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Sustainable Luxury Travel: A Manifesto
This is the story of a luxury hotel on an island in the sea. A hotel that has received acclaim in top travel magazines. This hotel's rooms offer some of the world's most breathtaking vistas of...
View Article2013: Wasting Too Many Chances to Be More Sustainable
Each year as the calendar winds down and we prepare to "turn the page" to a fresh, clean new one, people reflect on the year just ended and make themselves -- and others -- promises to address their...
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Decycling: Can L.A. Be A Bike City?
Before Toronto Mayor Rob Ford became outrageously famous for smoking crack and holding crazy press conferences, he was known for something else: He was an anti-bicycle crusader. He campaigned against...
View ArticleWhy We Need A Global Food Agency
When it comes to global food security, safety and sufficiency, we would do well to follow the Boy Scouts motto: Be prepared. World food security today is deteriorating. Climate change is accelerating,...
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I Didn't Fix the Water Crisis, and I'm OK With That
An old boss used to say, "You're not going to fix the water crisis drilling one bore hole at a time." I get it -- water security is a complex issue, and scalability is a key measure of long-term...
View ArticleWhere's the Lorax When We Need Him?
It's a shame that the Lorax and his message "Who Will Speak For The Trees" has been relegated to the realm of children's cartoons and fantasy. Especially as trees, forests and ecosystems appear to be...
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Dear Prudence (the Advice Cat): Advice for Cat Lovers From a Cat's Point of View
Dear Prudence, Nine months ago, my husband and I rescued two three-month-old feral kittens, who we named Schroedinger and Genghis Khat. They were supposed to be fosters, but have since become "foster...
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Happy Birthday California Marine Network!
As the holidays approach, I tend to wax reflectively on what has transpired over the preceding year. I like to take stock: thinking about where the year started and revelling in the rambling journey...
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Santa Claus and Climate Change: A Letter to My Grandkids
December 2020 Dear Grandchildren, Once upon a time, a jolly old man named St. Nick, or Santa Claus, lived at the North Pole. Every year, at Christmas, he bundled up toys made by his magic elves and...
View ArticleState Department Should Play By the Same Rules as the NFL on Conflicts of...
The Baltimore Ravens played the Detroit Lions on Monday Night Football. Imagine that if before the game, we found out that the head referee was a Ravens season ticket holder and a dues paying member of...
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Who's to Blame for Climate Change?
The Climate Accountability Institute's new study documenting that just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of manmade carbon emissions since the Industrial Revolution triggered some pushback...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: EIA Releases Early Predictions from Annual Energy Outlook
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Monday released a 20-page preview of its Annual Energy Outlook 2014, which includes projections of U.S. energy supply, demand and prices through 2040....
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Keystone XL Fork in the Road: TransCanada's Houston Lateral Pipeline
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Only Barack Obama knows the fate of the northern half of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. But in the meantime, TransCanada is preparing the southern half of...
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Survival Guide For Climate Change Debates
When extended family gets together over the holidays, dinner conversations can sometimes be awkward -- such as when your uncle from South Carolina talks politics with your niece from the Bay Area....
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What About Those Brown Tree Snakes
Parachute journalism -- a reporter lands in an unknown world and has to quickly assess the situation. These days, it can also happen on the phone, over email and via Twitter. Anyone can file stories...
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Native Video Offers Oil-Soaked Vision for Christmas Future
Heavy snow blankets the North Country, now, in the short days and long nights leading into the winter solstice. It has been a challenging season in the Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota with biting cold...
View ArticleWhy the NFL Should Embrace Medical Marijuana
The consequences of injuries sustained by NFL players have gotten more attention lately, in part due to the tragic death of Junior Seau and others who were found to have chronic traumatic...
View ArticleGive Santa Claus a Break: Support Universal Contraception Access
Do you ever feel like over the years, your work duties have greatly expanded? Be glad you're not Santa Claus. Consider the workload of poor old Saint Nick. The mission: Deliver toys to all good girls...
View ArticleAffirming Our All-American Conservation Values Through the Endangered Species...
Conservation of our precious natural resources used to be a defining American value. Across the political spectrum throughout the late 1960s and '70s, there was near-universal agreement that we must...
View ArticleSouthern Foodways Alliance - An Introduction to Appalachia
Montani Semper Liberi - Mountaineers are always free - This is the state motto from where I grew up - West Virginia - It's also a motto for us mountain folk in Appalachia. "Almost Heaven", Coal Country...
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