Living in Peace and Wisdom on our Planet

Forget Farmville. A new conservation-themed game app challenges players to protect endangered wildlife in a virtual world. If they're successful, it could save endangered species in the real world.

Facebook games can be a major time-sink. But what if you were actually doing some good every time you logged on to play?

That's the motivation behind the latest offering from Good World Games:...  See entire blog item

A walk in the park is more than just a nice way to spend an afternoon; it could also help city dwellers fight off sickness and depression.

If you've ever remarked that you feel happier on a sunny day, or felt yourself becoming snarky and glum when you'd been trapped inside all day, you've already seen anecdotal proof of the environment's healing powers.

Now, new research at the University of Illinois has confirmed this folklore, showing that time spent in ...  See entire blog item

Will They Make The Same Mistake with Alaska's North Shore Project?

After letting it gush unrestrained for over two weeks, clean-up crews might finally be able to regain control of the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore drilling rig operated by British Petroleum.

BP engineers are preparing to to lower a 98-ton metal chamber over the ruptured seabed well, in the hopes of slowing the spill's spread, and siphoning the...  See entire blog item

Denmark, China, Antarctica, and now the Nantucket Sound.

These locations all have one thing in common; they are ideal sites for generating enough electricity from strong ocean breezes to power hundreds of thousands of homes.

The subject of an almost decade-long debate, U.S. Secretary of the Interior...  See entire blog item

By Beth Buczynski

When Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda," he could not have forseen the global impact that his vision would have.

Now, on the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day protest, the planet is...  See entire blog item

See the video

Going to see movies in the theatre is a welcome escape for many people. It allows us to immerse ourselves in someone else's life, or a world that doesn't even exist.

On Earth Day, however, Disneynature is providing a look into a world that is all-too real, but every bit as fascinating as science-fiction.

This week...  See entire story

Way back in 2003, the European Union infuriated United States agricultural exporters by requiring all food and animal feed products linked in any way to transgenic crops to be clearly labeled as "genetically modified" (GM).

Currently, despite widespread controversy and protest surrounding the potential health and environmental risks of growing and using GMOs, the U.S. has still refused to restrict their use or implement labeling...  See entire blog item

Water. H₂O. Agua. Eau. It makes up most of our bodies, and covers most of our planet.

Although some may take it for granted, less than 1% of the world's fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use, and over 884 million people in the world lack access to safe water supplies.

According to the Stockholm International Water Institute, polluted water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, and some 3.6 million people - including 1.5 million children - are estimated to die...  See entire blog item

Eco-fashion is the clothing industry's way of acknowledging the benefits of environmentally safe, chemical-free manufacturing and cultivation, and materials like organic cotton, hemp, and bambnoo have been introduced into the mainstream quickly by retailers that want a piece of the green action.

However, in their haste to capitalize on the recent interest in environmentally-friendly clothing, some retailers have been taking advantage of the public's lack...  See entire blog item

Many environmentally minded Americans welcomed Obama to the office of the President a year ago with high hopes that he would be able to at least start righting the environmental wrongs that had occured during the previous administration.

No matter how critical you want to be of the things that were or were not accomplished by the Obama administration, you have to admit that they took over quite a mess. With a war overseas that was quickly disintegrating into chaos and an economy that was at its lowest point in decades demanded Obama's immediate attention, while an impending climate crisis threatened to change the...  See entire blog item