Matthew Spiegl

There are leaders in San Jose who can put pencil to paper and give us technological wonders to enhance our world tomorrow but who lack the vision to see how banning Styrofoam can enrich our world today.

The City of San Jose was set to follow its successful single-use plastic...

BPA doesn't belong in our bodies, but the plastic industry made a lot of money putting it there. Now we want it out of our bodies, and out of our environment -- along with the rest of the single-use plastic that is strangling our earth, suffocating our oceans and poisoning...

Out of state, but not out of mind; Californians heed a great cat's last cry as its lifeless body fell from a tree in Idaho and set off a firestorm back home.

For most, the mention of a cat in a tree conjures up a Rockwellesque image of a fireman...

The HuffPost's San Francisco edition ran quite an eye catching headline Monday, February 13, 2012.

"AFTERSHOCK: 25 Million Tons of Tsunami Debris Headed Our Way"

Oh really?

One year after the Japan tsunami, the flotsam of misinformation persists.

We read a 20 million ton figure in the

If students today, want to change the world they're going to live in tomorrow, let them!

Don't discourage them, don't pepper spray them, and don't deny them the promise of the world they can see, even if we can't.

College students are taking up the challenge of saving the Earth...

Hold the Styrofoam cup; I'll take my scalding hot coffee in a single-use plastic bag to go!

Sounds ridiculous -- and it is -- yet that is the frivolous nature of the argument attorney Stephen Joseph and his San Francisco-based Save the Plastic Bag Coalition resort to in...

Bits and pieces of people's lives, that is what one reporter said; we are not to think of the Japan tsunami debris as litter when it begins to wash up on our shores in 2013, but rather as bits and pieces of people's lives. But is it already washing up...