Shining a Spotlight on Water Defenders
For too long, we have paid little attention to our planet's most crucial natural resource: water. Sadly, most of what we hear is not great news -- massive contaminations, scarcity, areas of high stress...
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There's No Business Like the Waste Business
When you survey the low income area of Ndirande, Blantyre in Malawi from the crest of a hill you notice the density of the homes mashed together, the uneven, almost crater-like nature of the unpaved...
View ArticleWhen Water Scarcity Becomes Personal
"There are so many problems here around water," Sabeen said. Sabeen is Syrian. Last year she and her children fled Damascus, and now they live in northern Jordan in a one-room flat. Mattresses without...
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Ukraine and Nuclear Weapons
When the Soviet Union ended in 1991, Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons to Russia. By 1996 they had rid themselves of the third largest arsenal in the world, larger than those of Britain, China and...
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Students Are Now Competing Across Continents to Reduce the Most Emissions,...
What began in 2003 in one school as a campus-wide energy conservation competition to raise awareness about energy consumption is now being used as a successful tool for schools and entire districts to...
View ArticleUnderstanding How Americans View the Environment
Each year, the Gallup organization conducts a poll on America's view of environmental issues. Gallup's polling is typically very high quality and its polling data is always illuminating. Taken...
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Learning Los Angeles: Andy Lipkis on Making our Cities More Like Forests,...
Part Two: Interview with Andy Lipkis, founder of TreePeople, on urban forests and watersheds, and how individuals can make a difference for good. Q: Can you explain your vision of tree people as water...
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When Did the Energy Industry Begin Fracking?
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Russell Gold, Author of The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World , Wall Street Journal senior energy...
View ArticleExxon Valdez Oil Spill Still Leaves a Painful Legacy
Exactly 25 years ago, 260,000 barrels of crude oil from the Exxon Valdez oil tanker inundated the frigid, fragile waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound. Many disturbing physical reminders of the...
View ArticleSurrey Regional Economic Summit
Last month, I had the opportunity to travel to Canada and discuss our energy policy here in the U.S. The truth is I ended up talking about America's lack of an energy plan. That's been the story out of...
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Farm to Fork Across America: Netting the Spirit of Environmentally...
Co-authored with Lee Glenn Kina'ole in Hawaiian, means "doing the right thing, in the right way, at the right time, in the right place, to the right person, for the right reason, with the right...
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25 Years Later: Why Alaska Can't Afford Another Exxon Valdez
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) is upon us as the United States Government faces critical decisions about oil and gas development in Alaska's Arctic Ocean. On March...
View ArticleIdaho's Wolf-Killing Atrocity Continues
When it comes to killing wolves, Idaho has an appetite that just can't be sated. State lawmakers just approved a bill that sets aside $400,000 to exterminate 500 wolves. Adding insult to injury, the...
View ArticleMore CEOs Should Tell Anti-Environment Shareholders to Buzz Off
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said something to a shareholder that you very rarely hear: Take a hike. I'm paraphrasing, but only slightly. At the company's latest shareholder meeting, a think tank,...
View ArticleWaste-Free Ocean
Of all the waste deposited in the ocean, perhaps the best known is the plastic debris that shows up on our beaches, in the stomachs of fish and shore birds, in the enormous floating "island" of plastic...
View ArticleFinding Common Ground Outdoors
Someone once said, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Blogging about getting outdoors feels a bit like that. Part of me thinks that rather than writing 850 words about getting...
View ArticleAs a Horsewoman, I Would Like to Welcome PETA to Our Industry
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has a long history of doing the dirty and often times dangerous work of outing horrific examples of animal abuse. We have all seen the photos of...
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Coal Ash Ponds: How Power Companies Get a 'Bypass' on Regulations Against...
Apparently, as may be the case with Duke Energy's power plant near Moncure, North Carolina, companies occasionally participate in "intentional polluting." What gives? (Waterkeeper Alliance/Rick Dove)...
View ArticleEcotopia
The first Ecotopia took place in 1989 in Germany, in a field not far from Cologne in West Germany. Three hundred and fifty people lived in tents for three weeks. They ate organic food. They discussed...
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Exxon: 25 Years of Tears in Alaska
Time has a strange affect on events in our lives. I feel I'm looking through a glass of water when I look back 25 years to this day, March 24, 1989. I'd left Seattle University and the Ballard Lochs on...
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