Pets Suffer in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters
I love my dogs. Like millions of other Americans, my dogs are just as much a part of my family as are my daughters, my husband and my grandchildren. So nothing is more heartbreaking to me than seeing...
View ArticleWeeds of Destruction: The Moral Case for Marijuana Legalization
Though I won't be the first, I certainly don't want to be the last to congratulate the lawmakers in Colorado and Washington for finally coming to their senses and legalizing marijuana. Though their...
View ArticleNew Year's Resolution
Intro look at why 2014 is so important and how the enemies of climate science are real and not giving up. We can't fight them dollar for dollar, but we have voters on our side. Resolving to Combat $1...
View ArticlePebble Mine's 2013 Year End Review: 'One Foot in the Grave?'
Bad to very much worse. That sums up the lack of progress in 2013 for the massive Pebble Mine, proposed by a diminishing consortium of foreign mining companies for the headwaters of the Bristol Bay...
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Q&A With Judith Rodin: Dialogues on the Environment
In this ongoing series, I talk with thought leaders about ideas and trends in the environmental movement. Next in the series is my conversation with president of The Rockefeller Foundation, Judith...
View ArticleNew York Governor To Announce Plans To Legalize Medical Marijuana
It's been reported that New York's Governor Cuomo has a strategy to use executive action rather than legislative to bring the legal use of marijuana for medical dedications to his republic. Governor...
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What Happens in the Factory Farm Shouldn't Stay in the Factory Farm
Originally published at ASPCA.org Suppose I told you that, behind the closed doors of a nearby animal farm, something terrible was going on with the animals: vicious abuse and neglect, atrocious...
View ArticleYuppies Watching Documentaries
My wife and I were on the couch watching Forks Over Knives when she suddenly burst into tears. I was a little surprised. Forks Over Knives is a documentary. About plant-based eating. Hardly a...
View ArticleThere's a Clean Tech Revolution -- Not a Crash
On Sunday, 60 Minutes concluded that we've seen a clean tech crash, but from where I sit, I see a thriving clean energy market. Clean tech is on the rise, lowering power bills, creating jobs, and...
View ArticleLooking Forward To Freedom, Campaign Against Conservatives
It's a big year ahead in Colorado, Washington state, Uruguay, and for me here in Mississippi. As of today, Wednesday January 1st, retail stores and licensed pot growers commence legalized business...
View ArticleNot Your Mother's Food Drive
Most likely, you've been asked to participate in a food drive this holiday season. It may have been through your child's school, at your workplace, your place of worship, or a food drive run by your...
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The Farallon Islands Mouse Eradication Project: The 'Con' in Conservation
I first heard the term "island eradication" back in 2011, when a colleague sent me an email that contained a project scoping notice from U.S. Fish & Wildlife (USFWS), San Francisco Bay National...
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Imported Seafood Comes With a Price: Dead Whales and Dolphins
On October 1, 2013, a female humpback whale washed up dead on a Long Island beach. Its 20-ton body, discovered by an early-morning surfer, bore signs of trauma. The cause of death, although it's being...
View ArticleYou Call This Cold? Ha! This Isn't Cold!
I grew up in Detroit, where the snow hit the ground in early November and stayed there through April. Snowfall wasn't remarkable; it was a given. I was a Detroit Tigers fan and I remember, more than...
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Seed Power!
The heart of a mighty tree resides in a tiny seed. The mysterious power of seeds pervades every aspect of life. Seeds can be literal, heirloom or GMO. They can be metaphorical seeds of deceit, healing,...
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2014: It's Time for Us to Use All That Data
Now that we have zillions of bytes of data about just about everything, we can see the power of our choices -- and it's time to stop blaming everyone else and take matters into our own hands. It's time...
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6 Crimes Against Nature in Factory Farming (Pt. 2)
If you are not aware of the horrors of factory farming, then you are not paying attention. Treating animals like heads of lettuce --"forget it's an animal" says one farmer magazine -- has created...
View ArticleClimate, Trees, and Legacy (VIDEO)
One profound psychological obstacle to advancing climate change as an American concern no less pressing than youth unemployment and sky-high health insurance costs is the paucity of possibilities for...
View ArticleNatural Gas Loses to Solar on Costs, A First
For those who already think natural gas will win out over renewable power, a judge has said, not so fast. In what may be the first time a U.S. solar power project has been declared cost-competitive...
View ArticleNo Smooth Sailing in Taking on the Cruise Industry
Those of us involved in the environmental movement are hardly short of projects to criticize. We rightfully lambaste dams, power lines, mining operations and drilling operations when these activities...
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