Commercial food waste to be banned
- Environmental officials are preparing to ban big businesses and institutions in Massachusetts from discarding food waste in the trash beginning in 2014.
JOAN VENNOCHI
The BP aftermath? Nothing
- Two Aprils ago, BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sank. Since then, Congress has done nothing to make drilling safer.
(DAVE MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Jessica Alba in Cambridge for venture capital firm
- The 31-year-old actress recently added technology entrepreneur to her resume when she cofounded the Honest Co., an e-commerce site focused on selling biodegradable diapers.
BIG PICTURE
Earth Day 2012
- April 22 will mark Earth Day worldwide, an event now in its 42nd year and observed in 175 countries. Gathered here are images of our planet’s environment, efforts to utilize renewable alternative sources of energy, and the effects of different forms of pollution. (35 photos total)
Students, officials to stock Quabbin with trout
- BELCHERTOWN, Mass. - Students and state environmental officials plan to stock the Quabbin Reservoir with thousands of trout.
(FILE: AP Photo)
THE BIG PICTURE
Earth Hour 2012
- A symbolic gesture to raise awareness about energy consumption, Earth Hour has grown since its beginning in 2007 in Sydney to now include observances in 147 countries and over 5000 cities. Beginning with the second photograph, click the pictures to see them fade from lights on to the lights switched off during Earth Hour 2012. (25 photos total)
The winter that wasn’t
- The last few days have left us with little doubt: This will go down as The Year We Had No Winter.
JULIETTE KAYYEM
Under melting ice, a jackpot
- The Arctic is melting and there is oil in the once-frozen ocean. And Barrow, Alaska, is about to see a boom.
Vermont environmental activist Bill McKibben on ‘Colbert Report’
- “You’re the clown who’s gonna make me pay five bucks a gallon for gas this summer,” Colbert said to McKibben.
Green electricity finds few customers in Mass.
- Five years after NStar became the first state utility to allow customers to buy wind farm electricity, less than 1 percent of the company’s nearly 900,000 customers have enrolled.
