Vice President Joe Biden appeared on The Today Show and told Matt Lauer that he would not advise his family to go in confined spaces like airplanes and subway systems. “I would tell members of my family — and I have — I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden said. “It’s not that [...]

The swine flu may have hit the White House. An aide working for the Obama Administration who had accompanied the President on a recent trip to Mexico became sick with flu-like symptoms, which looks to be a probable case of swine flu, the White House announced today. Three of his members also contracted the illness. [...]

If Earth’s rapidly depleting stocks of fish are ever able to recover, scientists have warned that a full third of the planet’s oceans must be closed to all commercial fishing. According to many conservation groups, this type of action could “set the clock back 200 years” and almost completely reverse the current extreme decline in [...]

The good people over at The Daily Green have put together a list of green accomplishments Barack Obama has achieved during his first 100 days in office.  These guys are serious – putting together an extensive list of one hundred initiatives the Obama administration has implemented since his inauguration. Here are a few of our [...]

Environmental heroes Ed Begley Jr. and his wife Rachelle Carson will be appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show tomorrow, April 29. Oprah will be interviewing Rachelle in studio while Ed gives a tour of their home via Skype. According to Wikipedia, the Begley home is 1,585 square feet and utilizes solar power, wind power via [...]

As the increasingly infamous Swine Flu makes its way across the globe, the blame game has already started to sweep the nations, and the alarmist news channels are milking this flu epidemic for all its worth. The actual cause is not yet known (although some sources are starting to track and point fingers at a [...]

EcoGeek is reporting that Norway is heading down a great path for sustainable living – proposing a ban on selling any new gas-only cars in the country starting in 2015. Finance Minister of Norway, Kristin Halvorsen, is implementing a plan that dictates cars sold after 2015 must at least partially run on electricity or other [...]

Obama is reversing Bush’s rule that allows mountaintop mining waste to be dumped near stream, asking a federal court to abolish the rule that made it easier for coal mining companies to dump waste near streams. The Obama hopes to begin drawing up new regulation that better protects waterways. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that [...]

The new Swine Flu is just like Bird Flu and SARS – some scary stuff. Now that there are 20 confirmed cases in the United States, a public health emergency has been declared.  New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that eight students at St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens were confirmed to be infected with [...]

Margaret Chan, director general of WHO, said this about the H1N1 virus “This virus has, clearly, a pandemic potential. It’s a completely novel virus” The new strain spreads quickly and efficiently from human to human. This particular variant is new and deadly mash-up of human virus, bird virus, and pig viruses. Scientists say it’s cause [...]