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Blogs: Sustainability

99% Shocking

What's with all the hate for the Chevy Volt, the country's first mainstream plug-in passenger car? It cleans the air, prevents climate meltdowns, creates American jobs, reduces oil dependency, and maybe even does the dishes while it brings you a nice hot toddy. But listen to the public...

Watching Our Wastelines

For years, it's been garbage gospel that the average American creates 4.4 pounds of trash a day. Real-world data compiled from actual landfills and waste haulers reveals much bigger figures. According to the fascinating new book Garbology, Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, researchers have...

Connecting the Dots

Our climate isn't the only thing that's changing. A new survey from Yale and George Mason Universities says Americans' belief in global warming is heating up, too. Better yet, we're increasingly willing to go where no scientist has gone before and draw a link between climate change...

3 Things I Re-learned with the Replogles

I have always wondered what leaders are like when the spotlights are out and the crowds disperse. There are already lots of lessons I can learn from them in books and on shows, but potentially, the holy grail of knowledge could be discovered in the homes and private lives of these leaders and their...

To Bee or Not To Bee: The Latest Buzz on Pollinators

In a bee-free world, the first thing you'd be is hungry, because bees pollinate about a third of the foods we eat. Without that simple act those foods simply won't grow. That makes the mysterious continuing loss of bee colonies around the world a big deal and new word of a possible cause...