From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Green Practices for Businesses–Resources to Utilize and Implement
The environment has become a very big concern in the world we live in. People and businesses alike are finally realizing that we cannot continue to abuse this planet the way we have been for many decades. Many politicians have brought attention to the importance of going green and doing your part to help the environment. Many companies of all sizes have started to use green methods to conduct their daily tasks. Here are a few of the common ways that companies are chipping in and helping to save this planet. (more…)


Yesterday was the birthday of feminist author Gloria Steinem, who said, “Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
cience (B.S.), depending on your preferred direction of study. With an environmental studies undergraduate degree, graduates can choose work in a multitude of growing job fields, including geological sciences, anthropology, public policy and administration, environmental planning or consulting, natural resource management, or even environmental law. Numerous universities from the well regarded University of California at Santa Barbara to
A reader comments on my post on the
Everyone’s aware of the greenhouse gas emission issue, but no one’s talking about the fact that the
Here’s a report from consulting giant McKinsey that suggests
When you look up at the sky, it seems endless, but what we know as the sky is actually just a thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds the planet. For the past century, we have been treating this thin layer of atmosphere as an industrial waste dump. Everything we do, from driving cars to creating energy releases tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that go on to trap the heat from the sun and irreversibly change our climate forever. 
I came across this just now in connection with the terrorist attacks in Belgium, a reminder of human compassion from the late, great Fred Rogers: