Animal Welfare: Seeing the Forest for the Denizens
If you're a Huffington Post reader, your love of animals has been nurtured by "Hegehogs Being Adorable," "Baby Hippo Has Won Our Hearts," and other such gems. The Post, The Animal Blog and various...
View ArticleNature Wants Her Carbon Back
By looking down, things are looking up. Here's a little known fact about climate change: According to NOAA, if we could magically cut all current CO2 emissions worldwide to zero today (a feat even...
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Hundreds of Fluffy Penguin Chicks Rescued in South Africa
There's no doubt that the biggest threat to penguins are humans. From destroying habitats to spilling oil, we do not make life easy for these resilient birds. We don't always cause problems though and...
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Here's Why Neil Young Is Right to Boycott Starbucks
Musical legend Neil Young and informed Americans are standing in solidarity with Vermont voters to boycott Starbucks in what promises to be one of the most exciting showdowns of our time. In a landmark...
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Near Collapse of Gulf of Maine Cod Leads to Fishing Ban
Co-authored by Elizabeth Brown Last Monday, fishery managers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that they are banning nearly all fishing for Gulf of Maine...
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NPR Finally Stops Referring to Global Warming Deniers as "Skeptics"
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is famous for thinking that human-caused global warming is the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." His belief presupposes the existence of a worldwide...
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Don't Mention the Climate!
Don't Mention The Climate The efforts of the Australian Prime Minister to keep climate change strictly off the G20 agenda is proving farcical. World leaders including Barack Obama, Ban Ki Moon and...
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Plastic: Environmental Enemy #2
The world's oceans are working overtime to help out with climate change - doing us a massive solid favor by absorbing the majority of excess carbon dioxide we blast into the atmosphere. But sadly, the...
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Mothers Push for Bold Climate Action
Co-Authored by: Jenny Marusiak and Electa Sevier New natural gas pipelines are not an easy fix for our high electricity prices. In fact, they are dangerous options that threaten to lock us into fossil...
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Climate Change This Week: A BIG Climate Pact, Cheap US Solar Soon All Over,...
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. South Florida and Sea Level Rise - A Slow Motion Catastrophe - latest in the This Is Not Cool Series by Peter Sinclair. OO U.S., China...
View ArticleIf Democrats Are Serious, They'll Reject Keystone XL and Sen. Landrieu
This November, the Koch Brothers and their friends in the oil industry used tens of millions of dollars to successfully replace Senate Majority Leader Reid with Mitch McConnell, a Republican more...
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Africa's Wild: Eco Warriors Don't Count on Hope
In the first part of the IAPF Green Army series, myself and six volunteers participated in our first anti poaching full moon patrol, lending our eyes and ears to rangers on the frontline. Most of the...
View ArticleExtinction Machine* - Drivetrain Mechanism
In order to even consider shutting down the extinction machine, the mechanism driving it must be identified, analyzed and ultimately, disabled. What are the dynamics underlying the human activity...
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20 Things Pit Bull Parents Are Tired Of Hearing
One of the cool things about being a dog-friendly company is that our lunchtime conversations tend to focus on all things dog. We all share tidbits about our dogs' lives, including all the TMI...
View ArticleLaw of Mother Earth: A Vision From Bolivia
Just when you think the world is impossible, the world surprises. Looking toward the future, one can easily despair over the scale of change required, the intractability of vested interests and...
View ArticlePresident Barack Obama vs. His Conscience: Why His Veto of the Keystone XL...
Fresh off his perceived victory at the G20 Summit and what's being heralded as great strides made with the Chinese Government on the drawing down of carbon emissions over the next several decades --...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio, Please Add Climate Change to Your Progressive Agenda
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed the shock and dismay of progressives at the losses suffered in the mid-term elections in the best possible way: by telling them to stiffen their backbones. I...
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On Eve of Climate Talks in Lima, Assassinations of Indigenous Leaders Loom Large
Edwin Chota at a meeting discussing the practices of sustainable timber harvesting. Photo: Emory Richey Diana Rios Rengifo looked determined as she stood in New York City in front of more than 100...
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12* Powerful Climate Allies That GOP Denier Leaders Can't Ignore
After my son submitted his college applications a few weeks ago, he confessed not getting into his top choice school would be the "ultimate dreamcrusher." That aptly sums up the dread I started to feel...
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The Other Good News in the U.S.-China Climate Announcement (it's the economy,...
It was one of those sound bites you hear so many times it becomes background noise: China's never going to agree to limit its emissions, so why should we? And at the global level: Sure, some countries...
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