Center for Public Integrity Reveals How PR Firms Manufacture Consent for Oil,...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogThe Center for Public Integrity has broken new ground by publishing a months-long investigation into the public relations and influence-peddling spending conducted by Big...
View ArticleRising Above the Noise on Climate
Today, President Obama will deliver his 6th State of the Union Address. Anyone who follows politics knows that the SOTU often shows the best and the worst of our two-party system as our representatives...
View ArticleYou Need to Know: About That Drought
So maybe you've heard that Californians are going through a dry spell. In fact, things are really rough, with dry, gravely ground; wilting, exhausted lawns; and residents who would just like to take a...
View ArticleClimate Scientist and Mom Will be First Lady's Guest at the State of the Union
I first met Nicole Hernandez Hammer when she drove from Fort Lauderdale to Washington D.C. with her husband and young son to join Moms Clean Air Force for a meeting with EPA Administrator Gina...
View ArticleClimate-Induced Migration: A Looming Crisis
Climate change is an immense and multifaceted global challenge, likely to change the planet we call home and our very way of life. In some of the most industrialized settings in the world as well as in...
View ArticleThese Kids Will Inherit the Earth
The Wonderkids show their enthusiasm for learning about climate change. Credit: Paige Handley "Climate change! Climate change! Climate change!" The kids of the Wonderkids after-school science program...
View ArticleBribery Is a Bargain for Big Oil
If you are wondering why a pipeline that would create fewer jobs than a new McDonalds is the number one priority of what used to be known as "the world's greatest deliberative body," you are not alone....
View ArticleA New Year's Wish: More Tree Hugging CEOs
With the close of yet another UN climate meeting (this last one in Lima), we have more than a little hope that this year's gathering in Paris will result in a truly global consensus on climate change...
View ArticleStop Senseless Trophy Hunting
Late last week, the Dallas Safari Club announced that they would be auctioning off an elephant hunt in Africa as part of their annual fundraising gala. This sadly echoes the club's auction last year...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Obama Tackles Climate Change in State of the Union Address
"No challenge -- no challenge -- poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change," said President Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address. "The best scientists in the world are...
View Article11 Must-Know Cleaning Tricks to Green Your Routine
You don't have to live in filth just because you're sick of chemical cleaners! Instead, try some natural solutions to your gritty and grungy problems, to get the same level of cleanliness without...
View ArticleHSUS Undercover Investigations at Roadside Zoos in Virginia, Oklahoma Reveal...
Today, The HSUS released results of its investigations into two shoddy roadside zoos - the Natural Bridge Zoo in Natural Bridge, Virginia, and Tiger Safari in Tuttle, Oklahoma, both of which breed...
View ArticleThe Change-Maker of Tomorrow: A Young Chinese Woman
This week, the Global Opportunity Report proves that we have readily available solutions to some of the biggest risks, and that a new breed of change-makers might take the lead. Risk managers are old...
View ArticleConstruction of California's High-Speed Rail Could Increase Risk of Fungal...
Depending on who you talk to, the 68 billion dollar high-speed rail project from San Francisco to Los Angeles is either an innovative project that will decrease green house gases and lessen auto travel...
View Article61 Senators Agree Climate Change Is Real -- Now We Can Talk Solutions
An interesting thing happened on the way to the partisan stalemate over climate and energy issues yesterday: 61 senators voted to acknowledge that greenhouse gas pollution is causing dangerous changes...
View ArticleA Matter of Breeding: How We've Greatly Harmed Dogs Who Depend on Us for...
A Matter of Breeding by Michael Brandow is a detailed and unflinching socio-cultural history of dogs, viewed with humor and sarcasm, and explains how a long tradition of valuing them based on fancy...
View ArticleTipping Point for Carbon Pricing Just Got Closer
Like objects in a passenger-side mirror, the tipping point for pricing carbon is a lot closer than it appears, and votes this week in the Senate moved it a bit closer. Let's indulge ourselves for a...
View Article23 Gorgeous Aerial Photographs to Help Put Things in Perspective
It's easy to lose perspective in our day-to-day. To get stuck in the minutia and forget that we're part of something much bigger called the Earth, which is part of something much bigger called the...
View Article'Green News Report' - January 22, 2015
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: President Obama's State of the Union focuses on climate change; Republicans' sneaky move to give the Keystone XL pipeline a new...
View ArticleUSDA's Meat Animal Research Center: An American Horror Story
This week, The New York Times published a comprehensive investigation into deplorable animal treatment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC), a sprawling complex...
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