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Big Polluters Cry Wolf Over EPA Plan to Protect Health and Fight Climate Change
Next week the Environmental Protection Agency will host four public hearings on its plan to reduce climate change pollution from power plants. The speakers list is already filling up. Physicians will...
View ArticleAfrican Wildlife Is in Trouble, and Only Africans Can Save It
Entering Kenya's Maasai Mara Reserve, as I did last March, is like driving up the loading ramp of Noah's Ark. Within minutes, you'll see zebras, giraffes, wildebeest, and herds of antelope. There will...
View ArticleNew Zealand 100% Pure: Shattering the Illusion of Green, Clean & Pristine
Soon after my article, The Farallon Islands Mouse Eradication Project: The "Con" in Conservation was published by Huff Post in January, I began to receive emails from New Zealand. After my second...
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Is Hollywood Drowning Out Climate Change? Let's Be Practical
It's frustrating for climate activists that some people seem to care more about Hollywood couples than global warming. Of course, it might bother you that people care about the rich and famous at all....
View ArticleThe Most Important UN Climate Initiative You Never Heard of
While the Kyoto Protocol may be the most famous climate initiative, the Hyogo Framework for Action's time is due. The HFA is a 10-year plan to make the world safe from natural hazards. It was adopted...
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This Bird's Pterodactyl-Like Cry Saved It From Being Bird-Napped
WildCare's Wildlife Hospital treats nearly 4,000 ill, injured and orphaned wild animal patients from over 200 species every year. This is one patient's story. The Black-crowned Night Heron rookery...
View ArticleThese 10 Young People Are Changing the Food System in Huge Ways
Innovations in agriculture don't just come from veteran environmentalists or food industry heavyweights. In fact, many incredibly inspiring projects are the creations of youth and young people around...
View ArticleBusiness as Usual: The US Chamber's History of Fighting Environmental Protection
The EPA's new Clean Power Plan is not difficult to defend. Limiting carbon pollution from power plants, the nation's single largest polluter, will undeniably protect the public health and welfare of...
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4 Tips for Beating the Greenwashing Game
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, natural-beauty expert and safe-cosmetics advocate We live in a world where companies use terms like "natural," "botanical," "pure," and "free" when their products are...
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Would Jesus Accept Climate Science?
Climate change is one of the biggest and most divisive environmental issues we've faced. Not only is the science scary and the challenge daunting, but it calls into question the very way we live our...
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Storage Shines in Solar Sector
As reported by AltEnergyStocks.com, storage was clearly the primary story at the 2014 InterSolar conference, which is the most well-attended solar conference in North America. Walking through the...
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Climate Change This Week: US Flunks Efficiency, Green Bonds Grow, And More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, July 276 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
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10 Stereotypes About Pit Bulls That Are Just. Dead. Wrong.
HuffPost Green is launching a week-long, community-driven effort to bust the myths and raise awareness about pit bulls, a maligned "breed" that often bears the brunt of dated, discriminatory...
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Meatless Monday: Using the Old Bean
Bad news globally, in Ukraine and Gaza and bad news closer to home, too -- a wonderful friend has been ill. But she's on the mend and she's a smart girl. She's building herself back up and trying to...
View ArticleNYC's Bike Sharing: The de Blasio Administration's First Expansion of the...
Bike sharing in New York City has had a promising yet problematic start, but there is little question that it is a program worth keeping and expanding. It is clear that the de Blasio administration...
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Wishful Thinking About Natural Gas
Why Fossil Fuels Can’t Solve the Problems Created by Fossil Fuels Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that...
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Power to the Apes
Like many Americans, the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, Stephen Moore, recently made his way to the summer blockbuster film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. As he reflected on the film in...
View ArticleThe Obama Administration's All-of-the-Above Energy Policy
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Call it the energy or global warming news of recent weeks. No, I'm not referring to the fact this was globally the hottest June on record ever (as May had been before...
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The Military Battles Climate Change
While Republicans are mobilizing to push back against President Obama's carbon initiatives, those in military sector are sounding the alarm about climate change--and the slew of issues that it has the...
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Común Tierra: A Journey Through Sustainable Communities of the Americas
In November of 2010, as I was winding down my journey through the Americas, documenting sustainability initiatives in the 10 countries I visited for The Esperanza Project, my path crossed with that of...
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