ClimateStories.us – Personal Stories of Extreme Weather

Katrina

Polls show that people understand climate change when they are directly impacted by extreme weather. This year has been the warmest and most extreme for weather ever recorded in America; consequently, we’ve seen an increase in the number of Americans who say they are concerned about climate change. Ultimately, getting people interested in climate means drawing a personal link […]

‘Chasing Ice’ lets you watch the Arctic glaciers disappear before your eyes. Feel better? (Video)

Effects of Climate Change

In 100 years or so, when Google’s autonomous robo-historians write the book on their fleshy predecessors, they will no doubt try to explain why we blew it on climate change. Why, despite decades of ever-more-definitive evidence, did the human species not take even the most basic of measures to avoid a catastrophe? They will find […]

Seafood Watch App for Android & iPhone

Seafood Watch Guidlines

Seafood Watch has always been a great resource in letting you know more about fish and seafood available to you. It recommends certain species that are to be avoided and why, then recommends alternatives. Now with the app for your smartphone, it makes it a whole lot easier to easier to enjoy seafood in a […]

What’s On My Food? – Pesticides, pesticides and well, more pesticides

Pesticides are poisoning us all

What’s On My Food? is a searchable database designed to make the public problem of pesticide exposure visible and more understandable. How does this tool work? We link pesticide food residue data with the toxicology for each chemical, making this information easily searchable for the first time. Use the tool, share it with others: we […]

The Problem with Anti-Bacterial Soaps

Resistent bacteria is evolving

Read full article here: WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH ANTI-BACTERIAL SOAP? on Ecosalon … America has declared war, and it’s not against high-waisted jeans. (Though on that subject, consider me General Patton.) Germs are the new enemy and we’re engaged in hand-to-hand combat with them. Recall the sight of Britney Spears traipsing across gas station bathrooms barefoot, which horrified people […]