Green Latinos

February 7, 2014

What are the issues that link the Latino community to the environmental movement? For many, it comes down to la familia. Latinos, who make up nearly

Texas Governor Rick Perry: Energy Independence in America

June 12, 2014

Governor Rick Perry believes a Texas-style spirit of innovation and competition could solve America’s economic woes and lead to energy independence.

Climate Cartoons

July 9, 2014

What’s so funny about climate change? Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman uses humor to explain carbon tax, cap and trade and the ‘Five Chinas’ theory

GMOs: Necessary in a Hot and Crowded World?

June 12, 2014

Biotechnology promises weed-resistant crops, bigger yields, more food for a growing population. But are genetically modified fruits and vegetables

Resource Revolution

June 9, 2014

Today’s two billion middle class consumers will more than double globally over the next two decades. But while cities in China, India and other

Stormy Science, Rocky Investments

June 4, 2014

Climate change is risky business – but how risky is it for business? With temperatures predicted to rise anywhere from one to four degrees this

Ecological Intelligence

May 18, 2014

What’s really preventing us from enacting environmental change? Blame our brains, says Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence. As he

Climate in the Classroom

March 25, 2014

Today’s teenagers, also known as Millenials or Generation Y, now have a new moniker: Greenagers. That’s because they are coming of age in an era

Nuclear Power

April 4, 2014

Three years after Fukushima is nuclear power dead in the water? Or is it poised for revival due to the world’s desperate need for carbon-free energy

Fracking Boom

April 1, 2014

America is in the midst of a fracking boom. Most new oil and gas wells in this country are drilled using hyrdraulic fracturing, the injection of a

Beyond Plastic

January 31, 2014

Who should take responsibility for reducing the amount of plastic debris that litters our cities, waterways and oceans? While many consumers have

Aquatech

March 12, 2014

From Egyptian irrigation systems to Roman aqueducts to the dikes and canals of The Netherlands, the world’s civilizations have long found innovative

The Goldman Prize at 25

March 7, 2014

Since 1989, The Goldman Environmental Prize has honored more than 150 grassroots heroes who are fighting on the front lines to deliver clean water

Meatonomics

February 24, 2014

Tim Koopman is a fourth-generation rancher; his family has been raising cattle on their ranch in Alameda County since 1918 and he now heads the

Condoms and Climate

February 26, 2014

Breathing, eating and consuming, an individual human being produces tons of carbon every year – population may be the key to curbing greenhouse gas

Rising Seas, Rising Costs

February 12, 2014

Swelling sea levels used to be a concern associated with future generations and faraway lands. Then Superstorm Sandy poured the Atlantic Ocean into

Going to Paris: Ambassador Todd Stern

February 20, 2014

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland last year achieved modest progress toward an international agreement on reducing carbon

Fluid State

January 10, 2014

“For us, a drought means human misery, economic devastation to some natural assets and certainly an unproductive living standard for the majority of

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus

January 7, 2014

"A clean-energy economy, I think, is the future,” according to 75th U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who leads America’s Navy and Marine Corps

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell

November 7, 2013

“We could start by being rational about how we spend the money that we have,” said U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell about taking care of