Presidential Task Force Releases Recommendations for Seafood Fraud and...
Last week, our government took a huge step forward in stopping seafood fraud and illegal fishing. President Obama's Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and...
View ArticleCoal Ash and Fracking Fluid: Two More Victories for Environmental Protection
While America recently elected a new and possibly anti-environmental Congress, we are still ending 2014 on a high note with two environmental victories. Both originated in the executive branch of...
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Meatless Monday: John Salley -- Making Life Betta
Since retiring from the NBA, John Salley has only gotten betta. He's just launched target BettaLifechallenge, an inspiring, energizing jumpstart into the vegan world. The goal is to "initiate you into...
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ALEC Sharpens Attack on Environmental Safeguards
Ohio state Sen. Bill Seitz, an ALEC board member, wants to kill his state's renewable energy standard. He says it reminds him of "Joseph Stalin's five-year plan." After being accused of "literally...
View Article2014: A Year in Review on Climate and Trade
In typical year-end fashion, I recently found myself reflecting about 2014. In the past year, we saw governments and multinational corporations using trade rules to challenge climate progress, but we...
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Ice Formations and Patterns of Early Winter
Early winter yields some interesting photographic opportunities often overlooked by those waiting for dramatic, in-your-face displays of nature. A narrow window exists between the time water changes...
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Legal Personhood for Apes
The fundamental problem for animals is that our laws consider them "things." With this definition, animals -- and the humans who care about their interests -- often don't have legal "standing" to...
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The Grid Reliability Myth
On August 1, 2011, a feral heat wave grasped Texas by its drought-parched throat. Temperatures remained over 100 degrees for 40 days -- dozens of people died. Air conditioners all over the state...
View ArticleThe Growing Level of Environmental Awareness
While it is far from universal, more and more people understand that we need to sustainably manage our planet's resources and ecosystems. This awareness has been growing for about a century, but has...
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The Greening of a Suburban Downtown
If planners for Bethesda, Maryland fully realize a conceptual vision now being offered to community leaders and the public, the once-quiet but now-bustling suburb's downtown could become a nationally...
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Meatless Monday: Ready to Start
Running around early last week to get my last-minute holiday errands done -- no, I'm not immune -- I saw people trudging along Miami streets with stooped shoulders and bulging bellies. None of them...
View Article2014 May Be Anchorage, Alaska's First Year Ever With No Below-zero Temps
With just a few days left in 2014, it's all but certain that this year will go down in history as the first recorded calendar year that the temperature never officially dipped below zero in Anchorage,...
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10 Inspiring New Year's Resolutions From My Conversations With Jane Goodall
One doesn't need an encyclopedic knowledge of science to hang with Jane Goodall; instead, a dose of curiosity will do. The world-famous environmentalist and animal rights crusader -- who's spent more...
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Design By Dredge
Jamaica Bay / Drudge Design Collaborative To dredge simply means to scoop up sediment, often underwater, and move it to another location. While this process is often associated with moving...
View ArticleMatter of Scale: A Plan for Sustainable Fisheries
So often the ocean problems we address are matters of scale. As the world population has grown, as the demand for food has increased, and as science and technology has evolved new and more efficient...
View ArticleWhy Andrew Cuomo Banned Fracking in New York
Ask environmentalists in New York whether they woke up on December 17 expecting Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to ban fracking by noon that day. They'll answer: "no way." In fact, The Empire State's massive...
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2014 in Review: Reflecting on California's Drought, Disappearing Water Sources
The close of another year gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the newsmakers we bid farewell to in 2014. But this year, rather than reflect on icons we lost, this waterman would like to tip...
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Taino Farms Adventure
Co-authored by Jacquelyn Crutchley, Chief Operating Officer of Schools for Sustainability Inc. The eco world is all abuzz over aquaponics as the latest go-to green technology. It is an effective method...
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A New Paradigm: Saving Our Way to Cleaner Air
It's the end of 2014, and we are enjoying a remarkable convergence. Gas prices are down, the auto industry is booming and we have the most environmentally clean vehicle fleet ever. In fact, if we'd...
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Climate Change This Week: No Forests -- No Farming, Divine Divestment, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. * * Climate-Change Christmas Carols - by Ethan Kuperberg in "Shouts and Murmurs" at the New Yorker caught my eye. Okay, I admit I...
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