"Greening" NYC Nail Salons for Customers and Workers
As beach season in New York comes to a close, so too does the most popular season for manicures and pedicures: which is both good news and bad news for some of New York City's nail salon workers. While...
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Who Rescued Whom? Shelter Dogs and Prison Inmates Give Each Other a New...
August 9, 2014, was one of the most memorable days of my life. On that day I entered a maximum-security prison in Lancaster, Calif. to witness an extraordinary event connecting the lives of some of its...
View ArticleWhy Conservatism Needs Wilderness
Fifty years ago this week the Wilderness Act was signed into law. Some may be surprised to learn that one of its most ardent and crucial champions was a conservative Congressman from Pennsylvania coal...
View ArticleKeeping Our Arctic Wilderness Wild
Fifty years ago, the battle to create the magnificent Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in far northeastern Alaska inspired Congress to approve America's Wilderness Act, the law that has since protected...
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The Realities of Decommissioning an Active, Offshore, Oil-producing......
The useful lives of many offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and off of California are approaching their end, which means more and more oil companies are being confronted by a perplexing...
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McDonalds Can Make History -- and Rescue Its Brand -- With Sustainable Food
McDonald's Golden Arches are tarnished these days. Its brand has been damaged by a food safety scandal in China and labor issues in America. Its stock price of late has severely lagged the S & P...
View ArticleAddressing the World's Water Challenges Demands Business Collaboration
Many of the great challenges faced by humanity, such as climate change, energy security, and food security, cannot be managed without also ensuring that our citizens have access to reliable water and...
View ArticleThese Chemicals Are Keeping Your Food Fresh
Many of the foods we eat are full of chemicals. From emulsifiers to dough conditioners, a processed food item's ingredients label can reveal a mind-boggling gamut of long scientific names you probably...
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Innovation Key to Climate Change Swerve
A classmate from business school emailed me last week to set me straight on climate change. His argument was "extreme opinions about things that naturally vary are probably wrong" and supported his...
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March of the Isotherms
On a beautiful Colorado evening earlier this week, on the delightful cusp between summer and fall, global warming paid us an unexpected visit. The sky was an exquisite blue except for a few white...
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Are Mini-Grids The Next Big Opportunity Beyond The Grid?
Photo courtesy of Devergy Beyond the grid solar start-up Devergy believes the time has come for the next evolution in clean energy access markets: mini-grids. The mini-grid systems Devergy deploys are...
View ArticleIs Nature Intelligent?
In the recent dispute over whether a selfie can belong to a monkey, the monkey lost. The U.S. Copyright Office decided that the selfies a group of Indonesian macaques snapped belong to no one. Food for...
View ArticleThousands Win: Two Friends Trying to Grow More Sh*t in Brooklyn
Caleb Freese and Julian Hensarling met in kindergarten at a Montessori school in Austin, Texas. The students there tended chickens, selling eggs and produce, and learning what it meant to grow things...
View ArticleHow Climate Change Could Affect Your Breakfast
The impacts of climate change can be felt throughout the world. We're witnessing firsthand hotter summers, extreme weather, droughts and severe wildfires, making the climate crisis something that's...
View ArticleAboard the Hokule'a: Sailboats, Small Islands and the Stewardship of Nature
Both hulls of the Hokule'a pointed with pride out to sea from Pago Pago Harbor. Leaving port, the sun was high above us, the waves broke with white peaks of foam, and the worn edges of the dark green...
View ArticleShale Energy Potential Depends on Water Supply
The shale gas boom that has revved the U.S. economy over the past decade could spread to other parts of the energy-hungry world. But, before governments and businesses go too far, there's an important...
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Joan Rivers' Animal Evolution
Joan Rivers with PETA's Dan Mathews Joan Rivers had a barbed tongue but she also had a soft spot for animals. She went everywhere with her dog, Spike, whom she credited with saving her from committing...
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Parents Coming Out on Climate Change
I used to think "I'm gay" were the hardest words I could say aloud. But that was 25 years ago, before I grew up, as it were, got married and had kids. More recently, the toughest truth I've had to come...
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'Green News Report' - September 4, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Accountability for BP in deadly Gulf Oil Spill Disaster; Accountability for PG&E in deadly natural gas pipeline explosion;...
View ArticleChallenges to EPA's Proposed Carbon Rules: What If They Succeed?
The Clean Power Plan proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in June is the centerpiece of the Obama Administration's efforts to fight climate change. Coal-fired power plants are by far the...
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