Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: sustainability

sustainability stories: 12 news summaries

 'Hobby Farms' Cropping Up 

USDA says small farms are becoming more popular even as large farms grow

Oct 5, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(AP) - Most evenings, Gary Mithoefer can be found at the end of a long gravel driveway off a busy highway, tending two garden plots filled with white sweet potatoes, squash, cabbages, and a dozen other vegetables still thriving in early fall. The 62-year-old, who gardens after his workday ends at his... More »

MORE ABOUT:
agriculture • farming • farms • USDA • farmer • farm • sustainability • farmers • organic farming


 Forget Fur: 
 New Celeb 
 Cause Is Food 

Overfishing, too much meat are the top causes

Jun 14, 09 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Protesting fur is so last decade. Celebrities are now championing their favorite food-related causes, whether it's Paul McCartney asking Brits to cut back on meat, Jamie Oliver refusing to serve endangered bluefin, or celebs lining up to publicize a new film about overfishing, the Guardian reports. Why now? Government inaction... More »

MORE ABOUT:
PETA • sustainability • overfishing • bluefin tuna • commercial fishing • Food, Inc. • The End of the Line

OPINION

Want to Save
the Planet?
Stop Dumping
on Frankenfood

Genetically modified products fight pollution

Jan 28, 09 11:22 AM CST
(Newser) - It's time for greenies to take another look at the frankenfoods they've been campaigning against. Consider the enviropig. It’s a pig with an extra gene that means less phosphorous in manure runoff, and it’s just one example of how genetic modification in agriculture can be good for the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
agriculture • genetically modified crops • sustainability • environmentalists

Bjork Banks on Girl Power
to Save Iceland

Singer promotes venture-capital fund run by women

Jan 22, 09 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Quirky Icelandic singer Bjork is promoting a venture-capital fund run by women that will invest in socially and environmentally sustainable companies and, she hopes, help rebuild her economically stricken country. "Instead of talking about the problems we have, she is on a mission to build a sustainable Iceland that's... More »

MORE ABOUT:
venture capital • Iceland • green business • Bjork • sustainability • financial crisis • financial meltdown

Fliers Ease Carbon Guilt
Via Donations

San Fran airport
to offer pollution
offsets at new kiosks

Dec 24, 08 5:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Guilty about the carbon footprint of your frequent flights? Have a few bucks to spare and time to kill at San Francisco's airport? The firm 3Degrees is banking on such a combination as it prepares to roll out the nation's first fleet of kiosks offering carbon offsets. No one is... More »

MORE ABOUT:
San Francisco • carbon footprint • carbon offsets • green energy • air travel • sustainability

OPINION

 Gore: 5 Steps to Save Planet 

Nobel laureate calls on Obama, new Congress to act now

Nov 9, 08 12:11 PM CST
(Newser) - The road to energy efficiency is paved with the same solutions needed to fix the economic crisis, Al Gore writes in a New York Times op-ed. Dismissing proposals for domestic drilling, the climate crusader says, “We simply cannot any longer base the strategy for human survival on a cynical... More »

MORE ABOUT:
climate change • Barack Obama • energy • Congress • Middle East • Al Gore • power grid • carbon • renewable energy • auto industry • foreign oil • sustainability

Kids Take Green Lessons
to Heart, Then to Home

Kids are America's new eco-police

Oct 10, 08 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - They’re watching. No, not surveillance cameras; the growing population of “eco-kids”—children who, lectured on sustainability at school and elsewhere, are pushing green practices at home. They rummage through garbage bins, agitate for hybrid vehicles, and even even turn off the water while parents are brushing their... More »

MORE ABOUT:
recycling • environmentalism • children • hybrid car • sustainability • green home • solar panels

Overfishing Could Force You to Hold the Anchovies

UK conservation society puts briny salad-topper on ever-growing list of fish to avoid

Sep 4, 08 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Anchovies have made a list of "fish to avoid," the Guardian reports—and not for their salty pungency, but because overfishing has left stocks at unsustainable levels. The UK’s Marine Conservation Society—which ranks fish after assessing biology, stock status, and the impact of the farming or... More »

MORE ABOUT:
fishing • North Sea • sustainability • overfishing • fishery • Marine Conservation Society • monkfish • anchovy

 Fish Farms,
 Retailers Hatch
 Green Standards 

Whole Foods leads way as aquaculture becomes eco-friendly

Jul 16, 08 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Supermarkets are tightening the net on farmed seafood products as demand for environmentally-friendly products grows, reports the Washington Post. Aquaculture now supplies more than half of America's rising demand for fish and shrimp and retailers are working with producers and green groups to make sure the farmed products are both... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Greenpeace • farming • Whole Foods • fish • seafood • World Wildlife Fund • aquaculture • sustainability

Glossies

 Can Fish-Hungry
 Japan Go
 Sustainable? 

Slowly, world's sushi capital seeing more eco-friendly seafood in supermarkets

Jun 26, 08 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Japan loves its fish: The island nation consumes an average of 147 pounds per person a year, compared to America’s 17. So, Samuel Fromartz wonders in Gourmet, how can Japanese fisheries continue to support supermarket fish counters as large as an entire US meat section? The answer, slowly gaining... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Japan • tuna • fish • Tokyo • sushi • sustainability • fishery • Marine Stewardship Council

 Brazil's Condoms Go Tropical 

Rainforest rubber trees will help nation ween itself off foreign producers

Apr 8, 08 6:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil buys more condoms and boasts more rainforest than any other country; now officials hope to connect the dots, the BBC reports. The government will use rubber from Amazon trees to make 100 million condoms a year, given out freely as part of the country's anti-AIDS program. Rubber can be... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Brazil • condom • sustainability • AIDS prevention • Amazon rainforest

Arabs Building First Green City

Run on solar power, Masdar City will cost $22 billion and take 8 years to construct

Feb 10, 08 5:14 PM CST
(Newser) - Earth's first carbon-free city is being built in the United Arab Emirates and will take 8 years and $22 billion to complete, the BBC reports. Called Masdar City, it will run on solar power and shuttle residents on travel pods via magnetic tracks. But critics say the $22 billion project,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
biotechnology • Abu Dhabi • United Arab Emirates • clean energy • green • Masdar City • sustainability

12 Stories


from our news partners