Walk Softly
"When you go to dig your fields, or make a pot from clay, you are disturbing the balance of things. When you walk, you are moving the air, breathing it in and out. Therefore you must make payments."...
View ArticleThe Danger of MIS-Reasoning About Risk
Anyone who has followed the fuss over fracking has heard opponents of the process claim that it causes earthquakes. According to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey, (the USGS), that's not...
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Kindergartner Takes Down Trash
The average person generates about 7 pounds of trash every day, according to a Columbia University study--nearly 50 pounds per person per week. That's roughly the weight of my kindergartner. Figuring...
View ArticleEthiopia Pushes River Basin Toward Hydrological Disaster
In a remote part of East Africa, the Ethiopian government is furtively transforming a pastoral landscape populated by indigenous agro-pastoralists into an industrial powerhouse of dams and plantations....
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice Interview: Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome
February 11th marked the 20th anniversary of Executive Order 12898: Federal actions to address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income populations. To commemorate that milestone, I...
View ArticleLight Our World Through Science and Testing
As the United States faces new challenges, such as creating greater energy independence, there has been a push by policy makers in the last several years to be less wasteful and preserve this country's...
View ArticleNBC to Johnny Weir: Yes to Tiaras and Mascara, No to Fur
Add animal rights to the list of issues buzzing from Sochi: NBC told Olympics correspondent Johnny Weir to dress as flamboyantly as he wants -- but to ditch his infamous furs. "Do whatever you want....
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Ban Nuclear Weapons; Saving Money and Saving the World
Co-authored by Owen Brian Toon, Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, btoon@lasp.colorado.edu As the United States struggles to deal...
View ArticleUnprecedented Coalition in Washington, D.C. Next Week Urging EPA to Protect...
Next week NRDC will join leaders from an unprecedented coalition of Alaska Natives, commercial fishermen, sportsmen, business owners, and faith leaders converging in D.C. and calling on EPA to use its...
View ArticleLike a Handshake, but with Noses and Butts
In our society, a handshake is the standard greeting for meeting new people. We have a whole ritual that goes with it. First we verbally introduce ourselves, making eye contact and smiling, then we...
View ArticleConventional Wisdom, Coal and China
The Denver Broncos will win the Super Bowl. There's no way Barack Obama can defeat Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination. People will never read digital books. Conventional wisdom can seem so...
View ArticleFederal Supremacy
Our founding fathers were right on target when they inscribed in the U.S. Constitution the provision Article Six, Clause Two, best known as the Federal Supremacy Clause. It dictates that federal law...
View ArticleIs Your Food Cooking The Planet?
This blog is part of a series that explores the themes and issues raised in Farmed and Dangerous, a 4-part satirical web series exploring issues related to the food system and industrial agriculture....
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Stop Feeding the Beast and Start Feeding the People
by Coach Mark Smallwood, executive director at Rodale Institute Have you ever wondered how anyone makes any money on a $2.00 bag of nacho-cheese-flavored corn chips or a $0.25 apple? Economists and...
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Sochi Winter Olympics Weather
Are you watching the Olympics in Sochi? Are you worried about the future of winter sports? It's been well-documented that climate change is a threat to ecosystems. Throughout the Sochi Olympics, news...
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Feeding My Voracious Passport With a Jellyfish-Munching Turtle in the Great...
My passport is like the blood-sucking, voracious plant from Little Shop Of Horrors -- the more I feed it, the hungrier it gets. Last year, my 103-year-old grandmother "Grandma Betty" and I were...
View ArticlePLASTIC: The Official Bag of California?
The environmental movement in California is teetering on the edge of a slippery slope. California is at the forefront in the fight against the proliferation of plastic pollution. But it earned that...
View ArticleWhy Are Latinos Way Ahead of the Climate Change Curve? 3 Latino...
In the battle against climate change, Latinos are in the line of fire. And our musketeers are our scientists. We Latinos disproportionately suffer the effects of climate change because of our...
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Snail Darter Politics
As California is enduring the worst drought in its history, some politicians are blaming it all on federal and state environmental laws that protect fish and wildlife and the rivers they depend on for...
View ArticleIt's Time for Factory Farms to Pay Their Fair Share
Big chicken processing companies generate 1.5 billion pounds of fowl waste annually in Delmarva (the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia tri-state area), and it's choking the Chesapeake Bay. Each year,...
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