Few things attract people to move to a new community like beautiful parks. If there is such a thing as "secular religion" in America, our parks are its chapels.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
Glacier National Park could lose all its glaciers, Joshua Tree National Park all its Joshua trees and Saguaro National Park all its saguaros, according to a new report on climate change from NRDC.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green
But despite our country's valiant efforts to protect these iconic lands, the national parks are now facing the most powerful threat in their history -- global warming.
Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green
In light of Ken Burns' documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea and a recent report that lists "National Parks in Peril," we're featuring 9...
Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver
Ken Burns has created yet another cinematic masterpiece with "National Parks: America's Best Idea" which chronicles the history of the United States n...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green
Over time, I am confident that most of the people who stand in the way of moral progress will be forgotten, just like most of the individuals who stood in the way of John Muir and Steven Mather.
Paul David Walker | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
As I watched this masterpiece by Ken Burns on PBS my heart was touched at a deep level. As John Muir was quoted, "Without wilderness we risk losing our souls."
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green
In today's audio report: The long, long road to Copenhagen; An end to government support for fossil fuels; your national parks, 'America's Best Idea.'
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
I encourage everyone, no matter what part of these United States you live in (or even if you live elsewhere), to take a "trip out West" at some point in your life. Get in a car, and go explore everything west of Denver.
Scott Dodd | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
"The national parks are the first time in human history that land has been set aside -- not for kings or noblemen or the very rich -- but for everybody, and for all time," Burns said.
Carl Pope | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
The Sierra Club is devoting this entire week to helping use America's Best Idea to build a new generation of activists for the national parks.
Bill Mann | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
Burns' 12-hour, 6-part series, aptly named, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, starts Sunday night on PBS and runs all next week. You should try to watch it in hi-def, but do watch it.
Allison Rockefeller | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York
Welcome to your American inheritance: 84 million acres comprising 58 national parks, with 333 historic monuments, seashores, and battlefields.
nytimes.com | MIKE HALE | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Ken Burns's new opus for public television, a six-night history of America's national parks, contains quite a bit of contemporary footage -- more than...
Kathryn McGarr | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York
At the concert in Central Park Wednesday night, Ken Burns was inspiring -- and used words like "apotheosis" and "inexorable," just to see if we were paying attention -- and was his usual energetic, charming self.
Levi Novey | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.
Will Rogers | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
"America's best idea" still isn't complete. If we don't grow the system, we risk loving to death the parks that we have.
Carl Pope | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
How cool is it to be watching a special one-hour excerpt from Ken Burns's 12-hour PBS special on the National Parks in the White House screening room with President Obama?
Levi Novey | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
Friends had asked me, a former national park ranger, if I think "the national park story" will be interesting enough to capture and maintain an audience's attention (read: theirs). I emphatically told them yes.
Glyn Vincent | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York
Ken Burns is set to produce documentary on the five young men wrongly convicted in the rape of the Central Park jogger.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
Famed documentarian Ken Burns was spotted walking into the West Wing on Monday for what appeared to be a meeting with administration officials. The ...
AP | Posted 04.09.2009 | Entertainment
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. is ending its 22-year support for Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. GM spokeswoman Kelly Cusin...
Jon Greenberg | Posted 03.13.2009 | Chicago
When I first made my way into Major League clubhouses in 2003, it was easy to see the effects of performance-enhancing drugs. Most reporters suspected guys were on something, but hey, there were games to cover.
Ken Burns | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
Surrounded and programmed by the lobbyists he once despised, the man who once effortlessly straddled the aisle and spoke from the heart now carefully hews to a prompter-read, soulless far-right agenda.
Christian Avard | Posted 07.08.2008 | Home
It's interesting to me to see folks talking about experience still. In the most challenging time in our history, the Civil War, it was the earlier relatively inexperienced skinny lawyer from Illinois who saved the nation.
Edward J. Murray | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment