Javier Sierra

During one of the worst snowstorms of the century, I decided to take a stroll and enjoy the streets devoid of cars. Then, to my surprise, I saw bicycle tracks in the fresh snow. I followed them all the way to the kitchen door of an Italian restaurant, where I...

On the rollercoaster of gas prices, we are reaching yet another peak, while our wallets cry and Hispanics in particular, feel the squeeze.

According to a study by the Center for American Progress (CAP), 72 percent of Hispanic households are going through financial hardship, and 41 percent through...

Among us Hispanics nothing defines our ties to nature, to the divine creation better than the amor por el terruño, or loosely translated, our love of country, an often spiritual connection with the land that sees us grow, that nurtures us, that gives us life.

"For us, conservation is handed...

All the world's riches are useless without good health. And although this has not been a year of riches, we will end it in a healthy way.

As an early Christmas present, the Obama administration has made sure that none of us will get a lump of coal. Quite the...

Dan Millis will never forget what took place on Feb. 20, 2008. As a volunteer with the group No More Deaths, he was leaving gallon-sized water jugs scattered along the trails in the Arizona desert used by undocumented migrants.

This Good Samaritan and his companions came across the...

This is nuts, and it has nothing to do with the name of the Texas county where it takes place -- Nueces (Spanish for "walnuts") County -- where the city of Corpus Christi sits.

It turns out that Corpus Christi is one of the country's most polluted cities, specifically the...

I will always remember the summer of 2011 in Washington, DC, as the hottest days of my life. The heat on July 21 was particularly scorching. The heat index hit 119 degrees, the highest in the country at the epicenter of a heat wave that took the lives...

Rosa Perea's 5-year-old son lives an asphyxiating life. If he does not take his medicine every morning or if the air is too polluted, he can end up in the emergency room with an asthma attack.

Perea, director of the Juan Diego Community Center in South Chicago, goes...

Have you ever felt like you have been robbed after paying at the gas pump? You're not the only one, especially if you happen to be Hispanic.

Our community is suffering the most during this new spike of gas prices. According to a study by California's Public Policy Institute (

What made 292 members of the House of Representatives pass the infamous bill HR 872?

Let's see. The bill, or rather this legislative outrage, would keep the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from adopting guidelines to keep pesticide discharges out of our waterways. And to make matters worse, they...

Big Coal has redefined the word "cheap" as keeping the profits and passing your true costs onto society.

The domination of this 19th-century fuel in America's energy production is based on extracting an abundant mineral and refusing to pay for its terrible consequences to the rest of society's health and...

Tradition tells us that Santa Claus travels every year on Christmas Eve from his home in the North Pole to make the children of the world happy.

But exactly 50 years ago, Santa was especially generous with all Americans, young and old.

He gave us a historic present: the

A certain Harvard professor years ago predicted that solar energy would be made readily available the day that Exxon owned the sun.

In this election in which polluters and their lackeys see themselves as the owners of Washington again, the professor's prediction sounds more like a curse.

But there is...

There is a prospective Pied Piper in Nevada who's trying to swindle the entire Latino community.

His name is Robert de Posada, a professional charlatan and veteran of some of the country's dirtiest political brawls. He's also the founder of a conservative political group innocently named Latinos for Reform.

Solar energy to the rescue! The Pentagon reports that attacks by Afghan insurgents on fuel convoys have become a dangerous threat for the U.S. Armed Forces in that country. Top commanders in the field are acknowledging that their over-dependence on fossil fuels constitutes a "big liability" for our...

Southeastern Puerto Rico features some of the most charming places on this most charming of islands. Behind its beaches, palm trees, white sand and abundant sunlight hours, however, lurks a threat to the health of almost 100,000 residents.

I am talking about the hundreds of thousands of tons...

The BP catastrophe in the Gulf has devastated one of the world's most prolific ecosystems. The audacity of greed that fueled BP into drilling a well 50 miles out in the ocean and one mile deep is the direct result of the weakening of the regulations and safeguards...

How ironic that during the month in which we all celebrate the wonders of Mother Earth, her face is smeared with coal and oil.

As I write these lines, a black tide as large as Rhode Island is threatening the Louisiana coast. On April 20, an explosion that...

Gone are the Bush administration years when each henhouse, each federal agency, had its own fox -- its own regulator -- to guard it. From the Department of the Interior, including the National Forest Service, to the Environmental Protection Agency, those who regulated the corresponding industry were their...

No, this is not the title of another music hit. It's simply a new lifestyle that is transforming our communities. And it's doing it thanks to pioneers such as Juan Parras, Chris Velez and Alberto Gonzalez, whose extraordinary leadership feels like a rush of optimism for our spirits.

Their lives...