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Electoral math for ‘all you climate people’
Building a climate movement in urban areas isn't enough. We also need a ground game in the remote corners of swing states where national elections are won and lost.
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Ohio’s Next Big Decision — A Clean or Dirty Energy Future?
Now that the presidential election is over, the people of Ohio are facing another important choice — whether their state will embrace clean energy measures that will save money and lives, or continue wasting energy from polluting coal plants. To help get the message out far and wide, the Ohio Sierra Club is launching new […]
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This beautiful waterfall is also essentially a flaming fart
In a park in upstate New York, there's a flame that never goes out. OK, it almost never goes out. But we'll still give it credit for being pretty tenacious, because it lives behind a waterfall.
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We have only 40 years worth of helium left, and we’re wasting it on giant balloons?
We all know what Thanksgiving is about: good food, friends and family, feeling grateful for the blessings in our lives, and gigantic balloons of cartoon characters. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Celebrate Food Workers Week by being uncharacteristically nice at the grocery store
While you're rushing about buying cranberries and sweet potatoes, remember to thank the people who grow, pick, deliver, and prepare your food.
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Oil and gas workers fracked by on-the-job injuries
Vehicle accidents are the top danger to oil and gas workers, and as drilling increases, so do fatalities. But incidents often go unreported.
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‘Subway tampon’ could keep water out of tunnels
Here's an idea for keeping subway tunnels from overflowing with water: block their entrances.
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What if the only way to save endangered animals is to make them mutants?
Saving species exactly as they are isn't exactly natural, either.
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Kettles account for 4 percent of emissions in the U.K.
There is a better way: Bring back the kettle whistle.
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Preparing for “Cheaper than Grid” Solar Electricity
It started with off-grid locations, places where electricity was either carried in or generated on-site. Then it beat expensive diesel generators. In 2010, unsubsidized solar electricity could best on-grid retail electricity prices of major utilities in Hawaii. In the next decade, residents in metropolitan areas representing 100 million people will watch the biggest solar barrier […]
