On Factory Farms, Not All Cruelty Is a Crime
The headlines were bleak. "Psychopathic," shouted CBS's headline. "920 chickens killed with golf clubs in California." Intruders broke into a Foster Farms chicken factory in California and proceeded to...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Studies Focus on Warming of Oceans
Oceans absorb carbon dioxide and 90 percent of the heat caused by human activity--making their warming a critical topic for climate research. Two new studies--one on the upper oceans and one on deeper...
View ArticleRewilding Our Hearts: Ecocide Is Suicide
We're killing a very tired and less resilient planet at alarming rates. It's common knowledge that we're losing species and habitats at an unprecedented rate in a geological epoch known as the...
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Pioneering the Possible
True pioneers are fuelled by their vision of how a new world could be, and dare to take on what has never been done before. Now, when so few people have any vision at all of the future, the pioneering...
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The Gathering Storm
These last two days, I've been sitting down with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, and this morning at the crack of dawn we left Washington and headed together to my hometown -- Boston -- to...
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Plantation Level Conservation to Stop Extinction
Did you hear that the sloth bear was officially declared as extinct in Bangladesh last week? The news came around the same time that the World Wildlife Fund issued its new report on the status of...
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'Green News Report' - October 9, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Sen. Mitch McConnell dodges on climate change: "I am not a scientist"; Republican candidates retreating from climate change...
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LEGO Quits Shell Over Arctic Drilling -- Who's Next?
Shell is running out of places to hide. Today, LEGO announced it will be ending its 50-year relationship with the oil company after millions of people around the world called on the toymaker to put the...
View ArticleCollege Students Continue to Lead the Way on Clean Energy
All this good clean energy news lately, and I haven't talked about the recent college victories! Last month, thanks to tremendous student activism, officials at the University of North Carolina --...
View ArticleIs One Good Congress Too Much to Ask?
What if we all woke up on November 5 to find that we had elected a good Congress? It wouldn't matter which political party dominated the House and Senate. It would, however, be a Congress whose members...
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Obama Preserves San Gabriel Mountains in LA's Backyard
America grew richer in natural heritage today. President Obama is declaring Los Angeles' San Gabriel Mountains a national monument, ensuring this beautiful landscape will remain wild for generations to...
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Why We Should Celebrate the Role of Latinos in the Designation of the San...
San Gabriel Mountains, USFS Photo After the long campaign to protect the region, this Friday's designation of the San Gabriel Mountains as a National Monument is a victory for Latinos to celebrate....
View ArticleThe World Bank Must Commit to Food Security
The World Bank convenes its Annual Meeting this week in Washington DC to discuss how it can best raise the standard of living for the world's poorest inhabitants. Much will be said about bringing...
View ArticleCoyotes and Cockroaches
It is one thing to hear the plaintive wail of a solitary coyote under the stars while camping in the Grand Canyon. It is quite another to hear that same sound in a densely populated residential area...
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Let's Finish What We've Started
Have you seen our new video? We worked with Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Fiore to raise awareness about Shell's abysmal past performance and to rally the country to stop Shell before it can do more...
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Read the Article!
A note to scientists: If you're going to criticize previous work, at least make sure you've read it carefully. There is an unfortunate recent case in point that I'd like to discuss (full disclosure: it...
View ArticleWhen Animals Disappear, So Do Our Social Structures
The fates of humans and other animals are even more intertwined than we thought. We humans know that when the numbers of other species dips, it's bad. But we can't always pinpoint why. We generally...
View ArticleThe Blind Spot for Climate Research in Agriculture: Not All Climate Change is...
I love the mirrors on my wife's new car. Like many new cars, it has lights on the side mirrors that illuminate if there is an object in the driver's blind spot. Having changed lanes in my pickup truck...
View ArticleChoco-lypse And The Looming Chocolate Revolution
Enjoy that chocolate this Halloween because in the next five years, we could be facing a major shortage. Cocoa farmers, who grow all of the cocoa beans for the world's chocolate, aren't paid fairly and...
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The Climate March: Beyond Asking Those Beholden to the Wrong People to Do the...
Part II of II In Part I I asserted "two truths": that the People's Climate March was an amazing and valuable achievement, and that it was a powerful exercise in a nearly powerless strategy. Part I...
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