Threats to the Southern Hills Aquifer system grow in Louisiana
(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the May 19, 2014 edition.) A ten-parish area from greater Baton Rouge to St. Tammany Parish gets its drinking water from the Southern Hills...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Upcoming EPA Power Plant Rule Stirs Speculation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is just days away from the release of its first-ever proposed rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. The rule will push...
View ArticleAbout Trust
Trust is a loaded word. Great minds have been contemplating it for centuries, and yet it's a feeling, like love, that you can't exactly define. But you know when its there, and perhaps more poignantly,...
View ArticleRecycling Textiles Quenches Droughts, Prevents Wildfire...and Makes for...
A couple weeks ago, I was in the grocery store picking up ingredients for my world famous guacamole; however, when I went to grab some limes, an essential component that adds a certain acidity and...
View ArticleArizona: Fight for Clean Air and Clean Energy Inspires a Family of Activists
Kathy Mohr-Almeida and her daughter Anna -- along with millions of others in Arizona and surrounding states -- could breathe a little easier if the Environmental Protection Agency steps up to enforce...
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The Elephant in the Graduation Tent: Climate Change and an Uncertain Future
Commencement season is in full swing, and graduation speakers are offering advice from podiums across the country. Some use humor, some share hard-won truths, and all urge graduates to embrace the...
View ArticleCancun: Save the Iguanas!
It was the twilight of the iguana. From the rainbow-arched battlements his tongue like a dart plunged into the greenness... -- "Algunas bestias" (Some Beasts), Pablo Neruda Imagine: For nearly 30...
View ArticleWorld's Wildlife Vanishing at Breakneck Pace -- And Guess Who's to Blame?
It turns out that the t-shirt slogan that "plants and animals die to make room for your (and my) fat ass" is true. A new study published in the internationally recognized journal Science by my friend...
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Dear Governor Hickenlooper -- A Film Dispatch
Film is a powerful medium for communicating the look of things, so in a state as visually stunning as Colorado, what better way to deliver a message to the governor? Dear Governor Hickenlooper is a...
View ArticleFunneling Funding in to Resilience
On Friday, May 16th, I was in Washington, D.C., during a torrential downpour. Flash flood warnings stretched from Virginia, across Washington and out to Maryland. Undoubtedly, thousands of basements...
View ArticleReThink Reviews: Night Moves -- Can You Go Too Far to Protect the Earth?
Sorry, nostalgia fans. The new film Night Moves has nothing to do with Bob Seger's 1976 ode to combating sexual inexperience, nor is it a remake of the 1975 detective film starring Gene Hackman. In...
View ArticleBring Back the Night? Or Bring on the Light?
"The nation behaves well if it treats natural resources as assets, which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.... Conservation means development as much as it...
View ArticleHungry for Climate Action: A Moral Call to Act
On June 1, I will get hungry. I will not eat. I will be joining thousands around the world who are also taking part in #fastfortheclimate every first day of the month until Dec., 1 2014 -- the opening...
View ArticleThe Greatest Generation Redux
At the slightest mention of the government instituting measures to combat global warming, climate change deniers respond that such steps would kill jobs and devastate the economy. Wait a minute....
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Remembering Our Mission: Peggy and Hershey
As I prepare to head back to Namibia after a busy spring tour of the U.S., I realize that I am taking so many great memories back with me. I met many new friends and spent time with longtime...
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Trans Borneo Challenge to Save Orangutans
Nature in Borneo, Indonesia is in desperate shape. My colleague Leif Cocks, founder of The Orangutan Project, is on a mission to save the critically endangered Borneo orangutan and he needs your help....
View ArticleBeyond Obama's Plan: A New Economic Vision for Addressing Climate Change
The White House today released its national climate plan for reducing CO2 emissions, warning that climate change is adversely affecting every region of the United States, with dire consequences for the...
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Will New Climate Regulations Destroy the Economy? (Hint: No.)
No. On the contrary, they might just save it by helping stimulate new technologies and industries and by reducing the risks of climate disruption. There is a long history of claims that new rules to...
View ArticleAnother Season of Climate Risk Looms: Southeast Asian Coastal Storms
As the global hurricane and typhoon season begins, a critically important gathering of the World Economic Forum on East Africa has just concluded in Manila, with nearly every session expounding on the...
View ArticleEnergy Storage in New York: If It Can Make It Here, It Can Make It Anywhere
On April 24, 2014, Governor Cuomo unveiled plans for an "energy modernization initiative that will fundamentally transform the way electricity is distributed and used in New York State." "For more than...
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