My Style Struggle With Electric Cars: BMW or Mercedes
I would rather cut onions with dental floss than go car shopping. I hate it so much that I have used a broker for my last two cars. I buy cars without seeing them. Once Ray (that's the broker whose...
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Uber, Airbnb, and the Food System: How We Can Make Local Food More Affordable
It is widely accepted that eating fresh, local foods is healthier and more nutritious. Smaller farms are generally more responsible with methods of production and when these products move through a...
View ArticleClimate Change: The Need for Pro-Inventor Legislation (PIL)
This post makes the case for a new role for government in the context of technology innovation that impacts climate change. In particular, inventors and new innovative and truly disruptive energy...
View ArticleFools Galore
Smarting from defeat in 2012, Republican politicians were warned by one of their own not to be the "stupid party." Their response to the caution was not to do anything but obstruct the initiatives of...
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Nature's Do-Gooders: What Difference Do They Make?
Last week I assembled a group of nature "do-gooders" at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis MD. And I asked them what difference their well-intended actions really make....
View ArticleRick Perry, Still a Denier
Rick Perry is back, and this time he's in it to win it. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Perry left behind the bumbling tea party conservative of 2012 and did his best...
View ArticleClass Action Suit vs. Beneful Will Be Hard to Prove
Nestle-Purina Petcare is the second largest pet food company in the world and the largest in the United States. As such, they are a big, tempting target for a lawsuit for any dog owner who feeds one of...
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'Green News Report' - March 10, 2015
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another day, another two oil train explosions; In Florida, the first rule of global warming is don't talk about global warming;...
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Saving Pangolins From Extinction: Brunei
World Pangolin Day 2015 happened on February 21. Compared to previous World Pangolin Days, this particular one should be rated as a great success. Images and videos of pangolins trended on social media...
View ArticleWhy Follow Russia's Folly?
In a February 19th Special to Roll Call, Colonel David Hunt, U.S. Army (Ret.) penned a column about "Obama's War on Arctic Energy". Personally, I would like to thank President Obama and Secretary of...
View Article50 Years After Selma, We Still Need to Organize to Protect Our Civil Rights...
Last weekend, many leaders gathered in Selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the violent police crackdown on African American community members who were marching from Selma to...
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Environmental Innovation: Nice or Necessity?
If we mention environmental innovation, what comes to mind? Most people's thoughts turn to a host of green efforts such as recycling programs, natural products and renewable energy. And they are...
View ArticleThe Love of a Dog Helps Us Find Balance in Life
I often speak of how important it is to keep body, mind, and spirit in balance, but am often reminded of how unbalanced we have become as a society. Every time there's morning rain in Los Angeles,...
View ArticleChina's Under the Dome Doc Hits at Heart of Country's Pollution Problems:...
On an autumn afternoon in Beijing last year, a day when the sky was blue, which rarely happens in China's capital, one of the most polluted cities on the planet, I had coffee with a young Chinese...
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Meet the Real Faces of California's Clean Energy Economy
Like a lot of construction workers, Jesus (Jesse) Magallenes took a serious hit during the Great Recession. California's Central Valley, where Jesse lives in the town of Visalia, had it particularly...
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Landscape Architecture Market Valued at $2.3 Billion
ASLA 2014 Professional Award of Excellence. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus, Seattle, Washington. Gustafson Guthrie Nichol / Timothy Hursley Landscape architecture services in the U.S. are...
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What the Netherlands Can Teach Us About Riding Bikes, Sustainable Development...
View from Amsterdam Biking in Amsterdam for a weekend can open your eyes and mind to re-think of renewable sources of energy, an economic sustained growth, and a green and less polluted environment....
View ArticleConfessions of a Wildlife Filmmaker: Misinformation, Abuse, and a Need for...
Filmmaker and professor at American University's School of Communication Chris Palmer's highly acclaimed new book, Confessions of a Wildlife Filmmaker: The Challenges of Staying Honest in an Industry...
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Copenhagen & Chaminade Business Schools: "Lead, Don't Bleed"
The past year has seen a great deal of advocacy and argument in Hawaii, as in many other states, and at the Federal level, over raising the minimum wage. But we learn from the nonpartisan think tank,...
View Article32 States What? Senator Inhofe's Fuzzy Math on States and EPA
Sen. Jim Inhofe opened an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today with a chart that paints 32 states (in green no less!) as though they have lined up solidly in opposition to EPA's Clean...
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