If there are two things I can't live without, they are air conditioning and refrigeration.

This summer, I spent an angelic three months in Ann Arbor with my wife and newborn. One night in July, our side of the street had a blackout and suddenly the hot,...

Here in the US, we may finally get it. We are turning off our lights, doing without plastic bags, driving less, and staying up-to-date on every new breakthrough from solar ribbons to fuel cells to climate neutral campuses. Every newspaper, magazine, company, and blog seems to have a green focus....

Summer of '68
In the summer of 1968, the US was experiencing post-war growing pains that sparked the birth of a social and political movement that would reshape the country and the world.

20 years earlier, in 1948, the Allies and the bomb had dubiously ended WWII, extinguishing a...

Picture a hot, asphalt surface in the middle of Summer. An ant drags a fallen leaf across this hot, black desert. The sun is shining brightly and nearly countless quanta of energy hit the leaf and ant each second, but the ant and leaf stay intact.

But find...

BuyinGREEN
This morning, just like yesterday morning, and the morning before that, an increasing number of people in the United States woke up, washed and styled themselves with Aveda and Body Shop products, prepared their organic breakfasts from Whole Food, Wild Oats, and Trader Joe's with Sub Zero...

I was rudely awakened this morning by 5,500 noisy, rowdy, teenagers and twenty-somethings who would not shut up.

Maybe they didn't know that I am not a morning person, and that I hope to have my first hour to sip my coffee, watch sports highlights, and plan...

Mike Lowell - the often-times unsung work-horse for the Red Sox, a throw in for the trade for Josh Beckett, and a man who nearly killed himself diving face-first into the...

The roots of the United States of America, like those of humanity, are equal parts collaboration and confrontation. Collaboration between British and colonial troops helped drive the French out of the Americas. Confrontation between British and colonial forces set the stage for collaboration between the colonies and...

Blame It On Rio

In June of 1972, some 35 years ago, a group of future-thinking leaders met in Sweden for the first United Nations Convention on the Human Environment. By the end of a whirlwind week, they had issued the Stockholm Statement, established what is now known as UNEP,...

The Gore Tour Stops in DC

This coming Sunday, former Vice President, Oscar winner, and Rock N' Roll organizer Al Gore will address a group of more than 400 leading CEO's, COO's, non-profit leaders, politicians, court justices, attorneys general, law school professors and Deans, entrepreneurs, and environmental...

Emerging From the Stone Age

One week ago today, I awoke to a sun-splashed view of the Flatirons from a travel inn just off of Broadway Avenue in Boulder, CO. These sandstone shelves - named in the days of Abe Lincoln by intrepid pioneer women who said they looked...

"Do your 10 percent 100 percent and God will do the other 90 percent."

Laurie David - leading global warming activist and wife of Seinfeld Creator Larry David- credits Arianna Huffington with passing along the 10% quote above. She now uses it as an affirmation when...

CLEAN AIR ACT , Section 101: Congressional findings and declaration of purpose
(c) "A primary goal of this chapter is to encourage or otherwise promote reasonable Federal, State, and local government action, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, for pollution prevention."

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On November 29, the United States...

2000 & 2004: A LEGACY OF LOSSES

My first real political awakening came in 2000 at Harry's New York Bar, a Paris pub bought in 1923 by Harry McElhonewhen. A Straw Poll, begun at Harry's, has accurately predicted the result in all but two US Presidential...

A Great Warming Conversation

Hey buddy, how was your weekend?

This past weekend? Great! I hiked the Shores of Lake Michigan. High atop a sand dune, I came across a sign telling me that the spot where I was standing was under ice...

In 1903, a 45-year old Theodore Roosevelt stood at the edge of the Grand Canyon in Northern Arizona. He looked out over one of this country's great wonders and advised the nation to "Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work...

On Monday, in the wake of remarks that have caused anger and intense debate throughout the world, Pope Benedict XVI told Muslim diplomats that "our future" depends on good relations between followers of the Catholic and Muslim faiths. His Holiness quoted John Paul II calling for "reciprocity in all fields"...

Part I

While looking through old photos this past April, I found a shot of myself posing for the camera at 17 years old. I was in a fitness-crazed phase and shirtless - no doubt having just finished a set of pushups for the photo. I look a bit...

I found $75 in my living room last week! I used $20 of it to buy 2 Sylvania compact fluorescent light bulbs that will save me $75 in energy costs over the next 8,000 hours. So instead of looking under the seat cushion for change - I stood on the...

I found $75 in my living room last week! I used $20 of it to buy 2 Sylvania compact fluorescent light bulbs that will save me $75 in energy costs over the next 8,000 hours. So instead of looking under the seat cushion for change - I stood on the...