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Bringing Drought Aid to People in India Through Facebook
This story was produced in partnership with Facebook Stories. The company announced Tuesday that more than 100 million people access Facebook in India each month. Submit your own Facebook story here....
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Climate Change This Week: The Ultimate Reality Series, Zombie Oil, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, Apr 9, 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
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Shedd Aquarium Around the World: Conserving Species and Critical Habitats
After the third worst winter on record and few rounds with the polar vortex, spring has finally sprung in Chicago. With the extreme winter weather behind us, Shedd Aquarium's conservation and research...
View ArticleLiving in a Plastic World
Grab-and-go, 24-hour quick marts, fast food on the fly, snap open a beverage to quench your thirst in seconds. We Americans love the quick and easy. But supporting our culture of convenience is a...
View ArticleOrganic Gardening: 10 Tips to Success
By Dianne Venetta for GalTime.com Organic gardening is the method of gardening that utilizes only materials derived from living things, ie. all natural plant foods and pesticides. Once you know the...
View ArticleClimate Change, Media, Psychology & the Denial of Death
On the standard, commercial television channels we hear about extreme weather virtually every single day. Droughts in the southwest hardly seen since the days of the Dust Bowl and bizarre weather such...
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'Green News Report' - April 10, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Rightwing Heartland Institute says 'climate change will be good for you!'; Russia threatens to cut off natural gas supplies to...
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IPCC Report: Impacts, Adapation, Vulnerability
Since the newest information from the IPCC came out last Monday, I have immersed myself in reading the details of the report. The New York Times captured the essence of the Working Group II findings...
View ArticleWATCH: The Amazing Story of How This Astronaut Went to Space, Went Blind and...
He tweeted from the International Space Station. Now astronaut Chris Hadfield tells the amazing story of going blind in space. Then he covers David Bowie, just because. Ideas are not set in stone. When...
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Stop Elephant Poaching!
Ten years ago, there were 1.5 million elephants in Africa. Today, there are 470,000. Many native Africans feel that it is their birthright to kill elephants for their ivory tusks -- for which they'll...
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Sustainable Neighborhood Revitalization, From Within
 Sustainable neighborhoods are the building blocks of sustainable cities.  Neighborhoods are where development decisions are made and where increments of change – whether good or bad – actually take...
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US Senators' Discourse on Air Quality Regulation and Climate Change:...
Cherry trees are in full bloom in Washington, DC. On Tuesday, I traveled to DC with a group of students from my York College science classes. Pink cherry blossoms -- considered the springtime soul of...
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Reef Mappers: Visually Documenting Coral Reefs, Before They're Gone
"The rate at which energy has been entering the ocean is phenomenal, equivalent to the addition of two atomic bombs every second," according to Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, lead author on the Open Oceans...
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Decoding Your Dog: Proof That Dogs Think and Feel
After three weeks of nurturing a flu-like bug which spread, domino effect, through our household, I was ready for a new month, fresh with possibilities. But flipping the calendar to April, what I saw...
View ArticleWhy Aren't More People Buying Green Cars?
My 11-year-old son enjoys a wide variety of activities: tennis, singing and reading are just a few. However, his favorite hobby seems to be correcting his 7-year-old sister. When my wife and I tell him...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Climate Change, EPA Rules Focus of McCabe Confirmation Hearing
Climate change, extreme weather and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants were the focus of a confirmation hearing for...
View ArticleTruly Bad Advice on Climate Change
On Wednesday, April 9, The New York Times published one of the most exasperating op-eds I've yet read on climate change. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger wrote that articles that link global...
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Seeds of Intimacy -- The Jane Goodall Effect
At the 92nd Street Y, I got to interview Jane Goodall on stage about her new book Seeds of Hope. Honored to be asked, a bit anxious about my role, I started cramming well beforehand. I expected Seeds...
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Bushmeat Hunting Risks Driving Big Animals to Extinction - But We Have a...
Today when families prepare a meal with meat almost anywhere on the planet, that meat comes from domesticated livestock. Only in the tropical forests of Africa, South America and Asia is the meat of...
View ArticleTime to Leave Our Bad Carbon Boyfriend
Breaking up is a very difficult thing to do. Unless you married your high school sweetheart, we have all done it. And it hurts. It is never easy to give up on the hope you shared as a couple -- the...
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