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Flamingos: A Makeover for the Flame Birds
Flamingos are among the most iconic of birds. Their common name derives from the Latin flamma for flame, referring to its color, and indeed the Ancient Egyptians used the flamingo in hieroglyphics to...
View ArticleSlowing the Brain Drain in Central Africa to Protect the Environment and...
By Karla Renschler Central Africa--long plagued by conflict and widespread poverty--faces another significant challenge to sustainable development: a debilitating brain drain. The emigration of...
View ArticleScarily Plausible Doomsday Scenarios For Dystopian Fans
The following is an excerpt from Are You Sh*tting Me?: 1,004 Facts That Will Scare the Crap Out of You: There's no nice way to say it: we're screwed. One way or another, we'll all be obliterated...
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Meatless Monday: Filling Michael Pollan's Prescription
In his 2008 book, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan gave us the prescription in seven words -- "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." It's that simple. And that hard to do. I saw just how hard when...
View ArticleUnder the Republican Congress, All Environmental Politics Will Be Local
With the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate in January, Oklahoma's Senator James Inhofe is likely to once again serve as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, a position he...
View ArticleLearning Today for a Sustainable Future
The international community has been striving to shape a safer and richer future for the world. This was the purpose of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2000 for...
View ArticleGot Science? The Lesson in Hyundai's $100 Million Fine
Can consumers trust companies' information about their products? That's the critical question raised by the U.S. government announcement last week that the Hyundai Motor Group, makers of Hyundai and...
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In Sydney: Recommitting to Wildlife and Parks
One highlight of my childhood growing up in California was a family vacation to Yosemite National Park. For the first time in my life, I was awed by the splendor of nature. In that magnificent setting...
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What?! Fish Can't Be Organic?
by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D., organic policy director of Center for Food Safety That's right. Neither wild fish nor farmed fish can be certified organic because no organic standards exist in the U.S. to...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Process: How Solar Permitting Reform Can Help in the Fight...
Every time you turn on your TV or read the news, there seems to be another story about the devastating effects of climate change. Last year was California's driest year on record and 2014 hasn't looked...
View ArticleThe Future of the People's Climate March
During the six weeks since the "biggest climate march in history," the CO2 emissions have entered the atmosphere from American cars at two trillion pounds a week. Not only that, Republicans overtook...
View Article2014: Marching Forward
As 2014 winds down I thought I would look at the biggest trends during the last calendar year. For me the most important accomplishment of the peoples' climate marches around the world was the large...
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Kids Make an Elephant-Sized Impact on Conservation
If you ask almost anyone involved in the conservation movement for the main reason why they fight to save endangered wildlife, they will often mention their children or the need to save threatened...
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Interview with Bill McKibben: 'When the History of This Time Is Written'
"When the history of this time is written, Shell will get more than a footnote," noted American author, turned climate activist Bill McKibben whilst speaking at the London School of Economics last...
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19 Dog-Friendly Stores Where You Can Shop With Your Pup
The other day I was walking my dog when I walked past the most gorgeous coat in the window of Anthropologie. It was pouring rain. Of course, I didn't want to tie up my pup... but then, a retail...
View ArticleThe Climate Change Game: A Two-Minute Warming
The international renewable energy landscape is dynamic, competitive, and often a provocative and polarizing plotline. Dynamics are such that our world has experienced a lift in technological...
View ArticleIt's a Long Way From Texas to Toledo
Lead by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the U.S. agriculture lobby has relentlessly pushed back against new Environmental Protection Agency proposed rules for improving U.S. water quality. Through...
View ArticleINVEST in Our Veterans and Our Energy Future
Each Veterans Day, our nation pauses to salute the service of our brave servicemen and women who fought for our nation, many of whom made the ultimate sacrifice. According to the Department of Veterans...
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Are We Really the Smartest Creatures on Earth?
The author and his African grey in younger years More than 40 years ago, my then-wife Nigey Lennon and I were on our way home to Echo Park when, suddenly, she said to stop. I thought it was because...
View ArticleThe Population Wake-Up Call
A recently published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reads like a grim Choose Your Own Adventure tale of global population dynamics. What if the next pandemic wiped out 2...
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