Green Options

The latest Goldman Environmental Prize winners have been chosen yet again from the ranks of Ashoka Foundation Fellows. What does this mean for the environmental movement as well as the social entrepreneurship movement.

Haiti’s sorrowful rank as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world has been directly attributed to the degradation of Haiti’s natural environment (less than 1.5% of its original tree cover remains intact) as well as a lack of governance structures, underinvestment in social capital, obstacles to private investment, and a spiraling “poverty trap”.

Monsanto is one of the most damaging corporations around today. Therefore, they decided to curb any criticism with their very own blogger.

Ontario is planning on updating its 136 year old mining law to reflect current values and conditions. Preventing wildcat staking of personal and aboriginal property is one of its highest priorities.

NYPD’s Blue just got a little greener by adding 40 new Nissan Altima Hybrids to their fleet of patrol cars. Of the forty cars, 18 of them are marked and 22 are unmarked. And while they cost the city $25,391 per vehicle, they get double the gas mileage compared to the current fleet.

Characterizing it as “legally defective”, Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar took dead aim at the last minute attempt by the Bush administration allowing mining operations to fill valley streams with waste rock from “mountaintop removal” methods if it proved “too expensive” to find an alternative.

Bush-era plan to expand offshore drilling in sensitive areas in Alaska was rejected today by a federal appeals court.

The EPA is holding public hearings April 6 and 7 in Arlington, Va (and streaming them online) about its proposal for greenhouse gas reporting.

After learning that white rooftops could fight global warming by reflecting the sun’s heat, Rush gets an idea. A real sexy idea…

Former President Bush to win Goldman Prize, the environmental nobel prize (april fool’s)

Van Jones wins the Individual Thought Leadership Awards from the Aspen Institute.