Michigan Fails Food Growers
On April 28, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development amended the Michigan Right To Farm Act in such a way as to strip protections the act offered to individuals living on non-farm...
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Ship Runs Aground in Galápagos
Galápagos authorities are working to minimize environmental damage after the cargo ship Galapaface I ran aground Friday morning at 3:15 a.m. off Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristóbal, the...
View ArticleTurn the Talking Points into Far-Reaching Action on Climate
The most important news of the week had nothing to do with celebrities behaving badly or who will occupy the White House after President Obama. The most important news this week is about the precarious...
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Climate Change This Week: US Climate Report Card, Climate Action Day and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, May 9, 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleSt. Tammany Parish Residents Worry Fracking Will Harm Their Water
(This article is published in The Louisiana Weekly in the May 12, 2014 edition.) St. Tammany Parish Councilman Jacob Groby, III says drinking water could be threatened if Helis Oil & Gas Co., LLC,...
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"Best Is a Future Free of Fossil Fuels": Deval Patrick Inspires UMass (and Me)
Each spring, millions of Americans at 1,000s of High Schools and Universities sit through commencement speeches. While many are filled with overused clichés and serve only as a speed bump en route post...
View ArticlePark Equity and Park Reality in NYC
While most of the land in New York City sits beneath single family homes, like the one I grew up in on East 59th Street in Brooklyn, most of the people in New York live in apartments. I've lived in...
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Architecture at the End of the World
"Resilient design" is not the complete answer. The end is near! Or so it seems. In mid-March, a University of Maryland study concluded that civilization is racing toward collapse, due to extreme...
View ArticleThe Lost Generation of U.S. Climate Policy
The recent report from the U.S. Government on climate change clearly shows that we are already feeling the impact of climate change. It follows the recently released report from the Intergovernmental...
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A Mother's Day Interview with Sen. Barbara Boxer A Moms Clean Air Force...
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) serves as the Majority Chairperson of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). She is the first woman to do so. It is from this vantage point that she...
View ArticleFighting Climate Change Will Require a Mom's Love
Thanks to Diana Donlon, Director of the Cool Foods Campaign at the Center for Food Safety for leading this joint op-ed. We hope it inspires moms everywhere to take action on climate change. This...
View ArticleEnergy On-Demand: The Challenges for Sustainable Energy
In today's world, energy and power governs all. Electrical energy is needed to help save lives, communicate with friends and family, and complain on Facebook and Twitter. Since the invention of the...
View ArticleGaining Enough Ground
Four years ago, Ceres and Sustainalytics produced a report that it called a roadmap for sustainability for the 21st century corporation, and noted that while there were pockets of leadership in...
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Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution for Global Warming
There have been several recent calls from people and organizations concerned about global warming to use nuclear electricity generation as part of the solution. This includes The New York Times, the...
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A Family Dog's Letter to His Boy
To the Littlest Boy in the Striped Shirts, I knew from the first time you spilled apple juice in your lap at the kitchen table that we were going to be great friends. These other people, the bigger...
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Solar Decathlon -- Innovation in Home Design
One of the truly wonderful events that occur bi-annually in this country is the Solar Decathlon (SD), an educational program of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and organized by the...
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Looking Into Their Eyes: Jo-Anne McArthur's We Animals
Jo-Anne McArthur's We Animals is the most gorgeous book I have experienced in many years. It is also an invaluable gift to the animal protection community. A key topic of conversation among those of us...
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Climate Assessment Calls for Greenpeace Energy [R]evolution
Last week the Obama administration released the National Climate Assessment report. As the report shows, climate impacts are happening now - whether it's constant extreme weather alerts, droughts and...
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Climate Change Chatter: Science and Politics
Sen. Marco Rubio on climate change: "I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it." A continuing series on what...
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America's 10 Most Scenic National Parks
Towering mountains, deep canyons, dry deserts, wide meadows, craggy coasts, dense forests -- an immensely varied natural world covers the United States. This collection of 10 of the most scenic...
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