Earth Day is a great opportunity to volunteer within your community or at a local park. This year, I recommend spending your time with Youth Service and Conservation Corps, some of the best National Service programs around.

For the uninitiated, Corps are crew-based youth development programs that provide their...

Each year The Corps Network honors Service and Conservation Corps whose accomplishments and projects exemplify the positive role that Corps serve for individuals and communities nationwide.

As a member organization, we proudly represent over 150 organizations that in combination operate in all 50 states and the...

Each year The Corps Network honors Service and Conservation Corpsmembers whose accomplishments and personal stories exemplify the positive role that Corps serve for individuals and communities nationwide.

As a member organization, we proudly represent over 150 organizations that operate in all 50 states and the District...

Over the past 27 years, nearly 15,000 young Pennsylvania citizens have served in the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps. Aged from 18-25, these individuals have gained valuable work skills, helped bolster their communities through a variety of conservation and disaster relief related projects, and gone on to become productive members of the...

This article was originally published on www.levinovey.com

Season 10 of American Idol is terrific. Whereas previous seasons have lost viewer interest and enthusiasm, I personally think that this might be the best season so far. Why?

In short, the contestants are much, much stronger as a group than...

This past week, President Obama headlined an event to herald the continuing work and progress being made on his America's Great Outdoors Initiative, which aims to get more Americans outside while allocating additional federal funds toward land and water conservation.

While the America's Great Outdoors Initiative (AGO) targets...

Each year The Corps Network honors Service and Conservation Corpsmembers whose accomplishments and personal stories exemplify the positive role that Corps serve for individuals and communities nationwide.

As a member organization, we proudly represent over 150 organizations that operate in a total of 46 states...

This morning while I was getting my daughter ready for preschool we watched one of her favorite television shows, Go Diego Go! I was happy to see that the show had decided to bring up the issue of how animals are threatened by oil spills. But I also thought it...

When Sean Aronson began telling people that he was filming a short documentary about great white sharks, he received two typical responses.

"There were always those people who were excited-- the shark fanatics. They live and breathe sharks. But there were also a lot of people who sighed and...

This is a guest post from my friend Barbara Drake, a freelance writer living in Peru who blogs at An American in Lima.

One of Peru's most popular musicians has released an optimistic climate change anthem as the title track of his newest album Amazonas (scroll down to watch video).

While Pedro Suarez-Vertiz has produced numerous hits, he is also well known for writing socially conscious songs. For these reasons, he is...

So here we are in the middle of No Impact Week, and so far my family has found the experience to be something of a mixed bag.

Before the challenge began, I wrote about how I thought that I'd just become lazy toward doing the right thing...

I must admit that after downloading the guide to Huffington Post's participative "No Impact Week" experiment, my initial thought was one of dread. It seemed like participating was going to be a chore. But then I decided I was just being lazy and arrogant.

Are you feeling the...

This Sunday evening PBS will debut the first episode of famous documentary-maker Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea. It's a 12 hour long epic story, divided into six parts. PBS will be sequentially airing one new episode each night over the week.

If you are not aware...

This article was originally published on Ecopolitology, a website covering the politics of energy and the environment.

When the United States Congress finishes its work on health care this Fall, the next big challenge it will take on will be climate change legislation. Democrats in the House...

This story originally appeared on Celsias.com, a site about doing practical things to combat climate change.

Perhaps they are the superheroes of tomorrow. Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an oversized effect on our human world....

For national park nerds like myself, the release of Ken Burns' new documentary about America's national parks is a big event.

Aside from the Obama family's recent visit to several national parks, this documentary will be one of the few major opportunities that come along for national park...

It's not quite what you think, but it is pretty close. The U.S. Department of Defense's research and development division is working on a radio-controlled aircraft that looks and flies like a hummingbird. The robotic hummingbirds will be able to discretely enter areas where people would not be able...

Last night, I was intrigued to read news about a study that had found that 98% of "green" products on the shelves of American supermarkets made false claims. Greenwashing has all but reached its climax I thought. But then I quickly wondered, which are the 2% of "green" products...

Several weeks ago, Cumberland Island National Seashore's Chief Ranger announced that park administrators had given final approval for motorized vehicle tours in the park, some months after an environmental impact study indicated that motor vehicle tours would cause little damage.

Russ Bynam of the Associated Press explains: "that means...