Southern California’s Planet Fest/Vegan Earth Day this weekend
From Green Right Now Reports Get ready to sample vegan cuisine and rally around the idea of going vegan to save the planet at the second annual Southern California Planet Fest in Orange County this...
View ArticleHands Across the Sands: The story in photos
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now In a symbolic but moving gesture, the Hands Across the Sands oil drilling protest on Saturday brought out people from Miami to Melbourne to stand in solidarity for...
View ArticleLEDs are lighting the road ahead in San Francisco, and other cities
By Billi London-Gray Green Right Now San Francisco, the city that banned plastic bags, bottled water and Styrofoam, is taking another big step down the path to sustainable urban living. In March 2011,...
View ArticleCalifornia considering a statewide plastic bag ban
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now California stands ready to be the first state to ban disposable plastic bags, a move that supporters say would help staunch plastic waste on land and in the ocean....
View Article350.org captures Earth’s woes and hopes from space
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Climate action group 350.org wants us to see, really see, what’s happening as the result of climate change here on Earth. So it’s taken to space to get a better...
View ArticleFirst CODA drives off the line, giving consumers another EV option
From Green Right Now Reports CODA, the innocuous looking sedan that boldly promises the best range of any electric car on the market, officially entered its production phase this week. The first fully...
View ArticleUrban Roots, a film about food and Detroit + a project for schools
By Brett Kessler Green Right Now In a bygone American era, Detroit shone proudly as a center of industry, home to the Model T and other symbols of American progress. The decline of the car industry in...
View ArticleLos Angeles becomes largest city in the US to enact plastic bag ban
From Green Right Now Reports Los Angeles became the largest city in the US to pass a plastic bag ban, when the City Council voted 13 to 1 today to disallow the use of plastic bags in supermarkets. Heal...
View ArticleCalifornia leaders positioned to green U.S. policy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now For years, California has been a leader of environmental policy -- writing it's own stricter rules for pesticide controls, air pollution and waste disposal as it...
View ArticleGoogle this: Carbon emissions for your city or town
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now As we drive deeper into our Orwellian future ala Google, where you can practically peer into our uncle's windows in Toledo via Google Earth, it makes complete sense...
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