Tag: Steve Curwood
Colombian farmers find alternative crops
Efforts to help Colombian farmers find alternatives to growing coca -- the plant used to make cocaine -- yield promising results....
Growing hope in New Orleans
Sunflowers are bringing new life to blighted neighborhoods of New Orleans by cleaning up contaminated soil and being a source of biofuel....
Kids speak out about climate change
From banning plastic bags to raising awareness about rising sea levels, kids are proving that they can be a powerful force in the battle against climate change....
Major oil companies on trial
Oil companies Exxon Mobil, Chevron/Texaco and Shell face lawsuits alleging they engaged in environmental and human rights abuses, including wrongful deaths....
Women's cooperative in Mexico tackles e-waste
A worker-run women's cooperative in Mexico is recycling steady stream of discarded televisions and computers once destined for America's landfills....
WHO reverses policy on DDT to control malaria
The health problems associated with DDT outweighs its effectiveness in controlling malaria , and the WHO plans to phase it out worldwide by 2020....
Energizing Biofuel
The agro-energy industry gets nearly three quarters of a billion dollars from the Obama administration -- what this means for the future of biofuels....
Closing the health food gap
In New York, many low-income neighborhoods that lack access to fresh and affordable fruits and vegetables now have help....
President Obama's green report card
Nancy Sutle, President Obama's top environmental advisor on the administration's major acts on clean energy, climate change and environment....
Solar power from space
A California utility to receive energy from space, via a satellite that will collect solar energy and beam it back to Earth to be used for electricity....
