electric cars can offer a wide range of benefits to both the owners and the environment, the decision to buy an electric car often hinges on whether or not it makes financial sense for their particular situation. Because of that, electric vehicle

Uncharted Amazon: Help Preserve Part of the Rainforest On Film

Just in case you’re new to the planet, it’s worth mentioning that one of the wildest and most untamed parts of the Earth is the Amazon rainforest, where an incredibly diverse biome is helping to keep the planet healthy. But just because some of us acknowledge the importance of the rainforests doesn’t mean that everyone

Wind Farms at the Tip of Your Finger: Windfarm Locator App

Locate and track over 12,000 wind farms around the world, and see how much electricity they are capable of, and currently are, producing with this locator app. Not that long ago, wind power was somewhat of a fringe energy source, but over the last decade, the business of harvesting clean renewable energy from the wind

Thin Film Solar Cells Short Film, Narrated by Han Solar

The solar energy movement is growing by leaps and bounds, and many, if not all, of us in the green scene are widely in favor of implementing more solar power where appropriate, as one way to cleanly generate power and future-proof our energy costs. And solar solutions are being developed from a variety of angles,

Female Rapper Kellee Maize Lays Down an Anti-Fracking Track

http://youtu.be/IFjVj-ow9K8 It’s not often that hip-hop and environmental issues such as fracking go hand in hand, but in this case, female rapper Kellee Maize breaks it down for us. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is fraught with environmental risks, from groundwater pollution to the release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and while the proponents

Environmental Rap Superhero Wants You to Catch the Litterbug

Self-styled environmental rap superhero Mr Eco, who has performed at over 100 elementary school assemblies, reaching more than 50,000 students across California with his edutainment message, is now taking on the litterbug with his latest eco hip-hop video. “Mr. Eco believes that monumental changes begin with the youngest members of society. He has combined his

Climate Change as a Global Game of Tetris (Video)

One way of getting the message of global climate change across to people in a simple and easy to understand manner is to compare it to something that’s a lot more accessible to them, such as a video game, and in this case, Joss Fong uses the Tetris to explain how CO2 emissions affect the

Official Music Video for Mother Nature on #EarthDay

As part of Green For All’s Earth Day coverage, they’re sharing this music video in the hopes of making us pause to reflect and celebrate our life here on Earth: “This Earth Day, we’re pausing to both reflect and celebrate. When we look around, we can’t deny that the problems facing our planet are daunting:

Eighth Continent Discovered: The Secret Continent

For your next vacation, consider taking a trip to the newest continent on Earth, The Secret Continent, and enjoy the Museum of Modern Junk, dine on Plastic Bouillabaisse, dress in Debris Couture, and even see some celebrities! This eighth continent is a charming destination, brought to you in part by big soda companies and their

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