Weekly Roundup: Solyndra scandal, climate change denialism, and alternatives to unemployment
Solyndra Green Jobs Scandal This Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing about a failed $528 million government loan to Solyndra, a solar equipment manufacturer that recently…
Weekly Roundup: #f**kyouwashington, new strategies to fight climate change and questioning what really qualifies as poor
#f**kyouwashington The top American news this week: the debt ceiling. Mother Jones produced one of the best explainers I found, and the Huffington Post has a nice live-blog documenting the…
How to get action on climate change? Hint: Don’t scare us out of our wits.
We’ve been told time and time again that telling a child they can’t do something just makes them want to do it more. It is particularly difficult to resist a…
Sustainable theory and practice at the Human Impacts Institute
While working as the program director at the Lower East Side Ecology Center in New York City, Tara DePorte saw the same problem again and again — many groups working…
Emergent: How to create a profitable green energy company
The Emergent Energy Group was founded in the basement of a Tufts University dorm, and the founders, Jayson Uppal and Jesse Gossett, got their first consulting contract before they got…
The Brooklyn Grange, a commercial rooftop farm in New York City
One of the biggest farms in New York City, the Brooklyn Grange, sits six stories above the sidewalks of Queens. It has over a million pounds of soil and spans…
Twitter Roundup – December 10: light bulbs with longevity, recycling jeans into cars, and China’s cap on emissions
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: This week GE…
Twitter roundup – October 15: Phonebooks, wind farms and California’s victory
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: This week the…
Dowser writer Steve Spillman offsets his carbon footprint and reports back
From the grassroots to the mainstream, a growing number of Americans are learning about ways to offset their carbon footprints for a more sustainable future. There’s even an entire cable…
Weekly Roundup: Who’s solving what and how
All around us, people are working on innovative solutions to pressing social problems. But those stories can be difficult to track down. Which is why we’re scouring the Web to…
UC San Diego: A ‘living laboratory’ for green energy
Growing up in the San Diego suburb of University City, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus felt like a second backyard. As a kid, the main perks of…
Earth Day Special: Gillian Caldwell, Majora Carter and Peter Goldmark on the past and future of green
Forty years ago, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day to call attention to impending ecological crises. Today, over 192 countries will observe it. To capture the day’s meaning, we…
A no-brainer health care reform
The recent health care debate has drawn attention to the industry’s proclivity for wasting time and money. But research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), shows…
Dowser Interview: Gillian Caldwell of 1Sky
Gillian Caldwell had a dream job. She was running WITNESS, an organization that safeguards human rights through multimedia technology. Everything about the work aligned perfectly with her values, talents and…
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