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Planet Forward
Monday, January 23, 2012
It's winter and you're probably realizing how awful your insulation is -- I'm looking at you, Seattle -- and also starting to rethink that la
Purdue University
Monday, November 02, 2015
As engineers, Storyfest winners Jeremy Robison and David Wilson discuss the importance of communicating the story behind your idea.
Tags: storyfest, storytelling, education
Chicago O'Hare International Airport had a vertical garden on display, shown here in 2012. (Source: Creative Commons)
Bates College
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Much of the food that urbanites eat must be trucked in, frequently from great distances. Faced with this dilemma, some cities are turning to a unique solution: Vertical farming.
Tags: urban agriculture, vertical farming, Food Sustainability
Greta Thunberg on Friday, Sept. 20, during her closing speech for the Climate Strike in New York. (Elina Mariutsa/Northeastern University)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Northeastern University
Friday, October 04, 2019
With the goal of motivating world leaders, young people have drawn universal attention to global warming in ways that decades of scientific progress could not.
Tags: climate, climate action, climate strike, Greta Thunberg, New York City, youth, environmental activism, united nations, PFfaces
Recycling flows through Waste Management's CID Recycling & Disposal operation on Chicago's far southeast side in this 2015 image. (Chris Bentley/Creative Commons)
SUNY College at Brockport
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Recycling used to be thought of as the answer to our waste problems. But rising recycling issues mean the U.S. has to change its strategies toward waste, reports a new survey from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
Tags: recycling, plastic waste, trash, report, U.S. PIRG, zero waste, storyfest2020
Planet Forward
Monday, February 22, 2010
Here on Planet Forward the virtues of wind energy have been extolled in a Texas town, the future of
Friday, November 12, 2010
…but I am interested in its potential to help solve the energy and climate crises, which is why I appreciated filmmaker Robert Stone’s recent Planet Forward
Monday, November 15, 2010
Wait...too much solar energy? These are words I thought I would never hear but as with anything in life, too much of a good thing always spells bad news.
Tags: GW_Fall10
Planet Forward
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
There's a new program at George Fox University, just outside of Portland, Oregon - Christian Earthkeeping.
Tags: education, University, science, church, climate, religion, oregon, northwest, greehouse gases, evangelism
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Solar is a hard sell in the midst of global recession and continued unemployment.