The (IN)Sanity of Climate Change
Last year a friend of mine and her husband set out with their three children on a trek from Missouri to the boreal forests of central Canada to raise awareness about climate change. She read Bill...
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Food As a Bridge to Jobs and Hope: Green Bridge Growers
Food is so much a part of the fabric of our lives, reflecting our health, lifestyle, time, and values. Like so many of us, my childhood memories of specific events revolve around food and meals...
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How Responsible Is Business for Social Responsibility?
Reposted from the Eye on the Amazon We're all quite conscious of the fact that corporations in America grow more powerful each day. One merely has to look at the elections since the fateful Citizens...
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Litter from Indonesia -- Rubble in Paradise: Cleaning Up the Looney Front
The huge monitor lizard rests on a bed of filthy litter -- plastic bottles, wrappers, jars -- on the lushly jungled shore of soaring Rakata island, the largest remnant of, arguably, the most famous...
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From Laboratory to Sanctuary, CHIMP Act Funding Paves the Way
Chimpanzees have languished in laboratories for decades, sometimes subjected to painful experimentation and often warehoused in barren cages. But now the fate of these remarkable and highly intelligent...
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Mites Turn Overbred Pug's Skin Black
In September, Charity, an 8-year-old Pug and Georgia, her 2-week-old pup, were dropped off at the Downey Animal Care Center in Downey, Calif. Charity arrived in horrible condition. The first thing you...
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Climate Change This Week: the Real Climate Tax, Methane Mess, and More!
US Taxpayers Footing Big Bill For Climate Change Inaction says a new analysis, reports Kieran Cooke at RTCC. Hurricane Sandy, enhanced by rising sea levels and temperatures, and drought that hit 70% of...
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You Get What You Pay for (Perjury, in This Case)
Reposted from Eye on the AmazonHaving virtually all the money in the world often means you can buy silence, you can buy time, and you can buy lies. Chevron has demonstrated this time and again in its...
View ArticleNew Report: Activists Worldwide Say 'No' to Coal
This year, the world saw tremendous momentum demanding a move beyond coal. From India to Germany, the United States to Indonesia, communities are standing up and demanding clean air and clean water....
View ArticleThis New Year, Drop the Shop!
Don't get me wrong, I love to shop. There's nothing better than a caffeinated afternoon spent with a few good girlfriends and a great stretch of boutiques. But today, my favorite boutiques are thrift...
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Can Superfund Save This Garbage-Strewn Island?
Nearly 500 miles northwest of Hawaii, there's a tiny rectangular island in the middle of Pacific. Though it's only 26 acres -- the size of roughly 20 football fields -- Tern Island is a life-saving...
View ArticleThe Seaweed Rebellion to Save California's Golden Shore
In the age of the internet, smartphones and 24/7 media encapsulating so many Americans' time, talents and interests, it is quite refreshing (and rare!) to come across those who are deeply interested...
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The Truth Has No Place in Kaplan's Court
Re-posted from the Eye On The Amazon You likely already know that Chevron (as Texaco) admitted to deliberately dumping close to 18 billion gallons of toxic foundation waters into the pristine...
View ArticleHow Climate Change Could Affect Your Pension
Is your pension fund or insurance company a leader or laggard when it comes to avoiding risky bets on the future impacts of climate change?A new survey finds that major Canadian institutional investors...
View ArticleWhy You Should Never Bike to Work
I have biked everywhere within 4 miles of my apartment in the past 5 years, including every job I've had -- I've never had to drive to work in Denver. I find riding a bicycle exhilarating, but that's...
View ArticleArguing for Inefficiency
In what topsy-turvy world would we find large energy companies like the Ohio Valley Coal Corporation suing in the Supreme Court to ask for more stringent, complicated, and expensive environmental...
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What Lies Beneath: Diving Into the Neptune Undersea Observatory Project...
On the surface, it would seem that new frontiers have been just about exhausted on Earth... but sometimes you just have to look deeper. The world's oceans are vast, covering 71 percent of the Earth's...
View ArticleSupport the 'Save America's Pollinators Act' -- Why We Must Work Together to...
My fascination with pollinators began with the film my brother Rhett produced, Pollinators in Peril. The film introduced me to the serious challenges pollinators are facing and their ongoing steep...
View ArticleIncluding the Earth in Our Prayers
Every morning I love to walk early beside the wetlands where I live. It is a time of natural reflection and prayer, a time to be alone with nature and the divine that is present: in the hawk sitting on...
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2013 'Got Science?' Champions
With Congressional partisanship reaching unprecedented levels and science too frequently under attack from a vocal minority, it's all the more vital to stand up for the basic idea that our choices...
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