The book and newspaper publishing industry is one of the planet’s most voracious polluters. Last year, those industries efforts resulted in the harvesting of over 125 million trees. A new report by the Cleantech Group, called “The Environmental Impact of Amazon’s Kindle” is a study of the emissions that devices could produce and prevent. According [...]

Have a future scientist on your hands? Well good news, you can get them a Discovery Channel Kids Mega View Microscope at the price of $12.99 with $5 shipping fee. It’s a great deal for such an impressive toy. Discovery Channel Kids Mega View Microscope can be used as a traditional microscope, or be connected [...]

Firefighters have made decent progress in a Rancho Palos Verdes brush fire that threatened upscale homes in upscale L.A. suburb, which has caused the evacuation over 1,000 residents, though some of those evacuations orders may be lifted this morning. However, officials warn that the danger has not passed at the hot, dry conditions that aggravated [...]

Looks like inventors are focusing their energies in the right places these days. According to intellectual property law firm Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C., who publishes the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index every quarter, 274 clean energy patents were granted last quarter. This is 31 more than the previous quarter and 57 more than [...]

Think you have something to say and can handle a camera? There is currently a contest underway which seeks short filmmakers – well, not filmmakers of small stature, but filmmakers of a one-minute film on climate change. 1 Minute to Save the World is looking for people to document their story of climate change in [...]

A warrior for some environmental issues, sadly – Senator Edward Kennedy succumbed to brain cancer today. Kennedy was a bit of an environmental hero, working hard to protect natural resources and to develop alternative energy sources. Kennedy also publicly supporting the study of the Outer Intercontinental Shelf and also worked to prevent drilling in the [...]

Holy tropical storms, Batman! Ana, Bill, Claudette, Felicia – there have been so many tropical storms lately, we at Sustainability Ninja just can’t keep up. Now, residents of the Bahamas and the Southeastern United States should be on guard, as Danny formed today east of the Bahamas, with winds near 45 miles per hour as [...]

With the success of the Cash for Clunkers program, a similar program is emerging. “Cash for Refrigerators” or “Cash for Appliances” program. Scheduled to begin this fall, a new $300 million federal program will provide rebates of $50 to $200 for purchases of high-efficiency household appliances. However, consumers do not have to trade in their [...]

The Miss Universe Pageant was so cheesy this year, it was almost entertaining to watch. With the likes of Billy Bush and his creepy quips (i.e. “let’s welcome the lovely ladies with all their appropriate parts covered”) as well as a shockingly bad Heidi Montag doing some sort of lip synching dance number – channeling [...]

It’s the third day of ravaging wild fires in Athens, Greece and thousands of acres of land has been burned near the Greek capital city. Thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes since Friday, when the blaze began in Grammatikos, 25 miles northeast of Athens. The fire then spread southeast and was fueled by [...]