23rd April 2013 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Sustainable development has been the catchphrase of the environmental movement for over 20 years and rarely are...
Category - Sustainability
Palm Oil Health Craze May Push Animals to Extinction While Destroying the Environment
19th April 2013 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Red palm oil has burst onto the health scene as a miracle food, helping to heal everything from cardiovascular...
The Worldwide Environmental Crisis – Gone Missing: The Precautionary Principle
By Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri Guest Writer for Wake Up World “We believe there is compelling evidence that damage to humans and the worldwide environment, is of such magnitude and...
City Farming with Backyard Quail – An Alternative to Raising Chickens
By Gaye Levy Guest Writer for Wake Up World Back in September, I shared some information about raising livestock. Although it was a bit tongue in cheek, the serious...
Inspiring Urban Farm Grows an Astonishing Three Tons of Produce a Year on a Mere 1/10 of an Acre
Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World With food prices steadily rising over the last several years, by as much as five percent, families are scaling back and going without many...
Solar Cooking 101: Harnessing the Sun for Health, Wealth, and a Clean Environment
By Carolanne Wright Guest Writer for Wake Up World Cooking with the sun is not only eco-friendly, it also contributes to better tasting, more nutritious food. Preparing food in this way...
Seven Reasons to Consider Off-the-Grid Independent Living
By Activist Post Going off grid should not be a spontaneous decision; it can be exceedingly difficult, costly, and fraught with unexpected problems if one has not done the proper research, nor...
G8 Gives Monsanto Power to End Hunger in Africa
31th May 2012 By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director Organic Consumers Association At the Group of 8 (G8) meetings this past weekend, President Obama and the leaders of the rest of the...
Study on Monsanto Corn Suggests GMO Trees could Devastate Forest Ecosystems
11th May 2012 By foodfreedomgroup.com “Some trees are being genetically engineered to contain the Bt toxin,” notes Anne Peterman of Stop GE Trees. “This...
Mystery of the Disappearing Bees: Solved!
24th April 2012 By Richard Schiffman – blogs.reuters.com If it were a novel, people would criticize the plot for being too far-fetched – thriving colonies disappear overnight...
Russian Mother Takes On Government, Powerful Interests to Save Moscow’s Lungs, the Khimki Forest
21nd April 2012 By Rachel Cernansky – treehugger.com Seeing a red “X” on a tree during a routine walk through the forest would change Evgenia Chirikova’s...
Solar Energy Harvesting “Nanotrees” Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel on Mass
13th March 2012 By Catherine Hockmuth – University of California University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to...