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New Ozone Standards Will Save Lives, Protect Health
You and your family have a right to be protected from the dangers of air pollution. That's why, years ago, overwhelming bipartisan majorities in Congress passed our nation's clean air laws. Yet ozone...
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The Art of Slow Moving: A Journey Through America's Grasslands on Horseback
July 26, 2014 About two weeks have passed since four horses, a white mule named Pearl, Winnie the dog, Sebastian Tsocanos and I were dropped off in the middle of a pasture in Northeast Montana to begin...
View ArticleTaking Climate Action for, and With, Women
2015 will be a decisive year for our planet: In December in Paris, the COP21 will aim to reach a universal agreement that enables us to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. As we celebrate...
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Six Myths of Sustainable Design
Green building isn't as difficult as you might think. RTKL's LEED Platinum 1225 Connecticut Avenue cost less and sold for more than most buildings. Copyright Paul Warchol. A couple of weeks ago, the...
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Climate Change This Week: Siberia Holes Up, Solar Over Oil, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. @@ You Can Believe the Senator With a Snowball OR ... After Senator James Inhofe tossed a snowball in the Senate to illustrate his...
View ArticleTop of the Food Chain: How Women Are Helping Each Other Lead the Food and...
Ten years ago, when I was working at an environmental center at Harvard Medical School, I had coffee with a woman who was working for one of the large, national environmental NGOs. The conversation...
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EverydayClimateChange
Show, don't tell. One thing I have learned from living for over two decades in Japan is that words can only do so much. The most cleverly crafted debate, delivered with too much passion here, can be...
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Environment and Gender Index Data Reveal Women's Rights Make a Difference
Every year on March 8, International Women's Day (IWD), the global community comes together to champion the rights of women, marking an opportunity to not just commemorate women, women's achievements...
View ArticleProtecting Our Environment Is a Matter of Life or Death
Latino families are an important part of California's economy, contributing to our social growth and vitality. Unfortunately, Latinos often live with poor air quality and other forms of environmental...
View ArticleFood Power in the Unpromised Land of Brazil
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, I went to a lecture at Pitzer College - located in Claremont, California where I live. The speaker was John Wilkinson, professor for about thirty years at the Rural Federal...
View ArticleA Fast Track to Disaster
The United States is at the tail end of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- a massive trade deal with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Vietnam, and seven other countries. The negotiations have...
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'Furever' Young: 5 Tips for Caring for Older Dogs
Beau, my Golden Retriever, came into my life as a 15-pound puppy. Eight years later, he's 115 pounds and as charming as ever. This big fella has been by my side through it all, and it's only fair that...
View ArticlePlanning with Water, Part 4
Our multi-part series on planning with water continues this week with what hydraulic engineers call "non-revenue water," produced by collection but not valued because of the utility lost to leakage and...
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The City of Austin Honors a Distinguished Texan
The resolution "approved on consent" by the Austin, Texas, City Council on Feb. 26 simply reads: The City's Park and Recreation Department Main Office is hereby renamed "Jack W. Robinson Parks and...
View ArticleFloor to Walls: How to Reduce Exposure to Household Toxins
The major news television program 60 Minutes devoted a chunk of its broadcast earlier this month to talk about a toxic chemical and known human carcinogen used in the glue to make laminate flooring --...
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The Greater Danger: Precipice or Slippery Slope?
Lower Crabtree Falls, Virginia, National Forest Service image I'm a boomer, so I missed the greatest existential crisis of the 20th Century: The Second World War. My Dad, however, was in the thick of...
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Mr. Xi Goes to Washington
The recent announcement in Washington and Beijing that Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States in September underscores the continuing momentum in the improvement of...
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Fukushima: Opportunity of Global Proportions?
Our Greatest Disasters can lead to our Greatest Collaborations. Every technology comes with risks, nobody ever learned to walk without skinning their knees. This is not an article to argue for or...
View ArticleWalmart Puts Green Label on Products it Doesn't Even Claim Are Green
This article is cross-posted at Grist. A giant, 150-foot roll of bubble wrap may not be your idea of an environmentally friendly product, but over at Walmart.com this one-pound ball of plastic now...
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Fairbanks Snowstorm a Blessing for Snow-Starved Iditarod Mushers
FAIRBANKS -- The caravan of mushers who all made it to Fairbanks on Monday for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race restart praised the return of an unlikely character: winter. "We haven't seen this in...
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