Across the Caribbean, protected coastal waters have served as primary feeding and breeding grounds for the endangered Antillean manatee. Unfortunately, these same coastal waters are also a popular “...

Much needed and welcome growth is occurring in the business of looking to nature for ideas and inspiration on how people can make society function better. Initially, these adoptions seemed to come in ...

Not long ago designing and constructing a “sustainable building” meant complying with a lengthy checklist of “do’s” and “don’ts” without a holistic approach to achieving true sustainab...

When I first heard the word “cenote” I had no idea what it was. Although I had been to Mexico many times, I never ventured into the Yucatan backcountry. So, when I received an invitation to take p...

Building smart in the City and County of Denver includes several programs designed to help the municipality and broad community achieve cost reductions and high performance, and to conserve use of nat...

My work as a professional journalist and environmental photographer led me to climate change 11 years ago when I found my first independent funding source – a small environmental fo...

In 2009 the National Association of Clean Water Agencies and Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies reported to Congress that climate change adaptation costs could range from $448 to $944 billion ...

Although not widely known, Canada’s Alberta Tar Sands are both the world’s largest oil reserves outside Saudi Arabia and America’s single greatest source of oil. The mining operations and tailin...