The Future of Electricity 1: Why They Hate the Clean Power Rule
The vicious coal industry/right-wing attack on President Obama's proposed Clean Power Rule is not fundamentally about the rule itself. Substantively, the proposal is simply the fulfillment of one of...
View ArticleIs Your Child Ready for a Pet?
Caring for a pet is a wonderful way to help your child learn what it means to be responsible for a dependent creature. A pet will also help your youngster develop empathy, compassion and respect for...
View ArticleReady for My Close-Up!: Parks in the Movies
With the Academy Awards coming up Feb. 22, people around the world are thinking about their favorite movies, actors, directors and even sound tracks. For some of us in the world of city parks, we watch...
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What About Keystone South?
You could feel it in the air during last April's historic tipi encampment on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and the feeling is even stronger today: "We've got this. Keystone North is not going...
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Next Step on Road to Climate Agreement in Paris Wraps Up in Geneva
Today countries wrapped up the first climate negotiation session of 2015 as they work to finalize a new international legal agreement in Paris later this year. The negotiations this week in Geneva were...
View ArticleThe Ideal Climate Deal
After 20 up, down and often frustrating years of international climate negotiations, we are about to learn what each country is prepared to do to confront global climate change. By the end of this...
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World Bank's Peru Consultation Ends Early With a Walkout
Last week in Lima, Peru, the World Bank hosted one of their global consultations on loan safeguards. The Bank had previously published the first draft of their Environmental & Social Framework....
View ArticleWhy Divest Harvard Is Sitting-in Outside Harvard President Faust's Office
By Divest Harvard Today, over 35 Harvard students are sitting in at Massachusetts Hall, outside President Drew Faust's office, to demand full divestment from the fossil fuel industry. We sit in because...
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How to Navigate the Climate Change "Culture Clash"
Supporters of climate action and those who deny the reality of climate change are engaged in "a full-blown culture clash," says a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. For those...
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Dog Protects Pal Struck by Car
A dog was injured by a car in southeast D.C. Wednesday. His canine friend was uninjured but refused to leave his best friend's side, staring at oncoming traffic and never wandering more than a few feet...
View ArticleLove the Hands that Feed You. 6 Tips for a More Sustainable Valentine's Day.
This Valentine's Day, before planning your romantic dinner or buying roses and chocolate, think about how your choices will affect the hands that feed you. According to the Retail Advertising and...
View ArticleUnleashing The Inner Inventor: How Businesses Are Striving to Give Old...
Old computers gathering dust in the basement. Cell phones accumulating in a junk drawer. Can you picture these in your home? If so, you're not alone. It's easy to view these aging electronics as...
View ArticleClimate Reformation: The Solar Technology Vision of Zoltan Kiss
As someone who for much of the past year has studied the global climate crisis as an existential threat to human life, I can't overstate the value brought to Seeking Alpha investment forums by the...
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A Party of Judases
"I've heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they're not scientists -- that we don't have enough information to act [on climate change]. Well, I'm not a scientist, either. But you know...
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4 Strange Sources of Roundup
by guest blogger Leah Zerbe, online editor for RodaleNews.com There are a lot of studies asserting that organic is better for you, but if you read nothing else about it, know this: Many nonorganic...
View Article5 Ways to Show Your Love for the Environment This Valentine's Day
The environment is always there for us: providing food, goods, peace, and joy. And that's a pretty great relationship if you ask us. Why not allocate some love in this deserving direction this...
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Is the Road to Solar a Solar Road?
By Don Willlmott If solar power is ever to truly hit the mainstream, we're going to need a lot more solar panels in a lot more places. Roofs alone won't do the trick. That's why the environmental blogs...
View ArticlePreparing for Winter: Energy-Efficient Features and Your Home's Value
Whether you're a fan of Game of Thrones or not, winter is officially here. And with snowfall comes higher heating costs. To cut down on the energy bill and to help the environment, many homeowners are...
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Watch Octopuses Meet for Blind Date, Tricky Sex
Image courtesy of Creative Commons/Michael Bentley/Flickr On February 14, Hazel and Franklin will meet for a blind date. There is a good chance things will get heavy; it will likely be the first -- and...
View ArticleEPA Can Make the Clean Power Plan Even Better
The summer deadline is approaching for finalizing the Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever limits on dangerous carbon pollution from the nation's power plants, and opponents are ratcheting up...
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