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Say No to Table Scraps and People Food for Pets
As we are right in the middle of this brutally cold holiday season, make sure to keep your pet healthy and safe by saying "no" to the following and be sure to keep "people food" of your pet's holiday...
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21 Ways You Know You've Done Your Dog Wrong
(A portrait of Hazel by Tischman Pet Photography) Whoa. Wait a minute. What's with all the negativity out there in the dog-training world? Since when did we humans decide that in order to make dogs...
View ArticleBuying Time in the Deep Blue Sea
In the midst of all the grim talk about runaway global warming, there is an upbeat note -- sort of. Certain types of coral reefs appear to be more adaptable to climate change pressures than first...
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Ocean Plastic Estimated at 5.25 Trillion Pieces -- But Where's the Rest?
The deluge of plastic detritus -- from the large to the microscopic -- swirling about in our oceans weighs in at 269,000 metric tons, according to the most comprehensive research on marine plastic hot...
View ArticleTransfer Public Lands? Why Would We Do That?
If Congress doesn't hand over 30 million acres of national public lands and minerals to the state of Utah by the end of December 2014, then watch out. The people of Utah have spoken and they want the...
View ArticleGMOs. When Minds Are Still Open Civil Debate Can Give the Facts a Say in How...
I regularly highlight examples of what I call the Risk Perception Gap... when people worry too much about some things or not enough about others, and those perceptions leads to risky choices and...
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US Congress Sets Strict Limits on Global Dam Funding
Against all evidence of environmental destruction, widespread impoverishment and cost overruns, the World Bank is once again embracing mega-dams. In FY 2014, the Bank put more than half of its power...
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The Climate Talks Find an Enemy at COP20: The Fossil Fuel Industry
The UN Climate Talks in Paris next December are shaping up be high noon for the fossil fuel industry. Over the last week, negotiators here in Lima have been working on the draft of a new climate...
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Are You and Your Dog Sympatico?
A while back, I watched a television special where singer Sheryl Crow was discussing the process of songwriting and producing music. At one point she mentioned working with another person, and smiled...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Photograph by Kevin Tostado Come January, Republican Jim Inhofe will take over leadership of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. This is the same man who recently called the US-China...
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Building a Green Economy for the Middle East
The 21st century is experiencing many huge global transformations. More than half the world's population now live in cities; at the same time, climate change is causing more and more natural disasters,...
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Why Are Bees Disappearing?
What's the deal with the Bees?: originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn from experts and access insider knowledge. You can follow Quora...
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Rescuing the Dog Who Rescued Me
Last year, when my book DJ: The Dog Who Rescued Me was published, after a two-year labor of love had been completed, sold, and released to the world, I threw a party in Chelsea to celebrate. We had...
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From Typhoon Hit Philippines, A Call for Climate Justice
Smashed houses, fallen trees and streets littered with debris greeted us when Greenpeace arrived in Dolores, Eastern Samar, on Tuesday after Typhoon Hagupit made a direct hit on the seaside town. Much...
View ArticleThe Breakers, Palm Beach -- Making Locally Sourced Food a Priority
I recently booked a weekend stay at The Breakers to attend a Palm Beach wedding. My initial thought, ugh. Fancy people, fancy designer clothes, fancy everything, not really my scene. My wife, on the...
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New Gas Pipelines = Lower Electricity Costs? It's Not That Simple
As we head into winter, families and businesses across Massachusetts are bracing themselves for higher electricity costs: National Grid announced recently that prices would be increasing significantly,...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Negotiations Heat Up in Closing Stages of UN Climate Change...
Optimism at the outset of the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference 20th Conference of the Parties in Lima, Peru, has given way to the hard work of reaching high-level resolution prior to the...
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No Single Country Can Solve Climate Change
I touched down in Lima, Peru, today for the international climate change conference for a simple reason: There is a time for evaluating evidence, and there is a time for taking decisive action -- and...
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John Kerry Slams Climate Deniers at COP 20, Emphasizes 97 Percent Consensus,...
"What happens if the climate skeptics are wrong? Catastrophe." Those were the words of Secretary of State John Kerry here in Lima today as he addressed the COP 20 climate talks on the need to foster...
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'Green News Report:' December 11, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: GOP anti-environment wish list makes it into "Cromnibus" bill; Crunch time at UN climate treaty talks in Peru; Worldwide calls...
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