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Governor Quinn Has Baghdad Bob Moment During Fracking Protest
Governor Pat Quinn had his Baghdad Bob moment during an anti-fracking protest at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. For those who may have forgotten (or are too young to remember) Baghdad Bob...
View ArticleRaised to Farm
Co-authored with Matt & Peg Sheaffer; Jennifer & Jeff Miller, Sandhill Family Farms; Mike Sands, Farm Business Development Center; Brad Leibov, Liberty Prairie Foundation; Karen Lehman, Fresh...
View ArticleLabor of Love: How My Small WV Town Launched a Game-Changing New Model to Go...
This week, my small town in West Virginia cut the ribbon on a solar project that isn't just the largest crowd-funded solar project in the state, but also launches a new model making it possible for any...
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Small Island Developing States Take Up a Gigantic Challenge
Protective stone wall by the roadside, Seychelles/Lawrence Hislop, GRID After the Vatican, the world's smallest independent state is the Republic of Nauru -- a tiny island in Micronesia measuring...
View ArticleFrom Chelsea to Corona: Public Cost and Public Benefit in the New Public Park
Five years ago this summer, the first section of the High Line, from Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, opened to the public. The success of this project - a...
View ArticlePlease Meet the Opportunity Manager
"The difference between a risk and an opportunity is how fast you discover it." This tagline has been driving my work for years. Yet the line is seeing new relevance. Across the globe, we are seeing...
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'Green News Report' - August 28, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Fire and explosion at Indiana refinery with a history of exploding; UN climate report warns of 'irreversible' global warming;...
View ArticleHow to Fix a Squirrel
Earlier this year the UK government finally gave up on trying to control the American grey squirrel in the UK. Officially gave up, that is; they had given up in practice decades earlier. The sign that...
View ArticleWhen the Levee Breaks
Mother Nature has a way of reminding us that humility is a trait that humans too often lack. Take, for instance, the engineering firm Knight Piesold, which stated that "modern dam design technologies...
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Climate Crisis a Public-Health Emergency Too: Why Nurses Will Join Climate...
Early last November Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda slammed into the Philippines, leaving more than 6,000 people dead, tens of thousands injured, and many more bereft of their homes and livelihoods. The storm...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 20: Senator James Inhofe
Though the winds often come sweeping down the plains in Oklahoma, they have not blown hard enough to clear away the misguided, misleading views of Senator James Inhofe. Inhofe is a top ranking Dirty...
View ArticleInternational Day Against Nuclear Tests Should Push Us All to Demand Global Zero
According to the 2000 Report of the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, the long-lasting effects of nuclear testing can be qualified in simple scientific terms: "Radiation...
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Seven Reasons to Walk Away From Keystone XL
There is less than a month before the justices of the Nebraska Supreme court hear arguments in a case that will have a big impact on TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The court will hear the...
View ArticleWill Your Business Recover From Disaster?
The massive 6.0 earthquake in San Francisco on Sunday is another reminder that Mother Nature doesn't play by the rules, so we'd all better be prepared for the unexpected. If disaster struck five...
View ArticleNo New Oil Drilling in Our Oceans
Labor Day represents the end of summer-- and nothing says summer quite like a trip to the beach. At the beginning of summer, my family spent a few wonderful days exploring the beaches lining a small...
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Uncertainty, Rising Costs Cloud Indian Coal Sector After Landmark Supreme...
India's coal bubble is perilously close to bursting. This week the Indian court system handed down three landmark energy rulings. While an ultimate decision still looms, the combined weight of these...
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Finally! A Candid Exposé of Chevron's Dirty Tricks
Re-Posted from the Eye On the Amazon. It's not easy to try to explain the saga of the decades long battle to hold Chevron to account for deliberately poisoning people and planet in the Ecuadorian...
View ArticleWATCH: These Mind-Controlling Parasites Are Freaky, And Apparently There Are...
How do you explain suicidal crickets and zombie caterpillars? One word: parasites. Science writer Ed Yong shows us how these tiny creatures force insects and animals to do their bidding, and asks: Are...
View ArticleBridging the Gap: Baby Boomers and Millennials Working Together for Social...
Among the many lessons I have learned while leading a nonprofit over the past 10 years is that generational differences in work and volunteer groups foster a unique dynamic. On one hand, the...
View ArticleCelebrating Solar Workers This Labor Day
As we celebrate the social and economic achievements of American workers this weekend, let's not leave out our hardworking sun and the laborers that go with it. While millions Americans travel to a...
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