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National Invasive Species Awareness Week: Five Ways You Can Keep the Lakes Great
This week we recognize National Invasive Species Awareness Week and with Lake Michigan in the Shedd Aquarium's backyard, protecting the Great Lakes is an issue that literally is near to our heart --...
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Print or Digital: It All Has Environmental Impact
Are you reading fewer than 100 books on your e-reader before upgrading? Do you read the news more than 10 minutes each day? If so, the printed page is better for the planet than your digital screen....
View ArticlePlaying Chicken With Our Health
Each year, food poisoning from contaminants like salmonella results in 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths in the United States. Food inspections in our highly consolidated...
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Don't Mess With Kaua'i
Residents of Kaua'i are holding their ground against pesticide corporations. And, as we've learned time and time again, they won't be bullied by the likes of BASF, Dow, DuPont Pioneer and Syngenta....
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Stonemasonry: Environmental Art as Struggle to Perfect the Imperfect
This stone structure was designed and built in Vermont by Thea Alvin. No mortar, no pins. Just rocks, gravity, know-how -- vision and execution. So is it art? Or craft? Or both?Stonemasonry is a craft...
View ArticleThrough the Climate Portal: Humanity's Tragic Flaw
In the autumn of 1992, I was alone in my studio apartment in Philadelphia, puking my guts out. Something bad had happened inside; it felt like a bomb had gone off in my belly. Just how bad was it? Was...
View ArticleWe Are the Environment
When I was a little girl growing up in Los Angeles, I would spend summer afternoons in the backyard of my grandmother's home in South L.A., on Harvard and Martin Luther King Boulevard. I remember...
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'Green News Report' - February 27, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Cancer clusters found downwind of Canada's tar sands; Nebraska judge rejects Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route; Inspector...
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Red, Blue, and Purple States Agree: Limit Carbon Pollution
Conventional wisdom can be a funny thing, especially in politics. It's often based on anecdote rather than fact. Take the politics of climate, for instance. The fossil fuel industry, backed by the Koch...
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Climate Change This Week: Earth's Thermal Shield Melting, Fracking NIMBY, and...
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, Feb 27 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleWATCH: What Happened When A Kid Asked Her, 'Are You A Boy Or A Girl?'
In this incredibly moving talk, waitress-turned-equal-rights-advocate Ash Beckham shares a story about how a little girl's innocence stopped her in her tracks. See what this profound encounter reveals...
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster Warns It Could Happen Here
The U.S. nuclear industry's prospects looked pretty rosy back in February 2011. Republicans had placed the nuclear "renaissance" at the top of their agenda and introduced legislation to streamline...
View ArticleHey, Let's Stop Being Idiots, Okay?
This week is a mixed bag for me on the happiness front. On the one hand, I could not be more thrilled that Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer, did the right thing and vetoed the ugliest anti-LGBT bill to...
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Former Dolphin Trainer Speaks Out on the Horrors of Captivity
Former dolphin trainer Gail Woon is now an anti-captivity activist who is speaking out about her previous work at the Dolphin Experience (UNEXSO) in the Bahamas, on Grand Bahama Island. (Photo...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Supreme Court Divided After Hearing on EPA Authority
In a hearing Monday, the Supreme Court questioned whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is correct in its interpretation that regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles triggers...
View ArticleFamily Farmers + You
By Danielle Nierenberg and Sarah Small, Food Tank Family farmers are more than food producers. They are stewards of biodiversity, climate change fighters, and entrepreneurs, boosting local economies....
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EPA Makes the Right Move for Bristol Bay, Starts 404(c) Process on Pebble Mine
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took the first regulatory step toward securing a healthy future for Bristol Bay. Responding to overwhelming public demand for the protection of Bristol...
View ArticleMovies for Change: The Oscars of Environmental Health
The Oscars are nearly here, and everyone is asking, "Who will win best director," "Will Sandra Bullock win again," and "What was up with the ending of Her?" We have another question: where are the...
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Should Sierra Club Endorse Coal Rush/Fracking Gov. Quinn -- Or Call Out...
Is it enough for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and state treasurer candidate Mike Frerichs to hustle today to purge their campaigns of tainted coal industry contributions from a growing mine safety regulator...
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