Cathedral Thinking: Can Houses of Worship Become Beacons of Sustainability?
Notre Dame de Paris took 182 years to build. No less than 140 years of construction passed before the Duomo in Florence was finally complete. Accordingly, "cathedral thinking" refers to deep dedication...
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Want Self-Improvement? Turn to an Elephant
Elephants share many traits with us -- the same lifespan, a strong sense of family, an understanding of death and the experience of many of the same emotions. Yet conservationist Dame Daphne Sheldrick...
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This Food Market on Wheels Is Driven to Serve Low-Income Communities
 It’s not unusual for a farmers market to dispense healthy, fresh produce by vehicle, moving from one location to another as the hours and days go by. There’s one that sets up in a school parking lot...
View ArticleThe 2014 World Food Prize: Onward to the Glorious Past
On June 18th Secretary of State John Kerry announced that plant breeder Sanjaya Rajaram would be the 2014 winner of the World Food Prize. During his 40-year career at CIMMYT and ICARDA (Green...
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Schools for Sustainability Witnesses Water Purification at the Omega Center
Close your eyes and imagine a place where harmful chemicals, pollution and toxins are nonexistent. In this haven, drinking water is completely pure, and fresh local food is prepared on the scene. As...
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This Is What a Happy Pig Looks Like!
The Internet is filled with horrible pictures of pigs confined in tiny cages with their tails cut off. The Internet is also filled with adorable pictures of cute little piglets that are typically pets...
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Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink....
Californians hope to avoid a desolate future with the development of desalination systems across the state. Photo by Bruce Rolff. SANTA BARBARA, CA -- And so goes the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, the...
View ArticleEverything You Want to Know About Your Dog's Bark
What do dogs think when humans bark? That question was thrust into the spotlight when a hilarious video of an experiment conducted by comedian Rudi Rok and Finnish magician Jose Ahonen went viral on...
View ArticleCloset Hacks: How to Know When It's Time to Donate Your Clothes
If you're like most apartment dwellers, which have minimal storage space, summer means it's time to switch out winter clothes for summer clothes in your closet and dresser. This also means discovering...
View ArticleSoft Landing or Crash and Burn? The Choice Is Ours
Not until 1804 did the Earth's human population first exceed one billion. Between 1804 and 2014, a 210-year period spanning just three consecutive human lifetimes, population skyrocketed: to 2 billion...
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Are Transition Plans Code for Climate Change Backtracking?
The USDA Forest Service is pushing through the sale of nearly 6,200 acres of Tongass rainforest's old growth timber for 10-15 years of logging, claiming that's what the timber industry needs to...
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'Green News Report' - June 24, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.S. Supreme Court upholds EPA authority on greenhouse gas emissions -- again; It's official - May 2014 was the hottest May on...
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War Games Killing Whales
If the U.S. military conducted their war games in our world's forests -- setting the Appalachian Trail on fire or strafing bucks, bears, and bobcats in Yosemite with armed drones -- it would seem like...
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Tar Sands on the Tracks: Railbit, Dilbit and U.S. Export Terminals
Last December the first full train carrying tar-sands crude left the Canexus Bruderheim terminal outside Edmonton, Alberta, bound for an unloading terminal somewhere in the United States. In previous...
View ArticleThe Future of Ocean Conservation: New Aspen Report from the Ocean Community...
This is a pivotal moment in the global movement to protect the oceans from an ongoing trend of over-exploitation that threatens marine ecosystems worldwide. The ocean conservation community has now...
View ArticleUnder President Obama's Climate Action Plan, a Year of Progress at EPA
Climate change supercharges risks to our health, our economy, and our way of life. On behalf of our kids and future generations -- we have a moral obligation to act. That's why in June, President Obama...
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Prison Labor and Goat Dairies: A Response
Written by Laurel Miller A recent Fortune story on a Colorado prison-run goat dairy has tapped into a socially sensitive nerve, if today's response by Jezebel writer Kelly Faircloth is any indication....
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Who Owns Water?
Co-authored with David Hanson, creator of Who Owns Water and author of Breaking through Concrete In 2013 when I began work on I AM COYOTE: Readings for the Wild, I was fortunate enough to meet David...
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Ignorance Kills One Million Pit Bulls per Year
I was a bigot. Hence, I can sympathize with all those who still are. I was terrified of pit bulls. I knew very little about them, but what I'd heard in the media sure sounded terrifying: how their jaws...
View ArticleVermont's Invisible Farmworkers
A couple of months ago I was invited to give a keynote address at the University of Vermont's Food Systems Summit, held last week at UVM in Burlington. I get a lot of these invitations. Keynote...
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