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Physical Therapy Works on Owls Too!
WildCare's Wildlife Hospital treats nearly 4,000 ill, injured and orphaned wild animal patients from over 200 species every year. This is one patient's story. In medical terminology, a comminuted...
View ArticleFoie Gras Is Not a Non-Issue: Ducks and Geese Don't Like Having Food Shoved...
In a recent essay in The New York Times called "Let Them Eat Foie Gras," essayist Mark Bittman writes: The lifting of the California ban against selling foie gras (the hyperfattened liver of geese or...
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4 Tips for Starting Your Own Urban Garden
by guest blogger Julie Malone, assistant buyer at Rodale's and urban garden & food blogger One day, I'll have my dream garden. It will be lush with edible flowers, a tea garden, perfectly staked...
View ArticleGovernor Rauner's Environment & Energy Adviser Represents Many of Illinois'...
One of Bruce Rauner's first appointments as Governor is a troubling sign for citizens hoping he'll protect the public and environment from toxic pollutants. Rauner's new Policy Adviser for Environment...
View ArticleFoie Gras and Hypocrisy on California's Menus
It's only mid-January and we've got our first food controversy. California's fooderati are cheering both the uncaging of laying hens and the force-feeding of ducks as if there's no contradiction in...
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A Horseback Account of America's Vanishing Prairie
I peered through my mule's ears at a copper-coated bison squaring off with me in a remote corner of Northeastern Montana, and shortened my reins. Two weeks into a 3-month expedition to document the...
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The Danger The Planet Faces Because Human Instinct Overpowers Human Reason
The numbers are in. 2014 was the hottest year on Earth ever recorded (records go back to 1888). December finished it off as the hottest month ever. 6 of the months last year, in fact, hold that record....
View Article2014 Record-Breaking Heat Is Bad for Business
This post was co-authored by Forbes Tompkins. It's official: 2014 was the world's hottest year on record. And it's part of a decades-long trend. If you're under 30 years old, global temperatures have...
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The State of the Environment
We just finished, in 2014, the hottest year on record, further affirmation, as if any were needed, of the mounting dangers of climate change. From the boreal forest of Canada, to the Appalachian...
View ArticleYou'll Never Meet the Goals That You Don't Set
There is a clichƩ in business: "What you don't measure, you won't accomplish." In sports, hockey great Wayne Gretzky expressed this as, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." In sports, business...
View ArticleHow Governmental Sustainability Policy Can Speed the Transition to a Cleaner...
In the next several days, Jossey-Bass will publish a new book I have co-authored with my Columbia University colleagues Bill Eimicke and Alison Miller. It is entitled: Sustainability Policy: Hastening...
View ArticleGOP Choice for Response to State of the Union Shows Their True Intentions:...
The GOP is taking another lurch to the far right tonight. Republican leaders have chosen recently elected Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to deliver the party's response to President Obama's State of the...
View ArticleWill the Pope Go Vegan?
I jest not. Never having been one to adhere to any organized religion, in fact I have an utter contempt for them, I find myself nonetheless more than a little happy to hear Pope Francis has made global...
View Article40 Years Ago the World 'Discovered' Mexico's Monarch Habitat -- Today Its...
MEXICO CITY -- Forty years ago the winter habitat of the monarch butterfly in Mexico was supposedly discovered. After searching for decades, on January 9, 1975 the Canadian scientist Fred A. Urquhart,...
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The Tragedy of Climate Change Reports
In a return to global climate change coverage not seen since Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize, both the New York Times and the Washington Post carried front-page stories on January 17 that showed a...
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The Moment My Dog Died: An Unexpected Fashion Story
If a picture is worth a thousand words and a blog post is 750-1500 words; then I could write a novel to rival Marley and Me about the image above or dare I even say more pages than a September Vogue....
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'Green News Report' - January 20, 2015
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Confirmed. Again. NASA and NOAA find 2014 breaks record for hottest year; More new studies warn human impacts threaten our life...
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George Will vs. Climate History
In a recent opinion piece for the Washington Post, George Will asked how "Cassandras" who worry about global warming accommodate historical evidence that climate can also change naturally without our...
View ArticleFive Priorities for the State of the Union
There's no doubt the president's speech writers are feverishly working to cross the t's and dot the i's in the final hours before the State of the Union speech. Before the president unveils his vision...
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Money, and Harmful Chemicals, in Politics
Money in politics is nothing new. Scholars have described the corrupting influence of money at least as far back as the Roman Empire. In the U.S., the first federal campaign finance law was enacted in...
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