Farmer John Doubles Down
I don't usually do sequels to blogs, but events have moved rapidly since my first blog on Speaker John Boehner's injecting himself into California water policy. For one thing, it's raining here, so the...
View ArticleThis Is the Year Liberals Take Back Religion from Conservatives
Sure, the religious right is still teamed up with conservative politicians in their battle against gay marriage, abortion, and immigration reform, just as they've been since 1979 when Jerry Falwell...
View ArticleScientific Spill Studies, Funded by BP, Start to Yield Results
(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the Feb. 10, 2014 edition.) Scientists gathered in Alabama last month said their current research on impacts of the 2010 BP spill will help...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Speed Bump? The Answer May Be Blowing in the Wind!
An interesting new paper by Matthew England and colleagues just published in the journal Nature Climate Change tosses another hat in the ring when it comes to the so-called "hiatus" or "pause" (I...
View ArticleWatch: Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil
Previously published on BillMoyers.com After the State Department issued a long-awaited environmental impact statement on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline last week, environmentalists and those...
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Five 'Must-Knows' on the Dangers of Synthetic Fragrance
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, natural beauty expert and safe cosmetics advocate Real strawberries don't really smell like that... 1. WHAT is "fragrance?" More than 95 percent of the chemicals in...
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Save the Monarchs, Spread the Milkweed
I'm one of those people who need to explore my surroundings, so when I found myself in Pacific Grove, California, for a conference, I couldn't leave without visiting the Monarch Sanctuary. This was...
View ArticleThe Verdict: Science Behind Stripping Wolf Protections Fatally Flawed
In a damning rebuke of the Obama administration's plans to strip Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves across most of the lower 48, a panel of five independent scientists has unanimously...
View ArticleMining the Abyss
World Ocean Observatory gathers its subject matter from sources all over the world. This week's story, "Mining the Abyss," comes from an excellent journalistic piece by Jo Chandler,, published in...
View ArticleDisaster Barbie vs. The Snowpocalypse
The dilemma: no heat. It is starting to snow. Your fireplace does not work. You own no space heaters, and the roads are starting to close. Even if you could get to Walmart, they tell you that they are...
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Bull Sharks in the Marina (Part II)
Most of us can eventually get used to almost anything -- natural catastrophes, war, even scores of huge aggressive sharks inhabiting a tranquil place such as the Big Game Club Marina on the Bahamian...
View ArticleSochi's Role in the Climate Movement
Every four years, we all get to celebrate the best in winter sports, and this week in Sochi, the Olympics will host some of the most incredible winter athletes in the world on the biggest stage in...
View ArticleHow to Conduct a Wedding Ceremony for Your Pet
A friend asked me if it is possible to officiate a pet wedding. "Before I would ever let my Italian greyhound breed," she said. "I would give her a proper ceremony." I thought it was a lovely gesture...
View ArticleSafe Climate Caucus: The Time to Act Is Now
One year ago, a small group of members of Congress gathered to announce the beginning of a new caucus -- the Safe Climate Caucus -- to end the conspiracy of silence in the U.S. House of Representatives...
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The Dog Poop Diet: How to Teach Your Dog to Avoid Eating His Own You-Know-What
Here's a word you probably haven't heard today: Coprophagia. I never studied in Greek in high school. Was too busy doing other really useful things (drinking coffee, life drawing, musical theater,...
View ArticleSixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt; 319 pages; $28) "There is grandeur in this view of life," concludes Charles Darwin in his opus On the Origin of Species. "......
View ArticleGrowing Something Greater: More Public-Private Support of Community Green...
There are so many amazing ways we can choose to give back to our communities -- mentoring at-risk youth, delivering meals to the hungry or collecting items for those in need. These are just a few ways...
View ArticlePete Seeger and the Power of Singing out Against Climate Change
This is the text of my testimony presented to the EPA this week on its proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants: I've traveled from New York to speak as a mom, a teacher, and a...
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At the Scene of a History-Making Cockfight Raid
This past weekend, I had the privilege to be among the ASPCA team assisting New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and New York State's Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) in the execution...
View ArticleColoradans to Xcel: Don't Stifle Rooftop Solar
Last week, hundreds of Coloradans gathered at the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to express their support for rooftop solar and net metering (and their opposition to Xcel's proposals to undermine...
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