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Faith Leaders Call for Limits On Carbon Pollution
When EPA held a public hearing earlier this month on its proposed rule to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, I expected to hear comments from engineers, economists, policy experts, health...
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Finding Your Career 2.0 in Conservation Science: One Woman's Story
Everyone's career path is different, but much of what we hope to glean from our work is the same. We all want to love what we do. The poet Kahlil Gibran wrote that 'to work with love is to charge all...
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Statistically Speaking: A Wasteland of Food
An unconscionable amount of food is wasted around the globe. Here's a look. (Sporkist/Flickr) The amount of food we waste is enough to make you sick... many times over. The latest installment [pdf] in...
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Californian Innovation Tackles Salinity with Solar Desalination
California has not experienced a drought the likes of the current epic crisis since the year 1580 - as evidenced from tree ring growth. Some Californian towns are within 100 days or less of running out...
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Market May Reward "Greenwashing" Over Green Results
By KC McKanna A growing number of people are interested in investing in companies that perform well environmentally as well as economically. Unfortunately, measuring environmental performance is not...
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Corporate Responsibility or "Greenwashing"?
How can investors and consumers tell whether companies are doing the right thing by the environment or "greenwashing" their images to make it seem like they're doing the right thing? Magali Delmas, a...
View ArticleMeet the Students Getting Arrested Over Keystone XL
This Sunday, hundreds of students will risk arrest during the largest act of youth civil disobedience at the White House in a generation. This is XL Dissent: a youth-led movement protesting the...
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Hundreds of Students Arrested at White House Protesting Keystone XL
I just came back from the White House, where the police are still arresting the hundreds of students who are taking part in what will likely be the largest act of youth civil disobedience at the White...
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Why We Should Care That March 3rd Is Now World Wildlife Day
The United Nations does a great job declaring days in the year for commemoration or celebration. There is International Women's Day, World Water Day, World AIDS Day and more than 100 other special...
View ArticleOn Our First Ever World Wildlife Day, Let's Put an End to Illegal Wildlife...
Today, the world celebrates the first ever World Wildlife Day. Here in America, the bald eagle, the grizzly bear, the salmon and the American bison are distinct examples of the centrality of wildlife...
View ArticleFood Injustice: The Revolution Starts In The Garden
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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Dog Learning is 24/7
style="float: left; margin:10px" How much time do you spend each day training your dog? If you answered "30 minutes," "An hour," or even "Three 10-minute sessions," you're wrong. Oh, I believe that...
View Article5 Life Skills We Could All Learn from Planting an Edible Garden
Spring is springing, or at least we hope it is. As I joyfully ordered seeds for my little garden last night, I began thinking about all the life lessons we learn from the simple act of growing food....
View ArticleUrban Mining
In a recent blog post (see "Mining the Abyss") on deep ocean mining, I described a project off the coast of Papua New Guinea where a multinational corporation was engaged in scouring the ocean floor to...
View ArticleThe Iron Law of Toxic Extraction
The alkylation unit at this Tesoro refinery might serve as the gateway to the Norse hell. A network of pipes carries sulfuric acid, kept below 0 centigrade to avoid boiling. The acid corrodes the pipes...
View ArticleHuman Tipping Points: Why I'm Optimistic About Solutions to Global Warming...
Many people worry about "tipping points" in the climate system. For example, could a small increase in Arctic temperatures cause a major methane release with accelerated global warming? Will a little...
View ArticleMoving Cars in the Right Direction
Everybody knows that standing in front of a moving car is dangerous, but what about standing behind one? Currently, four out of 10 Americans live in a place where the air is sometimes dangerous to...
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Wild Horses -- Beauty and the Betrayers: Part Two
As I have said previously, the wild horses of America's eleven western states are caught in a battle of competing interests for the land on which they live, chief among those competitors, according to...
View ArticleGreen Buildings Are Healthy Buildings - Let's Prove the Case
Sick leave costs the economy a staggering $576 billion a year -- and that's just in the U.S. Wider mental health problems also come at a significant cost through lost productivity, benefit payments and...
View ArticleWhite House, Faith Leaders and Climate Change
On February 25, the White House convened a conference on environmental stewardship and climate change with leaders of religious communities from around the U.S. There was a noticeable absence of...
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