John Robbins was right in his groundbreaking 1988 book, Diet For A New America.  It takes enormous amounts of water and other resources to create meat.  If you don't care about the future of the planet or starvation of those...

Percy Schmeiser, a farmer in Saskatchewan, Canada, spent a decade battling GM behemoth Monsanto. In the end, after many setbacks, he came away with a win of $660, which was the cost of removing Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" canola oil seeds...

Instead of cutting jobs and services to solve California’s budget crisis, why not eliminate the state water subsidies that allow McDonalds and Colonel Sanders to market burgers and chicken for a dollar? Reducing the consumption of water by the livestock...

Bees - upon which the entire human food chain rests - are suffering a sharp decline. As the Guardian pointed out Monday: The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96% in just the...

The "Tapeworm Economy" "We are literally changing the way countries are governed - no longer by governments but by corporations." Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush Catherine Austin Fitts blows the whistle on how the financial...

LONDON (Reuters) - People will have to cut meat from their diets if the world is to stay within safer limits of planet-warming greenhouse gases, nitrate pollution and habitat destruction, according to a report published Monday in the Proceedings of...

Clean water for drinking and other human needs such as irrigation is a precious and increasingly scarce resource. Indeed, the increasing scarcity of water is one more reason to promote vegetarianism. Meat production not only pollutes water, due to the...

The fine particles of pollution that hang in the air can increase the risk for sudden cardiac arrest, according to a new study conducted by a team from Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center and The Feinstein Institute for Medical...

The average British carnivore eats more than 11,000 animals in their lifetime, each requiring vast amounts of land, fuel and water to reach the plate. It's time to think of waste as well as taste If we really want to...

Excerpts from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, specifically, from the chapter titled A Universe Not Made For Us.  The music is Jack's Theme from the Lost soundtrack. Scroll down for thought-provoking video......

In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda. Avandia's success was crucial to...

Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the...

In 2009, National Geographic conducted an annual study measuring and monitoring consumer progress toward environmentally sustainable consumption in seventeen countries around the world. The resulting "Consumer Greendex" found that Americans ranked as the world's least green consumers. Of all the...

While the news media slept and Congress collected its payoffs, the US was handed over lock, stock and barrel to the oil and gas industry during the Bush administration. The catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico (and soon to be...

Multi-national corporations are waging a war against humanity. This may sound like an exaggerated claim, but it's literally true as this video shows. But they're not using bullets, they're using seeds. Possibly the most important video you'll see this year...

Fossil-fuel use and feeding world cause greatest environmental impacts: UNEP panelEnergy and agriculture top Resource Panel's priority list for sustainable 21st centuryHow the world is fed and fueled will in large part define development in the 21st century as one...

The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.   Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate...

Washington, D.C. - If 100,000 barrels a day of crude oil are gushing out of the damaged sea-floor well underneath where BP's offshore oil rig used to perch, what can be done to offset this pollution immediately? Time is of...

THE world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where...

While at WorldFest yesterday, we came across this group of 12-and-under singers and dancers, all of whose performances were centered on a message of environment, ecology, etc. They were just adorable, and you'll get a kick out of this number,...