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Dumpster Diving to Save the Chesapeake Bay
Imagine taking the world's largest cruise ship and dumping it into a landfill 700 times a year. Every year. That's how much trash new building construction and demolition produces in the U.S. alone -...
View ArticleWho Has the Most to Lose If We Do Nothing on Climate Change?
Climate change solutions are usually discussed in terms of what's best for business and the economy. But what about what's best for those who have the most to lose as climate change worsens? Namely,...
View ArticleExtinction Machine: User's Guide
The one universal law or rule that seems to hold constant in nature is the seeking of balance. All natural systems are in a continuous state of change or process. Adjustment, compensation, contraction,...
View ArticleObama's Lucky Thirteenth
California may be famous for its beaches, but what really defines the state's geography are its many mountain ranges (and I'm not just saying that because the Sierra Club took its name from one of...
View ArticleCruelty and Ideology Masquerading as Science
Last week, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission rejected a recommendation from its agency's biologists to authorize a spring bear hunting season in the southern part of the state. Cubs orphaned...
View ArticlePublic Transit: The Road to Opportunity
I remember years ago, while living in Los Angeles, abandoning a trip to a job interview when after two hours of travel and five bus changes I still was not at the job site. I realized that if I got the...
View Article3 Steps to Survive Any Extreme Weather Disaster
There are dozens of extreme weather events the National Weather Service tracks -- from hail storms to hurricanes, thunderstorms to tornadoes, heat waves to wildfires. Preparing for each of these takes...
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Columbus Day and the Colonization of Land, Trees and Genes
I spent the past several days participating in the Indigenous Environmental Network Campaign to Stop GE Trees Action Camp in the Qualla Boundary, homelands of the Eastern Band Cherokee in North...
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Rented Teslas, and Other Methods for a Greener Commute
I live in New York City and have come to endure my daily commute. Now, with clients in Silicon Valley, I'm frequently flying, and it's got me thinking: What kind of global footprint am I leaving? So I...
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10 Ways You Can Help Stop the Sixth Mass Extinction
Mass extinction means three out of every four species you are familiar with would disappear off the face of the Earth, plausibly in time for your grand kids to see it happen, if not before. You may...
View ArticleLike New Yorkers, Californians Can Say No to Fracking
Co-authored by Helen Slottje and Andy Hsia-Coron Great movements -- from women's suffrage to civil rights -- begin with a small group of people standing up and saying no to injustice. Such a movement...
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Two Crises Cry Out for a 'Manhattan Project': Climate Change and Ebola
Famed physicists at Los Alamos-- en.wikipedia.org To meet the challenges of climate change and infectious diseases, we might find the best answer by revisiting a stunningly successful model: the...
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Will a dirty coal plant in Kosovo spoil the Clean Energy Record of Dr. Kim...
Co-authored with Andrew Linhardt, Sierra Club Associate Washington Representative Light projection on the World Bank building in Washington DC Source: 350.org, 2013 For the fourth year in a row, the...
View Article2014 Women's Congress Defends Future Generations
Carolyn Raffensperger, an environmental lawyer, coined the phrase "ecological medicine" to describe the large role that the natural world plays in health and healing. She is executive director of the...
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Without Its Farmers, South Sudan Remains Perilously Close to Famine
By Justus Liku, CARE's Emergency Food Security Director Family farms -- managed by a family, and reliant on their labor -- are an important part of rural development. In countries like South Sudan,...
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Mining in Ecuador's Intag Valley: An Untold Story of Climate Change
This article originally appeared on cuslar.org On the heels of the "largest climate march in history," where hundreds of thousands of activists, demonstrators, politicians, and environmentalists...
View ArticleWant a Better Life? Embrace Chaos
"You always have to take it to the edge of Chaos!!" sputtered my husband to me during a frantic get-the-kids-ready-for-school-and-out-the-door morning... this, in response to a "family" decision to...
View ArticleBeyond the UN, 'Sub-National' Players Emerge as New Climate Leaders
The eyes of the world were on New York City in late September, even more than the city thinks they usually are. After some 310,000 people marched through the streets of Manhattan demanding action on...
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'Green News Report' - October 14, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Coal wins Kentucky's U.S. Senate debate!; Pentagon warns climate change an immediate threat to national security; East Coast...
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Tar Sands Trade: Kuwait Buys Stake in Alberta As It Opens Own Heavy Oil Spigot
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogChevron made waves in the business world when it announced its October 6 sale of 30-percent of its holdings in the Alberta-based Duvernay Shale basin to Kuwait Foreign...
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