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To Know Me Is to Love Me
Only as we begin to know something -- or someone -- can we truly begin to love it. This thought came to me as I was reading a marvelous book about water. I should say: looking at the book, because the...
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Dairyland to Petrostate: Wisconsin Oil-By-Rail Routes Published for First Time
Cross-posted from DeSmogBlog DeSmogBlog is publishing the first documents ever obtained from the Wisconsin government revealing routes for oil-by-rail trains in the state carrying oil obtained via...
View ArticleTranslation of Leaked European Union Trade Document: Climate Disaster
A leaked European Union trade document, published by the Washington Post, reveals the dangers of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership for communities and our climate. The document,...
View ArticleSafe Havens for Our Wildlife Has No ETA on the Horizon
It's a tempting idea -- no doubt one that helped shape the thinking behind the creation of the first federally protected wildlife sanctuaries under Theodore Roosevelt -- that wild animals can exist...
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'Green News Report' - July 8, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Japan hit with monster typhoon, while Hurricane Arthur breaks a record on the US East Coast; No time for deniers: BBC smacked for...
View ArticleOvercoming Obstacles to Agroecology
Known as the "science of sustainable agriculture," agroecology is also a practice and a movement. For, Ricardo Salvador, Director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned...
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Let's Use Logic to Talk About Pit Bulls -- It'll Make Things Better for Everyone
Here's a puzzle I used to give my LSAT students, back when I was helping prepare ambitious would-be lawyers for a lifetime of paying off law school loans: Shark attacks have gone up this summer. So has...
View ArticleStop Polluters From Putting Their Money Where Your Mouth Is
It's about time the Senate acted to save itself. That's why the Sierra Club is joining with dozens of organizations representing millions and millions of Americans to call on the Senate to approve a...
View Article5 Things You Should Know About Generating Electricity From Landfill Gas
With EPA's recent announcement that new landfills will be required to capture two-thirds of their methane and air toxic emissions by 2023 (13 percent more than current requirements), the Obama...
View ArticleYou Need to Know: The Facts and Debate About GMOs
GMOs, or Genetically Modified Organisms, have frequented news headlines over the last few years. But you still may be asking yourself: "What exactly are GMOs?" Here is the basic rundown of all you need...
View ArticleOne Fish, Two Fish... Dead Fish
A study from researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published this month provides strong new evidence that mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia is devastating downstream fish...
View ArticleHurricane Season Is Here: Is Your Home Ready?
Hurricane Arthur was an early reminder that storm season is indeed underway. It also put homeowners on notice: now is the time to prepare. While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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Animals and Cultural Diplomacy
It was almost a decade after the Puritan government of England had executed King Charles I, and the country had begun to descend into chaos. Oliver Cromwell, who ruled as Lord Protector silenced...
View ArticleHowling for Wolves and Voting Rights in Michigan
Almost three decades ago, I spent a summer as a Student Conservation Association ranger at Isle Royale National Park, in the farthest reaches of northern Michigan. I hiked through the beautiful boreal...
View ArticleOil Companies Gambling Billions of Dollars Ignoring Climate Change Realities
Companies like Shell Oil really need to give their eyes a rub and see that a world with serious constraints on greenhouse gas emissions is not a possible future, but an eventual reality. Right now, oil...
View ArticleHeat Crime: LGBTQ Politics for a Changing Climate
By many accounts, the corporate presence at last weekend's gay pride parade in New York City was greater than any other year in the parade's history. TD Bank, one of the parade's platinum sponsors,...
View ArticleWe Want People to Change Their Minds
Word came recently that both the Philadelphia Quakers and the Unitarian General Assembly have decided to divest from fossil fuels. It followed by few weeks the news that the Roman Catholic University...
View ArticleSustainability Science Requires the Freedom to Observe and Understand the Planet
Co-authored by Arthur Lerner-Lam, Alison Miller and Sean Solomon The scientific heart of Columbia University's Earth Institute is the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which has been engaged in...
View ArticleMaking Agriculture Cool
Agriculture has an image problem. Simply put, for the majority of the world's youth, agriculture simply isn't seen as being "cool" or attractive. Most think of it only as back-breaking labor, without...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: China and U.S. Sign Pacts on Climate Change
The world's two largest carbon emitters have signed pacts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The deals--actually eight projects demonstrating smart grids and carbon capture, utilization and storage--were...
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