The Climate Post: Senate Clears Way for Keystone XL Pipeline
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 12 to 10 on a bill Wednesday approving the long-debated Keystone XL oil pipeline. The pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada to the...
View ArticleWhen a Duck Needs a Duckmate
Musco the duck is in existential pain. I know this from the way he rolls his beady eye away from me, not that long after he has ambled over for a visit, briefly offering a ruffle of his topnotch...
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What Is Our Narrative?
I am attending the Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Funders (SASFS) conference in Denver this week and a provocative subject was raised about the dominant story we harken to regarding our agricultural...
View ArticleExpanding Renewable Energies, Expanding Job Prospects?
Tatyana, 21, studied international business at Baruch College in New York City. When she started out her business education, she never would have expected ending up in the renewable energy industry....
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Koch Network, Fossil-Fuel Front Groups Lobby Congress Against Wind-Energy Tax...
The Koch-brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity spearheaded a letter published as a full-page advertisement in Politico on June 9, 2014, attacking wind energy and claiming that 117 organizations...
View ArticleSlavery at Sea
It can be easy to fool ourselves into believing that slavery, while repugnant, has nothing to do with our own lives, that it has been either eradicated from all but the most remote places on Earth or...
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Climate Change This Week: the US Green Job Plan, India Boils, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, June 19 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleOpen Letter to African Union Heads of State
Judging from the daily outpouring of commentary, opinions and reports, you would think that there were two African continents. One of them is the new land of opportunity, with seven of the world's 10...
View ArticleFrom the Ivory Tower Kitchen: How Fresh Is Fresh Enough?
For many years now, the farm-to-table movement has been championing the power of showcasing the farmers and their produce. Some might argue, it's all farm-to-table and that might not be too far from...
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Protecting Our Air Is Protecting Our Oceans
President Obama and the EPA recently took historic action to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's coal-fired power plants. While the conventional wisdom (and much of the reporting) on this...
View ArticleWATCH: Stunning Truths Your Facebook 'Likes' Really Reveal About You
Are you sharing more than you mean to online? Computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck explains how the simple act of "liking" something on social media reveals more personal information about you than...
View ArticlePoacher Psyche
Professional poachers undoubtedly give little thought to anything beyond the desired immediate response to their nefarious acts, namely a monetary return. Aside from not dwelling on skirting the law,...
View ArticleThe Food Safety Movement Grows Tall
Let us celebrate today the latest initiatives of our nation's growing food safety movement. Across the country, consumers are demanding the right to know what is in their food, and labeling of...
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Heather Zichal, Former Obama Energy Aide, Named to Board of Fracked Gas...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogHeather Zichal, former Obama White House Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, may soon walk out of the government-industry revolving door to...
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When Is the Science Settled?
"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' [linking smoking with disease] that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing...
View ArticleWill We Continue to Make the Same Mistakes on Energy Policy?
Sometimes you take a look at things and wonder if our historical amnesia is such that it has robbed us of all the lessons of the past so we simply can't seem to move forward no matter the cost of...
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How the US Is Bullying El Salvador Into Using Monsanto's GMO Seeds
President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, inaugural speech, June 1, 2014, San Salvador. Photo courtesy of Vivien Feyer. The crowd was jubilant. Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa waved triumphantly to the...
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Defenders of Dirty Power Plants Use Doublespeak to Shape Debate
Few opponents of the federal Clean Power Plan want to stand up and say they favor unlimited carbon pollution. So they're apt to frame their arguments in more clever ways. Sometimes their approach is...
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Singing the Methane Blues
While everyone else is watching the steadily increasing carbon dioxide levels reach and exceed 400 parts per million (0.04 percent of the atmosphere), another group of scientists have been fretting...
View ArticleIn Killing Whales and Dolphins, Japan Is Hurting Itself
And the US Government Should Help Them Stop! Why is Japan so off-the-wall in insisting on waving the bloody shirt in front of the world public by slaughtering whales and dolphins in the most inhumane...
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