Our favorite green racecar driver, Leilani Münter, was featured on GreenHeroesTv for her commitment to the environment. While the idea of an environmental racecar driver may seem like an oxymoron, Leilani proves that it can be done. Founder of the Eco Dream Team, Münter's car was the first fully eco-sponsored race car to hit the famous high banks of Daytona International Speedway earlier this year. She's spreading environmental awareness to millions of NASCAR fans, one race at a time.

As reported on Green Lodging News, the New York based textile and surface solutions company Designtex has cemented its commitment to operate as a carbon-neutral company. Designtex has reduced the greenhouse gas footprint of its operations to net zero - a feat that would not have been possible without a lighting retrofit provided by LED Lighting Solutions.

GE is beginning a new experiment in a handful of test cities to see if it can achieve dramatic reductions in home energy use. 

In New Orleans’ leafy Uptown district, about a dozen blocks from Tulane University, there’s a hidden dog park on the banks of the Mississippi River.  Hounds from all over the neighborhood lead their humans over the levee and into a small wood to cool off with a romp in the shallows.  On a hot, damp Sunday this summer, I took a small film crew there to meet the actor Ryan Reynolds, who spent much of 2010 in New Orleans shooting Green Lantern for Warner Bros.

It might seem like an oxymoron at first glance, but perhaps it’s not so far fetched.  As dicussed in the upcoming issue of OnEarth magazine, Frederick Kaufmann suggests that “industrial agriculture, is not only essential to, but could also be the future leader of, sustainable food production”.

In what seems a deus ex machina or perhaps deus ex gaia moment, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report that the miles-long deep sea oil plume which resulted from the BP oil spill has essentially vanished, apparently eaten by microbes previously unknown to science.

Armed with RFID chips and a disdain for those residents who simply refuse to put out their recyclables in a timely manner, an army of "smart" recycling bins will soon descend on Cleveland to enact their green environmental goodness.

NRDC’s Water Program is increasingly focused on solutions to our leading water pollution problems, one of which is urban stormwater. 

The dirty runoff that hits our waterways after storms may not be as obvious as the pollution that comes out of factories or oil refineries, but it has an enormous impact on our nation’s beaches, nonetheless.

Two days ago, four teams hailing from Australia, Switzerland, South Korea and Germany set out from Geneva to race around the globe in a mere eighty days.