For a Call From Manila
In the Philippines as elsewhere around the world, climate change is driving risk and multiplying the impact of all the other drivers of risk such as poverty, population growth, poor urban planning and...
View ArticleSmart Growth Takes Root in the Middle East
As jihadists continue their quest for transcendence through violence, the media promulgate the Western perception that discord reigns in the Middle East. But as I discovered on my first trip to the...
View ArticleWesterners Continue to Have a Strong Connection to Public Lands
Those of us who spent our careers in the National Parks Service know full well that the allure of the American West is hard to shake off. Call it an affinity, or a closeness--but whether it's the...
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Solyndra's Fall was Great for Solar, Just Ask Henry Ford
In case you haven't heard, February is the month to buy a solar company. There have been recent acquisitions by Enphase, Canadian Solar and Trina Solar stated earlier it is in the hunt. From the...
View ArticleA True Phenomenon Unfolding at Bellahummingbird.com: Bella's Tiny Family...
There is the occasional marvel that peaks the interest of experts, unfolding nature's firsts or never-before observed peculiarities, and this is certainly one of those wonders. This is quite possibly...
View ArticleNew Miracle Commodity: None Other Than Bamboo
In a time of new materials, a very old one is sneaking into our lives. You may have noticed that bamboo is making an appearance everywhere. There are bamboo floors -- I hear there is one in the Holman...
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Mountaintop Removal Ends on March 16th: Put Down Your Foot for Basic Health...
Fourteen months after the world watched in astonishment as poorly regulated coal-washing chemicals contaminated the Elk River in West Virginia, coal country residents and supporters are gearing up for...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: First Rules for Arctic Drilling Released
The U.S. Department of the Interior unveiled the first draft rules for offshore oil and gas exploration in the Arctic. The rules would require energy companies to clear a number of safety hurdles...
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Climate Change: A Conversation About Art, Investment and Science
Ice Cave Sculpture by Henry Richardson As temperatures drop to recording breaking lows, climate change is once again pushed to the forefront of our global conversation. I recently spoke to three...
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On the Trail of the Whales: Kodiak, Last Chance Island
It's more than a year since we came back from our journey following the grey whales. At home, the whale-quest behind us, with David Attenborough's ocean documentaries on repeat, I couldn't face the...
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Why I Returned to the TEDx Stage to Talk About Climate Change
Why I Returned To The TED Stage- TEDxZwolle- Climate, Activity, Cities After delivering my first TEDx presentation at the O2 in London last October at the amazing TEDxTeen event I did not envisage...
View ArticleEntangled Empathy: How to Improve Human-Animal Relationships
Entangled empathy and a rescued rat A new book by Wesleyan University philosopher Lori Gruen called Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals is a wonderful addition to...
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'Green News Report' - February 26, 2015
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Influence of climate change on our schizophrenic extreme winter weather; Scientists say geo-engineering is madness, but we should...
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What the Keystone Pipeline Means to Millennials
A Presidential Veto is a momentous event, and President Obama has only chosen to exercise this power three times. That being said, the President's recent veto of the Keystone Pipeline Bill was a...
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More Oil Drilling? Let's Cut Consumption Instead
Attempting to make good on its "all of the above" energy strategy, the Obama administration recently floated proposals for oil development that have infuriated members of Congress on both coasts, but...
View ArticleNo Deal Can Make up For Keystone XL
Three days ago, President Obama pulled out his veto pen to derail the latest attempt by Big Oil's members of Congress to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Since then, there's been a lot of...
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Nobel Winning Women Agree: World Bank Safeguards Don't Cut It
As the deadline for submitting comments to the Word Bank concerning the second draft of their safeguard review looms (March 1st), a group of Nobel Peace Prize winning women (The Nobel Women's...
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The True Cost of Food Waste
The world wastes an astonishing amount of food. As a recent Chicago Council on Global Affairs' blog post outlines in stark detail, about one third of all the food that is produced is wasted, which...
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Save the Date: Earth Gratitude Wave, April 22, 2015
I was sitting outside this past Thanksgiving, surrounded by beautiful trees and rolling hills and feeling grateful for the crisp, clean air, when it occurred to me that we should have a similar...
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The GOP's Big Chance to Prove Itself
This is the fifth and final post in a series about the prospects for an international climate agreement this year. The first four can be found in my Huffington Post archive. With their sights on the...
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