Shout It Out for a Solar Future
Friday, Jan. 24 is National Shout Out for Solar Day, a time for us to celebrate how far we have come with solar energy in the Bay Area and nationwide. Below are five of many reasons the future is...
View ArticleFixing Old Water and Gas Pipelines Would Create Far More Jobs Than Building...
In the coming months, President Obama will decide whether to approve the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport crude tar-sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. We know that...
View ArticleThe Internet Diagnosis
I will be honest. I have searched online resources not just once, but many times to better understand what ails my husband, my children, and me. I cannot tell you how many times I have mistakenly...
View ArticleSafe Water Access and Why It Matters
If you asked me what inspired me to become an activist, I don't think I could tell you. I honestly can't recall a time when I haven't been extraordinarily passionate about one issue or another. I have...
View ArticleFracking: California Needs to Rethink the Benefit Analysis
On Jan. 1, emergency regulations went into effect mandating stricter oversight for all hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") operations statewide. These rules, in accordance with Senate Bill 4, increase...
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Hong Kong Gives Swift Kick to Ivory Traders
Twelve thousand pounds of ivory that was destroyed in 2013 photo by USFWS Earlier this month, the Chinese government destroyed more than six tons of confiscated ivory held in government stockpiles,...
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Art Makes Environmental Change Real
Brooklyn-based artist Eve Mosher puts a line of blue chalk around New York City to show the reach of a flood that has a one percent chance of occurring in any given year. Are performance artists like...
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Is Japan's Dolphin Slaughter Really for Food?
It's Friday in Taiji and another pod of dolphins has been driven into the killing cove. It was just last weekend that the world watched in shock as over 200 dolphins awaited their fate there....
View ArticleDerelict Vessels Are Polluting The B.C. Coastline
For decades, mayors, councillors, trustees and regional directors have passed resolutions at the UBCM asking for senior governments to take care of the derelict & abandoned vessels, illegal mooring...
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A Lesson for Dr. Kim and the World Bank as It Ponders the Kosovo Coal Project
Co-authored by Bob Burton, Coalswarm & Sven Haertig, Bankwatch When Dr. Kim, President of the World Bank, and leaders of other international financial institutions ponder funding new coal power...
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Australian Honeybees Unable to Make Honey
Australia's hottest spring on record has spawn droughts and intense heatwaves; it has been disastrous for honeybees as their hives are melting whilst temperatures soar. The Australian continent is no...
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Lonely Orca Lolita May Finally Be Going Home
Lolita's life changed in an instant. One moment, she was swimming alongside her mother and extended orca family, learning how to catch her dinner and playing with her cousins. The next, she was being...
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The Two Faces of Empire
Melville Knew Them, We Still Live With Them Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com A captain ready to drive himself and all around him to ruin in the hunt for a white whale. It’s a well-known story, and...
View ArticleSustainability, Leadership and Management Innovation
Last week, my Earth Institute colleague, George Sarrinikolaou, and I began team teaching a new course at Columbia on innovative sustainability leadership. Each week we will host a guest speaker from...
View ArticleTrade in Environmental Goods May Not Actually Be So Good
Trade can help spread environmentally friendly technologies, but if the products we're trading harm the environment, everyone loses. On Jan. 25, a group of World Trade Organization (WTO) countries...
View ArticleMy Dog, the Knowledge Engineer
The "Genius of Dogs" ... ... is all the rage these days, especially so in the wake of the same-named book by canine cognition researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. But it turns out that what Hare...
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New Alliances in California Senate Put California Plastic Bag Ban Back on Track
Judging from the speeches made by California Senators Alex Padilla, Kevin de Leon, and Ricardo Lara at a press conference in Vernon on Friday, January 24th, statewide plastic bag legislation may well...
View ArticleLighting a Candle
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was the truth-teller at this year's CERES Clean Energy Investor's Summit. Trumka eloquently indicted climate crisis denials by recalling the traditional coal industry...
View ArticleFive Economic Policy Changes for 2014 That Could Boost Employment and Reduce...
The U.S. economy is still weak, with 7 percent unemployment, many millions more underemployed and less people employed in November than there were six years ago. At the same time -- and not unrelated...
View ArticleCut Off the NSA's Juice
The National Security Agency depends on huge computers that guzzle electricity in the service of the surveillance state. For the NSA's top executives, maintaining a vast flow of juice to keep Big...
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