Blaine O'Neill
Student
- July 27, 2009 • 2:28 pm PDT
- + responses
00:00/00:0000:00
00:00/00:0000:00
Greenpeace: Inspiring Action
00:00/00:0000:00
More GOOD stuff
-
1
Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
-
2
Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
-
3
Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
-
4
People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
-
5
The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
-
1
Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
-
2
Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
-
3
Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
-
4
What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
-
5
A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
.JPG)
Get the Daily GOOD
One good thing a day.
Good Elsewhere
Sponsored by University of PhoenixRelated posts
Environment
COP15: The Issues
What's on the table at Copenhagen? End Goal The long-term goals of preserving a habitable planet will effectively be boiled down to a...
Environment
The GOOD Guide to COP15: Dispatches from the Future, Today
The conference is still a few months away, but we asked several activists to predict what they will be talking about after the conference...
Environment
Long November
The United States will come under some serious heat this month, but the climate drama won't be taking place at United Nations talks. With more...
Environment
Eleventh Hour in Copenhagen: Live Blogs and Tweets (Updated)
UPDATE 11:10 Copenhagen time: Obama reached a pretty worthless (my take) "political agreement" with China, India, South Africa, and Brazil. Pretty...
Environment
The Top 10 Environmental Plays of Obama's Rookie Season
He's getting killed from all sides, but Obama's first-year environmental record is unprecedented. Perhaps you've heard-Obama's first year has...
Environment
Paint the Town White: Studies Show White Roofs Cool Temperatures
Back in May, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu endorsed having "white roofs everywhere" to cool the climate; in October, GOOD concurred, mentioning...
Environment
What Went Wrong? A Historian Looks Back from the Future at the Climate Fight
Climate activists often wonder what future generations will think about our inability (or unwillingness) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over...
Environment
What a Green Job Looks Like
Buildings are actually responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than cars. But simply weatherizing houses and businesses can reduce their...
Environment
The GOOD Guide to COP15: The Fire this Time: Copenhagen and the War for the Future
That which is unsustainable cannot go on. Unsustainable things that are propped up too long snap and collapse suddenly. Our way of life is...
Environment
Remember to Cast Your Vote for the Best Climate Journalism
Good climate journalism is, unfortunately, hard to find. Which is why I'm pretty excited to follow the new Earth Journalism Awards competition...
Environment
Climategate Scientist Cleared
Finally the faux scandal which will forever be known as "Climategate" is more or less over. An Academic Board of Inquiry has cleared Michael E....
Environment
The Warming of Walden Pond
When Henry David Thoreau was meticulously cataloging the variety of species he observed during his famous Walden Pond retreat, he never would have...
Environment
The Science Guy Takes on Climate Change Deniers
Known best by third and fourth graders nationwide for his wacky experiments and science-themed parody songs, Bill Nye the Science Guy is, believe...
Environment
Forward from Copenhagen
The following is an excerpt from a piece by Tom Athanasiou from the Earth Island Journal's Spring 2010 issue. I will say this: Almost two...
Environment
In Britain, Climate Change Will Scare Your Children
"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. There was none, as extreme weather due to climate change had caused a drought." Clever...
Environment
The World's Fourth Largest Lake: 90 Percent Gone
Situated between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was once the world's fourth largest freshwater lake. It is now 10 percent of its former...
News
Transparency: The Change in Carbon Emissions
As the world gets closer to the COP15 Climate Change conference, it's important to look at from where the emissions around the world are...
Environment
The GOOD Guide to COP15: Now What?
Even if you flew to Copenhagen, they probably wouldn't let you in to the conference. But don't despair: You don't have to be a delegate to...
Environment
In Defense of High Gas Prices
Our friends at Streetsblog found a new report by the EPA that contained the chart below. It shows the dirtiness of the vehicles produced each year...
Environment
Al Gore's "Gonna Start Acting Crazy"
I have to admit that I'm no real fan of NBC's "Green Week." (That conscious marginalization of "The Environment" into discreet chunks of pithy...
