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In the House, a Little Quid Pro Coal?
Kentucky is the #3 coal producing state. So it's little surprise that Kentucky's congressional delegation is pro-coal. Some might even say that the industry has them in its back pocket hoping to find...
View ArticleIf a Chicken Exists Only to Become Chicken Nuggets, Does It Really Matter How...
It's a subject that comedians have latched on to. If you are going to kill, slaughter, and eat an animal why should you be concerned about the quality of her life? This week as thousands gather in...
View ArticleNew Illinois Priorities: Quiet Transportation Revolution in Car Use
There's a quiet revolution in car use, driving patterns and car technologies that fundamentally will change transportation needs, infrastructure investments and traditional financing structures. As gas...
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Submarines, Sonar, and the Death of Whales: NRDC Goes Back to Court Against...
There's an old adage that the environment is never saved -- just continually being saved. And the U.S. Navy's testing and training with high-intensity active sonar is a perfect example. When it comes...
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Are Avocados Always in Season?
Mike Lew, Bon Appetit As we food it up for the Super Bowl, we've locked down buffalo-wing tips from a pro and we've got plans for making alternative nachos. We may even "go fancy" with coconut shrimp....
View ArticleState of Our Fractured Union: 5 Things We'd Like to Hear From President Obama
As President Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, we sincerely hope his message on energy will be based on science, reflecting the very real climate crisis that currently vexes our...
View ArticleHemingway Would Not Be Pleased: The Sinking of Key West
And it is not under rum. The entire Floridian peninsula is a very flat territory, hardly a hill in sight. Flat as a pancake and quickly filled with water. A bit of rain and the entire state is a marsh....
View ArticleCoca-Cola Climate Change Cavalry... May Be Too Late
"We've gotten the 'easy' part of the warming over with--the part where we have been poking sleeping giants, just not yet hard enough or long enough to awaken them." California is parched, Antarctic...
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Innovation Earth: This Is Like Biofeedback for Food Wasters
On a planet where one in eight people is chronically hungry, it's an almost unimaginable irony: every year, one-third of the world's food supply is wasted. Here in the U.S., we send 34 million tons of...
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A Carbon Monoxide Detector Saved Our Lives
We never gave carbon monoxide detectors much thought until this week. Last Saturday morning began with a minor scare. Our carbon monoxide detector started beeping. I panicked and took the dog outside...
View ArticleSnacking Smarter: 5 Nutritious Noshes You Can Share With Your Pets
We are two weeks into the New Year and I am just getting around to making a few resolutions -- with a booming business, a family on the go and a polar vortex to contend with, I haven't had much time...
View ArticleCalifornia's Eerie Ski Conditions
I rode a bus to Lake Tahoe last weekend with about 40 kids from the Bay Area. My son, who'd been counting the days on a homemade calendar he kept under his pillow, was now counting the hours. But about...
View ArticleKeystone XL Is a Sucker's Deal for America -- And a Steal for Foreign Oil...
For years, TransCanada has been selling the Keystone XL pipeline to Americans with all of the enthusiasm of a used car salesman -- and using all of the same tricks. However, one myth is more egregious...
View ArticleConserving Nature Is Good Trade Policy
We don't have to trade our planet's future to boost trade among nations. When the world's population is consuming resources at a rate 1.5 times the Earth's capacity to produce them, large-scale...
View ArticleChina Pollutes More... But Is That an Excuse for Inaction?
It seems that an inverse relationship exists between the rise of global carbon emissions and the direction of climate policy and international negotiations. The more the former accelerates, the less...
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How We're Tackling Food Waste One Facebook Alert At A Time
This story was produced in partnership with Facebook Stories. Submit your own Facebook story here. --- Sometimes a chance to help solve a problem hits you like a ton of bricks. And if that problem...
View ArticleTricks of the Trade That Block Climate Change Progress
I recently attended the 2014 Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations, along with more than 500 other financial leaders, most of them members of the Investor Network on Climate Risk. At...
View ArticleShould I Drink Potentially Toxic Water? WV Gov. Says, "It's Your Decision"
"It's your decision. If you do not feel comfortable drinking or cooking with this water, then use bottled water." That is the inadequate advice West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin gave to the...
View ArticleCruelty, Not Culture, in Japan's Dolphin Hunt
I just read, "A Veterinary and Behavioral Analysis of Dolphin Killing Methods Currently Used in the 'Drive Hunt' in Taiji, Japan," in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. And as we'll see,...
View ArticleSo Long, Pete and Toshi Seeger, It's Been Amazingly Great to Know You
Toshi and Pete Seeger defy description except through the sheer joy and honor it was to know them, however briefly. Their list of accomplishments will fill many printed pages, which all pale next to...
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