Time to End the Quagmire Over Quagmires
People who care about clean water -- parents, hunters and anglers, brewers and anyone who likes to go for a swim or turn on a tap and enjoy a cool drink -- are telling EPA and the Obama administration...
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Poisoning the Sacred Lands
If every action has an equal reaction, then I wonder what poisoning our Mother Earth will bring us? The stark beauty of the high desert in Monument Valley, reminds us how fragile life is. Man can so...
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'Green News Report' - March 13, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Battle lines drawn in contentious U.S. Senate hearing on Keystone XL; Hottest winter on record for California; China is declaring...
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Climate Change This Week: A Rising Sea, Rising Voices, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, Mar 13 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleStop U.S. Navy's War on Whales
Remember the popular Star Trek IV movie, The Voyage Home? Two humpback whales, George and Gracie, save the earth from a devastating alien probe by simply defusing the attack--with whale song. In that...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: All-Night Senate Session Focuses on Climate Change
In the last 100 years, senators have held all-night sessions 35 times on everything from the Civil Rights Act to the Iraq War. This week, climate change made the list as number 36. The more than...
View ArticleFukushima: What Have We Learned?
It's been three years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the bad news continues. In December, it was widely reported that 51 U.S. sailors assigned to the nuclear carrier Ronald Reagan have...
View ArticleThe Economics of Foodservice Face Severe Pressures
As the debate about increasing the minimum wage rages on, foodservice operators are dealing with the realities of cutting costs. While the need to maintain a successful business is still the first...
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BYOB: Bring Your Own Bag Ordinance Is Moving...FINALLY
Last year, I wrote this in a blog about why plastic bags should be banned in Chicago: The average person uses 500 single-use disposable plastic bags a year, an average of 1.37 bags per day. This...
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Phil Ginsburg Brings His Green Heart to San Francisco
A recent issue of New York Magazine includes a long story comparing New York City and San Francisco, asking "Is San Francisco New York?" While the piece focused on high tech business and real estate, a...
View ArticleWhat I'll Talk About When I Talk About Global Warming
I spend a lot of time thinking about what I'll tell my four-year-old daughter about global warming. I'm a betting person and my money says our children are going to view environmental destruction as...
View ArticleNatural Gas No Fit for GE's Ecomagination
Remember back in 2005 when General Electric (GE) launched its Ecomagination initiative? Its purpose, as the liberal news site Grist put it at the time, was "to ramp up development of clean technologies...
View ArticleAgencies Dodge Responsibility for Human Cost of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining
This week, we got some disappointing news - a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers isn't responsible for considering the health effects of coal pollution when it issues permits to fill valleys...
View ArticleSXSW Film: Damnation, a Documentary That's Testing the Waters of Corporate...
In 1935, FDR promoted the building of dams and this grew to include over 75,000 dams standing more than 3 feet tall throughout the United States. Many of these dams have outlived their usefulness, and...
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Human Nature and Planning for Floods
Some people have the difficult job of imagining worst case scenarios so they can plan actions to prevent or mitigate catastrophic events. Unfortunately, dreaming up the consequences of, say, a storm...
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Olympian Hero Brings Home More Than a Medal
Humane Society International's Masha Kalinina, Gus Kenworthy and Robin Macdonald with two of the rescued puppies. View more photos here. Photo by Christopher Lane/AP Images for HSI At the Winter...
View ArticleWho Protects the People Once Their Water's Been Poisoned?
January 9 of this year about 7500 gallons -- more or less -- of crude 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) leaked out of a one-inch hole in a storage container owned by Freedom Industries. The container...
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Sustainable Tourism Education: What is the responsibility of attractions?
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, GA, It is an impressive attraction that houses over 100,000 animals, representing 500 species, in 10 million gallons of water....
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Sustainable Tourism Education: What Is the Responsibility of Attractions?
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, GA, It is an impressive attraction that houses over 100,000 animals, representing 500 species, in 10 million gallons of water....
View ArticleGoing Organic in Slovenia
Ten years ago I visited Slovenia to do a report on organic farming for the Bay Area-based organization Food First. I was drawn to the former Yugoslav republic because it had recently joined with...
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