Preventing Cancer Upstream: California's Safer Consumer Products Program
The urologist gave me a puzzled look as she evaluated the biopsy results and asked a question I never thought I'd hear: "Have you worked around or been exposed to toxic chemicals?" I answered that it...
View ArticleCalifornia Whiplash
From historic, record-breaking drought to torrential record-breaking rain, the weather in California has whipsawed back and forth between extremes over the last two years. And global warming has helped...
View ArticleOpen Dialogue Critical to Addressing Energy Priorities
2015 appears likely to see more high profile policy activity on energy issues than we have seen for some time. Between Congressional agendas and Obama Administration regulatory actions, energy and...
View ArticleWhy Your Cat May Be More Human Than You Think
It's official. Your cat really IS giving you the cold shoulder. Not only is Garfield's hearing just fine, so is his ability to understand when you're speaking to him. He just doesn't give a hoot. Study...
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4 Climate-Friendly Valentine's Day Gifts
It's hard to ignore the sea of red gifts and boxes of chocolates lining the aisles in most stores this time of year. Valentine's Day is upon us. While we ponder how to best surprise our loved ones,...
View ArticleThe Kennedy-Johnson Climate Legacy
Fifty years ago today, Lyndon Johnson became the first president to warn about the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In a special message to Congress on this day in 1965, he included the...
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Valentine, Smalentine: 14 Ways Having a Dog Trumps Having a Man
1. Despite the occasional bathroom accidents, dogs are way neater than men. Dogs do not leave empty salsa containers, beer bottles, or boxer shorts lying around the house, nor do they leave dirty...
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Is Boston the Greenest American City?
The first Sustainable Cities Index ranks 50 of the world's leading cities by their social, economic and environmental value. Boston Public Garden (Rick Harris, Creative Commons) You've seen the...
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Don't Underestimate Distemper: Vaccinate Your Dog Now!
The recent outbreak of measles in United States highlights the importance of vaccinations and prevention of diseases in this new global world. In veterinary medicine, we are extraordinarily fortunate...
View ArticleEnvironmental Movement Has Held Back the Keystone XL Pipeline -- For Good Reason
Ditching the Keystone XL pipeline should be a no-brainer. The 1,179-mile pipeline extension would carry some of the world's dirtiest oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of...
View ArticlePeak Oil Revisited
Remember peak oil? That was the fear of some years ago to which the fossil fuel industry and its supporters responded, "Drill, baby, drill!" And drill they did, and accelerated exploration in places...
View ArticleIt's Time to Fix the Climate -- Why Do We Delay?
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama said: "No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change." Yet worsening climate data prove we're not doing enough....
View ArticleCompassionate Conservation: More than "Welfarism Gone Wild"
Conservation is ethically challenged The evolving field called compassionate conservation, in which the guiding principle "First do no harm (link is external)" stresses the importance of individual...
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Bringing Balance to Our Oceans
Healthy oceans are the life support system for our planet, providing 97% of the Earth's livable habitat and a home to more than 700,000 species. The oceans are inseparably linked to our health as well,...
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Climate Change This Week: Rising Seas, Family Planning Pays, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter and a little more crowded. @@ Climate Change: The Elevator Pitch * * * These sea slugs are now invading northern California. Gary McDonald, Courtesy of UC Santa...
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Harvard Goes to Court to Defend its Dangerous Investments
On Tuesday, February 10th, the Harvard Corporation will defend its investments in fossil fuel companies, whose business activities cause climate change. The Corporation, which currently owns $79...
View ArticleInside Out
Excerpt from Inside Out: In the days of Teddy Roosevelt, conservation was a word that spoke of national pride. Conservation took another step forward in 1973, when President Nixon signed the Endangered...
View ArticleSnatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) walked into court in Minnesota last week and asked a judge to issue an order to stop the federal agency from sharing information about some of the biggest...
View ArticleWill Companies Solve Climate Change Before Countries?
I just spent a week at the 15th Annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in India, a four-day eco-extravaganza for hundreds of participants from government, business, academics, and community...
View ArticleWilliam R. Catton, Jr. (1926-2015)
William R. Catton, Jr. -- one of the most significant and influential ecological thinkers of the past century -- died last month, just shy of his 89th birthday. Catton was an inspiration to a host of...
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