The Big Blue Elephant in the Room
Although last week's UN General Assembly meetings in New York City included the largest gathering of world leaders ever to address climate change, the largest factor in our climate cycle was missing...
View ArticleRachel Carson's Legacy and Today's Green Ceiling for Women's Leadership
Women have long played a pivotal role in environmental conservation in America, yet far too few women today hold top leadership positions in America's environmental and conservation organizations. It's...
View ArticleMaine Wildlife Officials Abuse Public Trust and Office in Ballot Campaign
What if there were a ballot initiative in Maine to ban the death penalty, and staff from the Maine Department of Corrections joined with private citizens to oppose the measure, spent state resources...
View ArticleClimate Protection: A Portfolio of Good Sense and Cents for Our Planet
It's becoming increasingly more difficult to stomach resistance to changing our energy production purely on the argument that a low carbon climate is the Grim Reaper of our economy. Ignoring sound...
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Climate March Engages Base and New Recruits for Real Climate Actions
Like the true-blue climate supporter that I'm aspiring to be, I attended the People's Climate March in New York City last week. I stood at the corner of Central Park West and West 77th Street and...
View ArticleHomer Describing Big Oil: "Lung-Choking, Ocean-Poisoning, Species-Sickening...
This post is a reprint of a speech to fiduciaries on fossil fuel divestment at the Boston Carbon Risk Forum, Harvard Law School, September 29, 2014 Preface In 2010, at Cancun, nations of the world set...
View ArticleFood Tank's Fall Reading List: 20 Great Books About Food
Food Tank has selected 20 books that entertain, inform and reaffirm the importance of food and agriculture. From sustainable seafood to ethical eating to field guides for food activists, these books...
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'Green News Report' - September 30, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Good news: President Obama creates the world's largest marine sanctuary; Bad news: humans have wiped out half of the world's...
View ArticleBears Rescued From Bile Farms: Why Not Just Release Them?
Animals Asia has rescued 535 bears from farms in China and Vietnam, where their bile is painfully extracted as a prized ingredient in traditional medicine. When people visit or hear about these rescued...
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An Inflection Point: The Masses Are Finally Feeling It
There's a tsunami... A march to demand action to combat climate change drew nearly half a million people in New York City and about a million people in marches around the world -- including the head of...
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Climate Change = Systems Change
Climate change represents the most disruptive philanthropic and business opportunity since the Industrial Revolution. In the years to come, the growing clean energy sector will require massive further...
View ArticleIt Might Not Sound Sexy, But It's the Future of Our Public Lands
Except for a minute number of policy wonks, what could be more uninteresting and bureaucratic than land use planning? Maybe land use planning for lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Yet I...
View ArticleA Leader, a Polar Bear, and the Shock of Recognition
We had only been on the rock next to the melting Nordenskiöld glacier for a few minutes when I looked up and saw a white furry head looking down at me from a cliff 60 meters away. Our polar guide, who...
View ArticleIt's Time for ShiftCon: The First Eco-Wellness Social Media Conference
Next weekend, hundreds of bloggers and eco-friendly brands will be joining forces at ShiftCon in Los Angeles. This is the first eco-wellness social media conference, born out of the idea that "together...
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Healthy Child Healthy World: From the Pain a Passion for Change
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Colette Chuda 1989 photo credit Irene Born Newton-John "When a parent loses a child, there...
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Upwells of Life and Oil; a Unique Partnership Between the Sea and Steel
Spring is a season when new life is replenished and although this productivity is obvious on land, the ocean, with it's seemingly unchanging surface, is also privy to this season. Especially off the...
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Dreaming of Dodos: The 40-Year Living Planet Index Challenge
Think of the dodo. This extinct bird, flightless and synonymous with idiocy, has always poked quietly, gently at some dark corner of our minds. When we first learn about the dodo's demise at the hands...
View ArticleNIH Terminates Funding for Research Using Randomly Sourced Dogs
Many readers know that the issue of random source "Class B" dog and cat dealers is one that our founders confronted in the earliest days of The HSUS. We've consistently worked through the years to put...
View ArticleExpanding on the California Climate Credit
California's climate change program lowered millions of households utility bills last April, but very few people noticed. And it is about to happen again with the return of the semi-annual "California...
View ArticleAmerican Diet Needs a Break from Meat, Dairy
Remember the food pyramid? That was the government's triangle-shaped guidance for dividing up our diet between food groups like grains, meat, dairy and vegetables. Well, the federal government scrapped...
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