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Was This Black-tailed Deer Fawn Kidnapped?
WildCare's Wildlife Hospital treats nearly 4,000 ill, injured and orphaned wild animal patients from over 200 species every year. This is one patient's story. When this Black-tailed Deer fawn arrived...
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Popular Opinion Alert: New Yorkers Want an Ivory Ban
Ivory and pianos were once so inseparable that pianists were said to be "tickling the ivories." Yet when the world renowned piano maker Steinway stopped capping its keys with ivory in 1956, the...
View ArticleStalemate: U.S. and Japan Fail to Advance Trade Talks
President Obama recently wrapped up a meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, where the leaders once again failed to make a breakthrough on their deadlock in the Trans-Pacific...
View ArticleClimate Scientists Are People Too
I'm a correspondent for Showtime's new series Years of Living Dangerously -- in good company with a range of other dedicated climate-change-awareness advocates, including Harrison Ford, Jessica Alba,...
View ArticleNew Troubles at the Gates of Virunga
Oil exploration could be devastating to Africa's most iconic national park -- and its people. The British company SOCO International has recently begun surveying for oil in Virunga National Park, a...
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Tied to an Elephant
Watching elephants bathe is kind of magic. You can see their eyes roll back with pleasure when their trainers scrub their two-inch-thick skin with heavy brushes. Then they take matters into their own...
View ArticleBuckminster Fuller: What Can You Do?
The unique American visionary Buckminster Fuller thought of himself as an experiment in pursuit of discovering "what one man can do on behalf of humanity," famously calling himself "Guinea-pig B." He...
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New Discipline-Free Puppy Training
(Teach Yourself Visually, Wiley Publishing 2005) The other morning my 3-year-old niece ran into the room screaming, "I did it, I did it! I put my backpack on!" And in fact she had done it... a true...
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Teaching Our Kids to Save the Planet
One day this past December it was nearly 70 degrees where we live in northern New Jersey and my 10-year-old son, Charlie, was really bummed out about it. "It shouldn't be this warm, Dad. Not in...
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Great Gatsby Era Building in San Francisco Goes Green
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Built in the "Great Gatsby era," this remarkable Art Deco building was the tallest tower in San Francisco for almost 40 years. Today, 140 New Montgomery...
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America 2025: How to Start Securing Enough Water
National draught map for the week of April 22, 2014. Map courtesy of NDMC-UNL. by William McKenzie Wichita Falls, Texas, is about to run out of drinking water. You read that right: out of drinking...
View Article50 Years After Rachel Carson: There's Still Hope
*Co-authored by Silent Spring Institute Executive Director Dr. Julia Brody. Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson died from breast cancer, a disease connected to exposures to toxic chemicals and radiation in...
View ArticleA Bundle of Nonsense From Bundy and Others
Based on his interviews after he tried to start a range war in Nevada, we know that rancher Cliven Bundy made some racist statements and seems to be a freeloader, failing to pay grazing fees that are...
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TransCanada Charitable Fund Launches Keystone XL "Good Neighbor" Charm Offensive
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogTransCanada has taken a page out of former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's playbook and deployed a public relations "charm offensive" in Texas, home of the...
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The Quantum Theory of Climate Denial
When you get down to the atomic level, the universe gets weird. Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger visualized the funkiness of the atomic world with a thought experiment, famously involving...
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Natural Parks and American Cities (Part II)
In our most recent column, we examined New York as we looked at the surprisingly large amount of natural lands in the park systems of the nation's largest cities. But New York is not alone, as the...
View ArticleMaking It Easier for Corporate Fleets to Go Tar-Sands-Free
Today the Sierra Club released its new Tar Sands Fuel in Corporate Fleets report outlining steps that corporations can take to avoid fuels derived from tar sands crude in their company's cars and...
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The Faithful Shopper: April Showers
It's flower time again! Yes, I do believe that April Showers bring May Flowers, so below are some of my favorite shops for flora to bring just the right bit of color and life to your event, home or...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know About Life Beyond The Incandescent Light Bulb
Wherever we work, rest, play or live, we depend on light. It illuminates our world, creates powerful ambiance, and has limitless applications. So when the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA)...
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'Green News Report' - April 29, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Deadly tornado outbreak rips across the South, but safer building codes still stalled by lawmakers; Good news for those who...
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