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Taking It to the Streets: Why I Am Marching for the Climate on September 21
On September 21, people from all over the world will take to the streets to demand action from their leaders to address the looming climate crisis. I will be one of them. Heads of State -- along with...
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New Albany's Bob Braunbeck, the 'Merry Recycler,' Brings Environmentalism and...
It's late on Thursday afternoon when a white van with the words "Easy Recycle" pulls into my driveway. Out jumps J.R. (Bob) Braunbeck, the owner and operator, whom I like to think of as the "Merry...
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The Voice of Bart Simpson Wants You to Check Out Electric Cars Next Week
I knew the fourth annual National Drive Electric Week would be big, but I didn't realize it would be this big! We're having free events in 135+ cities September 15-21 to share the fuel cost-saving,...
View ArticleJonas (Minus the) Brothers
For 29 years, Jonas was denied a decent existence. This rhesus macaque was born into the captive wildlife trade here in the United States and was passed around from owner to owner. Instead of swinging...
View ArticleWaiter, What's This Diesel Fuel Doing in My Coffee?
OK, that's not literally a latte diesel-machiatto. But figuratively, you bet it is. Nearly everything you use or consume -- the coffee at your elbow, the table it's sitting on, the smart device you're...
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A Climate Movement That Can't Be Ignored
The New York state elections just concluded, and the national midterms are still weeks away, but there is a campaign office in downtown Manhattan that has just gone into overdrive. Volunteers there are...
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Who Will Carry Big Dividend Checks at the People's Climate March?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of...
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The Increasing Threat of Factory Farms
Rarely do we as Americans reflect on the fact that 10 billion land animals are slaughtered each year for our food system or that over 90 percent are raised in CAFOs, better known as factory farms....
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The Giving Tree
"Hipster alert! Hipster Alert! Hipster Alert!" My 14-year-old daughter, Sophie shrilled, pointing a finger across the street at a twenty-something wearing a cap that said, PLOW, thick black rimmed...
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WATCH: Meet The Terrorist's Son Who Refused To Follow In His Father's Footsteps
Zak Ebrahim is not my real name and was changed when my family decided to cut ties with my father, El-Sayed Nosair, the first member of a Bin Laden organization to shed blood on American soil. As I...
View ArticleCarbon Pollution And Your Seafood Dinner
It's not much of an exaggeration to say that water is life; our lives are necessarily linked to water's ebb and flow, the water cycle. As I type this, rain is pounding down outside; it's one of those...
View ArticleA Bill to Regulate Oil Refineries Also Threatens Public Access Rights
All legislators support government transparency in the abstract. But when it comes to the specifics of lawmaking, public access rights are the first casualty of the political process. Case in point: SB...
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Environmental Management Systems: A Valuable Tool for Sustainable Tourism
A few weeks ago Dave was at the United Nations providing leadership for a workshop on sustainable tourism, as part of the UN DPI / NGO Conference. In addition Dave, representing the USF Patel College...
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Man-Made Evolution Is Happening -- It's Time to Control It
By Alison Hewitt, UCLA Newsroom Evolutionary biologists have news for anyone accustomed to thinking of evolution as a long-term proposition: Evolution also takes place on a day-to-day basis, and it's...
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It's Time to Take Evolution Into Our Own Hands
As founder and director of the Center for Tropical Research at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and a professor of ecology and evolutionary Biology, Tom Smith seeks to answer...
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Climate Change This Week: Solar Jobs Rise, So Does Global Heat, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, Sep 13, 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleThe Opportunity in the Difficulty
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -- Winston Churchill Climate change can bring out the best in us and help reinvigorate our...
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Bobby Andrew to EPA: Stop the Pebble Mine
Today we are running the final in a series of ads in Washington, D.C., urging the Obama administration to stop the proposed Pebble Mine. The ads in Politico feature Alaskans from Bristol Bay...
View ArticleNuclear Plants Make New York a Global Model for Addressing Climate Change
On September 23, New York will host the United Nations Climate Summit, one of the foremost events to address reducing carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions that threaten the quality of life for...
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Separation Anxiety and Seasonal Enrichments
Today, my pets and I are mourning summer. As a parent of elementary-age children, summer is a breezy time with excessive foot traffic and constant interaction. Currently, though it's not yet 9 a.m.,...
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