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Grandmother Power
People say it takes a village to raise a child. I say it takes a village to raise a mom. Who does the bulk of that work? Grandmothers. Grandmothers guide us along life's exhilarating and exhausting...
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Stranger Than Science... Or Is It?
Rocks from the sky: Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni is usually called the father of meteoritics. In 1794 he published a book that declared that not only are meteors stones that fall from the sky, but...
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Following the Money: Energy Dollars Hard at Work on Capitol Hill
A look at how much money the various energy industries spend in Washington. (Image credits, L to R: Dennis Schroeder/NREL, Ruth Baranowski/NREL, TheGreenGrok, flickr/katsrcool) Is the alternative...
View ArticleReThink Review: 'Farmland' - Meet the Next Generation of Farmers
If you try to imagine what a farm looks like, one of two images probably springs to mind. One would likely be an idyllic small farm from a bygone era (or from ads and food packaging) with a red barn,...
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"We Don't Know What Normal Is Anymore": Confronting Extreme Weather on U.S....
Matt Russell has seen strange weather before. As a fifth-generation Iowa farmer, he’s used to being at the whims of the skies. But ominous changes are underway at his Coyote Run Farm, and lately,...
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'Holland in Haymarket' Brings the Hues of the Netherlands to Northern Virginia
I've been looking at flights to Amsterdam so extensively lately that all of the Google ads that appear while web browsing are for travel companies, tours and hotel deals in Netherlands' capital. "Book...
View ArticleHealth Experts Issue New Prescription: To Stay Healthy Fight Climate Change
Co-authored by Dr. Georges Benjamin If you have ever checked on an elderly relative during a prolonged heat wave or nursed an asthmatic child on a bad air day, then you know severe weather can take a...
View ArticleOklahoma, Where the Sun Shines Brightly in the Sky
The Republican governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin, has just signed a bill that forces homeowners to pay a fee for the right to remain connected to the local power grid if they have solar panels on their...
View ArticleWill 'Milk Life' Go Global? Big Dairy Sets Its Sights on Asia
Could the U.S. dairy processors' new slogan, "milk life," make it big in Asia? If dairy multinationals like Nestlé and Danone have their way, the answer might be yes. As the market for dairy products...
View ArticleGot Science? These Phony Attacks on EPA Have Real Casualties
Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, received a much-deserved standing ovation for her major address at the National Academies of Science last week in which she...
View ArticleKeystone Politics
For several years now, the oil industry and its allies in the GOP have tried to turn the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline into a political lightning rod for Democrats. They used it in campaign ads during...
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Protected Natural Area for Sale
"You've got to respect another life, so that the other life can respect yours," says Booms, a young Jamaican who has devoted the past seven years of his life to protecting some of the rarest reptiles...
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Connecting Human Decisions with Wildlife Decisions: Part 2
Habitat Edges and Design In design studios and planning conversations that I have had, I frequently make the argument that larger, circular patches are better than irregular-shaped patches. This is...
View ArticleReality: Is This Thing On?
Climate change is real, the White House's long-awaited National Climate Assessment trumpeted on a sleepy Tuesday. It is happening now, powerfully felt here and there, in real-time. Shit just got real....
View ArticleHow Animals Communicate: From the Slightly Bizarre to the Very Bizarre
My new book, The Secret Language of Animals: A Guide to Remarkable Behavior, takes us inside the animal kingdom to explain the behaviors of the world's most fascinating wild animals. Divided...
View ArticleGlobal Warming: The Inevitability Trap
Is the biggest hurdle on climate change outright denial? Or is it the sense that of being overwhelmed and too late, that there's nothing we can do? As K.C. Golden writes in an excerpt from my newly...
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Can Long Island Be Saved?
Graphic From Professor Christopher Gobler of Stonybrook University The numbers are staggering -- 500,000 septic tanks on Long Island. An estimated 2000 outfall pipes pouring runoff into our lakes,...
View ArticleTo Live Dangerously or Not to Live Dangerously? It's Our Choice
What's next? What can I do? Those are questions you might be pondering if you tuned into Years of Living Dangerously on Showtime this weekend, or if you've been watching online clips from the...
View ArticleClimate and Cigarettes: Will the National Climate Assessment Spark Real Action?
This Tuesday, the White House released the most comprehensive (and frightening) report yet on the impacts that climate change is already having on the United States. "Climate change, once considered an...
View ArticleThe Power of Our Food Choices
We see the problems in our lives and in the world and ask, "What can we do?" The answer is, "We're doing it now." Whether we like it or not, or know it or not, our small actions repeated day after day...
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