Think of all the jobs we’d create here in California if everyone were allowed to have their own nuclear bomb. My neighbor Phil might even think twice before blowing all his leaves over on my yard if he suspected I had the power to send him and his leaf blower to another dimension. Everyone would [...]
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On Friday, May 4th, Vermont became the first state in the United States to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Fracking is an extraction technique that allows for the efficient collection of natural gas from shale rock, building upon traditional drilling techniques in order to increase output. After vertically drilling into deep-earth layers of shale, extractors [...]
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Federal legislation and several state-level bills are being considered to get a handle on the country’s out-of-control exotic pet ownership after an unstable owner unleashes more than 50 deadly wild animals to short-lived freedom and death in his town. Ah, the U.S. Constitution – that infallible document written hundreds of years ago exclusively by rich [...]
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Looks like PETA was right when it sued the California Milk Board for its advertising campaign asserting that “Happy cows come from California.” The USDA has now confirmed that mad cows come from California, well, a mad cow. Authorities conducting random testing for mad cow disease at a Central California rendering plant came across the [...]
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The White House’s Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) recently released The National Bioeconomy Blueprint–a plan laying out the measures the government intends on taking to apply breakthrough biological research and addressing the nation’s challenges in health, food, energy and the environment. In the government press release, President Obama’s science and technology advisor and [...]
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The following cities are known for being very health-conscious and conducive to a healthy lifestyle. Whether you’re planning a vacation or a move, consider checking out any of these places if you’re looking to be surrounded by people who understand the importance of not just physical health, but also the health of the environment and how [...]
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A huge oil spill is never good news for anyone. The environment suffers, the people living closest to the spill suffer, and the business that loses all that oil suffers. In this case, it was Chevron that leaked many tons of oil off of the coast of Ecuador. As much as it comes as a [...]
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President Obama put a focus on the economical challenges the United States faces – and how he would solve them if he were to be elected for a new four-year period as the President. The unemployment rate is now at 8.5 percent. Never before has a president been re-elected with unemployment rates this high. After [...]
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Immediately following Obama’s official thumbs down on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal, media, businesspeople, politicians and the public on both sides of the political coin began sounding off about the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of the decision. As a Greener Ideal reader I can take a swing in the dark at the [...]
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Once on the brink of extinction, one of the United States’ most revered national symbols, the bald eagle is thriving again. During the 1980’s there was only one nesting bald eagle pair in Southern New Jersey. Nevertheless, with the ban on the pesticide DDT that led to the sharp decline of the eagle’s population, along [...]
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