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Two-Day Holiday Killing 'Derby' in Idaho Targets Wolves and Coyotes
This holiday, a killing contest takes aim at two of the most persecuted predators in North America: wolves and coyotes. The contest, scheduled in the Salmon-Challis area and hosted by the...
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Historic Agreement to Slash Energy Use by Set-Top Boxes Will Save $1 Billion...
Under a historic agreement announced today, the electricity used by the more than 230 million set-top boxes installed in America's homes by your cable, satellite, or telephone company will be slashed...
View ArticleThe Meaning of the Word Shelter
My mother was sick throughout most of my childhood and sorrowful for much of each year. She seldom strayed from the confines of our little suburban house and yard. But even in her illness and within...
View ArticleTransatlantic Trade Agreement Threatens Environment and Health in U.S. and...
Negotiations between the United States and European Union for a free trade agreement, which resumed this week in Washington, represent one of the biggest threats we have seen in our lifetimes to an...
View Article5 Things We Learned in 2013 That Could Move the Needle on Sustainability
Two and a half millennia ago, Plato announced that "Human behavior flows from three things: desire, emotion, and knowledge." Unfortunately, our human and corporate behavior on climate change is not...
View ArticleMerry Christmas Bob Barker: Animal Kingdom's Superhero
Sir Winston Churchill once said "We make a living from what we get, but we make a life from what we give." It's an honor and privilege this Christmas to 'tip my hat' to an exemplary friend of nature --...
View ArticleWild Birds Should Fly Free: National Bird Day Puts Our Winged Friends on...
What does a caged parakeet in Connecticut have in common with a scarlet macaw flying freely in Costa Rica? They are both at risk. The exotic bird trade remains complex, and related statistics are...
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What's Really Behind the Alabama Coal Industry's Attack on Pro-Clean Energy...
On December 15, the president of the Alabama Coal Association, George Barber, wrote an op-ed attacking pro-clean energy and environmental groups for their "secretive war on coal" and "hiding their...
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6 Crimes Against Nature in Factory Farming (Pt. 1)
If you are not aware of the horrors of factory farming, then you are not paying attention. Treating animals like heads of lettuce -- "Forget it's an animal," said one farmer magazine -- has created...
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A "Broken Windows" Theory for Environmentalism
Call it the broken windows theory applied to environmentalism. This spring, Riverkeeper helped mobilize a crew of 80 to clean up trash at Inwood's North Cove, a reclaimed wetlands area on the Harlem...
View ArticleBeyond Incoherent
Last September at the Clinton Global Initiative, the singer Bono called out American oil companies and the American Petroleum Institute's legal challenge to U.S. regulations requiring oil and mining...
View Article5 Big Energy Stories of 2013
The U.S. is awash in oil and natural gas. China's air pollution is so bad some cities were nearly shut down. A massive typhoon wreaked havoc in the Philippines. These are some of the top stories of the...
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Ciclovia: Open Streets Throughout Latin America
A confident young participant in San Francisco de Porro. Ciclovia is a Latin American phenomena originating over 30 years ago in Bogotà , Colombia, where some streets are closed to allow people to...
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The Heat Is On!
All year, our beloved Moms Clean Air Force cartoonists Danny Shanahan and Liza Donnelly give us something to smile about - even when the subject is as serious as climate change. Maybe especially when...
View ArticleLatest Endangered Species Act Battle Shows Why It's "Doc" Hastings, Not Dr....
It has not been a good year for Rep. Doc Hastings' relentless efforts to gut the Endangered Species Act -- or even a good month, for that matter. And that's a very good thing for every imperiled plant...
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Climate Change This Week: The Good, The Bad, The Old, The New in 2013, and More!
Jingle right along with us this week, folks, for the usual up and down sleigh ride! Most Important Climate Message: "You CAN Do Something About It" is what people need to hear most, says a new study,...
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Manta Ballet
The dive industry is a small industry, the type where you know almost everyone or can quickly connect to just about anybody. I met Shawn Heinrich in person for the first time this year at a dive show...
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Huffington Magazine This Week: Photographic Memories
In this week's special photo issue, we pause to reflect on the year's most memorable moments. During a time when "twerking" eclipsed coverage of the war in Syria, and our government literally stopped...
View ArticleBig Ag's Gifts for 2013
As the year comes to an end it's become a tradition of mine to write a note of gratitude to Big Ag for the many "gifts" they've given us all throughout the year. Gifts that we didn't really want, need...
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Happy New Warming Year (Part I)
You might be freezing right now, but at the top of the heap of 2013's climate trash was surely all the "15 year pause" in global warming stuff, and the way that the mass media played this up during the...
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