The Pipe is a documentary telling the story of the Rossport community in Ireland which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. The rights of farmers over their fields, [...]
The Farm Bill is a critical piece of legislation that determines our nation’s agricultural, food access and food safety policies for the next ten years. Usually, it is debated and voted upon in an open process by all of Congress. But, the “Super Committee,” tasked with cutting $1.2 trillion from our government spending, is currently [...]
Smoking rates have declined steadily here in the United States, due to high taxes and the availability of health information, but the fact remains that 20.6% of our adult population still smokes cigarettes. That’s an estimated 46 million people discarding cigarette butts every day, and many of them are still throwing them out the window [...]
Green-wash (green’wash’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service. Since the first “sins of Greenwashing” study was published in 2007, the world has re-awakened to the issue of false and misleading environmental claims. Although we at terrachoice have [...]
Q: Why don’t more states mandate deposits on beverage bottles as incentives for people to return them? Most bottles I’ve seen only list a few states on them. So-called bottle bills, otherwise known as container recycling laws, mandate that certain types of beverage containers require a small deposit (usually five or ten cents) at checkout [...]
Hi Everyone! I just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that there is a way to help support my work here at The Good Human that doesn’t require you sending buckets of cash in the mail. (Although, any buckets that arrive wouldn’t be returned!) No one pays me to publish this [...]
A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web… Less than two years after the BP oil disaster and before Congress has passed one single law to make drilling safer, the Obama Administration has given a green light to expand offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean. [...]
