Future of Power 2: Outrunning the Revolution
The U.S. electricity sector will be unrecognizable in 20 years. How-- and how-- fast it changes will be a big factor in how large a price the world pay for having disrupted climate equilibrium - but it...
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Feeling the Love All Year Long
Valentine's Day may have passed, but my kids' haul of chocolate is still lingering. As I attempt to avoid eating just one more piece, I can't help but think about all the love for climate action we...
View ArticlePlanning With Water (Pt. 1)
The World Economic Forum is meeting this month in Davos, Switzerland -- an annual gathering of national leaders, economists and corporatists who use the event to circulate with the self-declared best...
View ArticleFor Fossil Fuel Divestment, Harvard Alumni Turning up the Heat
The fossil fuel divestment debate at Harvard continues to intensify, with students performing their first sit-in at the office of Harvard's president last week. Yet students are not the only ones...
View ArticleChemical Contaminants Suspect in Mystery of Alaska Chickadee Beak Deformities...
When black-capped chickadees and some other birds in the Anchorage area began turning up in the late 1990s with elongated, weirdly curved or twisted beaks, biologists and bird lovers began to worry....
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How the CSA Model Supports a Farm
I am thinking about spring. Although it is still several weeks away, there are decisions to make that will affect what grows on Katchkie Farm in 2015. Despite the frozen earth, now is the time our...
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Birds Tell an Urgent Climate Change Message
"The canary in the coal mine." That phrase has become part of the lexicon as a warning for danger. Now birds are cautioning humans about the imminent threat of climate change -- and the news is not...
View ArticleBrewing Beer at Home: Risk of Hops Toxicity in Pets
At my dinner table, my family frequently asks me about my workday. Most days I share crazy or funny stories about my patients. Regrettably, on a few days, I share tragic stories. This case that I am...
View Article9 Great Reasons to Grow Fruits and Vegetables In the City
1. For their taste Famous chefs, such as the ones who fill Paris's hotels and Michelin-starred restaurants, have vegetable gardens on their roofs to provide supremely fresh produce. Tomatoes,...
View ArticleRactopamine: It's What's for Dinner
China and Russia aren't known as leaders on food safety or animal welfare, yet there's one drug that even they -- along with much of the world, including the European Union -- won't allow to be fed to...
View ArticleA New Wave of Democracy, and How Corporations Are Trying to Silence Your...
President's Day is an appropriate time to reflect on the state of our U.S. democracy. And there is some very good news across the country about the spread of local democracy, but you have not heard or...
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UK Takes Historic Step to Fight Climate Disruption and Phase Out Coal
While the U.S. was celebrating the President's Day weekend, and shortly after the Republican-led Senate rejected legislation upholding climate science, the leaders of the three main parties in the...
View ArticleKeeping America Safe -- From a Million Miles Away
When it comes to keeping America's communities and businesses safe and secure, we can't take our eyes off the sun. That vigilance is ensured with last week's successful launch of DSCOVR -- the Deep...
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'Green News Report' -- February 17, 2015
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another day, another oil train explosion - make that two; Schizophrenic extreme weather pounds the U.S.; U.S. Southwest about to...
View ArticleCarpe Diem: Low Oil and Gas Prices Could Be a Clean-Energy Opportunity
The recent dramatic plunge in oil and natural gas prices, to their lowest level since the global recession in 2009, has some observers worried about the effect on clean tech. Conventional wisdom has it...
View ArticleAlaska led U.S. in Least-visited National Parks in 2014, but Skagway Historic...
America's national parks drew tourists in record numbers last summer, according to the U.S. National Park Service, but most of the agency's Alaska units remain starved for attention. The five...
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Why I Chose to Avoid Non-Stick Cookware
Just like the foods that I eat, when it comes to cookware, I like to know exactly what's going into my body. After years of my cookware's non-stick coating flaking off into my food, I decided to take a...
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How Many Electric Cars Do We Need to Save the Planet?
Co-authored by Mike Walker, Founder and CEO of AlterAction Compared with conventional cars, plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is true even after...
View ArticleWe Hold These Truths to Be Inconvenient
Among the most sacred rights enumerated in the U.S. Constitution is the ownership and control of private property. It's not quite as sacred as our God-given right to cruise Main Street with...
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EIA: China's Blood Ivory Carving Factories
Photo credit: savingthewild.com "From what I can see, if China and Japan banned the domestic ivory trade today, and enforced it, poaching would start to decline immediately across Africa," says Allan...
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