The Global Drinking Water Crisis That Is Hitting Close to Your Home
This week, I spent about 20 minutes on HuffPost Live chatting with Alyona Minkovski about the global crisis threatening drinking water. That phrase -- global crisis -- seems to desensitize people,...
View Article'The Wrong Side of History'
Conservatives love to argue against clean energy by saying that the government "shouldn't pick winners or losers." So why then, did conservative Tennessee politicians, like U.S. Senator Bob Corker,...
View ArticleWhy Are Leading Overseas Development Advocates Pushing Us Down the Greenhouse...
One of the Obama administration's better climate-related actions has been the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's (OPIC) financing of renewable energy projects overseas. OPIC's support for...
View ArticleThe Inherent Opportunity in Today's Energy Poverty Crisis
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger, but recognize the opportunity." --...
View ArticleSteer-ing the climate conversation to sanity re economic analysis
Monday evening, the PBS' Newshour hosted a segment on climate change issues building on Secretary of State John Kerry's strong comments over the weekend equating climate change with weapons of mass...
View ArticleHawaii's Test Case for Solar Grid Penetration
Two years ago, the state of Hawaii made history in the U.S. by becoming the first place where solar reached, and then exceeded grid parity with dirtier sources of energy. The Institute for Local Self...
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Passion Remains High Because Keystone XL Marks a Turning Point on Climate
Now five years after it was first proposed, why do so many Americans, including the environmental community, remain so passionately opposed to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline? The fervor arises...
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Clean Air Is Always in Fashion
I like fashion as well as the next mom. Fashion is about choice. Women know dressing for occasions comes in a variety of expressive forms -- some wear stilettos and sequins to the grocery store,...
View ArticleA Year for Change: From Climate Talk to Climate Action
Everybody's talking about the crazy weather. The polar vortex walloped the Eastern United States with ice and snow while the West suffers through extreme drought. Big parts of Britain were hit by...
View ArticleA New Gold Rush Into the Blue Economy
At an ocean conference in China last October, renowned American oceanographer Sylvia Earle told participants that "we must think of taking care of the ocean as if our lives depended on it....because...
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice Should Not Be an Either/Or Proposition
Part One -- K And E Shout In My Face I thought I might get punched yesterday at a heavily attended and contentious city council meeting to discuss New York City's environment, specifically as it is...
View ArticleJapan's Return to Nuclear Power
Yoichi Masuzoe, victor in February's Tokyo gubernatorial election, is expected to help bring nuclear power back to Japan. Despite two anti-nuke contenders in the race, the controversial Masuzoe won the...
View ArticleState Senator's Proposal Moves from Cap & Trade to Fee & Rebate
On February 20, 2014, California Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D - Sacramento) proposed removing transportation fuels from the state's Cap & Trade program under AB32, the Global...
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Paradise Lost: Why Our Desire to Protect U.S. Wilderness Should Not Cease
An old black and white photograph came to mind recently when I had a moment to think about the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, ironically on a gridlocked highway that offers breathtaking views...
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Celebrate Spay Month Throughout the Year
February is National Prevent a Litter Month. For over a decade animal welfare organizations, veterinarians and grass roots activists worldwide have sponsored educational events, discounted and free...
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Utility-Backed Anti-Solar Bill On The Move in Kansas Statehouse
This is Part Three of a series on attacks on net metering in 2014 from the Energy & Policy Institute. Read Part One: North Carolina's Duke Energy Plans Attack on Solar and Part Two: Utility...
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Who Does Your Dog Think You Are?
I have a small wooden plaque in my kitchen that reads, "My goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks I am." I suppose that when people read it they see it like a bumper sticker. Curious and...
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'Green News Report' - February 25, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Natural gas methane leaks found to be 50% higher than EPA estimates; CO passes first-ever emissions regulations for oil & gas...
View ArticleExiles on Main Street: When Ordinary People Resist the Oil-pocalypse
It seems every week or so you can hear language borrowed from the War On Terror, the Salem Witch Hunts and the McCarthy hearings. Some prosecutor is hurling invective at fossil fuel resisters, who sit...
View ArticlePoll Says Californians Want Action on Drought -- And Governor, Legislative...
At long last, California is expected to receive some significant rainfall and snowfall this week. It will help ease the historic drought. But we are not out of the woods. Far from it. According to the...
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