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With privilege should come responsibility. And in the case of the following show-business celebrities, it has. They are using their visibility, popularity and wealth to promot...
NRDC: "Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) has a plan that would undermine the Clean Air Act and block the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring cuts in global warming polluti...
LAUNCELOT: Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of your son: ...
WWF: "The Western North Pacific Gray Whale is critically endangered, with population numbers as low as 130 individuals, and with only around 30 breeding females remaining. Yet...
I got mothered right my first year at Burning Man. There are things a virgin Burner needs to know. There are protective items mortally necessary to bring. There are taboos tha...
You may recall learning on this site about the masses of plastic discovered fouling the world’s oceans. And you may have read further about plastic debris being ingested by ...
NRDC: "Don't let BP create another oil spill disaster, this time in America's Arctic, home to America's polar bears. Sign our Petition of Protest to Interior Secretary Ken Sal...
No question about it, recycling is a great way to help the environment. But it seems to get all the press. There are other even more impactful things you can do. Many are acti...
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): "Although safer options exist for controlling fleas on our pets, dangerous pesticides used in flea collars and other products remain ...
Credo: "A landmark element of the recent Supreme Court ruling was its recognition that the USDA must take into account economic harms from genetic contamination of conventiona...
Sierra Club: "Reducing global poverty is critical not only to ending human suffering, but also to a more sustainable future. Take action now to support the Global Poverty Act....
Stop Big Oil Bailouts: "While reaping the largest corporate profits in history, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and other Big Oil companies have shaken more than $35 billion in specia...
The Wilderness Society: "The U.S. Senate now has an opportunity to stop the polluters and curb the devastating levels of carbon pollution that they are dumping into the skies ...
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): "The Obama administration has taken a promising step but now must reverse an illegal exemption to the roadless rule...Protect the Ton...
When local fowl enthusiasts Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze arrived in Brooklyn’s largest park last Thursday to check up on birds they’d treated for injuries two days bef...
Friends of the Earth: "The project was given the go ahead during the administration of President Oscar Arias despite the threat to the rich biodiversity in the San Juan river ...
Sierra Club: "To cut carbon emissions 2% a year for each of the next 40 years, we must start making different, better decisions about the energy we use at home, at work, and a...
When you work in non-profit venues—that is, something low-impact or even beneficial for the earth—it’s easy to get disillusioned, even bitter, with human nature. I know ...
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): "Safe drinking water is essential for human health and economic development, but dirty water causes disease and death around the worl...
In early June, a heavy cushion of wet air hangs over the isolated backwaters of Chalan Beel in northwestern Bangladesh, signaling the start of the seasonal, torrential monsoon...
Greenpeace: "Sign on to show your support for a global food system that feeds people, protects the soil, water and climate, and promotes biodiversity. This is a system free fr...
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): "A proposal to create a U.N. World Heritage site could save the wild heart of Canada’s boreal forest." >>> Take Action!
Green for All: "The oil spill's destruction of the Gulf of Mexico is a devastating reminder that the price of our fossil fuel dependence is far too high. ...
Greenpeace: "The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has shown what happens when dirty industries like oil and coal are allowed to write our energy policy. Sign our petition to Con...
The 100-watt light bulb has officially been turned off in Europe. Nearly two hundred years of high-illuminating incandescence has reached its final demise. As we turn into the...
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of mankind. – Emile Zola
In my opinion...
[Today is World Oceans Day - Ed.] Wallace “J.” Nichols has an inordinate fondness for sea turtles. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the “Biology and Conservation of Sea Tur...
Sierra Club: "This Memorial Day weekend the Sierra Club and the American Security Project released a joint report showing how America’s addiction to oil threatens our nation...
Sierra Club: "Oil continues to wash up on American shores in the Gulf of Mexico, further degrading habitat and adding significant threats to numerous species already imperiled...
Artists have always been inspired by nature, but now they are using it to remind people that nature still exists—in a still beautiful, but increasingly fragile state. The 10...
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle."
Rather than starting at the beginning of this adage, we as a society have chosen to say the phrase over and over, but then take action on the wor...
If you are anything like me, making environmentally conscious decisions comes more naturally when those decisions aren’t a hassle. Cities where public transportation, pedest...
True Majority: "As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig continues to spill over 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf every day... After a month of oil spewing into the Gulf, t...
WWF (World Wildlife Fund): "Pledge to buy seafood that's certified as being sustainable and urge stores and restaurants to carry certified fish." >>> Take Action!
EDF (Environmental Defense Fund): "We have an historic opportunity to cap America's global warming pollution and put people back to work building America's green energy future...
Greenpeace: "The tiny Island of Dominica, in the Caribbean, has decided to rebuff Japan and say no to supporting their efforts to whale commercially. Take a minute to send a t...
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): "Although honey bees are crucial to producing about one-third of all the food we eat, the Department of Agriculture has failed to mee...
WWF (World Wildlife Fund): "Forests are amazing storehouses of biological diversity, housing over two-thirds of all known terrestrial species. Yet almost half of our planet's ...
Greenpeace: "In a tremendous victory for ancient forests, including the North American Boreal Forest, Kimberly-Clark has announced a new policy that protects endangered fore...
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): "Tar sands mining and drilling in Canada's boreal forest is destroying critical nesting areas for millions of birds. Tell the Canadia...
"Believe nothing, entertain possibilities" - Caroline Casey
Caroline's weekly live radio program, "The Visionary Activist Show," weds spiritual magic to ingenious social act...
In his piece, An Open Letter to the Eco-Mom, EcoHearth contributor Steven Kotler warned against the tendency of mothers—especially those whose ultimate goal is to make the p...
CREDO Action: "Tell Discovery: Someone who vocally advocates for habitat-destroying oil drilling, denies global warming is a human-caused threat, and spearheaded a brutal wolf...
The first time my mother lectured me about drugs, I was 13 years old, a freshman in high school and reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World in class.
I don’t remember mu...
We might feel like we’re a world away from Africa, but that doesn’t stop our carbon emissions from polluting that continent and raising the temperature of the planet as a ...
American environmentalist and writer, Bill McKibben, is the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign. Inspired by McKibben, last year, millions of people from nea...
"If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse the student anti-war energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration t...
This Earth Day, many cafeterias will be celebrating with a simple culinary classic that saves money and resources—while inspiring inexpensive, effortless sustainability: the...
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." - Alice Walker ...
You’ll forgive, I hope, my recurring theme of aging. Since passing my 50th birthday, I am now considered old, like my mother, who is indeed getting on. I am not as aged as h...
Who better to spur youth into action against climate change than youngsters themselves? Talk about positive peer pressure: Inspired by Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient...
350.org is "an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis." ≈ ≈ ≈ See more Planet Esperanza ...
Save the Frogs: "The worldwide trade in frog legs is massive, and is undoubtedly a significant contributor to the decline and extinction of amphibian populations worldwide.......
Mass feedlots and slaughterhouses are inhumane and dangerous—and they generate disease and pollution along with their cheap meat. But corporate agriculture giants are driv...
My home is among the piñon and juniper, where the Rockies end in a trickle of hills, giving way to a high desert expanse. A few hundred feet south, an arid floodplain covered...
I'm standing in the dark, eyes closed, brow furrowed in concentration. For five long minutes, I remain as still as possible. I'm listening to the chaotic chorus of croaking fr...
A night on the town may include drinking, dancing, music, singing…and other episodes we may forget or simply not wish to remember (likely because of the drinking). But thank...
What would we do without light? Lots of things, actually. Electric lighting isn’t an option for the 75% of Africans who have no access to electricity, and the estimated 38 m...
We are living on stolen land.
This beautiful San Francisco Bay Area that I call home, this nutrient-rich soil, these hills and streams, this stunning view, in fact the lan...
Imagine being forced off the land your parents worked so hard to secure for your future. Imagine the government banning you from even sharing the animals’ water borehole, ...
Most of the ragged survivors of our crusade to exterminate Mexican wolves—a slaughter that ended less than 40 years ago—have been living in cages all these long years. Gen...
Looking for ways to introduce conservation concepts to your children at home or your students at school? For maximum retention, kids should be exposed to ecology in a practi...
In Native thought, dreaming or “visioning” is the first step to realizing a goal. And as native traditions have continuously viewed our human existence through the lens ...
It was just a normal subway trip in Guangzhou, China, with commuters buried in their papers or deep in thought. Imagine the surprise of these exceptionally modest Chinese bu...
Toss a mega loop of rope over the Four Corners where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet. Now arrange the perimeter so it divides Utah diagonally northeast-southwest...
Congratulations, Yaguarete Pora S.A., you’ve worked hard to earn this year’s Survival International Greenwashing Award. Bulldozing thousands of hectares of tribal forest...
The Supreme Court’s recent decision, that corporations can make unlimited contributions to political campaigns, has many Americans wondering about the integrity of our democ...
If a climate-change ad receives more than 200 complaints for “scaring” children, it must be working! Climate change is the opposite of nice. It may mean the displacement...
In the 1970s, the alternative agriculture movement was limited to a small group of idealogues among the more affluent members of society. Over the past three decades, it has s...
One spring day a couple of years ago, I noticed an unusual gray haze screening Santa Fe’s typically unspoiled skies. It could not be attributed to wood fires that many resid...
Milking goats, painting sunscreen on baby trees, tanning animal skins, bottling tomato sauce, harvesting wild greens, fermenting wine, gathering acorns, coagulating cheese, ra...
Prairie dogs are the eyes of the community. - Terry Tempest Williams
Groundhog Day is most famously celebrated in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where almost always, Phil retr...
As part of the Congo Basin rainforest, the world’s 2nd largest, the west central African country of Gabon contains numerous flora and fauna, some extremely rare. This lush h...
When Director James Cameron received his Golden Globe award for Avatar, he revealed one of the central ideas of the blockbuster science-fiction film.
“Avatar asks us to ...
When I discuss the issues I am passionate about, I get responses ranging from, “Oh, my daughter would love you,” to “Progressives have been largely responsible for the u...
As part of the Congo Basin rainforest, the world’s 2nd largest, the west central African country of Gabon contains numerous flora and fauna, some extremely rare. This lush h...
In a country so polluted that many athletes wore masks while competing in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Chinese environmentalist and water-pollution expert Ma Jun has become a...
It’s time for companies to release another round of annual reports, which for some becomes a major greenwashing opportunity. Many businesses also generate separate corporate...
Tackling the growing global stockpile of artworks and art’s potential drain on the environment, numerous artists are using sustainable materials and methods (often turning r...
Saturday evening I braved the cold to take part in a candlelight march and vigil from downtown Santa Fe to the state capitol. We were one tiny part of more than 3,000 events a...
At a time when going green is a new fashion trend among celebrities and those who aspire to be like them, there are few who serve as true catalysts for the cause. Hawaiian n...
I personally don't mind paying more for higher-quality products—especially when they involve my food or other things that directly affect my quality of life. Production stan...
Last week, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote a column about our nation’s passivity. His argument is essentially that since the end of the Civil Rights era, American...
For all the talk about the climate forum in Copenhagen being an international diplomatic gathering to negotiate emissions allowances and restrictions—the great atmospheric m...
Tongue-in-cheek references to Fox News pundits are standard fare on this blog. Such references are meant to highlight what everyone already knows: Fox News commentators, among...
“Spaceship Earth” is a phrase not used much any more, but it’s been around for a while and seems worth revisiting.
Everybody’s best guess at an origin dates back to ...
“Spaceship Earth” is a phrase not used much any more, but it’s been around for a while and seems worth revisiting.
Everybody’s best guess at an origin dates back to ...
Featured in Business Week, the New York Times, CNN and NPR, along with dozens of other major publications, and appearing in television shows and films, on radio programs and a...
My Tibetan friend, Tsultrim Gyatso, recently invited me to the opening of his documentary film, Blood of the Earth—Colorado River. He founded the Tibetan Ecology Foundation,...
Here's how the media portrayed environmental issues this week: Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates hopes to reduce the ideological protest on the part of environme...
Both audibly and visually, Eco Elvis is Kansas City, Missouri’s loudest attention-getter for environmentalism. He’s dressed in an obnoxious green-sequined jumpsuit studded...
“Why is it that some walls are so vocal and others are so mute?” –Eduardo Galeano
In 2006, before construction began on the almost 2,000-mile wall separating the US fr...
According to my Buddhist friend, the Buddha said that people learn the things they really need to learn in four different ways, similar to four types of horses.
For the firs...
A couple of months back, Malcolm Gladwell wrote an excellent story for the New Yorker about the full-court press, a basketball strategy wherein the defense hassles the offense...
OK, overthrowing a monarchy and fighting for a shorter workweek aren’t in the same league. I’ll let the French keep their claims to a revolutionary spirit, though, even if...
Brian Czech is president of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). CASSE works to promote an economic system with stabilized consumption of goods ...
Patricia Wright is currently a professor in the department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, member of the National Geographic Society’s Co...
Rosalind Chu, Co-President, Bay-area Environmentally Aware Consulting Network (BEACN), University of California, Berkeley, California, writes:
The first time I heard a BEACN...
This week, and every week moving forward, we will explore the environmental issues the mainstream media’s been discussing. These include the ecological pedigree of Congress'...
A few years ago at the so-called “Green Oscars,” celebrities were showing up in hybrid cars, talking much talk about going carbon neutral, recycling their lives and all th...
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