It is time for Obama to go "all in" on health care reform. Having declared health care reform the defining mark of his presidency, he has nothing to lose but defeat.
"Right now, the current battle over climate change, all it is being debated by Washington lobbying organizations," said Stone, "and how much money can you put into The Left versus The Right?"
Earth Days is framed around the personal narratives of nine Americans who awakened us to the environmental crisis and gave birth to a political movement to confront it.
Obama announced Tuesday that he is making California's standard for greater vehicle fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions the new national standard.
Does Speaker's Corner still exist in London's Hyde Park? When I was a teenager in the early 70s, our family lived in Europe, and seeing a young man at...
With the Chrysler group in dire straits, the Peapod might be the magic elixir that will save the company by becoming the most relevant form of transportation for the new generation.
The alternative to starving my soul of Mother Earth magic was to take the train from Grand Central up to Cold Spring and spend the day in the woods.
It's no secret that that business has always been the fuel in America's economic engine. And creating a green economy is going to be one of the biggest economic drivers in the next fifty years.
Here's the easiest go-green effort I've never done: install a low-flow showerhead. So the people at Niagara Conservation were kind enough to send me ...
At this legislative crossroads, the nation is on the verge of deciding to store vast quantities of CO2 -- not in the atmosphere any longer -- but in the Earth instead.
I'm sick of the politicians; the supposedly sympathetic ones, staging their sanctimoniously phony photo-ops in front of CGI forest glens.
Under the dizzying spell of modernity's promises and consumerism's illusions, we see animals as mere objects, either as commodities for our consumption or as blank slates for us to write our fantasies and fears upon.
For kids, stories can highlight past struggles and successes and explain how these prior experiences influence environmentalism today.
I have seen many Earth Days come and go, but until this year, I never had the chance to hear a sitting president use the annual green spotlight to call for sweeping clean energy legislation.
Ultimately, we can't shop our way to sustainability. Reduce is the first edict of environmentalism, with Re-use and Recycle following close behind.
The biggest thing the human population can do to save itself and the planet is to stop growing as quickly as possible, and then quickly reduce itself to a sustainable level.
Savvy Millennial leaders are using new tools like Twitter to amplify their support of bold climate legislation to their peers and elected officials across the country.
Earth Day has arrived, and it is bigger than ever -- especially when compared to its humble beginnings in the 1970's.
For those who think that it's too hard to build an economy without pursuing the old course on energy, Obama pointed to California, the world's seventh largest economy.
Celebrating Earth is about enjoying, nurturing and protecting our environment. It's also about heling facilitate the most hospitable environment we can for earth's inhabitants.
Arriving suddenly -- as a gift whose time had come -- it offered folks something to unite around: the idea of an entire planet, our home, in peril.
