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Why Are Developers Against Green?
Protestors speaking out against urban landscaping practices. Photo Credit: Florida Sierra Club Land development issues are huge in Florida and in every state. There is not a day that goes by without...
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Can Long Island Be Saved? Part II
The first of four public meetings scheduled this month on Long Island's water quality crisis was held Monday, May 12, 12-4 p.m. in the Nassau County Legislative Chambers which are appropriately enough...
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Bottles, Bins, and Funnels: Gardening in a Drought With Water You Waste
I currently live in Los Angeles and have lived in California for most of my life, so I'm used to living with drought. I still remember as a small kid when my mom explained to me that I would now be...
View ArticleInterview with a Climate Vampire
Last week your Intrepid Reporter (IR) sat down with Jackson Partwhit (JP), Media Director of the Climatewatch Institute. IR: Mr. Partwhit, it says here that the mission of Climatewatch is to "Confuse...
View ArticlePublic Outcry Grows Over Uncontrolled Growth of the Biomass Energy Industry
Burning whole trees to produce electricity is dirtier than coal. And the uncontrolled growth of the biomass energy industry in the Southeast threatens our most endangered forests. But communities in...
View ArticleWhen Philanthropists Give Directly, Are Climate Dividends Next?
International development philanthropies have been testing out a simple solution to a complex problem. Can we help the poorest people in the world by just giving them money? If so, how about giving...
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Celebrating Darwin and the Darwin Research Station in Galápagos
Exactly 158 years ago, on May 14, 1856, Charles Darwin began writing an extended treatise that would later become On the Origin of Species, his landmark work that laid out his theory of evolution by...
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A New Model For Excellence in Elephant Care
Last year, I supervised three students at the USF Patel College of Global Sustainability who did their internships in Malawi Africa. One of the major issues the students encountered was human animal...
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Native American Women Pray for Most Polluted U.S. River, the Ohio
Walking through the city in the rain while carrying a copper bucket of water and an eagle feather was not how I had planned to celebrate Mother's Day. Although I frequently think otherwise, however,...
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A Senator's One-Fingered Salute to America's Military Leaders
We have to wonder how long reasonable Republicans will allow the irrational and unprincipled members of their party to continue ruining its reputation. There was Karl Rove's very personal innuendo this...
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Electrons Worth Fighting for
American wind power needs your help and you can make a difference. This week or next, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on H.R. 3474, also known as the EXPIRE Act, a bill which includes a two-year...
View ArticleHow USDA Rubber-Stamps 'Humane' and 'Sustainable' Food Claims
When a shopper spends their hard-earned money on meat that is labeled "humanely raised" or "sustainably farmed," it's not unreasonable for them to assume that someone has validated the truthfulness of...
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice and the "Science" of Denial
Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you learn that you cannot eat money. -- Cree Proverb...
View ArticleWill the Next Coal Ash Disaster Be in Your Neighborhood?
Guess what -- you might be living near a toxic coal ash dump that threatens your local water supply, without even knowing it. Today, the Sierra Club and Earthjustice are releasing a new report called...
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The ABCs of Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management -- Part III
Reducing and minimizing bycatch According to some estimates, as much as 40 percent of fish caught around the globe is discarded at sea, dead or dying. We can't afford to continue this wasteful...
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Baby Gray Foxes Nearly Orphaned by "Humane" Trap
WildCare's Wildlife Hospital treats nearly 4,000 ill, injured and orphaned wild animal patients from over 200 species every year. This is the story of two recent patients. Aware that animals had moved...
View ArticleRingling Brothers Should Put Money Where Mouth Is
I've always hated what traveling circuses do to elephants. I went to the circus as a kid, and wondered what the lives of the elephants were like, and knew it couldn't be good. I started my personal...
View ArticleDeath by a Thousand Cuts: Illinois Coal Tragedies Continue
With the death toll still mounting at a coal mine in Turkey, another southern Illinois coal miner lost his life this week, along with two West Virginia miners. The state of Illinois, meanwhile --...
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Financial Stability on the Farm: John Reganold Is a 2014 NRDC Growing Green...
If you ever visit Washington State University's certified organic teaching farm, chances are you'll find Regents Professor John Reganold there, bent over and closely examining a handful of soil, but...
View ArticleLeaving Something to Future Generations: A Climate Change Challenge
By Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and Sheila D. Collins People who accumulate even a modest nest egg often strive to "leave something" to their children. Hoping to bolster the financial security of the...
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