Six of the Most Deadly Toxic Sludge Spills in Recent History

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• Environment

  

  Lessons from History: Oil Spills and Human Health

  Nearly three weeks into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the full extent of the damage seems far from surfacing. And that dome they tried plugging...

  by Reno Ong

• Business

  

  Waste Not: In Ghana, Fecal Sludge Could Be Black Gold

  A startup company wants to turn human waste into a commodity (and change the world).

  by Laura Burke

• Environment

  

  Toxic 100: Meet the Country's Worst Air Polluters

  An index and ranking of companies based on the chronic human health risk they create.

  by Ben Jervey

• Environment

  

  Update: Parents Continue Fight Against Toxic Dump in California

  A year ago, parents in the small farming community of Kettleman City, Calif., were shy and unquestioning. Many were dealing with the devastation...

  by Mother Nature Network

• Technology

  

  Toxic Tech: Greenpeace Rates Nintendo Last in Eco Guide

  Among the world's biggest electronics companies, who will be the first to go green? It certainly won't be Nintendo, as the Japanese corporation...

  by Mother Nature Network

• Environment

  

  More Oil Spilled in Nigeria Every Year than in the Gulf of Mexico

  From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...

  by Patrick James

• Business

  

  Six Ideas for Buy-One-Give-One Businesses that Help the Poor

  As you may have heard, TOMS now offers sunglasses along with shoes. Here are a few more "buy one, give one" ideas we'd like to see happen.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Lifestyle

  

  Why the U.S. Government Won't Protect Us From Toxic Chemicals In Our Food Supply

  Three decades later, Americans are still waiting for the EPA to fulfill its promise on examining dioxins in our food supply.

  by Sarah Parsons

• Environment

  

  Kayakers Scout for Spilled Oil In Montana

  Gary Steele set out by kayak to survey the Yellowstone River and, in particular, the backwaters where power boats can't go.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Lifestyle

  

  The Six Craziest Things In Your Cosmetics

  Quick disclaimer: We are patently against fearmongering, so don't anyone start panicking. That being said, when you look at some of the...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Culture

  

  Video: 270 Films from 2010 in Six Minutes

  One ambitious cinephile took 270 films that were either produced or distributed in 2010 and edited them into the following video, "Filmography 2010."

  by Patrick James

• Design

  

  A Mural in East L.A. Paints History of Water in California

  A new mural recently completed in Boyle Heights is part of a global campaign to empower young people in the preservation of water.

  by Alissa Walker

• Environment

  

  Should We Burn the Oil Spilled in the Gulf of Mexico?

  The other day Reno wrote about the explosion on an oil rig that caused an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. With the equivalent of 1,000 barrels of...

  by Patrick James

• Environment

  

  Infographic: There's an Oil Spill in Michigan, Too

  On Tuesday, an underground pipeline ruptured in southern Michigan. In total, it has poured 19,048 barrels of oil into Tallmadge Creek. For...

  by GOOD

• News

  

  Intermission: The Gay Rights Movement in Six Minutes

  Fair warning: may result in eyeball rain.

  by Wylie Overstreet

• Education

  

  Twitter in the Classroom: Watch This Teacher Engage Shy Students in Learning History

  Still skeptical about whether Twitter can help shy students? Meet L.A. middle school teacher Enrique Legaspi and his students.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Environment

  

  How to Help With the Oil Spill: Send in Water Samples

  Every day we get worse news about the Gulf oil spill. There's likely more oil spewing out of the Deepwater well than previously thought, the...

  by Earth Island Journal

• Lifestyle

  

  Splish Splash: The Six Best Public Pools In L.A.

  There's a heat wave predicted for L.A. this weekend, so why not seek out liquid recreation at one of these fine public pools?

  by Alissa Walker

• Environment

  

  How Big is the Oil Spill in Relation to Your Home?

  By now, the Gulf oil spill is without a doubt the most monumental environmental disaster of the past year, if not the past decade. But while we...

  by Maria Popova

• Environment

  

  Big Oil's Dirty Secret: There's a Serious Spill Almost Daily in America

  Did you hear about the 42,000 gallons of oil recently dumped into the Yellowstone River? Probably not, and that's a shame.

  by Cord Jefferson