Leah Lamb

"The eye of the whale was as large as my head. It felt like my brain exploded, and something changed in me on that day. It refueled my passion to tell a big story about the ocean." That's what Neville Spiteri shared in a recent interview when discussing the backstory...

I went rock climbing in Yosemite last weekend. It was my first time climbing in the outdoors in over a decade, first time ever at Yosemite. (This is when I confess that the only thing hardcore about my climbing is my hardcore love of the outdoors.) Holy delicious fantastic weekend....

"What isn't seen are acts of kindness and generosity. Because they don't create peace, and we don't note those things."

Paul Hawken said that. It made me realize just how much I have been listening to fear lately. It hangs out on my plate as I question...

A few weeks ago, Jill Buck, founder of Go Green Initiative, forwarded an email from Sarah Fyfe, a tenth grader living in Michigan. After learning about the pacific garbage patch Sarah wrote a passionate letter in which she expressed her love and concern for the planet,...

A few years ago my brother and his wife gave me a Christmas gift that came in the form of a donation to the Heifer International.

While it was an incredibly considerate gift and reflected my values, lets get real. There was no squealing or jumping for joy...

There is a disease that is infiltrating our society. It's permeating our imaginations and infiltrating our ideas from every direction via movies, news stories, even video games -- it's the vision of our future. You know what the vision looks like: People have destroyed the planet, we are completely dependent...

Once in awhile, you find yourself in a moment when you realize, in the moment, that this is the moment that is going to impact your future. For me, the first time I sat in the audience at the Bioneers Conference was one of those moments. It's hard...

I have a dream of creating stories that reconnect people to the planet, and reclaim the way we tell stories about the environment. What? You say. Reclaim? Yes. Reclaim. Let me tell you why.

After nearly two...

Let me be frank, I didn't write the Sustainable Shanghai Series for the money (actually, I haven't even covered the cost of the trip). I did it because I got laid off, had some vacation pay, had an opportunity to tag along with the [re]think Shanghai GOAP crew,...

When author and journalist Kurt Pitzer told me he recently co-authored a book with Robert Egan, my brain started flipping though the memory rolodex...Egan Egan. Wait. THE BOBBY EGAN?!? Bobby Egan has been my party trick for the past year. You know the one you use...

I am about to break the party line. Forgive me in advance. For the past 5 years I have studied what motivates people to engage with addressing the state of the environment. I have developed a kind of recipe if you will, information, instigation, inspiration, and a distinct absence of...

So it's begun! Pulling 560 (I mean over 1000 pounds) of garbage out of the ocean. I now realize this is officially a crazy idea. For many reasons. But I'll tell you this, I have come to learn that there is a unique sect of people who I now refer...

I came up with the idea for this piece when a talented and dedicated journalist who covered the policy beat in DC was let go from her job. It was one more drop in the bucket that demonstrated the state of online journalism.

After a year of restless sleep and nightmares that involve the state of the planet, I slept with a sense of ease and comfort of an innocent child after seeing Avatar. Added bonus, and I didn't even after to pay extra. (If you haven't seen the movie~ stop now. Open...

I'll just start with a confession -- I love the beginning of the new year and take every opportunity I can to start over (there's the Chinese New year, the Jewish...

It's hard to listen when your emotions are...heated (couldn't resist). Just ask Christopher Monckton who, in a heated moment, called the young activists who protested The Americans for Prosperity meeting in Copenhagen yesterday, "Hitler Youth." (Monckton heads up an organization called the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a group...

It's the question of the hour, right? Can we save the world from the destruction that the scientists are predicting?

350.org has coordinated the largest climate event in history to demonstrate that people around the world want to live in a safe and clean environment. But it's...

I kept stumbling across No Impact Man (aka as Colin Beavan) over the past few months. He was on Twitter, via his blog, and then there was the trailer to his movie. Each time as I skimmed the stories or posts at high speed I thought to myself, "Cool stunt,...