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The Biggest Mistake 99 Percent of All Pet Owners Make
This article was written by Adam Cecil of PolicyGenius. You've just brought your new pal home for the first time. You remembered the essentials: food and water bowls, a comfy bed, plenty of toys and a...
View ArticleLiving, Breathing History and Morality Through Design at Greenbuild 2014
The U.S. Green Building Council recently concluded the 2014 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, which took place Oct. 22-24 in New Orleans. The following is an excerpt from USGBC CEO Rick...
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More Than 700,000 Tell Congress: Fast Track Is the Wrong Path
Photo courtesy of Teamsters The saying goes: The more things change, the more they stay the same. This couldn't be more true for the two largest trade agreements currently in negotiation, the...
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Peer Influence, Shaming Drives Green Behavior
A recent column on "groundbreaking innovation" from Fast Company was titled "If Your Neighbor Gets a Solar Panel, You're Going to Want One Too: Whether your neighbor has a solar installation is more...
View ArticleGOP's True Identity
Senate Republicans can run (and they did effectively to win the majority) but they can't hide. If they persist with unpopular policies they espoused in the minority, their controversial views will...
View ArticleClimate on the Menu
I suspect, and hope, that for readers here my views on nutrition are pretty well known. I contend that we do, indeed, know the basic theme of optimal eating for health -- just as surely as we know that...
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Fossil Fuel Companies Must Evolve or Perish
By Mindy Lubber, president, Ceres We talk a lot in this country about what it takes to enact change -- from politics to finance and education systems. Time and again, we've seen that regular people...
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Move Over World Bank: Bilateral Institutions Lead Investment Beyond the Grid
Co-authored with Vrinda Manglik, Sierra Club Associate Campaign Representative, International Clean Energy Access Photo courtesy of GSMA While investments are continuing to flow into beyond the grid...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Climate Change Risks, Impacts Focus of Reports
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report warning that greenhouse gas levels are at the highest they have been in 800,000 years....
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'Green News Report' - November 6, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Election 2014 Environmental Democalypse Now: get ready for the Republican hegemonic hellscape; Climate denier caucus now in...
View ArticleIllinois Approves Secret Fracking Rules: IL Enviro Council Thrown Under Bus,...
On the heels of the nation's fastest growing coal mining rush, a state legislative committee chaired by Sierra Club champion Sen. Don Harmon officially unleashed fracking in Illinois today, approving...
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The Ecosystem That Is Disappearing Faster Than Any Other on Earth
Mangrove forest Mangroves--the uniquely salt-adapted trees and shrubs that line our tropical and subtropical coasts, the critical membrane between land and sea--are disappearing at faster rates than...
View ArticleA Year Later, Typhoon Haiyan's Lesson Is: More Extreme Storms Demand More...
A year ago today, the most devastating Pacific Ocean storm ever hit the Philippines. It clocked top speeds of up to 195 miles per hour when it made landfall; leaving 6,300 people dead and up to 16...
View Article'Orange Is the New Black' Verses 'Star Trek Voyager' on Climate Change
I have come to realize that Kate Mulgrew's contrasting roles represent all that is wrong with climate change policy in the United States. Mulgrew, the well-regarded American actress, is especially...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Home Stretch: Saving Lives, Conserving Natural Resources,...
Recently, the New York Times ran the best of dozens of stories about how President Obama will behave in the last quarter of his eight years in office. Veteran political reporters Peter Baker and...
View ArticleWhy I Want You to Watch Virunga
Virunga is an important movie for many reasons. A call to action, and a sobering account of how many competing forces are at work in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- the perils of global capitalism,...
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Auctions, Museums and Fossils
On November 26 an auction house operating from a small village named Billingshurst in southern England will try to sell the entire fossilized skeleton of a Mammoth. Last year the same auction house --...
View ArticleHow to Reduce Your Home's Carbon Footprint This Winter Without Spending Any...
Reducing energy usage at home is an easy way to reduce carbon emissions and is especially vital as U.S. homes used more energy and emitted more carbon emissions in 2013 compared to 2012. According to a...
View ArticleFederal Judge: No, Congress Can't Transform Prairie Dogs Into 'Commerce'
Anytime a judge tells the federal government that it lacks the power to do something, it's newsworthy. And it happened on Wednesday, in a quirky case involving prairie dogs. In a decision that displays...
View ArticleThat Which Doesn't Kill Us...
Yes, the election hurt. We feared it would be bad -- and it was worse. By now we've all heard the Wednesday-morning quarterback analyses of how and why the Democratic Party gave up control of the...
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