The Climate March Will Break Records But Will It Encourage More Environmental...
As someone who has spent too many years trying to break through what I call "The Green Ceiling" in mainstream media -- a steadfast wall of refusal on the part of programming executives to dedicate...
View ArticleA Ticking Time Bomb: Eliminating Antibiotic Overuse in Animal Agriculture
Antibiotics serve as the foundation of modern medicine. We rely on them for everything from treating small cuts and scrapes to protecting patients from infections during open-heart surgeries. And yet...
View ArticleBowling Strikes Against the Carbon Kingpins
Scientists agree. Businesses agree. Economists agree. Even the Pentagon agrees -- climate change must be a national priority. In 2010, The National Security Strategy, a memo released by the White...
View ArticleTurning Up the Heat On Climate Action -- No Time For Delay
In the five years since global leaders met in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, a lot has changed, and too much has stayed the same. Climate change is no longer just coming. It's here already. In...
View ArticleKeep the Oil in the Ground!
Our future is in peril and the changing climate is a key indicator. Scientists warn us that global warming is spiraling out of control which is why we need to see immediate action now. As the Amazon...
View ArticleThe Drought of Climate Change Support
This summer, we've seen a continuation of the record-breaking heat and drought in the Southwest that began several years ago. In parts of Texas and Oklahoma, it's as bad as it was during the "Dust...
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The People's Climate March: Join Us on September 21 to Make History
An old friend recently got in touch to let me know he'll be joining me at the People's Climate March in New York City this weekend. He's coming from pretty far out of town, and he's not the type some...
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Can 'Prescriptive Evolution' Help Save Our World in the Anthropocene?
By Karla Renschler Is evolution about to get even more controversial? In an article in Science Express, the journal Science's forum for rapid publication of timely articles, a team of researchers...
View ArticleWhy This Mom Cares About the Climate Crisis
Although I live only a few short hours from New York City, a trip to New York this weekend just isn't in the cards. I'll be sticking close to Boston as thousands of people join forces for The People's...
View ArticleOne Woman's Amazing Work for Wilderness
We're right in the middle of Wilderness Week, and this year it's a special one because we just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act -- which is still a high-water mark for the...
View ArticleClimate Crisis Is Every Working Person's Crisis
In recent weeks, working people have taken to the streets to stand up for higher wages, protesting corporations that make big profits but pay poverty wages. This Sunday, thousands of us will be out in...
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Climate Change This Week: Energy Efficiency Saves Trillions, US Birds at...
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, Sep 20, 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleLean In: The Prize for Bigger Action On Climate Change is Prosperity for All
As the film director Federico Fellini once said, to adopt a different language is to adopt different vision of life. If that's true, then there are encouraging signs that a different perspective on...
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The Struggle to Reach Out and Tell the Climate Story
Photo Credit: Lightspring / Shutterstock.com "Nope, no. No. Nuh-uh. These aren't good." I'm sitting next to one of my instructors at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of...
View ArticleDays of Action: Why We Vote
Something's happening here. Across the globe, millions of people have come together to send a unified message to our leaders: Climate change is real, and every nation must step up and take action --...
View ArticleTo Keep Global Warming Within Manageable Limits, We Need to Speak Up Now
The latest piece of science on climate change is in: greenhouse gases hit a new high, or should I say low, last year. According to the World Meteorological Society, in 2013 carbon dioxide...
View ArticleWhy Fashion Should Be on the Climate Change Agenda
Fashion matters. As we approach a series of crunch talks for the planet on environmental issues pertaining to climate change, beginning with UN talks in New York, I want to say this loud and proud....
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We Made History: 310,000 March for Climate Action
Today I joined the People's Climate March--the biggest rally for climate action ever. It was exhilarating to be part of this historic event. I will never forget the moment I turned the corner at...
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Climate March on Frontlines: Illinois Residents on Coal Rush, Shawnee...
Garden of the Gods, Shawnee National Forest, photo by Jeff Biggers Facing one of the most under-reported climate disasters in the nation, including an unprecedented coal mining rush under Gov. Pat...
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Save the Dingoes, Stop the Ecocide
The bloody "War Against Nature" is raging across the Australian continent. The largest land predator, a 55-pound free-ranging dog, called a dingo (classified as a subspecies of grey wolf) is in deep...
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