As I've said before, we people living today are the likely the last people who will ever eat saltwater fish on a commercial scale. The World Wildlife Fund and Brad Plumer sum the situation up in one chart and one article.
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Glenn Hurowitz has an important piece at Think Progress noting that Obama's decision on whether palm oil should be included in the Renewable Fuel Standard will be the most important.
It's totally absurd to be thinking about who the Democrats will nominate for the presidency in 2016, yet for politically-minded people, it's almost inevitable. That includes me. I've spent way.
Lisa Curtis has a provocative essay proclaiming that while she holds environmental values, she is very much not an environmentalist. Why? Because the environmental movement is dying and misguided and irrelevant for the concerns of young people with a social conscience. The environmentalism of my...
I'm really impressed with the Heartland Institute's aggressive crash and burn policy. Six months ago, virtually no one had heard of this libertarian business front group. Then Peter Gleick got.
A couple of weeks ago, I slammed United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts for attacking the Environmental Protection Agency. I have a piece up at Alternet exploring this issue in.
There's a lot of weird wildlife management going on in the Pacific Northwest. First, you have the killing of barred owls in order to save spotted owls. The barred owls have naturally migrated to the Northwest where they alternatively mate with and/or kill their smaller...
As we cut down our last tropical forests, decimating the lungs of the planet, at least a few people are bravely trying to stop it. In Brazil those activists are.
This is how conservatives see environmentalists: There is so much about this that is remarkable. On a personal level, I love that the spotted owl still drives conservatives nuts 20.
Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, has died. One of the most influential books of the environmental movement, Ecotopia tells the story of a secessionist Northwest that has committed itself to living sustainability. I must admit, I rather strongly dislike the book. Published in 1975, the...
I was very happy to see President Obama use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Fort Ord National Monument in California, protecting some of the last wild land in.
Big agriculture is going to the mat for what really matters--exploiting child labor. Last year, two teenagers handling a large grain auger had their legs severed while working at the.