Landslide in Oso, Washington - Don't Blame Nature and Acts of God for...
The 300-acre landslide in Oso, Washington, which killed at least 30 people and destroyed the local community on March 22, 2014, reveals a consequence of a relatively unregulated and unseen industry:...
View ArticleSix Innovative Initiatives That Are Working to Strengthen Women's Empowerment...
Food Tank is also excited to announce a new collaboration with the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR). GFAR brings together all those working to strengthen and transform agricultural research...
View ArticleChanges Ahead for the Pet Food Industry
With yet another pet food recall last week -- this time it was the two-pound, five-pound, and 15-pound bags of Abady Highest Quality Maintenance and Growth Formula for Cats because of possible...
View ArticleReview: A Window on Eternity, by E. O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson is the world's most distinguished living biologist. From a professional standpoint, he is acknowledged as the foremost authority on the subject of ants, of which there are thousands of...
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Why Tuna's Both Cheap and Expensive, Plentiful and Very Endangered
Tuna is a fish of contradictions: it's hard not to love, but it's also hard to love anyone who's just eaten it. To better understand the chicken of the sea (and the origins of that nickname), we...
View ArticleNo Time for Wasting Waste
There are dangerous amounts of chemicals entering our air and water. Plastic is swirling around in the ocean and our landfills are overflowing. We stand to either poison ourselves, or get buried under...
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Your Life Is the Lab: Toxic Chemicals in 5 Unexpected Places
When your child has a chronic health condition that threatens his life and well-being, you gain a sharp perspective on what's important in life. You live fully, deeply, in the moment. You understand...
View ArticleThe 3 Numbers You Need to Know About the Cost of Climate Change
The cost numbers for climate change are now in, thanks to the scientists and economists who have spent the last five years working on a series of blockbuster reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on...
View Article'Smarter' Cities in North Africa
Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, Marrakesh, and Tangier served as great movie titles and backdrops (or stereotypes, like in The Battle of Algiers) for entertainment set in North Africa. However, film shots of...
View ArticleBeyond Hope
No day goes by when I do not have multiple conversations about the ocean. Whether face-to-face, or by telephone, email, or social media, the discussion continues to grow among people all over the...
View ArticleWhere Did the Food Movement Go Wrong?
By Tove K. Danovich This article originally appeared on Food Politic. I should have seen it coming. In a time when politics are more polarized than ever, when every party seems to have their own news...
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How Meditation Practice Can Impact Deforestation
Meditation practice is not something we do for ourselves. It is meant to enter our lives as a collective by building a container of awareness that allows us to distinguish between the conditioned wants...
View ArticleGMO Foods and the Tooth Fairy
Food is so fundamental to human life that it stirs our passions like few other subjects. For the most part that's a good thing: Humanity needs all the passion we can muster if we're going to solve the...
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We Are All Malala
"We are all one," a slight, sixteen-year-old with a quiet, present smile began. She is Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl whose advocacy for girl's education in her transcendent if traditional-bound...
View ArticleExplaining the 'Unexplained' Illnesses of Gulf War Veterans
A recent Institute of Medicine report on Gulf War illness has unfortunately concluded that veterans have such diverse symptoms and exposures that a single, distinct definition cannot be used to...
View ArticleIs Global Warming Real? A 30-Second Answer
It's been a common frustration for environmentalists: how to give a brief, persuasive answer to the question "Is global warming real?" My colleague, Dr. Ilissa Ocko, recently wrote about facing this...
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How the Age of Exploration Brought Me to Warring South Sudan
Probably the worst thing about it all was getting my nerve up to board the plane in the first place. I mean I was scared out of my bagibbies. Sleepless the night before in a hole in the wall hotel room...
View ArticleFor Energy Security, Bring a Gun to the Knife Fight
For those who see September 11 as the "ground zero" date for thinking about national security, they can add the August 14, 2003, grid failure to their view. That was when the nefarious action of a tree...
View Article5 Steps to Natural Easter Egg DIY
Did you know that many egg dyes contain chemicals that aren't safe for kids? These can include propylparaben -- an endocrine disruptor that can wreak havoc on your hormones -- and sodium lauryl...
View ArticleTop 5 Earth Day Presents
What do you get Mother Earth on her big day (reminder: it's April 22nd!)? She's just so hard to shop for and, after all, she already has everything. She might appreciate one of those self-help books,...
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