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June marks the 100 year anniversary of the minimum wage. We should take this occasion to recognize an even more dispiriting fact about the low-wage workforce: It could have been a thing of the past
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Along with the rise in the popularity of organic food has come an increased awareness about the dangers lurking on so-called “conventionally produced” foods
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Bob Goodlatte’s ethanol subsidies and Renewable Fuel Standard mandates are driving us to the edge of an economic cliff
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Rachel Carson’s seminal 1962 book, Silent Spring, told the real-life story of how bird populations across the country were suffering as a result of the widespread application of the synthetic pesticide DDT
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The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge will announce $175,000 in competitive community grants
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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today introduced bipartisan legislation, Startup Act 2.0
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The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it’s still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after the BP oil disaster
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Stone Village, Bridgewater College’s village-style residences that were constructed to conform to an internationally recognized green building certification system, is now LEED certified
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Spring is planting season, but some farmers are harvesting profits from old junk that’s been lying around their buildings and fields, sometimes for decades
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Bridgewater College today announced the appointment of Teshome Molalenge as the college’s director of sustainability
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