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When Eco-Battle Cries Backfire
"We've hit the limits of a finite Earth!" Ever heard this environmentalists' call to action? If you have, it's probably made intuitive sense. After all, aren't ecosystems in collapse everywhere? The...
View ArticleClimate Activism Works
On Sunday, March 2, 398 people were arrested in front of the White House to demand President Obama reject the Keystone pipeline. And less than two weeks later, nearly a third of the U.S. Senate stayed...
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Put It on Ice
This winter, the continental U.S. has experienced such long periods of cold weather that some have started to wonder whether scientists have somehow gotten the signs wrong, and instead of global...
View ArticleFor Bringing Safe, Clean Water to Slums in Sub-Saharan Africa, Market-Based...
Policies such as privatization and small-scale private distribution have failed to increase access to clean water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan African slums. It's time for African governments to start...
View ArticleLessons From the Senate's Climate Change All-nighter
When my colleagues and I finished our all-nighter on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning, we had spoken for more than 14 hours to draw attention to the threat posed by climate change. As we had hoped,...
View ArticleThe Peterson Farm Bros' Beef with Chipotle (Part 1)
Many have probably seen or heard about Chipotle's commercial, "The Scarecrow" and their recent video series, "Farmed and Dangerous." Chipotle claims these spots are shedding light on the "inhumane" and...
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Space Is Our Future
The dawn of the space age occurred on October 4, 1957, when the then Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. This very small satellite was in orbit for three months before burning up in the Earth's...
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Why Protecting the Environment 'For Future Generations' Is a Bad Idea
I recently took my son to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Suffice to say, they do amazing work rescuing and rereleasing baby elephants and rhinos back into the wild. They...
View ArticleThe EU: Climate Emitter or Committer?
Unfortunately, it is a truth that the climate process has been floundering for a lot of its 22-year history, and almost ground to a complete halt following the Copenhagen negotiations in 2009. However,...
View ArticleA Conservative's Lament
In 2004, Republican Congressman Bob Inglis of South Carolina won 85 percent of the primary vote in the most conservative district of arguably the most conservative state in the union. Six years later,...
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UDPATE: Road Blockade Stops Peabody Loggers: Mr. Peabody's Coal Train Ain't...
UPDATE: Rocky Branch Road Peaceful Blockade Stops Peabody 11:30 am CST Facing off with the world's largest coal company, which literally sank its first historic mine nearby in 1895, Rocky Branch...
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Now-healthy Bobcat Returns to the Wild
WildCare's Wildlife Hospital treats nearly 4,000 ill, injured and orphaned wild animal patients from over 200 species every year. This is one patient's story. The odds against this young female...
View ArticleHow Much Do Companies Really Worry About Climate Change?
Are managers particularly concerned about the impacts of climate change on their businesses? If we believe the results of a recent MIT Sloan and BCG survey, the answer is no. But it may not be that...
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In 10 Years I Hope to Live on Mars
Photo courtesy of Steve Boxall for Zero Gravity Corporation I want to leave the planet. In particular, I'd like to live on Mars. Is that a strange goal? It's my job to convince people that it's not,...
View ArticleTrash Fish: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (VIDEO)
Portland, OR Four top chefs team up as part of a national Chefs Collaborative fundraising effort to raise public awareness of overfishing, and create demand for alternative fish species that are not...
View ArticleWild Horses at Risk of Slaughter as BLM's Problems Worsen
Two years ago we learned about Tom Davis, the man the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), sold 1,700 wild horses to between 2009-2012. Davis, known to traffic horses to Mexico for slaughter, asked a...
View ArticleHow We Talk About "Climate Refugees" and Why It's Complicated
"MALDIVES – Using hand signals and whiteboards to communicate, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives held a Cabinet meeting underwater in 2009." Nasheed's watery stunt came just months before the...
View ArticleClean Energy: A One-Two Punch in the Fight Against Global Warming
"Two words: Clean Energy." If the classic 1967 film The Graduate were remade today, that's the career advice young Dustin Hoffman would hear from his savvy elders. The future lies in clean energy....
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Gen. Jim Jones Didn't Disclose Industry Ties Before Testimony at Keystone XL...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing today (March 13) on the U.S. State Department's national interest determination for the northern half of the...
View ArticleFighting for All Animals, Everywhere
"For far too long, dogs have been suffering like this in puppy mills across North Carolina," Kim Alboum, the HSUS state director there, said yesterday after she and local organizations conducted a...
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