Hey, it's winter, snow happens, and a cold snap doesn't prove anything one way or another. At least, don't shy away from telling people it's winter. You just might need to remind them when winter comes next year.
Given Iceland's escalation in commercial whaling and trade, it is clearly time for more than words. It is time to impose trade sanctions on Iceland's illegal whaling industry.
Fifteen years ago, the government decided to clean up a large fraction of the sulfur and nitrogen pollution belching into our skies and acidifying the lakes of the Northeast. Yesterday the EPA released the results.
No Starbucks barista was willing to refill my returned paper cup. But, interestingly, they were more than happy to refill my returned plastic reusable cup. What's the difference?
A mini-firestorm erupted recently in response to the EPA's attempt to stall regulation meant to clean up mercury pollution from industrial plants. Are they caving to pressure?
Message to Dalai Lama: maybe it is time to stop the unproductive, backroom parlor games with the U.S. and get out in front on the climate change issue.
Over and over, doomsayers have claimed the Clean Air Act is about to kill the economy. But remember, Texas, when you make claims like that in court, you have to prove them.
The Golden Rule, the legendary 30-foot ketch that once terrified U.S. government officials, will return to the seas again this coming summer.
If you've ever raked leaves while your neighbor blasted his roaring leaf blowers, you know that ear muffs can dull the decibels. Of course, ear muffs don't prevent you from breathing in the fumes.
Efficient appliances save energy, reduce energy bills and rates, avoid the need to build new power plants, and save Americans money. It's really that simple.
To communities opposing biomass power plants across the country, one part of the tax cut package approved by Congress is not good news: the extension of tax grants that will pay to develop biomass plants.
Some argue we must trust the private sector to make green development profitable enough to slow warming. This is wishful thinking. Win-win opportunities exist, but not to the extent required to cut emissions radically.
I just got back from west Texas where I toured a big industrial beef processing plant and I am still in shock by what I witnessed there. But I am not shocked in the way you might expect.
I met up with Phil Karlin a couple weeks ago to learn all about small, family-owned commercial fishing operations in the New York area.
Appalshop's WMMT-FM, from Pine Mountain in eastern Kentucky, is the voice of the central Appalachian coalfields, offering views on coal mining and politics, and the growing recognition for a just transition toward sustainable energy development in the region.
In 2009, I pledged to wear one little black dress for a year as an exercise in sustainability and a fundraiser. And for the next 365 days, I reinvented my uniform solely using accessories that were either vintage, handmade, reused or donated.
As Cancún ends with environmental issues and policy still on the table, the voice of Sub-Saharan Africa needs to be front and center in the global debate.
What did this harrowing summer teach us and those in the Keys? NRDC helped answer this question in a new report released today, compiling interviews with 11 people who were on the frontlines in the Keys.
For Westerners, the idea of being eaten by an animal is considered the stuff of fantasy and horror films. However, for modern humans of the not-so-distant past, the prospect of being killed and eaten by wild predators was reality.
Carl Pope, 2010.12.21