I believe, as do many others it turns out, that to correct our course we not only need to appeal to people's pocketbooks and health concerns but also to the creative, evocative right side of the brain.
With a kind of focus that would have been unthinkable during the Bush administration, President Obama has directed federal agencies and urged Congress to take real action on climate change.
Conservation biologists now suggest the vast belt of forest and bogs enwrapping Canada, Scandinavia and Russia has largely been overlooked as important catchments for Earth-warming carbon dioxide.
It's fair to say that environmentalists have just about always considered America's utility companies the bad guys. But these days there seems to be a new kind of utility -- and utility CEO -- emerging.
It is time to save the Appalachians from mountaintop removal coal mining. Music Saves Mountains just may mark the swan song for this horrendous crime against nature and our heritage.
If you saw how many people have handled your produce from the time it is picked to its arrival on our dinner tables, you would never want to eat again!
A slew of recent studies are proving that even low levels of BPA exposure can lead to health complications. Unfortunately, BPA is contained in a staggeringly high amount of everyday items.
Many have heard of Chevron-Texaco's contamination of the Amazonian rainforests. Joe Berlinger's film, Crude, brings the battle to bring them to justice to life in a way words cannot.
Two centuries ago, Thomas Paine wrote, "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense." That's precisely the approach Beinecke has taken in her stand against climate change.
It's been a bad week for dams - and a very good one for the world's rivers. Here's to the activists in Australia and Mexico who fought so well to protect their rivers.
Only 30 percent of Americans say global warming should be a top priority for Congress and the President. Activists need to lose the graphics and get back to the basics: the facts.
Change is inevitable, and the time for new coal fired power plants has passed.
Although the electronics industry can't solve this issue alone, we at HP believe that addressing conflict minerals is a natural extension of our existing efforts.
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