5 Easy Ways to Reduce Clothing Waste and Save Money
With a new season soon upon us and spring cleaning around the corner, I recently decided to survey my closet. I counted over 500 pieces of clothing in my closet and dresser combined, and that's not...
View ArticleChina's Airpocalypse: 'Breathing Together, Sharing the Fate'
Last week, much of northern China was cloaked in a thick apocalyptic smog which many scientists likened to a nuclear winter. Although pollution levels in Beijing have now subsided to "very unhealthy"...
View ArticleSulfur, Sulfur, Toil and Trouble
Buried under the Ukraine crisis, sitting forlornly on page 8 of the Monday, March 3, 2014, New York Times is a quiet but terribly important story. The Environmental Protection Agency, we are told, will...
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Climate Youth Lead #XLDISSENT Civil Resistance to Ensure Our Civil Existence
More than a thousand climate youth leaders and allies converged on Washington, DC this weekend for the largest student-led civil resistance action at the White House in a generation. They came to...
View Article6 Reasons to Celebrate the Growth and Power of Our Movement to Ban Fracking
It's hard to recall a week since last November's election sweep in Colorado as indicative of both the breadth and growing power of the movement to protect communities from fracking. Through a series of...
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How Can Poaching Be Brought Under Control?
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Rory Young, Professional Safari Guide, Ranger, and Tracker How To Catch Poachers (in a nutshell).In order to bring poaching under control, it needs...
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Why Urban History Matters
Going forward, let's not discount the influence of history's recurring themes in how we redevelop the urban realm. So many discussions about cities today look only forward, without fully considering...
View ArticleThere Is a Way to Stop Tragic Livestock Fires
This week more than 1,000 hogs were killed by a fire at the farm near the Carroll County community of Cutler in Central Indiana. The dead included about 500 young pigs who died in a nursery barn. Flora...
View ArticleNOAA Backs Down
Scientists estimate that shark populations have declined by much as 90 percent for many species, largely thanks to finners, who kill as many as 73 million sharks every year to supply restaurants with...
View ArticleA Gift from the Collapseniks
Of what possible use is it to imagine the end of civilization or even of the species? Is this kind of imagination simply a pessimistic indulgence or can it contribute to "green" and other positive...
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6 Greener Ethos Car Maintenance Tips
A greener ethos is something most of us strive for these days. Recycling is a part of our everyday lives and we eagerly jump on the green bandwagon, buying products touted as environmentally-safe....
View ArticleIndustrial Farms Need a Prescription to Fight Superbugs
Last year, my 12-year-old son came down with a skin infection. He was prescribed an antibiotic, took the full treatment, and got better. Of course there is nothing remarkable about this story these...
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Rounding the Tip of the Antarctic Peninsula
By Stephen Nowland, Staff Photographer for Earth Vision Trust and the Extreme Ice Survey Photo Courtesy of Extreme Ice Survey ©Earth Vision Trust. The Antarctic Peninsula separates the warm maritime...
View ArticleSettlement Is Not Admission of Guilt in New Orleans Flooding during Katrina
Recently, the New Orleans Advocate reported on how most efforts to win legal claims for flood damage during Katrina have failed. Key cases against the Army Corps of Engineers, the architect and...
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The Tweet Heard 'Round the World
Ellen DeGeneres never ceases to amaze me, with her unparalleled wit and talent, generosity of spirit and passion for animal protection. But she really reached a new high in my book, by directing $1.5...
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'Green News Report' - March 4, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hundreds arrested at White House -- again -- protesting Keystone XL pipeline; EPA moves to block controversial Alaska mine; New...
View ArticleSmart Growth Helps Combat Climate Change
We are past the point of arguing about the science of climate change. Study after study, expert after expert, has confirmed that it is real. We are also past the point of denying the effects of climate...
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Malibu Protects Dolphins and Whales
The last Monday of February 2014 was indeed historic for Malibu, Calif., because the Malibu City Council proclaimed that all cetaceans (whales and dolphins) that pass its shoreline have the right to...
View ArticleSeeking Justice in Ecuador
Let us begin with a common understanding; let's start with what is not in dispute. The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's most important ecosystems and is home to the largest remaining area of...
View ArticleCommission Seeks to Lift Fog on Offshore Fracking
In August 2013, the Associated Press reported that oil companies have used hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and other types of "well stimulation treatments" to access oil beneath state and federal...
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