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Big Banks Propping Up Dirty Coal Industry to the Tune of $89 Billion
Co-authored by Yann Louvel, Climate and Energy Campaign coordinator at Banktrack. After nearly destroying the global financial system, big international banks are yet again undermining international...
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8 Things All Dog Walkers Wishes You Knew
So you got yourself a dog walker! Congratulations. And thank you for not only for being proactive about your dog's well-being but also for allowing people like me to pay rent without having to go to a...
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Inhabitable Space Frames Create Affordable Cloud Center Communites
By Nancy Chuda founder and Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Two architectural visionaries, James Chuda and David Noble are proposing to build "High Density...
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U.S., China Cooperate on Climate: 5 Reasons to Be Hopeful
Since the U.S. and China reached a climate change deal a couple of weeks ago, pundits have been debating: What do the emission reduction figures in the agreement really mean? Are the reduction targets...
View ArticleScience and Sentiment Say Wolf Trophy Hunting Doesn't Wash
If policy makers stick to their guns and continue allowing trophy hunters to kill  wolves in six states in the Great Lakes and Northern Rockies regions, they will be defying both science and,...
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A Fossil Fuel Scandal at the Climate Talks in Lima
The fossil fuel industry has created a bit of a scandal for itself here at the UN Climate Talks in Lima. For the last week, a group called the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has...
View ArticleThe Power of Women in the Face of Climate Change
All eyes are on 2015. It's a big year for global development. The target date of the Millennium Development Goals is approaching. Representatives of UN Member States, citizen advocates, and technical...
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4 Truths About Water and Sanitation
Here are four truths about international safe drinking water, sanitation and toilets and hygiene programs (collectively known as WASH): Safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene save lives. They help...
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This Crowdsourcing Startup Empowers Locals
From left to right: CMO Robert Singleton & CEO Manu Koenig. Image Credit: Angela Chilcott Americans are frustrated with the powers that be but that doesn't mean they should ignore the local issues...
View ArticleA 5 Minute History of Climate Politics
Today begins the UNFCCC's COP20 which, since the failure of the Copenhagen Accord, will build on the Durban Platform which follows the Bali Roadmap and the Warsaw Outcomes to replace the Kyoto...
View ArticleCitizens of the Ocean
The world is connected, not divided, by the sea -- through the circulation of protein, goods, people and ideas. The ocean contains an enormous, unexplored inventory of medicinal cures, unlimited energy...
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Mourning the Loss of the Tiger
The essay below is adapted from my book, "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres." Many years ago when I was a frail asthmatic child living in Vietnam during the war, my great-aunt gave me a broth...
View ArticleWhy the Sierra Club Can't Be Silent
During the past week, the Sierra Club has spoken out about Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York City, and President Obama's executive action on immigration. Some have told us that they...
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Nature Does Not Negotiate: Climate Catastrophe Is With Us Now!
As Typhoon Hagupit hits the Philippines, one of the biggest peace time evacuations in history has been launched to prevent a repeat of the massive loss of life which devastated communities when Super...
View ArticleThe Connection Between Air Pollution and Cell Phones You've Never Heard About
In the 21st century, "show me the bodies" seems like a cruel and outdated foundation for public policy. Yet history is littered with examples -- like tobacco and asbestos -- where only after the death...
View ArticleAn Election's Consequences: People Will Die
Elections, victors are prone to crow, have consequences. Today that gibe carries a tragic truth. One consequence of our recent elections will be deaths -- many deaths. A few thousands or tens of...
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Climate Change This Week: The Munchkin Dilemma, Solar Cash Crop and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. And They're All the Same Age! Not. But a new study indicates that El Nino, which is exacerbated by climate change, can stunt kids'...
View ArticleReport Outlines Ways to Protect Appalachian Communities from...
If you think mountaintop removal coal mining's days are over, you're wrong. In 2013, Virginia issued nine new surface mining permits and two acreage expansions, West Virginia issued 25 new permits, and...
View ArticleClimate Change and the Record 2014 California Drought
Just a couple months ago, I critiqued a pair of studies that disputed any linkage between human-caused climate change and the exceptional 2014 California drought. Now comes yet another study ("Causes...
View ArticleIt's The End of the World As We Know It
A scene on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom recently struck me, at first, as simply an astute and amusing commentary on global warming... until the real world chimed in with one of those life-imitating-art...
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