The Antiquities Act and the San Gabriel Mountains
What would it be like if Chimney Rock in Colorado, the ancestral home of the Pueblo People, was open to modern development? What if the Giant Sequoias of Northern California had no protection from...
View ArticleAn Investment Perspective on Green Building Market Transformation
This week the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) - the independent certification organization for LEED, WELL, PEER and other sustainability standards, announced that it has acquired the...
View ArticleFed Measures on Crude Oil Fall Short, Put Hudson River at Risk
CO-AUTHORED BY PAUL GALLAY Last May, we wrote about how the Hudson River Valley has become a virtual pipeline for the transport of highly flammable Bakken crude oil in unsafe DOT-111 railcars--the same...
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Illinois Coal Rush Crisis: Citizens Sue Feds to Take Over Rogue State Mining...
As the onslaught of the nation's fast-growing coal-mining boom tears across the heartland, citizens in southern Illinois have filed a Writ of Mandamus in Federal District Court against the US Secretary...
View ArticleResponsible Down Standard Wakes Up An Industry
Growing up, I had a hopeless indifference to fashion; to the despair of my mother I wore green "Toughskin" jeans and my hair was endlessly tangled in tree branches. Meanwhile, ducks in cartoons wore...
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Let's Discuss Pets During Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Years ago when I was training to volunteer for a local domestic violence hotline, the very first thing we discussed were reasons why battered women and men "Don't just leave?" Our trainer told us there...
View ArticleThis Is How America Will Reduce Pollution and Stamp Out Our Carbon Footprint
Millions of people in Southern California were under an excessive heat warning a few weeks ago. The Los Angeles Unified School District cancelled outdoor sporting events and more than 100 San Diego...
View Article11 Things I Learned Starting My Own Business Right Out of College
This list was born out of my own experiences but I felt it could be extremely valuable to other young start-ups by helping them avoid some of the mistakes we've made and shorten the time from start-up...
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Food Day 2014: Food Justice = Worker Justice!
Five years ago, the Food Chain Workers Alliance was founded as a national coalition of unions, workers centers, and non-profit organizations to work towards a sustainable food system that respects the...
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Mining in Armenia: New Campaign Focuses on Stemming Ecological Damage
This is the year that global warming and its man-made causes have raced to the top of headlines worldwide, including recently at the United Nations. While not a big greenhouse gas emitter, the small...
View ArticleHemp Is on its Way to Your Car Battery and Many Things You Haven't Yet Imagined
October 14, 2014 | The first digital-age domestic hemp crop is being harvested as I write. The subtle decrease in seismic activity currently puzzling Virginia geologists can be traced to Thomas...
View ArticleInnovation Earth: The Next Green Tech Town
More than 300,000 people may have marched in Manhattan last month for a worldwide climate call-to-arms, but evidently we can't even get it together at the statewide -- let alone national -- let alone...
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How Real Change in the Food System Starts at Retail
By guest blogger Joyce de Brevannes, market outreach manager for the Non-GMO Project It's been 20 years since the "Flavr Savr" tomato, the first commercially produced genetically modified organism...
View ArticleHow Natural Capital Is Redefining Success
As far as we've come in redefining corporate governance and success toward the triple bottom line, we still have a distance to go before there is real specificity and widespread agreement among...
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Chevron Will Lose Ecuador Pollution Case on Both Law and Facts
Prediction: Chevron will lose the historic Ecuador pollution case on both the law and the facts, despite what you may have read in articles by U.S. legal reporters about the 20-year plus lawsuit. In...
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Hope for Full-Spectrum Sustainability: An Interview With David W. Orr
As David W. Orr, executive director of the Oberlin Project, tells it, we have entered what is called the Anthropocene, an age when the actions of 7 billion humans have become, for better or worse, the...
View ArticlePrevention Is Key to Building Resilient Cities
There are some investments that follow the old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We buy insurance before driving a car, get a flu shot during the cold months, and floss and...
View ArticleThe End of the EPA
Giving industrial polluters a warm, fuzzy feeling, Iowa Republican senatorial candidate Joni Ernst is advocating abolition of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She would transfer the...
View ArticleWill Our Reliance on Cars Counteract Climate Change Mitigation Efforts?
Americans love cars- there is no doubt about it. Even in California, which is often considered the most environmentally friendly state, cars are the main form of transportation. Outside a handful of...
View ArticleWhat Your 'Fill Her Up' Really Buys -- Our Elections
When you last filled up your gas tank, you may have thought about where the oil came from. Today let's think about where the money you paid went. Some of it, indeed, went to the salary of the trucker...
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