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Electric Vehicles Reach Highest Percentage of US Auto Sales to Date
Last month, plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) made up the highest percentage ever tallied of total vehicles sold in the United States. This is news for optimism. For an environmental group like the...
View ArticleMozambican Peasants vs. the Great African Land Grab
Maputo -- With a shimmering coastline stretching for more than 1,500 miles along the Indian Ocean, heartland game parks rivaling the Serengeti and a cornucopia of natural resources -- located mostly in...
View ArticleUncommon Good
In early September the WorkerAnts team visited Uncommon Good in Claremont, California. Since its inception in 2000, Founder and Executive Director Nancy Mintie has worked with the community to create...
View ArticleMore Space for You, a Second Life for Your Things
Has your youngest started grade school? Or maybe, as if in a blink of an eye, she's finished college and moved into her first apartment. Now you and your husband are thinking of downsizing. Or you...
View ArticleNew York Times Throws Food Party, Forgets to Invite Farmers
On November 11th and 12th, the New York Times will host "Food For Tomorrow," a sold-out event exploring food production in the 21st century. An all-star cast of food celebrities is slated to attend,...
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What Prince Ea Wants You to Know
So here we are in 2014, and Charles Dickens' most famous words haunt the present day. In many ways, this is the best of times; the brightest minds have revolutionized the way in which we heal from...
View ArticleClimate Change: It's About the Children, Stupid! Or Is It?
For far too long environmentalists have attempted to move people to climate action by pointing to future generations. They plead, Think of the children! We need to act so that our grandchildren and...
View ArticleN.C. Puppy Mill Rescue Highlights Deception, Dangers of Internet Sales of...
As our animal rescue team entered a trash- and feces-filled house last Friday to rescue more than 50 dogs and cats from an Internet pet seller in Rutherford County, N.C., they nearly stumbled over a...
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New National Monument Demonstrates Latino Priorities Extend Beyond Immigration
Los Angeles Latinos applauded news that President Barack Obama will protect the San Gabriel Mountains as the nation's newest national monument on Friday, proving once again that our community concerns...
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Evolving the Electric Utility
Co-authored by David Olsen A smarter market structure will unleash competition and innovation to provide cleaner, more reliable and more affordable electricity. The success of a business should depend...
View ArticleHow Cities Can Help Fight Climate Change
The new proposals to combat climate change announced today by President Obama will leverage innovative climate strategies which are already at work and which have been proven effective. If successful,...
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Cruelty is Cruelty, Any Way You Slice It
While generally not considered newsworthy, chickens have recently been in the spotlight. First, chickens made the news around the world as orthodox Jewish communities practiced the ritual of Kapparot...
View ArticleClimate Change Gets Real
Among the world's many pressing issues, climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to long-term peace and prosperity. And yet even as the storm gathers, Congress dithers, mulls, debates, and fails...
View ArticleWildlife Killing Contests and the Failure of Government
This winter, wildlife in the northern Rocky Mountains will likely be terrorized by a swarm of armed humans elbowing and off-roading each other out of the way in a frenzied race to see who can kill the...
View ArticleCommercial Beekeeper: No, The Bees Are Not Back up on Their Knees
Colony Collapse Disorder: We beekeepers hate that term. It's not a disorder or disease that is causing our bees to die at still-alarming rates, contrary to the assertion of Noah Wilson-Rich in a recent...
View ArticleSaving the Planet With Solar, One Community at a Time
Last week, American University President Neil Kerwin and I joined about 300 higher education sustainability leaders from around the country in Boston for thePresidential Summit on Climate Leadership....
View ArticleCanary in the Coal World
It is only a tiny island, you say, and a remote one at that. Still, the 107-square-mile El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, could be considered a symbol of hope for a...
View ArticleSweden and the Wakening of Eco-Integrity
Startling news: Sweden now recycles 99 percent of its waste. At least that's what people are saying, including an official website of Sweden itself: "Less than one per cent of Sweden's household waste...
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San Gabriel Mountains National Monument -- The Wild Is Where You Find It
In a wise move, President Obama recently designated about 350,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains, east of Los Angeles, as our country's newest national monument. It's a decision that came as the...
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Calling All Farmers: You Can Help Save the World!
In my recent travels across America, one thing has become abundantly clear: Demand for organic food is soaring. The current organic market has grown to more than $35 billion in annual sales, and with...
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