From the Department of Silver Linings: Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort seas are safe, at least for the moment. And Virginia’s offshore lease appears to be, well, dead in the water. Thanks, BP! In the Obama administration’s most decisive policy response yet to the BP oil spill, today Barack Obama delayed or canceled deepwater offshore oil [...]

If Annie Leonard’s Story of Bottled Water doesn’t convince you that bottled water is a scam, maybe comedian Lewis Black will. Black waxes bombastic on the bottled water industry: “Because when I think clean water – oh, yeah – I f***ing think Coke and Pepsi.” Beware: Black’s language is about as clean as Coca-Cola’s waste [...]

Puma, the sports & lifestyle company that brought you the iconic “Clyde” shoe, has just unveiled sustainable shoe packaging that eliminates a shoe industry mainstay – the shoe box. Puma shoes will now be going home in a “Clever Little Bag” – combining the shoebox with the shopping bag in one fell swoop.

Alongside the Vote the Environment campaign, we wanted to call your attention to this inspiring video created by One Percent for the Planet, the organization created by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, and Craig Mathews, owner of Blue Ribbon Flies, that facilitates companies donating

Our friends at Patagonia’s excellent blog The Cleanest Line asked us to embed this video and we liked it so much we have made it the featured vid on SustainAblerTV on our home page. “The Environment” encompasses far more than global warming and

Sustainability is a tough, complex concept to define. But, at the core, it refers to trying to live a life, whether as an individual or a business, that does more good than harm. Along those lines we wanted to share this video from the TED conference. Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor talks about having the [...]