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The Asian Elephant Vanishes: Once Revered Animal Becomes Consumer Product
In Asia there's an ongoing irony that deepens as the natural world dwindles to the size of a parking lot. Wild animals, once revered and assigned all kinds of spiritual meaning, are increasingly ending...
View ArticleA Monumental Symphony and 3 Sour Notes Crying Wolf
When President Obama signed the proclamation to designate the Organ Mountains/Desert Peaks National Monument in May, it was the last stitch of a tapestry to weave together several natural sites of...
View ArticleToo Big To Punish?
As of this week, a single violation of prohibitions on watering your lawn in California can cost $500. I recently picked up a tourist brochure for Sierra County California which cautioned me that a...
View ArticleAs Clean Energy Goes Mainstream, Leadership Is Squarely Focused On States and...
The recently released 2014 U.S. Clean Tech Leadership Index from Clean Edge, the research and advisory firm where I am senior editor, finds the U.S. clean-tech market making impressive strides in many...
View Article6 Ways to Reduce Plastic Waste This Summer
Summer is often marked by the scents of sunscreen, warm earth, wildflowers, salty seaside air -- and plastic. Walk into any convenience store, drugstore or coastal gas station and you will be greeted...
View ArticleSustainable Development: An Agenda for India
Over the next 18 months, the world is set to witness three major international events that could be potentially game-changing in efforts aimed at addressing global warming. The first would be the UN...
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A Carbon Tax That Can Rise From Australia's Ashes
As the post-mortems arrive to determine the cause of death for Australia's carbon tax, a couple of questions emerge: Why did this happen? What lessons can we learn? The answer to the first question is...
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Will New Zealand Ban the Ivory Trade? Jane Goodall and Helen Clark Speak Out
Photo credit: Dex Kotze / savingthewild.com The African poaching crisis is at its worst levels ever, with an elephant killed every 15 minutes for its tusks, fuelled by an insatiable demand for ivory...
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Meatless Monday: Uncomfortably Aware -- Our Food Choices, Sustainability and...
"We're creating irreversibility in areas of global depletion. If we're going to make it as a civilization or species, we have to change," says Dr. Richard Oppenlander. "To move the world in the...
View ArticleGetting Rid of NYC's Garbage
One indicator of a more crowded planet is the growing cost and complexity of solid waste management. Here in New York City, we used to dump our garbage into holes in the ground called landfills. In...
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Does Big Oil Really Care About Vulnerable Communities?
(photo source: flickr/Jason Holmberg, Richmon, CA) There they go again... with the same lament we always seem to hear from Big Oil lobbyists when it's time to protect public health: Don't put...
View ArticleAg-Gag Laws Are Un-American and Unconstitutional
There have been dozens of undercover employment-based investigations of the meat, dairy, and egg industries by animal protection groups in the past 15 years. These investigations have led to felony...
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Animals Are More Than Mere Things. Let's Treat Them That Way
Arturo the polar bear has been called the "world's saddest animal." He's locked up, alone and hot in an Argentinian zoo, and if you can look at photos of him and not feel like something is terribly,...
View ArticlePro Hockey Releases Sustainability Report
Today, the National Hockey League released the first Sustainability Report ever issued by a professional sports league. Based on years of data collected from NHL arenas, the NHL's Sustainability Report...
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Climate Change This Week: Undersea Deforestation, Churches Divest, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, July 20 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
View ArticleWhy Clif Bar Must Disclose the Origins of Its Cocoa
Let me first say that I love Clif Bar. I used to, at least. When on location for shooting the film "5 Days of War" in rural parts of the Republic of Georgia, I was practically sustained by Clif Bars. I...
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National Conversation on Climate Change Has Shifted; Just Look at Latest...
Matt Russell recently declared that "we are already experiencing the effects of climate change." Russell isn't a pundit or scientist or government official. He is a fifth-generation farmer from Lacona,...
View ArticlePush the Pipeline: Noisy Fun
Because of pollution, global warming and global geopolitics, we obviously need to move away from fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, but also natural gas. Still, our economy will primarily run on...
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Travelling Green: The World's Top Eco-Friendly Hotels
Travellers are recognizing the importance of environmental conservation and are increasingly seeking accommodation that supports environmentally friendly and sustainable tourism. Acknowledging this,...
View ArticleThe U.S. Must Lead on Climate Threat
During a Congressional hearing this year, Texas Rep. Joe Barton (R) invoked Noah's Ark saying, "I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an...
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