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#DirtyDenier$ Day 11: Congressman Mike Coffman
It's no secret that Congress isn't exactly popular with the American people. One reason for that is because what politicians say, and what politicians do, are often completely different things. Let's...
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Meatless Monday: Lollapalouse -- The Pulse of Lentilfest
No one loves lentils more than I do, unless it's the people in Pullman, WA. Pullman is in the heart of the fertile farming region called the Palouse, one of the nation's largest producers of lentils....
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Got More Herbs Than You Know What to Do With?
This series is for farmers, gardeners, or anyone overloaded with produce. Written by Monica Johnson, a woman who farmed her way from Brooklyn, NY to her current home in Deep East Texas, "Putting Up...
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Chinese Coal Consumption Just Fell for the First Time This Century
Co Authored by Lauri Myllyvirta, Greenpeace International Sources: Compiled from China National Bureau of Statistics and China National Coal Association statistical releases. There may be a light at...
View ArticleArt in Aspen? Looks an Awful Lot Like Wildlife Exploitation
High art in Aspen is hitting a new low. The Aspen Art Museum in Colorado is hosting a controversial exhibit from Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang featuring three African sulcata tortoises, each affixed...
View ArticleThe Day A Dozen Parents and Children Killed a Shark for a Selfie
A recent summer weekend is smoldering in my memory. My favorite New York beach was checkered in rows of splayed out towels by the time I had caught the bus to the train and crossed the line where...
View ArticleVIDEO: Pebble Mine and the Death Star Mine at Mount Polley
In the wake of the devastating Mt. Polley Mine disaster, and even as the latest tests confirmed elevated levels of toxic copper and lead in aquatic life, a predictable progression is already underway....
View ArticlePetitions
My World Ocean Observatory inbox is filled every day with messages from ocean organizations around the world. Given the wide range of issues included in our interest in the ocean as an integrated...
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Oil and Gas Sonic Cannons Murder Millions of Sea Creatures
Millions of Americans are furious because the rights to the Western Atlantic Ocean have been handed over to Big Oil. Join Earth Dr Reese Halter from Los Angeles as he explains the awful ecocide along...
View ArticleHow Growing Your Own Vegetables Will Make You A Happier Person
The vegetable garden represents a small effort on the part of the gardener to be a producer and not just a consumer, to give and not take, to create something beautiful and useful where nothing existed...
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Balancing Nature and Human Needs on the Designer Ark
When my wife and I lived in the forests of the Congo several years ago, we had a friend and neighbor named Kauteli. He liked or was indifferent to animals that did not threaten his family, damage his...
View ArticleThe Overlooked Plight of Factory Farm Workers
In December, NBC News published a story on an undercover video of animal cruelty in a contract farm to Tyson Meats. If you haven't seen it already, I highly recommend watching it. If nothing else, this...
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Wrestling Climate Change to the Ground
It's July 2010, at state-of-the-art Dwight Center for Conservation Science at Pepperwood Preserve in the Mayacamas range east of Santa Rosa. The place is surrounded by some 3,000 acres of iconic Bay...
View ArticleReason for Climate Change Optimism as Forest Strategy Is Validated
Finally there's good news on climate change: We have part of the solution, and it's already working. For a long time, experts have theorized that indigenous people in forest communities and their...
View ArticleGretna's Coal Train Resolution Too Tepid for Some Residents
This article was published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the August 18, 2014 edition. Last Wednesday evening, the Gretna City Council in Jefferson Parish approved a resolution calling for coal trains --...
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Are Wildlife Declines Fueling Slavery and Armed Conflict?
A girl chops fish in Indonesia. A recent study suggests that declines in wildlife and fish populations contribute to social unrest, child labor and even slavery. Photo © ILO/Ferry Latief. This post was...
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Cats Getting Drunk to 'Blame It (On the Alcohol)' Is the Only Rehab You'll...
Cats can be many things. They can be playful... They can be mischievous... They can cuddle the hell out of a box... But underneath the soft and fuzzy exterior are creatures who battle with their own...
View ArticleCountdown: Deadliest Chemical Accidents Since 2009
It's been a year since President Obama signed an executive order (#13650) directing federal agencies to modernize chemical plant safety and security policies. Since then federal agencies tasked with...
View ArticleEating Healthy in Hungary
It wasn't particularly easy to find vegetarian cooking in Hungary when I was there in 1990. This was the land of goulash and chicken paprikas, after all. And forget about organic produce. In those...
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What's Carbon Got to Do With It? An Interview With Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken shares his perspective on carbon--viewing it as the foundation for life rather than the cause of our problems. In this interview with Omega, he shares his beliefs on a sustainable economy...
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