The Climate Post: Cross State Air Pollution Rule Reinstated by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court, in a 6-2 ruling, upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rule to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants that drifts across state lines. The Cross State Air...
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Million-Dollar Vistas Amidst Shattered Glass: The Exquisite, Embattled Albany...
Some of the world's best views of San Francisco, most panoramic picnic spots, most breathtaking birdwatching vantage points and sweetest little seashell-dotted lost-castaway coves are all a few yards...
View Article'Drill, Baby, Drill' Has Failed -- And Now We Can Do Something About It
In the next few weeks, Congress will decide the country's Fiscal Year 2015 funding priorities. A lot is riding on whether we fund necessary environmental, clean energy and reclamation programs or leave...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to My Daddy Who Doesn't Accept Climate Change
This poignant letter is to my father, who is among the most powerful evangelical ministers in the world. Pastor Rick Joyner heads MorningStar Ministries, a global group with over 100 churches and...
View ArticleWATCH: Mind-Blowing Images Show What's Right In Front Of You Each Day... But...
Life goes by too fast. Or is it actually too slow? Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg uses time-lapse technology to show us unseen dimensions of life as we know it, from ocean currents to dragonfly wings....
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How Theo and Beau's Naptime Love Story Changed Our Lives
This month marks my fifth year blogging and being actively involved in social media. My intent and focus has always been the same: Telling our story through words and photos. Instagram is my youngest...
View ArticleHidden Wonders: What Nature Teaches Us About Ourselves
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Few among us do not find awe and wonder in nature's magnificence and complexity. But in spite of that commonality among folks from all walks of...
View ArticleGOP Should Reclaim Its Conservation Roots
With Peter Metcalf Theodore Roosevelt, one of our all-time great presidents, famously embodied the "conserve" in "conservative." He set aside some of our country's most beloved public lands, including...
View ArticleU.S. Should Pull Funding From Exxon's Deadly Pipeline Project
This week, the Nation published an exposé revealing shocking new details about ExxonMobil's deadly natural gas pipeline project in Papua New Guinea. Reporter Ian Shearn reveals new allegations that the...
View ArticleRetrieval: How Being a Dog Person Has Brought Me Into the World
I recently read this quote by Samuel Butler that perfectly and precisely stated how I feel about every relationship in the whole world: "The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of...
View ArticleEnviro Groups Call for an Emergency Order Ending Crude Oil Transport by Rail...
On April 30 in Lynchburg, Va., yet another train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, spilling oil into the James River, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes and causing...
View ArticleEarth Day's Fine, but What About Earth Tomorrow?
If April is considered Earth Month and April 22nd is hailed as Earth Day, I want May -- and for that matter -- the rest of the year to be about Earth Tomorrow. For me, Earth Day has never been so much...
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Rising Tide on Campuses: 7 Wash U Students Arrested Over Peabody Coal Trustee
On the heels of an earlier arrest of a student at a growing divestment blockade at Harvard University, seven Washington University students were arrested today in St. Louis, as they sought to enter the...
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Passionate Green: It's Not Just the Temperature That Gets Intense
In the wake of Earth Day celebrations, this week I've run across a number of environmentally-themed articles that reveal a rising level not only of planetary warmth but also intense passion, despair...
View ArticleCalestous Juma on Being Pro-Africa, Why Africa Needs GM Crops, and How He...
Calestous Juma is currently a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he also directs the Science, Technology, and Globalization Program and the Gates Foundation's Agricultural Innovation in...
View ArticleFast Cash for Your Old Cell Phone
Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing problems in the world. According to the Solving the e-Waste Problem Initiative (StEP), 123,000 metric tons of electronic devices become e-waste every...
View ArticleIndigenous Amazonian People Threatened by Oil Drilling
The Sojourn Pristine jungle and indigenous culture have long been huge draws for me. So last fall, when my brother Nicholas -- a professional opera singer and avid world traveler -- and I decided to go...
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Incorporating Your Dog In Your Proposal
Proposing to your soul mate is no easy task. I know that even the toughest men and women crumble at the knees at the mere thought. And it's not because the love isn't there, or they don't possess...
View ArticleBest Environmental Commencement Speech Ever?
Paul Hawken has long been one of my heroes. He was the press coordinator for Martin Luther King's historic Selma-to-Montgomery march. He turned a small Boston store into Erewon Trading Company, one of...
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Ian Somerhalder Tackles the Big Question: Have We Passed the Point of No...
These questions originally appeared on Quora. Answers by Ian Somerhalder. Ian plays Damon Salvatore on the TV drama The Vampire Diaries. His foundation, the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, works to educate...
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