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Q&A With Paul Sabin: Dialogues on the Environment
In this ongoing series, I talk with thought leaders about ideas and trends in the environmental movement. Next in the series is my conversation with Yale professor and author Paul Sabin. Mark Tercek:...
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Consensus Among World's Leading Experts: Marijuana Is a Botanical Medicine!
The more than 70 years of ignoring the fact that cannabis is a safe, effective botanical medicine is officially over. The American Herbal Pharmacopeia (AHP) has just sent to press a monograph that...
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Recycling Report Card
A new report sheds light on Americans' recycling habits. See what's up and what's down, and which states fare better at recycling. A nickel for your bottle works better than a pat on the back for good...
View ArticleNew Furniture Standard to Reduce Toxic Flame Retardants
In the midst of increasing information about the ubiquity of our exposure to industrial flame retardants, the revision of a 40-year-old furniture flammability standard in California last month could...
View ArticleWhat Cities Can Do to Prepare Themselves for Increasingly Severe Weather
This year mayors along the eastern seaboard are letting out sighs of relief that the U.S. made it through this hurricane season without a major storm system hitting landfall. Meanwhile some areas...
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Chem Fatale: Toxic Chemicals in WHAT?!
by guest blogger Cassidy Randall, director of outreach for Women's Voices for the Earth WARNING: We are about to delve into an intimate and maybe uncomfortable topic: toxic chemicals in feminine care...
View ArticleCreating a Lean and Green Enterprise
The international governments' inaction and lack of leadership on environmental issues is clearly worrying. But, at the same time, one is encouraged by the proactive approaches of a few leading-edge...
View ArticleThe Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Deal: A Game Changer for Jewish-Muslim Relations
Government leadership on Red Sea-Dead Sea deal creates a potential "safe" platform for American Jews and American Muslims to cooperate more broadly on Middle Eastern development projects. The widely...
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Looking for Humane Angora? It Exists!
In the wake of the PETA expose of the horrors of the angora industry, people were disgusted, saddened and angry: Here's a link to the video, but in short, it's awful, awful, awful. The facts are that:...
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Rooftops to Deserts: How Policy Directs the Growth of Renewables
Dropping costs and increasing consumer demand are expanding the market for renewable energy. Policy is shaping it. Specific policies are designed to drive growth of particular types of renewable...
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'Green News Report' - December 12, 2013
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport FACEBOOK: Green News Report The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Scientists warn of abrupt climate...
View ArticleSorry, I'll Clean It Up
With the passing of former South African President Nelson Mandela, his profoundly memorable quotations fill us with wisdom and optimism. "We owe our children -- the most vulnerable citizens in any...
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Illinois Environmental Council Announces Fight to End Coal Subsidies: Will...
Amid a growing controversy over the state's pension cuts and budget crises, the Illinois Environmental Council broke from its past neutrality over heavily-subsidized "clean coal" projects and announced...
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Climate Change This Week: Sudden Surprises, Cheap Wind, and More!
Gradual Climate Shifts Could Have Sudden Impacts says the US National Research Council, reports Brian Kahn at Climate Central. Abrupt shifts in the climate have already begun, with more possible by...
View ArticleWATCH: Did This Expert Just Figure Out How to Talk to Dolphins?
What if you could spend your summers swimming with dolphins in turquoise seas? Behavioral biologist Denise Herzing does just that. In this beautiful video, meet some of the dolphins she's befriended...
View ArticlePrairie Dogs Can Describe Your Clothes (and Other Fun Facts)
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Denise Herzing's TED talk and video about dolphin language shows both the promise and challenge of learning to talk to animals. The promise is...
View ArticleDo Dolphins Even Want to Talk to Us?
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. The Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry (CHAT) device being developed by Denise Herzing is exactly the kind of cutting-edge tech that makes...
View ArticleHuman-Animal Relationships: Where We Are and Where We're Going
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Denise Herzing's TED Talk made me think of many larger themes centering on the fascinating lives of the other animals with whom we share our...
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The "Constant Gardener"
One of the reasons I'm slightly obsessed with botanic gardens is that the earliest impulse to create them integrated science and religion within their leafy bowers. The 16th century monks who planned...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Clean Air Rules Face Scrutiny as World's Largest Emitter...
Oral arguments were held Tuesday to determine the legality of a rule that regulates air pollution crossing state lines. Before the U.S. Supreme Court was the issue of whether the U.S. Environmental...
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