Reports this past month that California's jobless rate had reached its post-World War II zenith provide us with both a stark reality and a paramount question: What can we do immediately to put people back to work, in stable, good paying jobs? Although there is no panacea, there is a...

What if the images from the tribute(s) to Michael Jackson in the days ahead told another story besides the love of millions of fans for the music and the moves of the King of Pop?

In the week since Michel Jackson's unexpected death, hundreds of thousands -- a number that...

In this weekend's New York Times Magazine Jon Gertner ("Why Isn't the Brain Green?") evokes the Pew Research Center poll taken in late January that ranked concern about climate change in last place of the top 20 concerns Americans have.

This is alarming, since scientists are repeatedly discovering that...

In this weekend's New York Times Magazine Jon Gertner ("Why Isn't the Brain Green?") evokes the Pew Research Center poll taken in late January that ranked concern about climate change in last place of the top 20 concerns Americans have.

This is alarming, since scientists are repeatedly discovering that...

On March 30, I joined President Gorbachev in San Antonio, Texas to call upon the leaders of the G20 nations and the leaders of the global energy sector to help make significant investment in solar energy immediately as one critical way to solving our current economic and environmental crises. We...

Michelle Obama isn't the only one building new green gardens. Recently Jake Gyllenhaal joined me at Manual Arts High School located in South Los Angeles to help students clean up their edible organic garden and to help launch Global Green USA's new Green School Initiative. Global Green is urging students,...

Today, millions of children and teachers go to school every day in unhealthy, inefficient schools that waste money, make kids sick and provide poor environments for learning. The state of aging school infrastructure is truly a national travesty. When I first visited New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina to see...