Update announcement and agenda on the 2012 GreenGov Symposium,

Update announcement and agenda on the 2012 GreenGov SymposiumThis year’s agendafeatures over 60 sessions, including panel discussions with leading experts, best practice case studies, 101-education sessions and a suite of post-Symposium activities including...

Brazilian Deforestation Falls Sharply in Past Eight Years

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 77 percent from 2004 to 2011, but carbon emissions did not drop as steeply because of complex processes revealed during on-the-ground studies, scientists say. While analysis of satellite images showed the three-quarters...

Audit of Apple’s Chinese Factories Reveals Bandaid Reforms

Apple wants you to know it’s working hard to fix the biggest bruise on its reputation: the treatment of workers in its vast production chain. So for the past several months, the company has partnered with the Fair Labor Association, a mainstream watchdog group, to...

New York Passes Sewage Pollution Right-to-Know Act

On August 9th, New York State passed the “Sewage Pollution Right-to-Know Act”, which requires the operators of publicly owned sewer systems or sewage treatment plants to notify regulators and the public of discharges of untreated sewage or partially...

Aquaculture Feeding World’s Insatiable Appetite for Seafood

Total global fish production, including both wild capture fish and aquaculture, reached an all-time high of 154 million tons in 2011, and aquaculture is set to top 60 percent of production by 2020, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute...

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