"Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more."

"I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time." from Orion.

"According to Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt is the 'biological foundations that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal.'" from Wikipedia.

"...but there are bright spots on our food landscape..." from NYT.

"Every action, every event, every person, everything emits a certain amount of carbon. This interactive visualization examines some of those scenarios." from GE Data Visualization.

"Celebrated novelist Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 2005, etc.) examines the ethics and practical realities of eating things with faces."

A Project of Food & Water Watch.

"One of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef stretches along the coast of Queensland, Australia, in a riotous profusion of color and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile monster that scientists now believe the reef will be devastated in coming years. As a homage to the Great One, Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring instigated a project to crochet a woolen reef. "

"We love cool gadgets as much as anybody else. We just want to be thoughtful about the stuff we've bought. Even the most cutting-edge, tech-savvy geeks in the world are choosing to hang on to their phones or their iPods that still work just fine."

a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating people about healthy, humane, eco-friendly living.

A small educational institute in Buncombe County's Newfound Mountains, about 18 miles northwest of Asheville, North Carolina.

"Coal-powered digital media is destructive to the environment in many ways beyond deforestation." from PBS MediaShift.

The Earth Observatory’s mission is to share with the public the images, stories, and discoveries about climate and the environment that emerge from NASA research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and climate models.

"Almost half of Americans in the Yale Project on Climate Change's new study on global warming said strong action needs to be taken. But the amount who think it's all a hoax has doubled."

"A lot of interesting new discoveries in evolutionary biology, neuroscience, child development, anthropology and more suggest that human nature might not be what Enlightenment philosophers suggested." from New Scientist.

The graphic is based on the companies' Earthsense and Trucost scores. from New Scientist.

"The dominant response, in short, is a dogged belief that what we call the American Way of Life will prove somehow indestructible. We will keep on consuming, spending, wasting, and driving, as before, at any cost to anything and everybody but ourselves." by Wendell Berry in Harper's Magazine.

charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of public donations directly fund water projects.

Acoustic ecology studies were established in the 1960s by naturalist R. Murray Schafer and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia as an attempt to define the relationship between humans and their environment, as mediated through sound. With a focus that spans both science and art, the continuum of acoustic ecology often attracts individuals who are part researcher, part composer, and part adventurer. from seed.

Our relationship with trees goes back to our evolutionary roots—way back to when our ancestors thrived in the green canopy above. Perhaps that is why long after we have climbed down their trunks we still gaze at trees in awe. Lewis Blackwell—writer, artist, environmentalist, and former creative director of Getty Images—celebrates this relationship in The Life & Love of Trees. With a collection of stunning photography from around the world—from cypress enclaves in Tuscany’s wheat fields, to the coast-dwelling mangroves of Indonesia and frozen skeletal structures in the Japanese tundra— Blackwell blends visual poetry with thought-provoking reflections on one of the most successful kinds of organisms and the ties that bind us to them. from seed.

The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The North Carolina Conservation Network is a statewide network of over 100 environmental, community and environmental justice organizations focused on protecting North Carolina’s environment and public health.

Some habits are far more environmentally damaging than you realize. from New Scientist.

With awful beauty, photographer Chris Jordan reveals how garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean is killing albatross chicks by the thousands. from scientific american.

"We are leading a movement that educates parents, supports protective policies, and engages communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish."

This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.

We love cool gadgets as much as anybody else. We just want to be thoughtful about the stuff we've bought. Even the most cutting-edge, tech-savvy geeks in the world are choosing to hang on to their phones or their iPods that still work just fine.

Across the nation, an antigarbage strategy known as “zero waste” is moving from the fringes to the mainstream, taking hold in school cafeterias, national parks, restaurants, stadiums and corporations. from nyt.

Here we have collected 13 stunning images of some of the world’s most impressive and beautiful glaciers, captured from space by astronauts and satellites. from wired science.

Life cycle impact, product usage impact, product environmental reports, and updates.

Six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. from PBS.

Carfree Cities proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.

Wild Sanctuary is home to the largest private archive of natural sound.

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson investigates the man-made noise pollution which is becoming increasingly invasive in our lives and in our environment, affecting both humans and wildlife.

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Off-planet, “green” lifestyles aren’t just fashionable, they’re required. Any eventual residents of a lunar base or Martian habitat will almost certainly be vegetarians, and thrift will be crucial for survival. “You must strive to recycle virtually every atom of everything that you’ve brought with you,” Dixon says. “And the technology required to achieve that is exactly what we need here on Earth to reduce our environmental imprint and create more sustainable ecosystems, all so we can manage to survive here a bit longer than we otherwise might.”

As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force.

How well do bamboo’s green credentials hold up under scrutiny?

At EWG, our team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions.

a double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations

you'll never look at dinner the same way. watch the trailer.

Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases, from National Library of Medicine.

Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group.

Detailed information on more than 11,200 chemicals, including all the chemicals used in large amounts in the United States and all the chemicals regulated under major environmental laws.

these realities call for a radically different approach to food and agriculture.

environmental sensors in cell phones. from seed.

pleasure from the natural world. from nyt.

the world from a plant's-eye view. from ted.

hazardous waste disposal.

William McDonough, anticipatory design science.

the product lifecycle from linear to cyclical.

recyclebank. rewards for people and planet.

photographic arts.

the environmental cost of producing beef. from scientific american.

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the development of a healthy immune system. from nyt.

a decontextualized and isolated variant from the subject. from lens culture.

using corn in ways that are completely unsustainable. from new scientist.

prosperity and sustainability. from scientific american, october 2008.

pbs series about the economies of being environmentally conscious.

using sound as a metric to look at ecosystem dynamics. from wired.

the total environmental load of a portion of beef. from new scientist.

wastage in the us food production chain. from new scientist.

biophony and anthrophony.

if we want to avoid a catastrophic collision with ecological reality.

north carolina fruit and vegetable availability.

large-scale test for renewable energy in abu dhabi.

assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.

9.8 trillion floating point operations per second and beijing's weather modification office.

as the toll exacted by industrial production increases and becomes increasingly visible.

eating peanut butter is a good way to go green.

melding style and globally conscious living. from wired.

contemporary american culture through the austere lens of statistics.

the stability of nature and our psychic well-being.

from scientific american.

arguments and counter-arguments. from bbc news.

a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters, presented by Massachusetts College of Art & Philadelphia University.

hypermiling.

general techniques