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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UK Company Pulls Out of Controversial Kenya Biofuel Project
Conservationists are celebrating a British firm's recent pullout from a biofuel project in Kenya that they say would have destroyed the Tana River Delta, a wetland ecosystem crucial for regional wildlife.
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NYC Carriage Horse Drops Dead On 54th Street
A carriage horse dropped dead in midtown Manhattan this weekend. Some say the carriage horse industry is to blame; will anything be done about it?
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Nebraska Legislature to Consider Rerouting Keystone XL Pipeline
The governor of Nebraska announced that he will call a special legislative session to consider challenging the route of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
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Cycle Chalao! Bike Sharing Comes to India
Cycle Chalao! is bringing bike-sharing to Pune -- and the federal government is looking to help the program expand around the country.
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How Washing Machines Are Adding to the Plastic Pollution Problem in Our Oceans
Tiny fragments of synthetic materials are coming from our washing machines and contaminating ocean shorelines around the world.
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Xcel Energy Threatens to Cut Solar Rebates & Efficiency Programs for Boulder Customers
The company is threatening to cut Boulder customers off from energy efficiency incentive programs if residents vote to create a municipal utility.
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Former Barista Tells Starbucks: Brew More Fair Trade Coffee
Sam Greenblatt liked working for Starbucks—he thought the company treated its employees well. But when he learned that Starbucks offers 100-percent fair trade-certified coffee and espresso at its stores in Europe, he
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Applications Open: Unreasonable Institute Looking For World-Saving Entrepreneurs
I wrote last year about the Boulder-based Unreasonable Institute's search for people who have great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. Last year's fellowship was a great
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Reusa, Reduce, Recicla: YoReciclo Brings Recycling to Mexico
At first, YoReciclo collected just two materials for recycling, and managed about 10 tons a month. Now, the Mexico-based company is up to 25 materials, including types of plastic not recyclable in most of the U.S., and
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Greening Your Home: How to Make Your Own Household Cleaners
I wrote the other day about a green cleaning service in New York. If you're interested in doing some green cleaning of your own, click through for a quick overview of how to make your own cleaners from natural, nontoxic ingredients. It's the most
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Hey Knitters: New Zealand Penguins Need Your Help
Things are looking bleak for wildlife in New Zealand as the disastrous oil spill grows even worse. Oil-soaked penguins lose their natural ability to keep warm, and risk ingesting oil as they preen their feathers. So a yarn store in New
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Newsweek's 2011 Green Rankings Are Out
Newsweek has been releasing a green ranking of America's and the world's biggest companies for a few years now, and the 2011 results are in.The Top-Ranked Green Companies: In the U.S.: IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint Nextel,
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Lemonade Out of Lemons: Out-of-Work Day Laborers Open Eco-Friendly Cleaning Service in NYC
The New York Times had a nice story last week about women who would wait at a Williamsburg intersection to find work on a day-by-day basis. But there was no work on far too many days for comfort—getting a job for
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Bill Would Open Grand Canyon Area to Uranium Mining, By Foreign Companies
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last month announced a 20-year plan to protect the Grand Canyon from increasing uranium mining pressures. A bill introduced in Congress this week to "save uranium mining," the Northern Arizona
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Bill That Prevents EPA From Coal Ash Oversight, Allows Arsenic in Drinking Water Goes to Vote Today (UPDATED: Bill Passes)
Earthjustice calls the bill: "a misguided attempt to neuter the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to set the first ever federal regulations on coal ash. Despite evidence
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Oka! Movie: Endangered Music and People in the Heart of the Congo Forest (Interview)
Deep in the forests of central Africa live people who rely on those forests for survival. It is not a game or a TV reality show, and the jungle is not territory to be feared and overcome. Filmmaker
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Regulating Coal Ash Could Create 28,000 Jobs
The EPA has been considering stricter regulations of coal ash, the toxic solid waste from coal power plants that the public was largely unaware of before the 2008 TVA spill in Kingston, Tennessee. One of the EPA's proposals
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Walmart Faces Trouble in China For Selling Fake "Organic" Pork
Walmart stores in southwest China's Chongqing have been forced to close following allegations that they have been labeling non-organic pork as organic and selling it at a higher price. There's speculation that the incident
