Environment

Poultry companies on trial in film and courtroom

November 13, 2009 By Susan Webb

Don McCorkell, a former Oklahoma state representative, has made a compelling film that will make you think twice before you buy your next chicken wing.

First Americans & all Americans

November 11, 2009 By PW Editorial Board

Fulfilling a campaign pledge, President Obama met with nearly 400 leaders of Native American tribes, Nov. 5, at a White House Tribal Nations Conference.

Foreign companies getting bulk of green stimulus

November 10, 2009 By Susan Webb

Of the $1.05 billion of stimulus funds handed out for clean energy grants since Sept. 1, 84 percent - $849 million - has gone to foreign wind companies.

Asian natural disasters: A harbinger of things to come?

November 7, 2009 By Brian McAfee

In a span of 5 weeks earthquakes, floods, mudslides, typhoons and tsunamis swept through 10 nations leaving thousands of people dead and rendering millions more homeless.

Janitors call for ‘green’ cleaning

November 7, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks now, teams of supermarket janitors have been traversing northern California on a mission: get supermakerts to go green.