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What Our Laws Say About Dogs in Hot Cars
Just a few minutes in a hot vehicle can harm or kill your pet. On hot days, the temperature inside a vehicle heats up to over 160 degrees in minutes. Parked cars quickly trap the sun's heat, and...
View ArticleHearings and Rallies Next Week! Your Voice is Needed to Support Climate Action
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first-ever national standard to clean up carbon pollution from power plants. Now the EPA is holding public hearings on the proposed standard...
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Mother India Cannot Survive Without Grandmother Nature
What does Narendra Modi's emphatic win portend for India's natural riches? Covering just 2.2 percent of Earth's land, India harbors close to 13 percent of Earth's bird species, 7 percent of mammals, 5...
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Idaho at Its Best
Last year, about 900,000 people marveled at the majestic old-growth redwoods of Muir Woods. But if President Theodore Roosevelt had not saved those trees by declaring a national monument, people would...
View ArticleThe AnthropoZine: New Environmental Thinking For A New Era
At some point in the last few hundred years, our species pushed the thin veneer of life that coats our planet past its breaking point. We broke the biosphere, and now we own it. That's the defining...
View ArticleCould There Be an Economic Rebirth for Rural America?
I live in rural America. But my rural America is not the agricultural fields of waving grain so often imagined. It is not a land locked state in the center of our country. My county crashes up against...
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Everything Is Not Awesome in LEGOland
LEGO holds a special place in the hearts and minds of children and families around the world. But everything is not awesome in LEGOland. LEGO is partnering with Shell on a global advertising campaign...
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Why a Sherpa Is Your Best Friend
What is a Sherpa exactly? As an experienced mountaineer, I can tell you that they are one of the best communities of people on the planet. The Sherpa are actually a Tibetan tribe that occupies the...
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A Food Waste Reduction Movement Gathers Steam
By Leslie Pascaud [Image via Shutterstock] Americans today are paying closer attention to food waste, long a European concern. Helping them reduce that waste is an important new opportunity for food...
View ArticleClean Your Home With Farmers Market Finds
If you're like me, as the end of summer draws near, I spend as much time as possible browsing local farmers markets (Checkout websites such as GrowNYC or Local Harvest for locations close to you). As...
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Not Just the Atlantic: Obama Leasing Millions of Gulf Acres for Offshore...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Deploying the age-old "Friday news dump," President Barack Obama's Interior Department gave the green light on Friday, July 18 to companies to deploy seismic air guns to...
View ArticleA New Election Climate
Climate change was a no show issue in the 2012 national election cycle. That won't (nor should) be the case when Americans go to the voting booths this November. Two years ago, the topic was...
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Why VATs on Solar Energy Hinder Progress on Energy Poverty
Co-authored by Vrinda Manglik, International Clean Energy Access, Sierra Club Photo courtesy of SolarAid What difference can a value added tax make to the lives of those living in energy poverty? A big...
View ArticleIt's Time to Protect Consumers From Toxic Chemicals
Almost 80,000 chemicals are sold in the United States, and we are exposed to many of them on a daily basis. We know with alarming certainty that some of these cause cancer, but most remain unexamined...
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Don't Buy This Jacket (Part 2)
The garment and apparel industry accounted for almost $3 trillion of the world's economy in 2011. Photo courtesy of Eileen Fisher. GREIFENSTEIN CASTLE, SWITZERLAND -- By now, most of us have heard...
View ArticleThe Climate Post: Rule for Regulating Existing Power Plants under Fire
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee during a hearing on "EPA's Proposed Carbon Pollution Standards...
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Is the Amazon on the Brink of Abyss?
A fisherman goes out in search of Piranha on Lake Iranduba, in the Amazon region of Brazil, near Manaus. Brazil. Photo: © Julio Pantoja / World Bank Spanning 2.7 million square miles and standing 80...
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'Green News Report' - July 24, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Breaking: Sudden storm ravages campground in VA; New rules for explosive oil trains; Big win in small Maine town over Big (tar...
View Article5 Ways to Be a Sustainable Traveler
Tourism brings jobs and income, which is especially valuable for countries still carving out their path to economic development. Many of the most exotic and appealing places to visit are in countries...
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Innovation Earth: Bringing NASA Technology Back to Earth
Harnessing asteroids. Sending humans to Mars. NASA has laid out some pretty sci-fi sounding plans for the next 20 years of space travel, but a more critical mission -- at least for the sustainability...
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