Our blogging energies are still focused on Worldchanging NYC, where of late the main topics are the various parts of NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's ambitious PlaNYC. This is the administration's 127-point proposal for keeping New York City on top of its' game as both a livable and workable city [...]
Activists from the Argentinean town of Gualeguaychu have been blocking the route to the Libertador General San Martín Bridge, to demand that construction of a huge pulp mill on the Uraguay side of the Uruguay River be stopped, and the plant torn down. While the Uruguay government [...]
Yesterday State Farm announced that it would pay 640 claims worth hundreds of millions of dollars to owners of homes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast that were wrecked by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The agreement with state officials allows thousands of others to reopen damage claims that the company had [...]
Posting at OA has been especially erratic in the past several months, thanks to our becoming, in relatively short order, managing editor of both Waterwire.net News and WorldChanging NYC last year. As neither quite covers the full picture that OneAtlantic endeavors to track, we're hoping to keep going [...]
The ground is being prepared for one of the largest class actions lawsuits heard in the UK, over the illegal dumping of hundreds of tons of toxic waste in Abidjan, the economic capital of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in Aug., 2006. A legal team will begin taking statements from [...]
DuPont Co. has dropped out of a U.S. Army plan to use the Delaware River as the dumping ground for wastewater from a VX nerve gas disposal operation in New Jersey, after three years of trying to move the plan forward. As much as four million gallons of watered-down, treated [...]
The Ayles Ice Shelf is now an anachronism on maps of Canada. The ancient ice shelf broke free of Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost landmass, a summer ago; scientists are just starting to add up the data on the fate the giant hunk of ancient ice. The [...]
New York City's population topped 8.2 million last year; by 2030 or so it's expected to hit nine million. Where are all these people going to live and work; what's going to power their lights and appliances and elevators? This is the hot topic for Mayor Bloomberg's [...]
It's tough being a dairy farmer in the mid-Hudson River Valley in these times. Land prices and taxes are bulging as New York City's suburban footprint grows larger, bringing with it pressure to sell out to development; feed and energy costs are rising even as wholesale milk [...]
Condos go green: each unit in Wayside Farm, a 66-unit condominium complex in East Bridgewater, in southeastern Massachusetts, will be fitted with geothermal heating and cooling systems. Although the units may run about $10,000 more up front than those with conventional heating and air conditioning, owners will spend $500 or [...]
Curbing human impacts on corals and mangroves is the key to helping them survive climate disruption, according to two new reports from the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). To save coral reefs, the report calls for improved reef monitoring, marine protection [...]
It is precisely this [...]
Once ubiquitous local town dumps have largely disappeared in Vermont, but Bristol and Salisbury hang on -- they're the only two towns left in the state that have their own working dumps. The weekly ritual of gathering at the dump to exchange gossip while throwing out the [...]
In honor of our being in Burlington, Vermont for theSociety of Environmental Journalists annual conference, this week we'll feature stories from this part of the world: Vermont, New Hampshire, and Quebec.
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Will an aggressive fall hunt quota help cut the "Northern Kingdom's" 