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Breaking the Law in Indonesia to Save Forests
The future for Indonesia's forests look so bleak, that the day is here, when I beg plantation owners to simply save a bit of forests under their control. Yes, it might be distasteful but considering...
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Investing in Nature: New Sources of Capital
Two hundred and fifty billion dollars: that's the gap between the estimated need to support global conservation efforts and what's currently devoted to these activities annually, according to a recent...
View ArticleVermont Passes a GMO-Label Law. How Did They Do It?
My husband is a New Englander from the Boston area, and over the years we have been together, I have learned a few things about this breed of American: When they want to get something done, they get it...
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Parents Can and Will Fix the Climate Crisis
Parents make the best activists. I remember when my 10-year-old was just a baby. I had just moved to Washington, D.C., when I learned the heavy metal lead had been found in the DC water system at very...
View ArticleDispatch From Ethiopia: Curse of the Church Forests
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is now." --African proverb I'm swallowing mouthfuls of dust each day, driving long distances through a landscape parched by East...
View Article'Divest It Like It's Hot': These Students Have Vests on, You Won't Believe...
"I got McKibben on the phone and I'm gonna protest, gotta stop climate change; you know its time to divest." It's not the first time that 350.org's Bill McKibben has been name dropped in a music video,...
View ArticleBetter Neighbors Wanted
Every once in a while, I find myself between a rock and a hard place. It's pretty exciting when big, really high profile projects decide to use LEED. We've worked very hard to evolve LEED into a true...
View ArticleHow One Woman Made Fracking Get Out of Town (All Over Upstate New York)
By Mary X. Dennis, OnEarthWhen Helen Slottje was a high-powered corporate attorney in Boston in the 1990s, she never thought of herself as an environmental crusader. But within a decade she'd become a...
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A Leap Forward for Clean Solar
Last Friday, chemists at the University of Wisconsin published an article in the academic journal Science Magazine in which Dr. Tehshik Yoon and co-authors, Danielle Schultz, Juana Du and Kazimer...
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Connecting Human Decisions With Wildlife Decisions: Part 1
Okay, if you can look past my anthropomorphic statement that wildlife make decisions, the topic I would like to address deals with the adoption and use of ecological principles by the design community....
View ArticleThe Perks of Parks
Love the earth? Love the park. A world without parks would be, well, like a life without sunshine. Wherever you live on this crowded planet, I hope you have a favorite, nearby park. My earliest...
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Study: Blacks, Latinos, Low-income Americans Live Closest to Dangerous...
A new study released today finds that the Americans who live near hazardous chemical industrial facilities are disproportionately African American or Latino, are more likely to live in poverty, and...
View Article"Global Whaaamin, What a Faaaahhhce!" Someone Help Scientists and Academics...
That is what I heard as I was training down the coast of my beloved New England on May 1. Responding to the ridiculously cold, miserable, stormy New England winter of 2014 that refuses to die even in...
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Explosive Virginia Train Carried Fracked Bakken Oil, Headed to Potential...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogPlatts confirmed CSX Corporation's train that exploded in Lynchburg, Virginia was carrying sweet crude obtained via hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in North Dakota's...
View ArticleDroning On, Droning Off
The HSUS is calling on all 50 state wildlife agencies to adopt rules to prohibit drone-assisted hunting before this method of spotting wildlife and then chasing them down becomes the rage with people...
View Article"Buy Them, Sue Them, Wipe Them Out"
The narrative arc of the 25th annual Goldman Environmental Prize begins in the North Caucasus, where Suren Gazaryan, a caver turned bat biologist turned environmental activist, joined the Environment...
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The Occasional Evolutionist III: Coral Reefs Down for the Count
My visit to Heron Island revealed that evolution does not always generate elegant or even obviously efficient solutions. Instead, the island ecosystem, with its bird-killing trees and turtle-gobbling...
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Why We Chose a Pig for a Pet
We've had a pet -- seriously, really, a live one -- for over three weeks now. And she's still a live one. The house plant comparison is so not true, and OMG there are so many bacon jokes out there. I...
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'Green News Report' - May 1, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Month of May starts off with a fossil fuel bang -- Oil train explodes in Virginia; Coal train spills in Maryland; Natural gas...
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Climate Change This Week: Hot Action, Forest Drones, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures May 1, 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
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