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The Way Forward to Kicking Our Carbon Addiction
How would you respond to an upsetting medical diagnosis? Probably first with shock and fear, then you'd ask the doctor about realistic treatment options. That's how it works for an individual, but what...
View ArticleFlood Insurance
We are all aware of the devastating consequences of extreme weather on coastal communities in the United States and around the world. We have seen the pictures of flooded homes, destroyed businesses,...
View ArticleThe White House Steps Up its Fight Against Climate Change
Stepping up its efforts to fight climate change, the White House is now trying to court TV Meteorologists to help communicate the link between America's recent string of extreme weather, and the...
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For First Time, TransCanada Says Tar Sands Flowing to Gulf in Keystone XL South
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogTransCanada admitted for the first time that tar sands oil is now flowing through Keystone XL's southern leg, now rebranded the Gulf Coast Pipeline Project. The company...
View ArticleThe Painful Powell Memo
The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell was a friend of my dad. That made it all the more painful to read the justice's infamous 1971 memo counseling corporate America to challenge the...
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3 Big Challenges for Latin America's Electricity Sector, 3 Big Strategies for...
This post is co-authored by Salvador Núñez The World Bank expects Latin America's power consumption to more than double between 2010 and 2030, and estimates that $430 billion of investment will be...
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Cats and Dogs
When you spend four years researching a book on dogs and cats, you learn some surprising things. Here is a list of my favorites, culled from my new book, Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with...
View ArticleUN Millennium Development Targets for Water and Sanitation Will Expire in...
Every year, more people die from water-related illness than all forms of violence combined. Polluted water is deadly, and it is the poor in developing countries, and children in particular, that suffer...
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Prometheus and Global Warming
Prometheus depicted in a sculpture by Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, 1762 (Louvre) The front page of the NY Times is this morning dominated by a map of the US, mostly in red, bearing the headline "US CLIMATE...
View ArticleForestEthics and Sierra Club Urge PepsiCo to Stop Using Tar Sands Fuel
Co-authored by Kristi Chester Vance This morning, at a PepsiCo shareholder meeting in New Bern, North Carolina, representatives of the Sierra Club and ForestEthics delivered more than 64,000 petition...
View ArticleStorytelling to Save the Planet
The art of storytelling is at our core. It's the lifeblood of how we communicate and how we decide what deserves our attention and what we are content to ignore as a passing fad. We've accomplished...
View ArticleIn Light of Knowing: The Earth Day Effect
For many of us, Earth Day is every day; for others, April 22, 2014 offered a great opportunity to connect more deeply with Mother Earth. Our skin on her skin, we ground, recharge, rejuvenate. We intend...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin
Tonight on PBS, I have a conversation with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, who tomorrow will make history when he signs a bill that makes his state the first in the nation to require labeling of all...
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Climate Change Superheroes: Divesting Coal in India, and Saving Forests
The recent 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony had its share of celebrities that night. Robert Kennedy Jr. exuded a fiery eloquence worthy of his family's political forebears as he equated large...
View ArticleInnovation Earth: Ed Begley Jr.'s 10,000-Gallon Solution for Drought
As one parched Texas town turns to toilets for drinking water, I wonder what the future holds for us here in California -- in the midst of one of the worst droughts in the state's recorded history. The...
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Squeezing Water From a Rock
Due to evaporation, the Dead Sea is declining at an alarming rate of one meter or more per year. Pictured here Clive Lipchin, water expert. Photo courtesy of the Arava Institute. If orange is the new...
View ArticleGovernment Plans to Kill the Messenger
The Idaho Fish and Game Department's plan to poison or shoot up to 4,000 ravens in the state is appalling. It's a preposterous proposal to kill native wildlife under the guise of protecting sage-grouse...
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A Paradise Going to Hell -- Thanks to Global Warming
Just past Johnny Depp's private island in the Caribbean sits Lee Stocking Island, a little piece of paradise that's going to hell. The coral reefs that surround it are some of the healthiest in the...
View ArticleIt's Official: Animal Protection IS Human Protection
"Animal protection is now mainstream." This was announced at the 5th annual Classy Awards held in San Diego this weekend. The Classy Awards Ceremony honors outstanding nonprofit programs in eight major...
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