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8 Million Comments in Support of EPA Limits on Climate Change Pollution
In the past few months, Detroit got flooded by unusually heavy rains. Washington State wrapped up one of its most destructive fires seasons on record. And California remains in the grip of extreme...
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Goodbye, Bear
On Wednesday night, we said goodbye to one of our best friends. Just two days prior, we had a healthy cat -- or at least, that's the image he conveyed to us. Two days prior he was partaking in his...
View ArticleAmerican University Puts Fossil Fuel Industry Over Students
Video: American University students read letters they sent to members of the Board of Trustees' with their personal reasons for supporting fossil fuel divestment. On November 21, 2014, the Board of...
View ArticleDo We Risk Having Two-Tier Access to Renewable Energy?
Solar energy access in the United States varies wildly from state to state. Texas gets enough sunlight per year to power the entire world via solar energy, and yet has one of the lowest solar...
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Climate Meeting in Lima: Setting Key Direction for New International Agreement
In December 2015 at a high-level meeting in Paris, countries are to agree on a new international climate agreement that will require much deeper action by all countries. For the next two weeks,...
View ArticleContradictions and Confusion
Many Americans seem to be conflicted, and thus, confused about the degree of importance of environmental reforms. Those concerned about global warming who nevertheless voted in the recent elections for...
View ArticleThe Solution to Climate Change Isn't Difficult -- It's Delicious
Solution aversion. That's what Duke University researchers call our society's collective refusal to address climate change. Their recent study found that people don't deny a warming earth on scientific...
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Why Visiting a Rainforest Might Just Save the World
Global warming - do you believe in it? Is our climate actually changing so drastically? If so, is it really all our fault? Despite the UN making climate change their top priority at a recent summit,...
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Protected Areas: Much More Than Pristine Nature
Last month, more than 6,000 government, business, and civil society leaders gathered at the once-a-decade World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia, to discuss the future of protected areas. To some,...
View ArticleFor Paris 2015: A Climate Trust Not a Treaty
The international negotiators meeting in Lima, Peru for the 20th United Nations convention on climate change have all but given up on a new legally enforceable climate treaty to replace the outdated...
View ArticleCarbon Intensity: The Foundation of Climate Diplomacy -- New Delhi, India
As the world gathers in Lima to discuss next year's climate deadline, a lot of focus is on the US-China climate agreement. While alone that deal has not paved a pathway for a meaningful global...
View ArticleClimate Is As Hot (a Subject) As Ever
I had many curious instances in this past (blog-absent) year where the climate debacle was proven to be if not the most discussed scientific issue of the current time, at least the most popular one -...
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State Department Keystone XL Contractor ERM Bribed Chinese Agency to Permit...
Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected by TransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL's northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no...
View ArticleA Force Awakens
December 2015 seems so far away. I just can't wait that long. I need a little peek. A sense of what the final version will look like next year; the key elements of the story. But most importantly, I...
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Leopard Print: A Thing of Beauty or a Symbol of Failure?
Sitting in Paris in the rain is a strange place to be dreaming of leopards, but as elegant women bob up and down the Champs-Elysées in front of me in all forms of mock leopard print, I mull over why...
View ArticleThe Externalities of Climate Change
Externality refers to what lies outside a given perimeter; in modern parlance, it often refers to a disconnected or unconsidered consequence, sometimes positive, sometimes not, of a particular action....
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The Time Is Now to Incorporate Gender Considerations Into Environmental Policy
At this very moment, leaders from around the world are gathering in Peru to discuss environmental issues, policy and planning for the future at the 20th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
View ArticleSurreal Places You Won't Believe Actually Exist
Our imaginations take us to grand and colorful places that we can not conceive as a reality. But what if those colors actually existed right here on Earth? Click Here to see the Complete List of...
View ArticleRise of Walking for Fun & Fitness as a Social Trend
Walking is going places. Humans' most common pastime--forsaken for decades as too slow and too much effort-- is now recognized as a health breakthrough, an economic catalyst and a route to happiness....
View ArticleBusinesses: EPA Clean Power Plan Is Good for Economy, Environment
If you want to know what American businesses think about the Environmental Protection Agency's new carbon pollution standards and what they'll do to our economy, ask somebody who has built a business....
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