'You Can Make History... Or Be Vilified By It'
Speaking at the opening of the United Nation's climate change summit in New York, actor Leonardo DiCaprio has called on world leaders to "make history, or be vilified by it": I am not a scientist, but...
View ArticleSave Earth's Holy Bible
I had the privilege of joining with several hundred thousand people who love the planet and all its inhabitants on September 21, 2014, in New York City. We walked through Manhattan Island singing,...
View ArticleLEDs Are An Important Climate Change Solution
The People's Climate March raised awareness about how important it is to find and use technologies that will help save energy, reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and start to reverse climate change. One...
View ArticleProtecting the Health of People and the Planet
In the single largest day of climate action in history, people around the world mobilized Sunday to demonstrate the urgency of combating climate change. In New York City alone, 400,000 people took to...
View ArticlePeople's Climate March Signs Speak Volumes
Last Sunday, I had the pleasure of joining around 400,000 people in New York to express the urgent need for meaningful climate action. From my vantage point with the NRDC contingent, the incredibly...
View Article5 Things UN Negotiators Should Do to Ensure the SDGs Are Measurable
This post was co-written with Whitney Johnson, a Master of Environmental Management (MEM'16) candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. What can be done to ensure that...
View ArticleThe Future of Conservation and the Tragedy of Triage
Co-authored by John A. Vucetich, Professor of Ecology A great deal of conservation is about the restoration of endangered species and the prevention of species endangerment. As such, society's...
View ArticleWhy the People's Climate March Is Significant and What Was Missing
Civil Rights activists mobilized by the thousands for the March on Washington, suffragists united for the right to vote with the Women's Suffrage Parade and anti-nuclear groups took to the streets for...
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'Green News Report' - September 23, 2014
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View ArticleHow Universities Can Tackle Climate Change
This week's UN Climate Summit calls upon people and institutions around the world to consider how they can become active leaders in combating climate change. What is the role of our colleges and...
View ArticleFossil Fuels Don't Pollute, We Do
On Sunday, more than a quarter million people gathered in New York City for the largest ever climate change protest. The next day, a number of high profile investors, including the Rockefeller family,...
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California Governor Jerry Brown Among Tens of Thousands Who Celebrated...
Co-authored by Zan Dubin-Scott In 152 cities and 39 US states, more than 90,000 people attended events last week associated with the 2014 National Drive Electric Week. Getting people into plug-in...
View ArticleActing on Climate Change From the Bottom Up
Gov. Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) gave these remarks at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York on Sept. 23. UNITED NATIONS -- California very strongly supports the efforts of states and cities to do...
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Secrets of the Past in a Rugged Landscape
"Greater Canyonlands holds some of the most scientifically important cultural resources to be found anywhere in North America," says professional archaeologist and author Jerry D. Spangler. "To venture...
View ArticleMelting Permafrost Endangers Greenland and Releases Harmful, Disease-Causing...
People love stories. Sometimes they make them dream, sometimes they frighten them, but stories always make people think. The story I want to tell is the story of a small village in Greenland,...
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Why the Climate Movement Cannot Ignore Trade
This past weekend, I joined more than 400,000 community members on the frontlines of climate disruption, environmentalists, workers, students, parents, and others to demand action on climate and to...
View ArticleClean Energy Powers The Roof of the World
The view from the roof of the world is breathtaking. The air up here is thin but fresh. I live in a large village called Sikles. It's in a remote part of the Annapurna mountain range in Nepal. White...
View ArticleThe Oklahoma Granny
The television camera momentarily zoomed in on the elderly grey-haired matron in the midst of the historic climate change protest march in New York City. She was brandishing a sign that read "Angry...
View ArticleThe Next Move on Climate Change -- Lessons from the First Earth Day
When I ponder the next big push for action on climate change, I think back to the late summer of 1969, just before Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson vowed to organize a nationwide environmental...
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