Hanna Ranch Despite the Odds
If one accepts symbolism, then the idea of Mother Nature, is surely the feminine aspect of reality. And as global chaos reminds us every day, the Mother is having a fit. Our environmental urgencies are...
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The National Climate Assessment: What It Will, and CAN'T, Accomplish
The National Climate Assessment released by the White House is a masterful piece of science and risk communication. Susan Joy Hassol, Senior Science Writer, who turned massive contributions from...
View ArticleBigger Fish to Fry: How About Saving the Oceans?
Most people no longer hunt and gather to fulfill basic nutritional needs. But for thousands of years, the rigors of hunting and gathering kept the human population in check. Gradual mastery of...
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Pacific Coast Trail Begins Move to the High Country of Tejon Ranch
When the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail was envisioned in the 1930s, it was to traverse the highest points along the West Coast's mountainous spine between Mexico and Canada, revealing the majestic...
View ArticleWeak Laws Bring Cockfighters, Mafia Flocking Into Kentucky
Cockfighters are on the run, or better yet, in handcuffs, like never before. In recent days, there have been rescues in California, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia, and there seems...
View ArticleI'm So Excited to See Charles Krauthammer Endorse a Global Treaty on Climate...
I was delighted to see self-described "global warming agnostic" Charles Krauthammer endorse a global treaty on climate change the other day on Fox. We can mark this down as progress since Mr....
View ArticleOn Its 60th Birthday, Solar PV Has Become a Major Contender
On April 25, 1954 in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, technicians at AT&T's legendary Bell Labs publicly demonstrated a solar photovoltaic panel for the first time, capturing light to power the...
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'Green News Report' - May 8, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Stanford University breaks up with coal - billions of dollars of it; It's official: fracking causing earthquakes in Oklahoma;...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Federal Climate Assessment Report Pegs Climate Change as...
A new federal scientific report, out Tuesday, concluded that global warming is affecting the United States in profound ways and that human activity, namely the burning of fossil fuels, is the primary...
View ArticleAnother View on Mark Bittman's Recent Note to Food Activists
I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel Tuesday night with Mark Bittman, who mentioned that his New York Times opinion piece the following day about GMOs would be controversial. On Wednesday morning...
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When No One Is to Blame - Rome Burns!
It has already been a bad decade for the Western United States, but it looks like it's about to get far worse. NOAA just released its images of the essentially vanished snowpack for 2014 in the western...
View ArticleClimate Change Is a Loser
The indefinite delay in the Keystone XL approval process is a blessing for the forces of good, if the sputtering rage of the forces of darkness serves as any indication. While litigation is necessary...
View ArticleOur Climate Moment
Thousands of research studies performed by thousands of scientists provide evidence of human-generated activities that define the reality of climate change already despoiling our air, fresh water,...
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Illinois Infrastructure: Getting Our Water Systems Up to Snuff Amidst the...
Water. In Illinois we have whipsawed back and forth between having too much of it and not enough in recent years. From a flooded and re-reversed Chicago River to the mighty Mississippi being reduced...
View ArticleThe Latest Buzz: The Decline of Bees is Harming Global Agriculture
Bees might be those uninvited guests that harass your picnic or evening stroll, but as pollinators, the bees have an important job to do. Sadly though, they're not getting around to doing it. The...
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What Is Mother Love?
I thought I could never love anything as much as I loved my newborn first baby, my daughter, a piece of my heart beating outside of my own body. But then I had another baby, and then another, and each...
View ArticleOrganics: Privilege or Responsibility?
Recently Mark Bittman of the New York Times wrote about sending the wrong message in an op-ed piece called "Leave 'Organic' Out of It." I am fan of Bittman, who writes about food for the Times opinion...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Stewardship in Congress?
Stewardship of our natural heritage has gone missing in Congress. Forty years ago, our political leaders acted as visionary statesmen when they passed a series of landmark laws to protect the treasured...
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Empty the Tanks; One Woman's Dream Resonates Worldwide
If you take Gandhi's statement, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world," and blend it with Mother Theresa's "If you want to change the world, pick up a broom," you will have Rachel...
View ArticleIndonesian Community Leaders Arrested For Coal Activism
Co-authored with Nicole Ghio, Sierra Club International Climate Program As two community leaders fighting the Batang coal plant in Indonesia begin their seven month prison sentence this week in...
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