RP Siegel

This past February I wrote a story about the website, www.wishes4life.com that serves as a platform to express wishes and realize dreams. As part of their site launch, they ran a contest for a video entitled, "One Day to Live," in which they gave away an...

Without a doubt, beverage companies are taking significant actions to reduce their impact and become more sustainable. Evian's lighter bottle with 50% r-PET, Pepsi's 100% plant-based bottle which is also recyclable, AB InBev's successful efforts to dramatically reduce their water footprint, Coke's

Bill McKibben wrote a piece last week in which he looks past the Koch brothers, who are finally getting the scrutiny they deserve, to the number one enemy of climate action: the US Chamber of Commerce. According to McKibben, the Chamber "spent more money...

During this holiday season, most of us had the opportunity to take a little time off to rest, relax and recuperate from what was a challenging year. It was also a great time to stop and appreciate all that we have, knowing that while it most certainly could be more,...

Cross-posted on Triple Pundit.

Now that the Tea Party has landed on our planet and in our country, like some kind of alien advanced strike force in preparation for a takeover, they are beginning to look around to see how they might rearrange things to better...

Is there any place left in our American society that is safe from the influence of dirty money?

Not the mainstream media. Not the Department of Defense. Not the Senate. Not in the dozens of front groups masquerading as grassroots organizations or scientific authorities.
Our decline has progressed from...

Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology at Penn Sate warned last Friday of an impending witch hunt against science, should the Republicans take control of Congress in the midterm elections. Stating that as a scientist, he should, in theory, have no stake in the elections at all, but based...

As a green business blogger, I attended the World Business Forum in NYC last week with the expectation, given that green is now mainstream, that I would get a lot of material to write about. I couldn't have been more wrong. If any of these thought leaders were thinking about...

Cross-posted at Triple Pundit

The year was 1978. Jimmy Carter was president. The air was abuzz with the promise of solar energy. No pollution, no oil to run out of, no imports, no OPEC. We hadn't even heard of global...

Dear Reader,

I regret to inform you that while you were out enjoying yourself this past weekend, your account became overdrawn. Yes, you. All of us, in fact.

The folks at Global Footprint Network have determined that August 21st was this year's Earth Overshoot Day. That...

Now that BP's spurting oil well in the Gulf of Mexico officially known as MC252 has apparently been shut in, and the relief well that will eventually reduce the pressure in the area, is almost done, it would be nice to think that the worst is over and...

CJ Warner was at the top of her game when she saw the writing on the wall. Twenty years into a glass-ceiling-busting career at BP, she had risen to the rank of Head of Global Refining for BP, making her one of the highest ranking executives in the oil industry....

Cross-posted at Triple Pundit

A recent posting on the Harvard Business Review website by Gill McCorkindale discusses leadership and the lack thereof as demonstrated in the manmade disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that was precipitated by the...

There's been a lot of talk about happiness as a kind of sub-theme of the sustainability movement. At first it seems like a somewhat odd juxtaposition, until you consider the way that our consumer societies have been plundering the planet in search of that elusive state of...

As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico begins to reach biblical proportions, with no end in sight, people are struggling to find ways to deal with their outrage. Depending on their dispositions, people will respond differently. Some, like the The Raging Grannies will rant. They have taken to...

I'm sure that everyone was disappointed with the failure of Top Kill to stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. After three days of pumping 30,000 barrels of drilling mud enhanced with non-toxic agents to increase its weight, supplemented with a...

Someone needs to hold BP accountable for the devastation of the Gulf Coast. If the federal government won't do its job, which is to protect our country, there are environmental advocacy groups that will do theirs.

The Southern Environmental Law...

From www.triplepundit.com

Recent events in the Gulf of Mexico have a lot of people talking about how a line needs to be drawn in the sand, when it comes to the oversight of environmentally dangerous operations conducted by large corporations that are funneling millions of dollars, both directly,...

Cross-posted from Triple Pundit.

In 1978, the oil tanker Amoco-Cadiz broke up off the coast of France, dumping 220,000 tons of heavy crude oil into the Atlantic. The spill was so large that the entire Brittany coast was impacted. Because of the tremendous costs involved, only...