Stop and Smell the Sustainable Flowers: Valentine's Day Alternatives
By Sari Kamin and Leah Eden, HRN Writers It's almost Valentine's Day, and many of you are probably planning to pick up roses at your corner store or order a bouquet from a 1-800 service. Most people...
View ArticleTrees Are Our Climate Saviors - So Stop Logging on Public Land
"Climate change is a fact," President Obama said in his State of the Union address on January 28, 2014, "and when our children's children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them...
View ArticleUS Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File New Class Action
Citing a wide range of ailments from leukemia to blindness to birth defects, 79 American veterans of 2011's earthquake/tsunami relief Operation Tomadachi ("Friendship") have filed a new $1 billion...
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Air Pollution: It's Complicated, But It's Still About Environmental Justice
By Ashley Verhines Many recent studies have shown that air pollution levels and income levels are linked. Poorer communities suffer from bad air more than wealthy communities. A recent study by UCLA...
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Keystone XL Will Significantly Increase Oil Industry Investment in the Tar Sands
A major issue in the decision around the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is the extent to which this project will drive expansion of tar sands extraction and the associated climate change. We...
View ArticleGot Science? Why This Climate Scientist's Libel Case Matters
Back in 2012, after the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Review each published pieces that likened climate scientist Michael E. Mann to a child molester and called his work a fraud,...
View ArticleProgress, But Not Yet Perfection: A Californian's Perspective on the New Farm...
Much has already been said and written about last week's passage of the Agricultural Act of 2014, otherwise known as the Farm Bill. Observers have offered a mix of lamentation and celebration, with...
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'Extinction Soup': An Interview With Documentary Filmmaker Philip Waller &...
The ocean is our planet's life support system. Covering 72 percent of the earth and supplying half it's oxygen. It is home to one the greatest diversity of species and ecosystems in the world. Of...
View ArticleArctic Withdrawal?
The challenges of drilling for oil in the Arctic can be summed up in two words: timing and risk. It now seems that these two factors are driving companies elsewhere. The latest company to turn away...
View Article5 Easy Ways to Reduce Food Waste and Save Money
If you grew up in the United States in the 1980s, chances are your parents probably repeated the same "there-are-starving-children-in-Africa" line to guilt you into finishing your dinner plate as mine...
View ArticleFixing Food in Four Minutes or Less
Last fall, when I launched the first-ever Real Food Media short films contest with project partners around the country, I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I just knew that there were...
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How You Can Help Animals During National Justice for Animals Week
On March 12, 2011, Logan Falk, an eleven year-old Husky, was violently attacked by an unknown assailant. Logan was in his kennel in Michigan that night, when someone entered the Falk property and...
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Preventing Animal Suffering Reaches Many Lives
A community is an extended family, a social ecosystem that includes both our environment and our relationship to all those around us, human and non-human alike. When any member of this family suffers...
View ArticleWhales and Dolphins Supplicate for Silence
Since the first primal grunt, humans have heavily relied on communication to survive. We use the art of language to sculpt our society, to stimulate our economy, and to describe the glorious beauty of...
View ArticleFish and Wildlife Service: It's Time for a Serious Course Correction on Wolves
I cannot say I was surprised by the recent peer review report on wolf delisting from a panel of independent scientists. They unanimously concluded that the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service's (the Service)...
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At the Shelter: Can Sensory Input Influence Adoptions?
I'm one of those people whose mind always seems to translate things into how they relate to dogs. The other morning was no exception. I came across an article stating that researchers have discovered...
View ArticleU.S. Challenges India's Solar Industry, Again
On February 10, the United States filed a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against India. The allegation? That India may be unfairly supporting the development of its solar manufacturing...
View ArticleThe Blackfish Effect: How Animal Rights Advocates Are Winning
You would have to have been living in an underground survival shelter this past year not to have heard of Blackfish. The damning SeaWorld documentary made grown men leave movie theaters in tears. When...
View Article10 Reasons to Oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline
With the clock ticking down on a final decision by the Obama administration on Keystone XL, it's a good time to summarize reasons to oppose a project that looks more like a pathway to pollution than a...
View Article'The Future We Seek, As Always, Must Be Earned'
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has issued a clarion call for immediate action on climate change. Speaking in Jakarta on Sunday, he described it as a threat on par with terrorism: "Perhaps the...
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