This Thanksgiving, Don't Be Bamboozled by Butterball's 'Humane' Turkeys
Earlier this month, PETA filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission asking that it compel Butterball to stop misleading consumers about its procedures for raising and killing turkeys....
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Is America Ready for China as an 'Equal Brother?'
Henry Kissinger Talks to China's "Iron Lady" The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this month in Beijing resulted in a series of important agreements,...
View ArticleThe Wind Energy Production Tax Credit Isn't About Politics, It's About People
Jobs are not a political issue. Jobs are a people issue. I've enjoyed reading the clean energy jobs profiles in Sierra magazine -- especially this one about Lester Johnson, a wind worker in Arkansas....
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'Where's the Global Warming?" Thought Buffalonians -- Then They Looked at a Map
The continental United States has been slammed by cold temperatures and it is difficult to escape images of Buffalo's massive snowfall. When there is a big snowstorm, climate science deniers gleefully...
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Local Climate Change Initiatives Bring Local Benefits and Global Impacts
On the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico in the Sierra Madre del Sur is a rural community called San Juan Lachao. It's a small, indigenous community with a proud heritage and strong values. Many of the...
View ArticleThanksgiving Turkey Rescue: Spa Day and Vegan Feast for Beautiful Birds
It's turkey rescue season again! This year I am introducing you to the Baywatch turkeys, Pamela and Alexandra, named for the two Baywatch babes who grew into incredible vegan activist women. Pamela...
View ArticleFrom Shadows to Security
Last night, President Obama announced that he will use his executive authority to take the first significant steps toward fixing what has become an increasingly dysfunctional national immigration...
View ArticleEfforts to End Deforestation Brings Together Strange Bedfellows
September brought good news for the world's forests with the unveiling of the New York Declaration on Forests at the UN Climate Summit. The Declaration, which pledges to end global deforestation by...
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Controversial Marcellus Shale Gas Pipeline Threatens Delaware River Basin and...
by Joy E. Stocke & Kim Nagy The Delaware is the longest undammed river east of the Mississippi, flowing for 330 miles as it travels from New York State, through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and...
View ArticleThe HSUS Celebrates a 60-Year Quest to Stop Cruelty to All Animals
It was 60 years ago, on November 22, that four individuals founded The HSUS, with grand ambitions but only a few nickels in their pockets. At the time, there were just 500 or so local humane...
View ArticleThe Green Industrial Revolution: Here Now
Co-authored with Grant Cooke The First Industrial Revolution that arose in England in the late 18th century was a turning point in human history. Until then, draft animals had been the major economic...
View ArticleTaoism Is Environmentalism
Recently, I penned a review of the movie Interstellar, a science fiction blockbuster that chronicles a plan to find a new place for mankind to live after the Earth is rendered uninhabitable by...
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Meatless Monday: Hey, Thanks (I'm Talking to YOU)
This post originally appeared on November 25, 2013. What are you grateful for? The staff of vegan, organic mecca Cafe Gratitude starts each day by answering this question. I find Cafe Gratitude's...
View ArticleAmerica's Infrastructure Disinvestment Will Slow the Development of a...
This is the 50th anniversary of New York's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the span that connects Staten Island with Brooklyn. As a child growing up in Brooklyn I remember watching its towers rise as if by...
View ArticleCultivating Climate Justice from the Front Lines of the Crisis: The...
This is part 2 of a four-part article series "Cultivating Climate Justice" which tells the stories of community groups on the frontlines of the pollution, waste and climate crises, working together for...
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Another Major Climate Breakthrough: China Will Cap Its Coal Consumption by 2020
Hard on the heels of last week's historicĀ US-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change, in which China pledged for the first time to cap its CO2 emission by 2030, China's State Council has just...
View ArticleCuomo's Regulatory Chief Sets Precedent for Protecting Environment and...
New York's Public Service Commission (PSC) recently rejected a proposal to build an energy-intensive and polluting desalination plant on the Hudson River, finding there is no near-term need for the...
View ArticleChina's Air Pollution Solution
China and the US announced a substantial policy down payment on tackling greenhouse gas emissions in Beijing. Related air pollution problems in China are literally breathtaking: my eyes watered and I...
View ArticleThankful for Community Victories Like This One
As I imagine you're doing this week, I've been reflecting a lot on what I'm thankful for. Along with family and friends, what tops my list are the people across the U.S. who are ushering in the clean...
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What It's Like When Your Cat Unexpectedly Dies
On Thursday night, my husband and I were having one of our usual arguments -- I was saying our adopted dog Murray is Jewish because he has a Jewish mom; Ray made the case that this made no sense...
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