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Volunteer Knitters Answer WildCare's Call to Save Baby Birds
Every year, WildCare's Wildlife Hospital cares for 800-1000 orphaned baby songbirds during the months of May through August. Our baby bird patients need "homes" while in our care, and crafted fiber...
View ArticlePeripheral Vision: Climate Change and Global Development in the 21st Century...
Summary Global warming poses an existential threat to life on Earth. This existential threat challenges our capabilities and calls into question the viability and effectiveness of mechanically...
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It Could Be Worse, It Could Be China
Early in June, I flew to China to deliver a presentation at a UNESCO forum near Shilin, Yunnan Province. The conference focused on how to manage and protect important natural and historic features...
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What Would Bucky Fuller Say About Masterpieces of the Earth Giant Crystals...
While exploring and experiencing the enormous giant crystals at Richard Berger's Masterpieces of the Earth Gallery, I could not help but wonder how my mentor and teacher Buckminster Fuller would have...
View ArticleAn Exclusive Video Interview With Charla Nash
Yesterday, I wrote about my visit to Capitol Hill with Charla Nash, the courageous woman who five years ago suffered an unthinkable mauling by a pet chimp. She came to Washington, D.C., at my request...
View ArticleWorld Cup vs. Planet Earth
I like FIFA soccer as much as the next fan. In fact, I often wonder why the marvelous athleticism, dexterity, reflexes, and international color of the game has not led it to catch on any faster in the...
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Climate Change This Week: Super Typhoon, Solar Keeps Spreading, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, July 13 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleLegalizing Marijuana Should Be a Top National Security Objective: Terrorism...
The national security goals of our country have been implemented in recent years by waging two decade-long insurgent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nation building in those countries, and increased...
View ArticleMeatless Monday: It's Bastille Day -- Viva La Revolution
It's Bastille Day, celebrating the start of the French Revolution. The French Revolution didn't happen because it seemed like a fun idea with a rockin' theme song. It happened because the French had...
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There Was a 'High Line' Before the Famous Elevated Park in NYC
New York’s City’s hugely successful and justly celebrated High Line wasn’t the first elevated urban railroad bed to be converted into a much-loved linear park. Today, as we mark the national...
View ArticleLeBron James, Place and the Search for Sustainable Communities
My Columbia colleague, Professor Mark Taylor, recently published a wonderful book about his home in western Massachusetts entitled, Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill. It is a distinctive and...
View ArticleSelling Solar in India Through the Lens of Google Glass
Co-authored by Vrinda Manglik, Sierra Club Solar power is the key to ending energy poverty. No, this isn't some out-of-touch Silicon Valley pipe dream. Innovative companies like Simpa Networks and OMC...
View ArticleBurrowing in on Wild Horse and Burro Management
Burros are among my favorite of the animals residing at our Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch, with their long ears and friendly stares. We have a couple of hundred rescued burros there, and visitors...
View ArticleU.S. Military May Be the Strongest Force in Battle Against Climate Change
Fear is a potent force in American politics. It is the force that sustains the War on Terror, the latest calls for further military interventions in Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, and Obama's use of...
View ArticleDepartment of Agriculture Sends Misguided Fiasco of a Poultry Processing Rule...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent its benighted poultry processing rule to the White House for final review. The millions of consumers who eat undercooked chicken at their peril and the...
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Red States Are Way Ahead of Congress on Global Warming
If lawmakers paid more attention to their constituents than their campaign contributors, there would be more Kumbaya moments like this one on Capitol Hill. Congress is more deeply divided today than...
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Peripheral Vision: Climate Change and Global Development in the 21st Century...
Summary Global warming poses an existential threat to life on Earth. This existential threat challenges our capabilities and calls into question the viability and effectiveness of mechanically...
View ArticleInnovation: Key to Reducing Carbon Emissions
Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a proposal to reduce carbon emissions aggressively -- by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. It will create economic opportunities,...
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Building on Success
In late fall of 2006, Congress came together to strengthen the primary law that governs our nation's ocean fisheries -- the Magnuson-Stevens Act, originally passed in 1976. A push from leaders on both...
View ArticleHow Family Summer Car Trips Benefit From a Little-Known Program
We are now in the middle of summer, which for many parents often means packing up the car, the kids, and hitting the road to visit favorite haunts or explore new places. I remember summer trips when I...
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