New Offshore Oil Plan Could Be 'Game Over' for Climate
In a move that could rival the climate impacts of the Alberta tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline, and would release far more atmospheric carbon than that saved by the new EPA power plant and vehicle...
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Ex-Im Bank's Role in Supporting Clean Energy
Private investment in the global clean energy sector is growing and could reach more than $5 trillion by 2030, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. As Asia, Africa and the Americas become more...
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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 ArticleEl Nino Is a Business Wake-Up Call
Businesses will suffer along with people and places this year if the El Nino event predicted by most climate models hits with its expected wicked strength. El Nino is a warming of Pacific Ocean waters...
View ArticleHow Bicycling Improves City Life for Everyone
You can see big changes happening across America as communities from Fairbanks to St. Petersburg transform their streets into appealing places for people, not just cars and trucks. "Over the past five...
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New Report: Trade Talks Threaten to Undermine EU Climate Policy and Bring Tar...
Co-authored with Courtenay Lewis, Campaign Representative, Sierra Club Responsible Trade Program As 2014 brings in a new wave of global temperature records, countries implementing policies that reduce...
View ArticleYou Need to Know: What Do Natural, Local and Organic Mean?
Today's consumers are increasingly concerned with where their food comes from, and demand for "organic," "local" and "natural" foods is on the rise. But what do those labels really mean? Are we getting...
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UN World Food Programme in Ecuador: Strengthening Food Security through...
As Ecuador further modernizes, it may be able to find stable ground by drawing upon knowledge from its past. The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Ecuador is using ancestral knowledge...
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Think Big, Act Now for Nature: Unexpected Common Ground Between Montana,...
My wife Kayla and I, after decades of living in Montana, made a rookie mistake last week as we tried, on a week's notice, to secure a three-night spot at one of our favorite camping areas. The snow in...
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'Green News Report' - July 17, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Australia's Rightwing government repeals successful landmark carbon tax; Obama moves forward on bracing for global warming...
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Have Some Fish With Your Plastic
If you eat fish then you are eating plastic. That's what an eminent international team of scientists concluded earlier this month. Join Earth Dr Reese Halter from Los Angeles for another segment of SOS...
View ArticleAn Open Letter From a Farmer to Angry Vegetarians
About once a week I get an email or comment from the Animal Rights contingent. It is expected and usually I do not engage. I need to remember that when I published my first book I was a vegetarian...
View ArticlePoop-Eating Worm
As I turned into another alley in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia, I was hit by the stench of human waste. On this tiny peninsula jutting into the Atlantic, one hundred and twenty thousand...
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Ergonomic Tools That Can Ease Gardening Pains
Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some good ergonomic gardening gear for seniors? My 72-year-old mother loves to work in the garden, but has been plagued by various gardening injuries this year....
View ArticleWhat a Drive Through Mandela's Homeland Taught Me About Water
Today would have been Nelson Mandela 96th birthday. Back in 2012, I was driving across the late South African leader's homeland, the beautiful Eastern Cape. Mandela was home in his nearby birth...
View ArticleWATCH: How A Team Of Deep-Sea Explorers Found One Of The Ocean's Most Elusive...
Humans have been looking for the giant squid ever since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film -- until now. We want to know what...
View ArticleWhen We Explore The Deep Sea, We Are Exploring For Our Own Survival
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. In 1953, on the heels of a discovery of a second coelacanth specimen in the Comoros Islands off Madagascar's coast, J.L.B. Smith, the man who...
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Who Cares About the Price of Almond Milk?
As someone that works within the retail food sector, I am truly quite puzzled by the recent "news" pieces getting circulated regarding the price of almond milk. If you haven't heard, the gist is that...
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An Experiment 'Goes Wild' in Kenya: Locally-Run Conservancies Are Meeting the...
Written by Kathleen A. Galvin and Robin Reid A revolution is occurring in Kenya. Or perhaps 'transformation' better fits. What's happening is an explosion in the number (and fast-growing maturity) of...
View ArticleWhat If Climate Change Triggers Cooperation, Not Conflict?
"Climate change increases the likelihood of war and terrorism," President Obama said earlier this summer. The Pentagon and a distinguished committee of retired generals and admirals both produced...
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