by Admin | Mar 24, 2014 | Articles, Environmental hazards
Along with several other reasons, the federal government has been reluctant to legalize marijuana because a large number of marijuana operations negatively impact the environment through excessive water usage, a recently released report suggests. Pointing to...
by Admin | Mar 22, 2014 | Profiles, Resources, Sustainability
REAL School Gardens is a nonprofit organization that works to “create learning gardens that grow successful students.” In order to do so, teachers, parents, businesses, and students come together to design a learning garden. These gardens are created in...
by Admin | Mar 21, 2014 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, GMO, Green Energy, Resources, Sustainability
Thursday, March 20th, marked the beginning of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, which hosts a stellar line-up of 200 films (many of them free), including stories about shady politicians, the impacts of technology on our happiness, and cancer-causing chemicals. The...
by Admin | Mar 19, 2014 | Articles, Conservation
For quite some time now, knitted sweaters have been saving penguins affected by oil spills. But in Australia, they now have enough of the sweaters to last quite some time. The Penguin Foundation supposedly issued a global callout for warm pullovers to aid the penguins...
by Admin | Mar 17, 2014 | Articles, Environmental hazards
The underlying causes of autism have never been fully understood, although usually health experts have blamed a combination of genetics and environmental factors. Now, a newly released meta-analysis has shown that toxins play a much more significant role in the cause...
