Clik here to view.
Offshore Winds Soon to Power Cape Cod: Part I
Cape Wind, North America's first offshore wind farm, will soon install 130 windmills off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts to provide roughly three-quarters of the electricity required by the...
View ArticleBiological Collections Are Vital to Preserving Species in the Face of Climate...
Among the many different resources that scientists will use to try to forestall some of the effects of climate change, the nation's treasure trove of preserved plants, animals, and microscopic...
View ArticleI Made This Video to Capture How My Generation Feels About Climate Change (NSFW)
I'm a singer and model, and my job is to look beautiful, sound beautiful and make people's hearts beat faster. I am also a climate change activist. You might think that my work as an activist would be...
View ArticleClean Water Drives Economic Growth
Two decades ago, my hometown waterway of Boston Harbor was known as the dirtiest harbor in America. Raw sewage and industrial pollution made fishing and swimming risky at best, and impossible at worst....
View ArticleThe March to March
At 12:58 on Sunday afternoon, 400,000 singing, chanting, dancing people -- stretched across 3 miles of Manhattan -- fell silent in an instant. We put down our smartphones and megaphones and raised our...
View ArticleNew Cases Show Risks of Corporate Empowerment in Trade Deals
One result of neoliberalism, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times, is that "some corporations are more powerful than governments." This message was a theme of many of the signs and chants at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When I Heard About the Plight of Raju the Elephant, I Was Moved to Write This...
For centuries, music has been used to reach out to people, to inspire hope and to urge people onward. It is one of the true universal languages and as musicians we are able to connect with people in a...
View ArticleSave the Humans
A few years ago, I was talking with Al Gore (yes, I'm name dropping). I asked him a very simple and pointed question: "Animal agriculture contributes about 18 percent of the gases that cause climate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Source: Every Cup of Coffee Tells a Story
A cup of coffee brings to mind tattooed baristas, fancy espresso machines, and precious flower designs made out of milk. But there's so much more to coffee than that. To actually get that dose of...
View ArticleA Development-Savvy Climate Strategy for India
By Mario Molina, V. Ramanathan and Durwood Zaelke During his first official visit to the United States this week, India's popular Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will meet with President Obama, as well...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Youth Climate Action in the Face of Africa
Youth Climate Action is a group of volunteers from across the world, who have strong knowledge on climate change negotiations and have decided for the UN Climate Summit to launch a virtual platform to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe it
You may have already heard a few appalling facts about food waste but just in case you haven't, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue. -We throw away 165 billion dollars...
View ArticleHow Climate Change Helped ISIS
As the Obama administration undertakes a highly public, multilateral campaign to degrade and destroy the militant jihadists known as ISIS, ISIL and the Islamic State, many in the West remain unaware...
View Article"A World of Solutions" ...Or Extinction...
There is no question the climate change movement has reached a huge turning point over this last month and especially the last week. The final UN estimate is that over 400,000 people marched in the...
View ArticleDespite Its Remoteness, Antarctica's Health Matters
I've had the privilege of doing research in places that are seldom seen by humans: remote, nearly pristine reefs in the Phoenix Islands; seamounts near Cocos Island; and the waters of Indonesia and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Neil Young and Willie Nelson Protest Keystone Pipeline in American Heartland
Harvest the Hope, a concert on the farm of Art and Helen Tanderup in Neligh, Nebraska, right on the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline, was many things: a musical tour de force starring Neil...
View ArticleThere's a Strong Link Between Solving the Global Climate Crisis and Improving...
Consider the following (seemingly unrelated) realities: 1) An estimated 7 million deaths are attributed to air pollution every year; 2) over half of the U.S. population does not attain recommended...
View ArticleThe People's Climate March
I recently shared the exhilaration of joining an estimated 400,000 people to march through the streets of New York City to express growing political will for governments to acknowledge the impact of...
View ArticleWhy Taking Immediate Action on Climate Change Is in China's Self-Interest
China's dynamic growth has been accompanied by severe pollution problems and large emission of CO2. China will be the main victim of climate change, caused partly by its own CO2 emissions, should no...
View ArticleShift Your Spending to Make a Real Difference
How are you going to spend your money today? The reason I ask is because... it matters, especially when it comes to protecting our environment and reducing climate change. Here's how. You've all heard...
View Article