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Tonight: FRONTLINE Airs Report on Antibiotics Overuse in the American Meat...
Tonight, PBS's FRONTLINE will air the second in its two-part series exploring the mounting crisis of antibiotics resistance -- now among the top five health threats facing the nation according to the...
View Article5 Reasons Why I'm Celebrating California's Plastic Bag Ban
I love the ocean. Nothing makes me happier than staring out and imagining all the life that is thriving below the surface. So you can imagine how I felt the first time I went scuba diving and the first...
View ArticleIs Scott Brown Running Clean? "Um, No."
In our next election preview, we turn our attention to the New Hampshire. Voters in the Granite State have the opportunity to re-elect a true champion for clean energy and climate action: Jeanne...
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Writers and Their Dachshunds
Literary types take note: if you're thinking of acquiring a dog, consider the dachshund. No dog has been more widely loved by writers worldwide. According to the authors who've adored them, dachshunds...
View ArticleInto the Wilderness
Last night I wrangled a Litquake event in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act made great by the writers who joined me and by a smart, engaged audience. As with the best conversations,...
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When It Comes to Clean Energy, What's Wrong With Florida?
Here's a question for you. Which state has created more jobs in the booming solar business: Massachusetts or Florida? If you picked the Sunshine State, you'd be wrong, remarkably enough. According to...
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Heading in the Right Direction: Shenzhen Pushes Green Shipping
As China celebrated National Day Golden Week, NRDC also celebrated a recent announcement by the Shenzhen government to subsidize green measures for their ports. The port of Shenzhen is a major global...
View ArticleHow Did We Become a Society Suspicious of Science?
I grew up in the heroic age of American science and engineering. In my lifetime, the space program put men on the moon, the interstate highway system connected the continent, Salk and Sabin conquered...
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What Annoys Me About Birchbox
I've always loved the concept of Birchbox. As a young woman, I adore the idea of getting new beauty products mailed to me on a monthly basis, for around $10. I especially like the fact that products...
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A Little North of Jupiter, There Is a Real-Life Planet of the Apes
The air is filled with hoots, pants, grunts, blown kisses and screeches. They fight over territory, joust for dominance in the group and grieve when one of their beloved passes away. Is this some...
View ArticleRemember Me: Personal Legacy and Global Warming
Later this month, the UN's International Panel on Climate Change will release its fifth and latest assessment of the scientific evidence regarding human interference in the world's climate. Based on...
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Can Organic Agriculture Really Reverse Climate Change?
by guest blogger "Coach" Mark Smallwood, Rodale Institute executive director Over the past 14 days, I have been on a walk--a walk that, I hope, will change the way that we look at climate change. Each...
View ArticlePaul Krugman on Limits to Growth: Beware the Bathwater
Congratulations to Paul Krugman, whose opinion on "Slow Steaming and the Supposed Limits to Growth" hit the bulls-eye of at least one balloon. Landing at Washington-National the very day his opinion...
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What Oil Price Got to Do, Got to Do With It? (10 Things to Remember About Oil...
Panicking finance ministers. Squabbling OPEC. Slumping stock markets. Cancelled oil projects. Speculators rushing out of energy investments. Here we sit, inundated with gloomy but indecipherable news...
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Feeding Birds and Nourishing Thoughts
I know fall has come because the Steller's Jays are screaming at me. They are screaming because it is the season for storing hard nuts and they want me to toss hazelnuts and peanuts out to them. I have...
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Fracking Poisons California's Water
Nearly 3 billion gallons (or the equivalent of 454 Olympic swimming pools) of oil industry wastewater were illegally dumped into central California's aquifer supplying drinking water and irrigation to...
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Sustainable Solutions: Water in the Walls
People who study ecological design and live sustainably off the grid understand the importance of thermal mass for keeping places cool in the summer and warm in the winter. This energy efficient...
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Watching the GMO Debate as a New Maui Resident
Our family moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Maui on April 8th of this year (2014). I've written about that move here on the Huffington Post. A few months after settling in, I got something odd in...
View ArticleUseful Land Use
The nation needs every tool at its disposal to combat the unrelenting increase in human generated greenhouse gas emissions, the primary catalyst for global warming. That is why the time for...
View Article10 Things You'd Miss If the Ocean Called It Quits
Humans have taken a lot from the ocean -- but what if the ocean decided to call it quits? What if the ocean, encapsulated in the film below by the booming voice of Harrison Ford, really did stop...
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