World Population Day: How Are We Doing?
Twenty-five years ago, the United Nations Development Programme declared July 11 to be World Population Day. Much has changed in the past quarter century. Significant progress has been made, but many...
View ArticleFlorida: Leader or Laggard?
For the last five years my wife and I have been blessed to call southwest Florida our home. It's a beautiful place with abundant opportunities to enjoy and thrive in God's good creation. (For me this...
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8 Misconceptions About El Niño (and La Niña)
For years, people have pointed to El Niño as the culprit behind floods, droughts, famines, economic failures and record-breaking global heat. Can a single climate phenomenon really cause all these...
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Talking Journeys, Objects and Mothers with Swoon
The artist Swoon is known for both her street art and her performance projects that involve group voyages, such as the "Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea," (2008) a journey along the Hudson River,...
View ArticleStray Dogs Impact on Tourism in the Caribbean
TripAdvisor has many postings advising people to avoid taking a vacation in the Caribbean because of the stray dog problem. Individuals regularly post how heartbreaking it was to spend a lot of money...
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Namibia: Raw and Wild
The lion stared at me, less than 10 meters away, then growled. I cringed, realizing that with just a quick, short leap, he could pull me out of our open safari vehicle and drag me away. That lion...
View ArticleGrowing Public Will for Climate Action
I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes something -- a book, a movement, an issue -- popular in America because of the great and urgent need to build public will for climate action. Here's...
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'Green News Report' - July 10, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Anti-science nuttery alive and well in Kentucky; BP's oil still contaminating fish in the Gulf; Canada's tar sands linked to...
View ArticleThe Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
This post is adapted from my talk to SF Pension Trustees In 2010, at Cancun, the world's nations set 3.5 degrees F as the permissible increase in global temperature to 2050. Beyond that was...
View ArticleWill Congress Heed Charla Nash's Message?
Yesterday, I shared the podium on Capitol Hill with the brave Charla Nash who, five years ago, suffered one of the most extensive and life-changing animal attacks in American history. After being...
View ArticleGot Science? Reasons for Hope About Political Polarization
With hyper-partisanship in Congress stalling government action and blocking science-based decision-making in recent years, it's little wonder that Congress' public approval rating is at an all-time,...
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This Week In Science: Photosynthesis Pics, Inconvenient Chickens, and Faraway...
Seven days; lots of science in the news. Here's our roundup of the week's most notable and quotable items. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons/Avenue Scientists captured the first microscopic images of...
View ArticleSeven Years at Katchkie Farm -- and Itching for More!
Summer 2007. I will never forget the speed with which our neglected acres came to life. Bit by bit, Farmer Bob plowed and nurtured the soil transforming it from impassible and soggy brambles to...
View ArticleWasted Cash in the US Fishing Industry
The fishing industry is an important part of the U.S. economy. In 2012, commercial fishermen landed almost 10 billion pounds of fish worth more than $5 billion. What would you say, though, if you found...
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Oil Refineries Have a Moral Imperative to Fix the Air Pollution Problem...
When I moved with my family from California to Utah nine years ago, I was stunned by the horrible air quality in this otherwise gorgeous mountain state. Day after day, during that first winter, we were...
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UN Helen Clark: Rural Poverty Is Fuelling the Poaching Crisis
Photo: Helen Clark, United Nations / savingthewild.com Mainstream news is flooded with recycled poaching stories: dead rhinos and elephants, bad poachers, and public outrage. The demand is primarily...
View ArticleHobby Lobby, Climate Change, and the GOP's Women Problem
More than 200 women brought their children to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to clean up the air pollution that causes climate change. The event was called a "Play-in for Climate Action"...
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Look at What You Did!
I returned from the Arctic last week, and the beauty and peacefulness that I experienced there still occupy my dreams. Sure, the grizzly we encountered in our camp the first night has a starring role,...
View ArticleWATCH: This May Be The Single Greatest Lie We've All Been Sold About Disability
Being disabled doesn't automatically make you a noble inspiration to all humanity, says Stella Young. In this very funny talk, she breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into...
View ArticleHarley-Davidson Signals Climate Change Is Mainstream
Is there an answer to climate change? I believe there is, and it's already underway. To borrow terms from technology, a distributed solution has moved along the technology adoption curve, through the...
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