On Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced the organization’s plan to award $6.2 million in workforce development and job training grants to 21 communities across the nation. Organizations eligible for the grants include state environmental agencies, government and community-based groups. The funds, used to train job-seekers in the green industry, […]

The true test of a nation’s resolve lies not in the way in which they oust their leaders but the manner in which they build their country. Egyptians have reached a juncture where they have the opportunity to push the society and the political establishment to completely transform. However, that future appears shaky.  With protestors […]

The Federal Initiative The Los Angeles River was chosen this Saturday as one of seven locations selected to be part of a pilot project aimed at revitalizing growing U.S. cities and the natural resources that surround them. The purpose of the Urban Waters Federal Partnership is to reconnect urban communities with their waterways by nixing […]

Weekly roundups are posted once in a while, and feature a select list of noteworthy news, readings, videos, and other media from news sites and the blogosphere, from the previous week.   Conflict and Violence MJ Rosenburg, Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at the Media Matters Action Network posted a piercing analysis of a recent AIPAC […]

Bangkok, Thailand’s capital city, is rapidly sinking. To make matters worse, sea levels around the country are rising rapidly. Rather than constructing levees or dams, S+PBA bothered to ask — Why not use nature’s existing resources to prevent natural disasters that are affecting not only Thailand’s biggest cities but its most vulnerable populations? The company’s […]

A report released today by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) concludes American firearms are arming Mexico’s brutal drug trafficking organizations at an alarming rate.According to the report, issued with data sourced by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF), the vast majority of weapons traced by […]

Shrimp farming, an industry that supplies the world with over 5 million metric tons of shrimp each year, is known throughout the environmental community as one of the world’s most destructive coastal industries. Aquaculture, the type of industry utilized by shrimp companies in areas like Southeast Asia, dramatically reduces biological diversity, degrades habitats, reduces genetic variability, […]

The status of Palestinian political prisoners in Israel has long been regarded as one of the central factors in the negotiation of a peace agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As of 2010 over 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The most famous of these is […]

Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the budget package passed this Wednesday by the Democrat-controlled state Legislature. He said the budget contained “legally questionable maneuvers, costly borrowing and unrealistic savings,” and that it would not meet the state’s financial obligations. Read Governor Brown’s official veto message here. Senate Republicans negotiated with the Governor on his preferred plan, […]

Here’s an old TED video on Electric Car Energy Technology. It’s a perfect primer for some posts on Sustainable Energy Storage and the Hydrogen Economy, that I’m working on. Shai Agassi addresses some of the structural problems that exist in the Electric Car Marketplace, and suggests a bold solution to solve the problem of recharge […]