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Folks living in North America (even folks reading Listicles) hear a lot about how much better Europe and parts of Asia are handling the imminent environmental apocalypse. However, it’s not entirely true. We’re building wind farms, we’re investing in high speed railways, and we’ve got some cities that are doing everything they can to lead [...]

We’ve been a little apprehensive about this whole green revolution because it’s so intensely class-coded. That is, its implied message is that you can do right by the environment as long as you can afford to, which seems completely wrong-headed. At any rate, The Wall Street Journal, of all media outlets, has put together a [...]

We’ve always sort of wanted to broach this subject, but figured that if we brought up the logical affinities between environmentalism and communism people would take it as an opportunity to mention Lenin before dismissing the idea outright.
Thankfully, TreeHugger’s Brian Merchant has made a great listicle outlining 6 Green Lessons Learned From Communism. Our favorite [...]

Recently, while working on a Valentine’s Day feature for our sister site/publication The L Magazine, we learned all about anglerfish (seen at right in all their ugliness) and their strange, vaguely cannibalistic mating practices. Funny, though, because the hopeless romantics at WebEcoist seem to think that the way the female anglerfish sucks the tag-along male [...]

Though there’s been much debate over which bear should grace the WWF’s logotype (panda or polar?), there are inumerable visually stunning, ecologically essential species just as badly in need of help. TreeHugger shows us some such animals in their listicle of 10 Underexposed Endangered Species. That environmental conservation superstar-in-waiting at right is the Iberian Lynx [...]

We remember going to a supposedly green hotel once and not really understanding how they reconciled the air-conditioning units in every room with their supposedly eco-friendly mantra. Well, for next time we go on vacation (if there’s a next time…) we’ll take this listicle from Planet Green along with us: 9 Questions for “Green” Hotels. [...]

As every environmental scientist gets to tell us at least once during his or her career: we will likely experience some kind of global natural catastrophe in our lifetime (you know, like in The Day After Tomorrow).
In such dire times, whose advice should we seek but that of a cooky Christian fundamentalist who lives in [...]

Every time we go to the grocery store we get really stressed out over picking the right vegetables, trying to get things that are local and in season, and calculating how many over-priced organic items we can actually afford. Next time we hit the produce section we’re taking this helpful listicle from The Daily Green [...]

Being militantly green is getting difficult these days and not because of opposition, but because of green trendiness. Yes, “green is the new black”, and just about everybody claims to be environmentally aware without fully understanding what that means.
To show us what it really means to be a green-blooded environmental activist, TreeHugger has compiled this [...]

We once had a friend who simply couldn’t understand how people could empathize with animals and their suffering. So we’d try to tell him about cute baby seals getting clubbed, super-smart dolphins being caught by tuna trawlers, friendly dogs with abusive owners and manatees being killed by boat propellers, but nothing did the trick.
We figured [...]