Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently urged states to join those already "refusing to go along" with USEPA regulations that would cut air pollution from coal fired power plants. Chief...
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Science and Compassion Are Needed to Halt Animal Suffering
An estimated 500 to 700 million dogs exist worldwide. According to a video from the Marchig Animal Welfare Trust of the UK, three quarters of them live on the streets of impoverished communities. Their...
View ArticleCoal Is Dying: So What Should Sen. McConnell Really Do for Miners
Does Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell truly care about coal miners? In his latest attempt to fight all movement toward a clean economy - in theory to protect those workers - McConnell wrote an...
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Spinning the Future: How Ancient Weaving Techniques Save the Earth
Chinchero, Peru (photo credit: Natalie Deuschle) The rainbow was born in the town of Chinchero, Peru, according to Incan mythology. Today, when the weavers of the area gather to dye wool in vats of...
View ArticleSick and Tired of Pollution, Latino Kids Fight Back Armed With Courage and Wit
Lupita Pérez had just had it breathing dirty air during her young life. At 14, she has decided to join the fight for a clean air future for her baby sister, who will be born in the next few weeks....
View ArticlePlease Let There Be More, One Bostonian's Plea for Snow
Boston needs more snow. Please let it snow. This isn't a plea, it's an imperative, a must, a necessity, a demand. Sure we're all burnt out by cabin fever, parking anxiety and T shutdown woes, but we've...
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Mountaintop Removal On the Ropes: 1,000 People Needed for Moratorium Push
A reinvigorated "People's Foot" movement to end mountaintop removal is ramping up its efforts next week, as the last vestiges of outside support begin to abandon the nation's most egregious strip...
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New Report Sheds Light on Overseas Coal Financing by Export Credit Agencies
As the 34 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) met in Paris last week, Oil Change International released a new report with a shocking revelation. Not...
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Flying Wind Turbine Delivers Power to Remote Areas
By Don WilllmottDon Willmott is a New York-based journalist who writes about technology, travel, and the environment for a wide variety of publications and websites. What the heck is that thing up in...
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Why We Celebrate Rivers
The Chong people consider the Areng River at the foot of Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains a sacred inheritance from their ancestors. The river sustains lush forests with rare elephant, tiger and...
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Shell and High Water: Seattle Takes a Stand
The Port of Seattle has accused citizen groups of playing politics for opposing a plan to use Seattle's waterfront as a homeport for Shell's Arctic oil drilling fleet. What do they even mean by that?...
View ArticleWorkers at Louisiana Refineries Assess Tentative USW-Shell Deal
This post is published in The Louisiana Weekly in the March 16, 2015 edition. The United Steelworkers Thursday reached a possible four-year pact with Shell Oil in a seven-state strike that spread to 12...
View ArticleAre Veterinarians Your Dog (and Your) Best Friends?
First the Good News: I found the Perfect Veterinarian at a VCA Animal Hospital in L.A. I've decided not to use names here, but the vet I found deserves to be famous. He is bright, compassionate, adores...
View ArticleRidley's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Fixates on the Past and Ignores the...
Longtime climate contrarian and "coal baron" Matt Ridley returns to the Wall Street Journal to try to argue against data that show clean energy rapidly scaling up, and the science of climate change...
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Could Placemaking Become the New Golf? Repurposing Obsolete Courses
You wouldn't necessarily notice, not unless you've had a particular reason to be paying attention, but the US has way more golf courses than the industry and its enthusiasts can support....
View ArticleThe Great Vanishing
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com In her bestselling book The Sixth Extinction, the New Yorker's superb environmental journalist, Elizabeth Kolbert, reports on an event, already unfolding in the...
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Homeless Dog Leads People to 10 Sick Puppies and Mom
A homeless dog is now a hero -- literally, as he has been renamed with this fitting moniker after using his bark persistently to lead individuals walking by to an exhausted mother and her 10 newborn,...
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Conscious Decoupling: Divorcing Economy and Emissions
As Gwyneth Paltrow tried to express last year, divorce doesn't have to be a bad thing. And although she's sort of backtracked on the widely mocked concept of "conscious uncoupling," it serves as a...
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An Imperfect Safety Net for Carnivore Conservation
In the mid-2000s, I began doing research on wolves in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. This peace park is composed of two national parks: Glacier National Park in the U.S. and Waterton Lakes...
View ArticleLucky Health Tips for Your Dog on St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick's Day is fast approaching. Shamrocks, rainbows, beer, leprechauns, green rivers, and everything lucky -- this holiday has it all. Named after Saint Patrick, the most recognized patron saint...
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