Flush Fossil Fuels, Sec. Kerry!
Hopes were high. The need is urgent. But the United Nations climate talks that just wrapped up in Peru yielded disappointingly little progress toward the strong and fair international agreement we must...
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Climate Change This Week: New Solar Record, Murder, a Flying Donut, And More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. * * Vier Pfoten/Four Paws/RHOI/Rex/AP Palm Oil is Lethal for Mother and Child: This orangutan mother and five year old child huddled,...
View ArticleHarvard Researcher Kills Rare Spider "In the Name of Education:" When Will...
Recently I wrote an essay called "Researchers Kill 890 Wolves to Learn About Them: There's Something Very Wrong" about the intentional and inexcusable "experimental" massacre of 890 wolves in Canada...
View ArticleBreeding Protections for Giant Bluefin Tuna
This post was co-authored with Elizabeth Brown. Starting January 1, fishing within two bluefin tuna breeding hotspots in the Gulf of Mexico with a particularly destructive kind of fishing gear during...
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Momentum for Change 2014 Lighthouse Awards: Recognizing Innovative Solutions...
Shining a light on the tremendous success that has been growing over the last decade, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres opened the 2014 Lighthouse...
View ArticleDelisting the Grizzly Bear...or Not
Doug Peacock is considered by many veterans as the godfather of the modern movement to connect those who have been to war with the physical land they fought for when they come home. Outside, Doug...
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How Peer Pressure Brought Australia on Board Climate Fund
On the heels of the UN-sponsored climate talks in Lima, there are some lessons learned worth assessing. This superb analysis by Guy Ragen, a campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation,...
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Why a Pet Does Not Belong Under a Christmas Tree: A Lesson From My Parents...
Image Credit: Erik Reis via 123rf Flashback to the winter of 1980. I was only four years old when, together with the help of my older sister, I was scribbling my wishes for Christmas onto a piece of...
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American and Chinese Youth Take Diplomacy Into Their Own Hands At Lima COP 20
Back in November, President Obama took a Beijing stage, shoulder-to-shoulder with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and pretty well shook up the geopolitics of climate change. The presidents of the two...
View ArticleCOP20: Rounding the Turn on the Road to Paris
COP20, the United Nations climate conference held here in Lima, Peru, was dramatically unlike its predecessors. It opened amid confidence that progress toward a major new agreement in Paris next year...
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Groundwater Issues Still a Hot Topic in California
A massive storm pounded drought-plagued California last week, but it hasn’t eased long-term concerns over the state’s ongoing water issues. During the Almond Conference in Sacramento, Wednesday’s...
View ArticleThe 'Ethics' of Meat Eating
It's been a couple of weeks since Thanksgiving, but my loved ones are still unhappy that I had, for no obvious reason, declined to attend their Thanksgiving feasts. It wasn't the lack of vegetarian...
View ArticleThe Chemical Ocean
We live in a toxic chemical sea. Over 50 years ago, Rachael Carson in her seminal books Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us sounded the alarm over the deposition of myriad chemicals into our watersheds...
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Will World Bank President Dr. Kim Go the Last Mile for Clean Energy Access?
Co-authored with Vrinda Manglik, Associate Campaign Representative, International Clean Energy Access The World Bank is failing to invest enough resources in clean energy access -- but Bank President...
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California Officials Ready to Spank Oil Companies
I have been watching oil companies get away with price gouging for so many years that it was refreshing to see California's top political leaders let the oil companies know that they're going to be on...
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Climate Hope: Three Essential Green Books of the Year -- and a Poem
Three important new books in 2014 -- and an extraordinary poem -- stand out as essential reading for our climate change century -- far from being requiems for our planet. Informative, original,...
View ArticleWill eBay Give Out ALEC Coal This Holiday Season?
The holiday season is big business for eBay, but this year, it's not just about shopping. No, this holiday season, eBay is "reviewing" its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council...
View ArticleThis Could be the Next Major Legal Marijuana Brand
The continuing trend of state-level marijuana legalization has led to growing business establishment, the likes of which this recently illegal trade has never seen. At the tail-end of 2014, which saw...
View ArticleThe Science on Fracking Is In: Not One Well!
While filming a new movie in London, I learned that the sole shale gas well in the nation -- just a few hours north of me -- has triggered two earthquakes, suffered a "structural integrity failure,"...
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Are You Made of Air Pollution?
How would you like to be made of air pollution? Believe it or not, much of your body actually is. If you could imagine nine out of ten of your atoms suddenly losing their color, the remaining tenth...
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