Take a Moment for Earth Day, Our Planet Is Depending on Us
In 1999, I participated in my first beach cleanup with I Love A Clean San Diego and the San Diego Surfrider Foundation. The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean....
View ArticleOptimistic About a Non-Toxic Future
It was time to buy new (preferably non-toxic) nail polish. I had visions of a nail-strengthening, eco-friendly, low odor color in mind. After all, spring is here and I was in the mood for pink. Not...
View ArticleDefaunation: Loss of Animals, Threatening Rainforests and Public Health
Palo Alto, California: It gets flagged by my spellchecker and is yet to make it into the Oxford dictionary, but "defaunation", a phrase coined by Professor Rodolfo Dirzo of the Center for Latin...
View ArticleA Taxing Solution to the Greatest Challenge of Our Time
This post is co-authored by Mona Funiciello, an independent consultant who specializes in climate change policy and strategy Ben Franklin said it best -- nothing is certain, "except death and taxes."...
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Rio Tinto Backs out of Pebble Mine Project
At the head of the Kvichak River, Bristol Bay, 2012. In another blow to the already beleaguered Pebble Mine, Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto announced Monday that it was ending its involvement...
View ArticleProtecting the Prairie-Chicken Protects the West -- We Must Do It Right
Last year, the population of a unique and imperiled species of western grassland grouse known as the lesser prairie-chicken plummeted to half of its already paltry numbers. Let's be honest -- a 50...
View ArticleNew Documentary Series Giving Climate Change the Attention It Deserves
Climate change is the challenge of our generation, but you wouldn't always know that when you turn on the television. Coverage of climate change has not kept pace with the scientific milestones and...
View ArticleTime to Protect the Prairie State from Coal Mining
Across the Illinois countryside, rural citizens are fighting for their livelihoods, drinking water, farms, and future, and they are asking if the State of illinois has their backs -- or not. Last week,...
View ArticleWe Are Still Locked in for a Certain Amount of Global Warming
Unlike its larger rival Exxon Mobil, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has called on world leaders to take "rapid and focused" action against the "disruptive impacts" of man-made climate change. Earlier this...
View ArticleWorld Urban Forum Highlights Opportunities for Sustainable Cities
This blog post was co-written with Dario Hidalgo, director of research and practice for the World Resources Institute's EMBARQ center for sustainable transport. In recent months, popular protests have...
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Prefabrication and Energy Efficiency
The perfect construction today is a marriage of prefabrication and energy efficiency. Prefabricated methods, including modular, structural insulated panels, panelized construction, and so on, are...
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'The Great Invisible' Wins Full Frame's Best Environmental Film
'Great Invisible' focuses on the human ecosystem that was caught up in the disaster caused by the blowout and explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. Included in this web are survivors like Steven Stone...
View ArticleDOJ Extracts $5.15 Billion Settlement From Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
On 3 April the Department of Justice announced that it had settled a lawsuit against Anadarko Petroleum Corp., with the defendant agreeing to pay $5.15 billion, the largest environmental enforcement...
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Indy's Remarkable Pathway to Sustainable Renewal
Something special is happening in Indianapolis, and it's transforming neighborhoods. As I wrote in People Habitat, revitalization when done well is almost unparalleled in its ability to boost the...
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Want To Move Off The Grid? Here's How It's Done.
For nearly two years, a Florida woman named Robin Speronis reportedly has been relying upon solar panels for her electricity and collecting rainwater, which she treats with colloidal silver to kill the...
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Want To Move Off The Grid? Here's How It's Done.
For nearly two years, a Florida woman named Robin Speronis reportedly has been relying upon solar panels for her electricity and collecting rainwater, which she treats with colloidal silver to kill the...
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Solar Installation Industry Grows 45 Percent in 2013
This past December, we (BuildZoom) published an article explaining the overall growth we observed within the solar industry. A quarter removed from 2013, we'll take a look back at how solar...
View ArticleSearch for Missing Plane Distracts From Bigger Environmental Concerns
Lost in the despair of the endless search for Malaysian Airlines flight 370 lies another tragedy. One that is far less painful yet, conspiracy theories aside, far more disturbing. For the past three...
View ArticlePowerful New Showtime Series Tells the Story of Life in the Age of Climate...
In Years of Living Dangerously, a new series starting this Sunday, Nelly Montez describes the day she and 2,300 of her neighbors lost their jobs at a Cargill meat packing plant in Plainview, Texas. The...
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Hang Out with Cheetahs and Polar Bears on Earth Day
Forty-four years ago the very first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, marking a commitment to environmental protection. During that decade, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act, and...
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