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Do Animals Need a UN Ambassador?
If the United Kingdom has an Ambassador to the UN, why not the "Animal Kingdom"? Animal welfare, biodiversity, wildlife crimes, and the rapidly evolving view of "animal rights" are and properly...
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Third Party Certification Needed for Sustainable Tourism
There are many laws and principles governing the environment but collectively they do not provide any guarantee that a tourism business will be sustainable. While there are some national and...
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How a Housewife Transformed an Open Sewer into a Swimmable River
In the 1960s the Nashua River was starved of oxygen, biologically dead, and one of the ten most polluted rivers in the United States. The sludge-filled river, which flows through New Hampshire and...
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Kiribati and Climate Change: The Fight You Don't Read About
If someone was to google "Kiribati," search results will speak of the sad realities of this Pacific Island nation. "Plagued by sea-level rise," "Besieged by the rising tide of climate change," and...
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Why the Greenest World Cup Ever Highlights a Shocking Reality
As I write this, the quarterfinals of the "greenest" World Cup ever are about to get underway, with two of the games to be played in stadia that produces enough solar energy to power several thousand...
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Book Review: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Michael Mann has arguably been subjected to more abuse than any other scientist in modern history. For over a decade he has endured an unimaginable torrent of hate and vitriol inflamed by...
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Conservation Needs Palm Oil Companies to Become Active Stakeholders
One of the most memorable email replies I received this year came from the head of a plantation in Indonesian Borneo. The brutally honest answer was: "Mr. Hii, we are in the plantations business. We...
View ArticleA Climate Change Scientist and a Skeptic Walk Into a Pub...
A climate change scientist and a climate change skeptic walked into an Oxford pub and immediately got into a heated discussion over one of the largest issues of our day--climate change. "You and your...
View ArticleA Bill for the One Percent -- of Sport and Trophy Hunters
Just a few days ago, it was the 50th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act. The act was the goal of the 1963 March on Washington and a year later it was muscled through Congress by President...
View ArticleWilderness Forward
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, one of our country's greatest tools for protecting America's wild places. Signed into law on Sept. 3, 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson,...
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Industry Data: Oil-By-Rail in North America Moving at Record Levels
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogOn July 3, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) released June 2014 data showing oil-by-rail and petroleum products at-large are moving at record levels throughout...
View ArticleDown & Dirty with the Arugula
It doesn't get more local than this. I am kneeling in moist soil next to six rows of baby lettuce mix -- an earthbound salad of reddish oval leaves interspersed with broad and branchy green ones -- at...
View Article'Baaaaaaaad' Politics
The idea of it -- sheep grazing high in the mountains of the rugged West, lambs tagging along behind their mothers, shepherds on horseback and dogs keeping guard -- is the scenic stuff of Hollywood...
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Gorillas Fight Back Against Loathsome Poachers
Finally, some good news from Africa. Gorillas are fighting back against poachers in the bloody 'War Against Nature.' Young gorillas learning to dismantle a poacher's snare in the mountains of Rwanda....
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Ten Questions We Should Be Asking About Our Communities
I have spent most of the last 20 years working on an agenda grounded in, for lack of a better phrase, “smart growth.” That agenda basically holds that our regions must replace suburban sprawl with...
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The Emerging Clean Energy Edge
Global energy markets are reaching a tipping point. A pathway has opened for climate progress, but only if governments; business and public's recognize and exploit the opportunity. For the first time,...
View ArticleA Formula for the Production of Violent Emotions, Dead Bodies, and a...
Call it a double whammy for the planet or simply irony with a capital "I." As the invaluable Michael Klare, author of The Race for What's Left, points out today in "21st-Century Energy Wars," if you...
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How Cows Will Save the World... Kinda
Picture Source: chefranden and Animal Photos! (Moo, am I right?) Cows, eh? Well, first let's begin with the underbelly that leads to this cattle conclusion. There is of course an exchange between our...
View ArticleRescue for the Global Ocean (Part I)
The World Ocean Observatory was created as a recommendation of the 1998 Independent World Commission for the Future of the Ocean. The final report of that international group of eminent scientists and...
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Government Audit Finds Hydropower Aid Doesn't Benefit the Poor
No other industrialized country relies on hydropower for its own power generation as much as Norway. Norwegian companies build hydropower dams around the world, including controversial projects like...
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