The lead up to the recently-concluded talks in Copenhagen started literally years ago, with pre-meetings and conferences and those that are for addressing the issue of climate change and those who are intent on muddying the waters with the intent of increasing their profits at the expense of the planet...

As world leaders, climate experts, advocacy groups, and tons of concerned citizens converged on Copenhagen in the past weeks the Rainforest Newsladder took notice. The top stories over the past week have all (and for good reason) revolved around the issues taking place at the U.N. Climate Change Conference. Working...

The days are dwindling down for something substantive to come out of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. But before we begin to add the labels (and I am sure there are many we are waiting to fire off), lets see if President Obama can turn the tide and infuse...

There's cold. There's New Hampshire cold. And then there's New Hampshire cold in January when even for a boy from Boston, it was freezing. I still remember how incredibly bitterly cold it was the Saturday before the primary in 2004 (yes, more than five years later, I still am warming...

If you're looking for an early bet for the top story of 2010, bet on the story being the Internet Revolution, because after years and years of anticipation and progress, the next two to three years are when we are going to see the Internet become what we all thought...

In only a few days the world will be focusing its attention on the world's leaders as they meet in Copenhagen. As the news cycle shifts to the climate change conversation, I thought we would get a head start and check in to see what's up with The Rainforest NewsLadder....

December 1st is World AIDS Day and the last three years I have written a post on this day. It always to me a day when I can look at the glass and see it half full, but also, sadly, half empty. For the past three years, my company and...

When Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, set out to write Clean Energy Common Sense, her goal was simple: To bring more people into the climate change conversation now. Now? Conversations on climate change are happening in real time across the internet, on talk radio, in...

With all due respect to Don Draper sometimes the best way to sell a message isn't a clever campaign, but the truth. A recently exposed whopper conjured up by climate change deniers highlights exactly what is behind the fight against climate change solutions: lies. The site Fight Clean...

Around the world rainforests are hurting. The deforestation of vast tracts of these precious lands does more than just ruin local ecosystems. The health and vitality of rainforests help maintain life for everything on the planet. Reason enough for all of us to contribute to ending their destruction and encouraging...

Today is Veteran's Day and I salute my family members, friends and colleagues who have served our country. I have always been inspired by them, from my grandfather who fought in the trenches of World War I, to my father who served in the South Pacific in the Navy, to...

The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce's recent actions on two of the most important issues facing our country, health care reform and climate change, are a complete riddle to not only me, but to many of the chamber's own members and former supporters.

Or, then again, maybe they're not. Or maybe...

Newspapers are in trouble. Big, end-of-the-road death spiral big trouble. The Boston Globe was recently pulled off the market because its owners who shelled out $1.1 billion for the paper were a little upset at the $35 million offer plus assumption of some debt that they received.

This isn't pennies...

For quite some time, I have been negative on newspapers believing that they should be worried about the news part a touch more than the paper part.

Watching them implode as the world changes is like reading the stories about how television won't impact radio, or if there was...

One week ago today, Sigourney Weaver and Frances Beinecke went to Washington to show the ground-breaking movie, Acid Test: The Global Challenge Of Ocean Acidification. It's a great short film, well worth watching, with really incredibly scary conclusions about what will happen to the ocean, not in the distant future...

The US Chamber of Commerce is up to its eyeballs in disgruntled members and as a membership organization, perhaps it will consider the incredible amount of damage it has done to is reputation by aggressively resisting climate change initiatives and legislation.

After all, here are a few of the highlights...

Usually New York City is the kind of place where Saturday night is the night to paint the town (RED) but this week, Sunday night is the night, and Carnegie Hall is the place.

Because this Sunday, Gavin Friday, all-around Irish music star, is doing an incredibly special show a...

Sometimes it's hard to explain how the far-right and corporate lobbyists operate or how they view reality. It's much easier to understand their actions if you accept that first, they know the facts, but just choose, on the basis of business reasons, to completely ignore them and second, that they...

I was asked on the Mario Solis Marich Radio Show the other day about the climate change bill, and the opposition to it. As I told Mario, the strategy employed by the opponents of clean energy legislation is actually the same strategy that was employed by the tobacco industry,...

People wonder why traditional media sources are failing. And while there are lots of reasons, one of them is that, well, the product they are providing is, how does one say this, crap.

Declan McCullagh, who works at CBS Interactive, had some, let's just call it, credibility problems of epic...