[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpm74xAgvX4[/youtube] “We grow enough food to feed 10,000 people.” — Will Allen, Milwaukee, WI Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. Growing [...]

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rachel Maddow takes a look at Koch Industries, the private conglomerate that pumps more money into climate-denial campaigns than Exxon Mobil does.

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) today released its position paper on Genetically Modified foods stating that “GM foods pose a serious health risk” and calling for a moratorium on GM foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes “there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects” and [...]

On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)introduced a bill aimed at getting 10 million new solar rooftop systems and 200,000 new solar hot water heating systems installed in the U.S. in the next 10 years. Cleverly titled the “10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act” (.pdf), it would provide rebates [...]

Gordon Hempton would argue that quiet is important for our physical health and well being–and for nature’s as well. Gordon Hempton is an audio ecologist (how many of those have you met?) who, due to a profound love of nature, has made documenting the way it sounds his life’s work. In the course of his [...]

Joliet is pushing the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to more than double the concentration of cancer-causing radium it’s allowed to dump onto farmland in the south suburbs, expanding the potential for deadly radon gas in these increasingly urban communities. Radium is a naturally occurring radioactive element abundant in deep-water wells in northern Illinois and throughout [...]

Thanks to everyone who voted and nominated during our Top Ten Sustainable CEOs Survey. The results are in and posted below. (You can see the entire list at the bottom of the original post, as well as the great conversations the nomination process produced). Before we get too excited about the ranking, I want to [...]

In case you missed it, the Supreme Court yesterday decided 5 to 4 to roll back campaign finance laws that limit corporate spending. Oof. The Times calls it “a sharp doctrinal shift” that “will have major political and practical consequences. Specialists in campaign finance law said they expected the decision to reshape the way elections [...]

Nearly 40 years ago, Oregon, facing an onslaught of urban sprawl, adopted the nation’s toughest land-use laws. In 1979, greater Portland became the first metropolis in the country to impose an urban-growth boundary, a hard-and-fast line beyond which suburban development is essentially banned. Along with creating dense neighborhoods, encouraging mass-transit use, and irritating free-market zealots, [...]