Top 5 Ways to Ensure Safe, Natural Toys for Kids
It never seems too early to start making your holiday gift lists (even if just in your head) because the holidays tend to creep up on us faster than we realize. Although I enjoy tackling my growing...
View ArticlePETA Really Needs to Respond to the Charges That Its Workers Stole and Killed...
These allegations are so grotesque, they'd make the perfect smear campaign. As you may have heard, Wilbur Cerate, a Virginia man, claims that last month, two People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...
View ArticleOccupy the Farm': The Movie
"The whole point of this is to not talk about what we want and not demand what we want, but to make what we want real." Gopal Dayaneni, Movement Generation Occupy the Farm opened at twenty theaters...
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Rethinking the Thanksgiving Turkey
I love Thanksgiving. So do most Americans, ranking it as their second favorite holiday of the year after Christmas. There is much to like about Thanksgiving. There's the concept of gratitude --...
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Solar Power: No Pipeline Required
In a week when the debate over our nation's energy policy has centered on whether to hasten the proliferation of one the dirtiest fuels on the planet, our researchers have some good news about one of...
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Is Climate Change Reversible? Can Regenerative Agriculture Farming Solve the...
How to deal with our carbon problem in lieu of climate change was the big question being asked on Monday September 22nd at the Rodale Institute. We heard from such speakers such as Dr. Vandana Shiva;...
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College Kids With One Thing on their Mind: Service
What do college kids do on a day off? Well, you might be surprised by the group I met up with on Will Rogers Beach on Veteran's Day who were using the hours before sunset to clean up the beach....
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10 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint This Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday for many. It's a time to eat, indulge and spend uninterrupted time with family. It's also a time for reflection. A time to think about what we're thankful for and a...
View ArticleTreading Through the Trash: Haiti's Garbage Problem Isn't Wrecking Just the...
Imagine taking an hour-long boat ride off the coast of a beach in the Caribbean, sun shining, perfect breeze blowing. You are getting ready to go scuba dive, and once the boat arrives to the first dive...
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Our Everyday Food Worker Heroes
Co-authored by Jose Oliva These days, super heroes are all the rage, it seems. Most have supernatural powers to do good in the world. But we have people in our food system who don't need super powers...
View ArticleGestation Crates and Presidential Politics
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie faces a threat to his brand of "straight talk" and "no nonsense" with the full-blown national controversy over his veto last year of a bill to ban gestation crates,...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: IEA Unveils World Energy Outlook 2014: Looking Ahead to 2040
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2014 report, which for the first time provides energy trend projections through the year 2040. Among the key challenges...
View ArticleHow the House Would Prevent Scientists From Advising the EPA on Their Own...
The House of Representatives has passed legislation (H.R. 1422) that prohibits academic scientists on EPA's Scientific Advisory committee from participating in "activities that directly or indirectly...
View ArticleAre We Failing Our Kids?
Our children's health and welfare is our responsibility. As countries across the globe are celebrating Universal Children's Day and recommitting to improve the welfare of kids everywhere, I can't help...
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'Green News Report' - November 20, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Record-breaking extreme winter storm breaks Buffalo, NY; It's official: October 2014 hottest October on record; Sorry,...
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Sea Shepherd Spearheads Cleaning Up the Oceans
The oceans are in dire straights, they are suffocating from 772 million tons of plastics. Join me for another segment of SOS from Los Angeles, California as I show how problem solvers and innovators...
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Streets for People, Freeways, and a Spectacular Solution
Victor Dover and John Massengale's epic book Street Design is our most thorough explication of where we have gone wrong with our most important urban public spaces -- our city streets -- and how to do...
View ArticleA Luxury Resort Threatens Belize's Mesoamerican Reef
Belize's Lighthouse Reef Atoll is the home of the world-famous Great Blue Hole -- a massive underwater sinkhole and World Heritage Site. The islands that make up this ring of coral reefs are known for...
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A Week of Hope
Tomorrow will be the culmination of a week of actions for Mothers Out Front. Each day this week we have stood out in front of the Massachusetts State House in order to make a public statement about...
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The World's First Rural Feed-In Tariff?
How do we move clean energy access beyond just a light bulb? With millions of dollars in new investment capping a record year for beyond the grid solar markets, that's the question many are now...
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