Rachel Cernansky
Rachel is a freelance journalist based in Boulder, Colorado. She primarily focuses on green business for TreeHugger, and writes for other outlets about environmental justice and politics, sustainable food and nutrition, and human rights issues. She hates greenwashing and writes about that too. Before Colorado, she lived in New York, Kenya, and Rwanda, and has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She gets around by bike, eats plants, and occasionally tweets at the address below.
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Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet (Redux)
Image: bgarciagi via flickr TH note: Thanks to Harvard Business Review a three year old study is making the media rounds for a second time. We covered it at the time and have analyzed the issue of over-simplication of food miles a number of times. But
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California Cities Recycle Old Asphalt Back Into New Road: A Cheaper, Greener Pothole Fix
A green technique for pothole repair is on the rise in California: "Cold In-Place Recycling" is not all that new, but the Bay Area has been adopting it in
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Adorable Puppy Gets a New Home in an Old Fridge
I'm a little late posting this, but it's just as irresistible as when the pictures first came out: an old refrigerator recycled into a dog house for a puppy that had nowhere to sleep. Inhabitat reports that the Y-town folks in
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Bolivia Signs Food Security Law, Aims to Reduce Dependence on Foreign Companies
Bolivian President Evo Morales signed a law this week aimed at increasing the nation's food security. Part of the plan is to set up state-owned companies to produce seeds and fertilizers. The government will also establish a state seed
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Profit for Good: Carbon Credits Bring Clean Water to Rural Kenya
I spent part of last month walking from home to home in Kagamega, Kenya, a mostly-rural region known for one of the last remaining tracts of the Congolese forest belt. It is not dissimilar to so much of the developing world,
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NYC, Miami & Other City-Dwelling "Farmers" (Read: Investors) Got $394M in Farm Subsidies Last Year
"Remember the last time you were smack in the middle of downtown Chicago or walking down a bustling street of Manhattan? Did you notice the sweeping farm vistas, the rich fields of corn and wheat?"
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El Salvador Has to Fight Local Water-Polluting Gold Mine in International Court
The New York Times had a good story this weekend explaining how a Canadian mining company is using CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade Agreement from 2005) to sue El Salvador—essentially attacking the
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First Packaging-Free, Zero-Waste Grocery Store In US Coming To Austin, Texas
It's gotten harder and harder over the years to avoid excess packaging when shopping for everyday items, but plans are in the works for a store in Austin (also the home of Whole Foods) that will specialize in local and organic
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U.S.-Made Pesticide Continues to Kill Off Lions in Kenya
Despite people knowing for years that carbofuran, a pesticide also known as furadan, has been devastating the lion population in Kenya, and despite continued calls to ban the pesticide, it continues to be used—or more
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Following Arrest, Greenpeace Director Banned From Greenland
Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, arrested last week after scaling a Cairn Energy platform off the coast of Greenland, is now banned for a year from the country entirely.United Press International reports
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Go See This Film: "If A Tree Falls," Sundance-Winning Film About Environmentalism and the ELF
Image: Screenshot via ifatreefallsfilm.com If A Tree Falls is a powerful documentary from a talented filmmaker (you may know him from Street Fight) about environmental activism and the changing definition of terrorism to include people who act in ways
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Solar-Powered Irrigation on the Rise in Kenya
Image: Benjamin Chun via flickr Solar-powered irrigation isn't necessarily new to Africa, but especially as the price of oil (and the cost of running a diesel engine) continues to rise, so does the use of this emissions-free technology. Reuters AlertNet
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Japan Steps Up the Heat to Conserve Energy
Japan is getting increasingly serious in its push for energy efficiency: earlier this month, the government called on businessmen to go to work in sandals and Hawaiian shirts to help keep cool. Now, the country is embracing
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Rooftop Solar Power Could Meet Half of New York City's Peak Energy Needs
Solar power has been growing in New York City, but the installed capacity pales in comparison to the city's potential. That's at least according to a new study, illustrated by the map above, that found two-thirds of the city's
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More NYC Geese To Be Killed This Year - And Sent to Pennsylvania Slaughterhouse
New York City has just started another round of killing hundreds of geese, at taxpayer expense, despite that the cull has so far failed to limit geese population growth or improve air safety. The geese culls have not gone
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Timberland, Sustainable Business Leader, Sold for $1.8 Billion
Timberland, known here at TreeHugger for greening the outdoor clothing industry and for using its corporate weight to press for action on climate change, now has an uncertain future when it comes to keeping up those
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EPA Releases Names of 150 Secret Chemicals
Here's a little good news for people concerned about public health: the EPA released the names of 150 chemicals, the identities of which had been kept secret, to the public earlier this month. The New York Times describes
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Amsterdam Judge Joins Greenpeace in Asking Energy Company for Arctic Spill Response Plan
Image: Radio Nederland Wereldomroep via flickr Greenpeace is celebrating a small victory today: an Amsterdam judge suggested yesterday that Cairn Energy comply with Greenpeace's request to release its secret Arctic Oil Spill Response Plan rather than
