The Golden State’s city by the bay has broken ground on the mother of all transportation projects. Yet, looking at the plan for San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center, it might well seem like the efficient transport of people by train was almost an afterthought. The new commuter complex is planned with three areas of emphasis [...]
Continue Reading →DeLoach Vineyards is cultivating an intimate relationship with the land. The small-lot winemaker maintains 17 acres of vineyards in the Russian River Valley and a 1-acre garden. And while both are certified organic, it is their biodynamic certification that makes them exceptional. Indeed, guided by a holistic approach based on biodynamic farming principles, DeLoach vintners [...]
Continue Reading →Law enforcement officials and crime scene investigators use ultraviolet light to spot tiny droplets of blood that otherwise would be difficult if not impossible to see. Blood glows brightly under UV light making it possible to see even minuscule droplets that have been misted over a surface. In much the same way UV light [...]
Continue Reading →Despite persistent questions by some about the health of eating genetically engineered (GE) crops or the food from animals that eat them, and concerns about their impact on the environment, the use of these new designer plants has risen sharply.
The USDA just released data on the increasing use of GE crops [...]
Continue Reading →Eric Larson can’t just read about climate change, he meets the battle on the front lines. Read about Larson’s Save the Poles Expedition.
Continue Reading →Plastic pollution is poisoning the world’s seas and leaving a trail of death throughout the oceanic wilderness. It serves as a largely unseen testament to the awful cost of fossil fuel dependency, which has seeped into nearly every aspect of daily life. In 2005, on an atoll deep in the Pacific Ocean, a researcher found [...]
Continue Reading →The gusher in the gulf continues to spew, the oily sheen and clumpy globules seeping into every nook and cranny of the marine environment along hundreds of miles of coastline. Not a bad time to consider the extent to which petroleum has seeped into nearly every aspect of daily life. Whether it is a product, [...]
Continue Reading →In the mid-1990s while filming the movie “Waterworld” actor Kevin Costner began working on a way to clean up maritime oil spills. He purchased the rights to technology developed in concert with the Department of Energy after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989. Fifteen years later and with $24 million dollars of his [...]
Continue Reading →Every day we make choices that not only shape our own experience, but impact other life around us and the world. Some of the most significant far-reaching choices involve how we choose to use money.
And so we buy local. We buy organic and sustainably produced products and food. We support fair trade and patronize [...]
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