It hailed last night.

After an unseasonably balmy summer like day in New York City, the skies darkened. Lightning illuminated the streets and then the heavens opened up in yet another downpour. I ducked into the foyer of my building just in time to miss the heaviest part of the...

Last fall I traveled to West Virginia to witness mountaintop removal coal mining. I had never seen such destruction of the environment by the hands of man. It was shocking to see how years of corporate disregard and greed had obliterated Mother Nature and left people in the surrounding communities...

Earth Day... Mother's Day... every day counts as the oil spill disaster threatens to claim the health of our water, our fisheries, a major source of our food supply and the livelihood of countless people.

We must act now on comprehensive climate legislation with an integrated policy that will...

As we all know, this week marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Forty years from now, if I am blessed to still be on this earth, I will rejoice and celebrate the 80th anniversary of Earth Day with gratitude filling my heart.

I consider myself to be an international woman. Even though my history may not be an exotic one (I was born in Canada) I do think that makes me somewhat international. It's been 21 years since I've moved to the U.S. and it was just last year when I took...

"The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy."
President Obama - State of the Union address, Jan. 27, 2010

Very true; but the President's statement raises a question: are we, as a nation, ready and willing to do what it...

Today, more people are talking about clean energy than ever before. On one level, we're talking about technology like windmills, solar panels and advanced electric power grids. We all know that these are the technologies that can deliver safe, clean and affordable energy to our homes and businesses. But we...

Remember the bank bailouts? The billions of tax dollars that went to those behemoth institutions? Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said recently that his investment bank may have had its "finest year ever." What he didn't highlight was that JPMorgan Chase's success is based, in part, on...