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Think Bicycle Commuters Are Good Citizens? You're Probably A Democrat
Last week, Pew Research released a survey of 10,000 voters focused on partisan polarization. In their survey, Pew also collected data about lifestyle polarization. For example, Liberals want to live in...
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Exceptional Volume of Pesticides Used by Chemical Companies in Hawaii
Author's Note: The following is taken from a press release sent out by the Kauai Coalition to Enforce Ordinance 960, which I am a part of. I have written about Ordinance 960, previously Bill 2491, in...
View ArticleAn Energy Conference You Don't Want to Miss
It passed some time since this year's CERAWeek 2014 kicked off in Houston, Texas from March third to seventh. This conference is, in my opinion, one of the best energy conferences I have attended (and...
View ArticleWhy Americans Are Ready to Pay More Money for Cleaner Energy
The news last week that Americans are willing to pay more for cleaner and greener energy, by almost a 2-to-1 margin, and are more willing to support a candidate that addresses the issue of climate...
View ArticleBeleaguered Plaquemines Town Is Slated for a Borrow Pit
This article was published in The Louisiana Weekly in the June 16, 2014 edition. The Plaquemines Parish Council gave the go-ahead Thursday to Woodland Borrow Pits, LLC in New Orleans to excavate clay...
View ArticleEmpathy Depletion: An Environmental Hazard
It seems more and more clear that sustainable development requires that we look closely not only at how we treat the environment hut at how we treat each other. Jeremy Rifkin, in his 2009 book The...
View ArticleDear Baby Boomers, Step Aside
Millennials like pretty much the same thing: A job. Over the course of our existence we've been told we're special, have been enrolled in numerous activities from piano lessons and soccer to football...
View ArticleThe ADB's Dirty Little Coal Secret
Co-authored by Aviva Imhof, The Sunrise Project Australia Lurking beneath the Asian Development Bank (ADB)'s clean energy exterior is a dirty secret: Despite their promises to bring clean energy in the...
View ArticleThe Future of Public Power
There is nothing more alarming to an entrenched monopoly, it seems, than consumers demanding the right to choose. Since 2011, the city of Boulder, CO has sought to form its own municipal utility. The...
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The Clean Power Plan Means Changes for Coal, But Not the Ones You Might Expect
Under President Obama's recently announced Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed that states cut greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 30 percent from...
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Bloody Poachers, Oragnized Crime, Insatiable Demand (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
The bloody 'War Against Nature' is roiling in Africa and it's being fueled by a voracious Asian demand for animal parts. Join Earth Dr Reese Halter for another segment of SOS as he explains the awful...
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Land Degradation: A Pathway to Nourishing the Future Is Found in Africa
Life on earth hangs on a thin thread. The warming of the earth's climate is taking place in an atmospheric layer which makes up two-tenths of a percent of the radius of the planet. Land degradation,...
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Why Dogs Shouldn't Stare -- Test Your Canine IQ!
(Teach Yourself Visual Dog Training, Sarah Hodgson; Wiley and Sons Publishing, 2005). A lot of what I teach boils down to one simple rule: dogs and their owners should not stare. Dogs shouldn't stare...
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Obama Takes Bold Action to Protect Marine Life in the Pacific Ocean
This is great day for anyone who has ever marveled at wide-open seas and rich ocean life. President Obama announced plans to protect a vast stretch of the central Pacific Ocean home to coral gardens...
View ArticleA New Global Vision For The Paper Industry
Ten years ago, with support from a small group of far sighted funders, representatives from 56 national and grassroots environmental organizations joined together in northern California for three days...
View ArticleSwarthmore College, What Are You Values?
"It's surprising that Swarthmore, which prides itself on social justice, would be so hesitant when you try to involve the institution itself. It's astounding to us to see the ways they continue to...
View ArticlePresident Obama Announces Plan to Combat Seafood Fraud
I love seafood -- from succulent scallops to salty anchovies, seafood is an increasingly popular meal in my own home and across the United States. Yet consumers searching for sustainable seafood will...
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''Green News Report' - June 17, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... Listen online here, or Download MP3 (6 mins)... Link: Embed: Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail? Drop us a line at GreenNews@BradBlog.com or...
View ArticleNot Standing Idly for Elephants in Peril
Poachers recently killed Satao, one of Kenya's best known elephants, whose tusks weighed more than 100 pounds each and reached all the way to the ground. A poison arrow felled Satao in Tsavo National...
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First Nation Stands Alone as Oil Floods North Dakota and Obama Visits
Waiting for Obama at Cannon Ball ND (Photo: Chase Iron Eyes) The full June moon known to First Nation peoples as the Strawberry Moon crept over the trees in the east as the sun set over the Sitting...
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