The Wolf Conservation Center's Support of the Gray Wolf
The Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, N.Y. has initiated the formation of the Northeast Wolf Coalition to offer a voice for wolf recovery in the region. The new coalition has submitted a...
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The Courage to Act
What an incredible week! I just returned from the TED conference in Vancouver. The highlight may have been breakfast with Al Gore. Having worked with him on An Inconvenient Truth, I've seen him speak...
View ArticleNot Just Another Pipeline: The Truth About Tar Sands and Keystone XL
Cross-posted from NextGenClimate.org According to the tar sands lobby, Keystone XL is just another pipeline -- but this couldn't be further from the truth. When an oil company executive tells American...
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25 Years After Exxon Valdez: If We Ignore the Past, We Risk Repeating It in...
Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, one of the most devastating environmental disasters in America history, and that makes the events of the last few days all the more...
View ArticleLet the Waters Flow -- As Long as It Is Clean
I grew up in Santa Paula, a small agricultural community in Southern California. At a very young age we were taught about the important role that water plays not only on our community's economy, but in...
View ArticleKids to Secretary Jewell: Follow the Science
Last week we posted a video reply from the young person Secretary Jewell referenced in a public appearance in Washington, D.C. She asked Secretary Jewell to follow the science and to keep wolves...
View ArticleSupporting Both Sides of the Food Fight
I need to come clean about something -- and for those of you who know me personally, this might come as a shock to you. I buy organic and conventional food. There, I said it. I will purchase both -- if...
View ArticleNorth Carolinians Want Coal Ash Safeguards Now
The controversy continues almost two months after a Duke Energy spill of toxic coal ash into the Dan River. First, the Waterkeeper Alliance discovered Duke Energy dumping some 61 million gallons of...
View ArticleBorn to Be Wild: Why Wolves Are and Dogs Aren't
Because dogs and wolves are so genetically similar, humans have made assumptions about the sensory development of young wolves based on what we know about the maturation process of domesticated...
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Climate Change: Case Closed
Today, we are at an environmental crossroads. Just as those that pioneered environmental protection in the 20th Century faced the threat of industrial pollution, this generation faces a looming...
View ArticleDo You Know Where Your Nukes Are?
The word nuclear is a doomed one, no pun intended, often associated with danger, explosion, contamination, Armageddon, and other disaster scenarios. It has no healthy connotation, and still to this day...
View ArticleFinally: Our Waters Could Be Given Their Clean Water Protections Back
Clean water: The recent 65-mile closure of the Mississippi River due to an oil spill proves how economically important it is; the coal ash discharge this winter that poisoned North Carolina's Dan River...
View ArticleWill the U.S. Fund Russian Gas Exports?
As the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine grows, Western governments are talking tough about sanctions against Russia. President Obama and the European Union have now leveled sanctions against Russian and...
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'Green News Report' - March 25, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Deadly -- and predicted -- landslide disaster in Washington State; Meet the nation's newest oil spill, now in Galveston Bay; Air...
View ArticleWhy Do House Republicans Want to Prevent New Parks?
House Republicans, this month, are seeking to curtail the president's ability to protect our nation's rich military and cultural heritage and limit his ability to use the Antiquities Act to conserve...
View ArticleCelebrating the Centennial of a Little-Known 20th Century Hero
One hundred years ago this week (March 25, 1914), a boy was born in rural Iowa who became one of the greatest -- and least recognized -- heroes in human history. That extraordinary description in no...
View ArticleCorporate Recklessness and Our Future
The decision by the Obama administration to reopen federal drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico to BP opens an interesting window into a fundamental question: What does it mean to hold a corporation...
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Cultivating Resilience to Feed the World
Crazy weather we've been having this winter: monster snowstorms across New England, record-breaking freezes in the Midwest, drought, wildfires (in January!) and weirdly hot days in California. For...
View ArticleThe Blessed Olive Tree that Never Dies
The olive tree was a gift of the gods to the Greeks. Goddess Athena planted the first olive tree on the acropolis at the center of Attica. The grateful Greek inhabitants of Attica honored the goddess...
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Monumental Folly
In 1906, a Republican Congress passed the Antiquities Act. A Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt, signed it. Now some Republicans in Congress, such as Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah, want to gut it, and a...
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