For Native Peoples, Earth Day Is a Silly Concept
For Ojibwe and most Native peoples, Earth Day is a silly concept. Moreover, the very notion underscores the non-Native view of the natural world as something that is apart from human beings. Not long...
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This Earth Day, Quit Plastic
Did you know that the average person in he U.S. spends $242 a year on plastic water bottles? Or that two-thirds of these water bottles end up in landfills or in the ocean? Our addiction to plastic...
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I'm a Millennial, Not a Hippie: 4 Ways I Go Green With Tech
Like most people, I remember to be eco-friendly when it's brought to my attention, such as on Earth Day, but I'm not going to completely alter my lifestyle to go green. No, I'm not going to walk five...
View ArticleNoah's Arc (of Justice)
Most people, religious or not, know the tale of Noah and how the ants and all other living creatures marched two by two on to his ark to be spared an angry god's watery wrath. Like Hercules,...
View ArticleCan Evolutionary Biology Tell Us What's Kinky?
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Carin Bondar's phenomenal and learned TED talk called "The Birds And The Bees Are Just the Beginning" is one of most informative lectures I've...
View ArticleThree Things You Don't Know About Your Tomato
I grew up in a tomato family. My father was the director of research for Del Monte in northern California, and my summers were spent with him in the Central Valley on farms that grew experimental...
View ArticleEarth Day: Treat Climate Change Like a Security Threat
What if someone told you war isn't real and it's just a conspiracy for the Armed Forces and defense contractors to get rich? Swap out the word "war" for "climate change" in the first sentence and you...
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Conservation From the Last of the Wild to the Least of the Wild
The timing of Earth Day at the start of spring puts us in a fresh frame of mind for consideration of our planet's natural resources. This year the global theme for this celebration is "Green Cities,"...
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Farm to Fork Across America: Technology and Healthy Food for Emotional Well...
This post is co-authored by Lee Glenn "We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature." -- John Naisbitt At least that is how he phrased the...
View ArticleIs Earth Day Also Our Day?
Each morning as I open my eyes and fresh thoughts come into my head, I fixate on one thing: that I need to do something substantial to change the present state of play on Earth. Changing the world is...
View ArticleWATCH: This Video Starts With A Woman In A Wheelchair. By The End, You Won't...
In this life-affirming video, Sue Austin goes where few have been... in her wheelchair. Refusing to be defined by pity or limitations, she proves that we can't let ourselves be defined by how other...
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I've Become a Crazy Dog Lady, But I'm Okay With It
It's always embarrassing when my local pet store hires a new employee. As she fights off carpal tunnel syndrome from ringing up all the treats and toys I'm buying, she assumes I'm a pet hoarder and...
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New Weapons in the War on Pollution: China's Environmental Protection Law...
On Thursday, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, approved major amendments to the country's Environmental Protection Law (EPL), the first since the...
View ArticleSustaining 'Fashion Revolution Day' After the Party Dies
On any given day, wearing your t-shirt inside-out is just sloppy -- unless that day was yesterday, in which case it may have been emblematic of your elevated social consciousness. On the inaugural...
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Seeing Stars
This week, the National Park Service and the International Dark-Sky Association are celebrating dark skies. And on Thursday, April 24, Chaco Culture National Historical Park celebrates its new...
View ArticleIt's Time to Talk: Ending Burnout in Movements for Social Change
We cannot build a thriving future out of burnout and exhaustion. We cannot build a thriving future out of weary hearts, tired minds and burnt out bodies. But we're certainly trying to, by the looks of...
View ArticleFeeding Nine Billion: Five Steps to the Wrong Solution
National Geographic's recent online slideshow featuring an article by global ecologist Jonathan Foley lays out a Five Step Plan to Feed the World that proposes to "blend the best" farming techniques of...
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Request From a Mom: Stop, Now, Please!
As a mom of two little ones, I'm doing all I can to keep them happy and healthy. I try to cook fresh and healthy meals. I buy natural and organic products when I can. And I try to model good behavior....
View ArticleSpanish Mediterranean Threatened by Seismic Airguns
When you think of Ibiza, you picture sun-drenched shores, turquoise waters, and throngs of carousing tourists. You don't envision a civil uprising of thousands of angry residents. In just one of many...
View ArticleClimate Change Advocate Goes Rogue!
"The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense." -- Sigmar Gabriel, former German environmental minister Dr. James Hansen, a leading world...
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