Anderson's Georgia-based firm, Interface, makes carpet tiles from petroleum products. He transformed the firm into a model of sustainability.

By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times

Montanans Gregg Treinish and Deia Schlosberg backpacked the length of the Andes Mountains for nearly two years, traversing the rocky spine of South America on foot.

The two explorers pieced together a makeshift route that included portions of centuries-old Incan trails and paths carved by inhabitants of remote mountain villages they visited along the way, fording rivers and battling bouts of typhoid fever and dysentery.

A Wisconsin senator's idea mobilized a green generation

BY ROCKY BARKER (http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/04/17/1152179/one-man-one-moment-how-earth-day.html)

One U.S. senator and a core of young organizers made April 22, 1970, the day the environmental movement began.

Just a century ago, more than 1 million chimpanzees roamed the African forests. Today, scientists figure there are perhaps as few as 300,000 chimpanzees left.

Without concerted action, the possibility of zero chimpanzees in the wild – indeed, a world in which remaining forests and savannas are virtually empty – is all too real. As Jane Goodall says, “We must not let it happen.”

The gig: Chief executive of Sapphire Energy Inc., a San Diego biofuels company that develops algae-based fuel that has been used experimentally to power airplanes and, recently, a car that was driven across the country. The serial entrepreneur has had a hand in starting several companies in industries including medical engineering and biotechnology.

Source:  LA Times
Date:  October 4, 2009
Byline:  Tiffany Hsu

Palau creates the world's first shark sanctuary. The nation is a hot spot for hammerheads, leopard, white tip and more than 130 other species threatened with extinction in the Pacific.

This was announced today at the UN. They hope this will inspire others to global conservation efforts. Good for Palau, heroes come in all sizes and this nation show us the way.

The Northwest Earth Institute is a contender in the Tom's of Maine Community Projects contest. From over 2,000 entries 50 finalists have been selected and a public vote will select the winners.

Read more about the details here, and vote early & often for the Northwest Earth Institute's project.

Field of panels would eventually be slightly larger than Manhattan

From: AP

The Scripps research vessel (R/V) New Horizon left its San Diego homeport on Aug. 2 for the North Pacific Ocean Gyre, roughly a thousand miles off California's coast. With collaborators from Project Kaisei, the team is surveying plastic distribution and abundance, collecting samples for analysis in the lab and assessing the impacts of debris on marine life.

The scientists and research volunteers onboard are seeking scientific data on just how much influence the accumulation of human-produced plastic and other debris has on this ocean area. Prior to this cruise, very little was known about the size of the "garbage patch" and threats to marine life and the gyre's biological environment.

More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered every year in a cove in Taiji, Japan. Their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food, often times labeled as whale meat. Courageous documentary filmmakers infiltrated the heavily guarded cove to uncover the truth about what's going on there, expose it to the world, and protect the 20,000 dolphins that will swim by Taiji next year. The movie they made, The Cove, is in theaters now so we have an incredible opportunity to take action and put a stop to this.

Please sign the petition End the Brutal Killing of 20,000 Dolphins in Taiji, Japan today.