Principles of Simply Sustainable Living
Would you believe me if I told you that my inspiration for working on the environment came en route to living a beautiful life à la Martha Stewart (my former boss), Julia Child, Emily Post, and...
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World Food Day: Let's Not Leave Smallholder Farmers Poor
For 70 years, Heifer International has been putting the power to produce more food into the hands of smallholder farmers. Heifer founder Dan West's observation--that poor families needed cows, not cups...
View ArticleEPA Approval Highlights Need For GE Labeling
On Wednesday, in a quiet but profound decision to approve a dangerous weed killer, the EPA chose the rights of Dow Chemical Co. and the biotech lobby over those of the American people, particularly our...
View ArticleActing on Climate Change for Our Children's Sake
Co-authored by Nsedu Obot Witherspoon The missions of the Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) align for a simple reason: Healthy people...
View ArticleHistoric Emissions and the Role of Ignorance
You and I share a well. We both thought it would never run dry. I used a lot more water than you did. Now we discover it is going dry. We need to proceed with care, limiting our use. The well reaches...
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If Greenhouse Gases Were A-Team Characters
Doug Kline, flickr.com I have a confession that will surprise no one: when I was a kid, the best part about staying home sick from school was daytime television. And one of the most entertaining...
View ArticleGot Science? On Green Energy, Ohio Ignores the Evidence
While most U.S. states are experiencing a surge in renewable energy that exceeds even the rosiest predictions, one state -- Ohio -- has chosen this moment to backtrack. Earlier this year, Ohio Governor...
View ArticleHave I Been "Threatened" for Defending Pit Bulls? You Tell Me
It's time to deal with the tactics I've encountered since deciding to work against the slaughter of pit-bull-like dogs. The behavior of Barbara Kay, in particular -- a columnist at the National Post --...
View ArticleThe Mainstream Standard of Community Cat Care Is Trap-Neuter-Return
Americans love cats, and they want to see them protected. That's why every year, more people become advocates and stand up for cats, and more cities embrace trap-neuter-return (TNR). What was once...
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Court Files: Coal CEO Robert Murray Unearths Lease from Aubrey McClendon's...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogDeSmogBlog has obtained a copy of a sample hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") lease distributed to Ohio landowners by embattled former CEO and founder of Chesapeake Energy,...
View ArticleCurry Advocates Against Action on Climate Change
Georgia Tech's Judith Curry has authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal claiming that "there is less urgency to phase out greenhouse gas emissions now" than in the past. This could not be further...
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Frozen Can Be Fresher Than Fresh
Once you know where the fish for your dinner came from and how it was caught, the difference is in how fresh it is. While the traditional seafood supply chain usually takes six days (or more) to...
View ArticleMomentum Builds in Louisiana, the Latest Front in the Fight Against Coal Exports
In recent weeks, something amazing has been happening in the Gulf Coast of Louisiana - communities have been standing up and casting votes to ring the alarm about proposed coal export projects. As U.S....
View ArticleGoing Undercover to Fight Illegal Logging
Going undercover to plant GPS trackers on truck shipments sounds like a plotline from the TV drama 24, or a James Bond movie. But that's just what Greenpeace did to track shipments of illegally-logged...
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Will the Export-Import Bank's Office of the Inspector General Ignore Human...
Co-authored by Nicole Ghio, Sierra Club International Climate Program The entire Harrahawa Village was relocated to make way for the Sasan coal ash pond. Photo courtesy of Nicole Ghio. Sudarshan Rajak...
View ArticleModified: GMO Labels that Actually Work
When the "in" crowd wrests the levers of power from the "out" crowd, be ready to duck. Trendy slogans may well become administrative fiat. Authoritarian fashion-sense often relies on poor reasoning and...
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Pesticide Use Skyrocketing on GMO Crops While Pro-GMO Media Run Interference
by David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner's Michael Specter's recent articles in the New Yorker bashing Vandana Shiva and the labeling of genetically engineered foods ("Seeds of Doubt"and "The...
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Look Up. Help NASA Do #SkyScience
Anyone passing by must have thought I was a bit nutty standing in the road and gazing into the sky on a Tuesday afternoon, but it was all for science. That's right: citizen science. A "citizen...
View ArticleSteep Drop in Rhino Horn Use in Vietnam
A new poll reveals that demand for rhino horn in Vietnam has declined, just within the last year, by a startling 38.1 percent, mainly as a result of a multi-faceted marketing campaign by Humane Society...
View ArticleThe Difficult Dance of the 2014 Climate Change Denier
At the start of this year on this site, we urged the media and politicians to debate climate solutions, not the settled science of climate change. The good news is that, more than ever before,...
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