Last week the esteemed Goldman Prizes for environmental stewardship were awarded in San Francisco. One of the winners at this ceremony, which has been called the Oscars of the environmental movement, went to Jonathan Deal, a brave South African man who stood up to the corporate might of...

Given the news out of Washington this week, you'd think the president and the Republicans in Congress couldn't agree that the sky is blue on a clear sunny day. Here's one thing I bet they'd all agree on: not one of them wants to be waiting tables, jack-hammering concrete or...

Last Friday, as millions of Americans were trying to pick up the pieces in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Sean Hannity seems to have been looking for an opportunity. By the time his radio show went live that afternoon he thought he had found one: there was one unsubstantiated report...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote today on a contract with Shell Energy of Houston, Texas that would nearly double electricity costs for San Franciscans.

Say what?

Why would a city that prides itself on being on the forefront of energy policy sign a...

From health care to energy to government, we tend to think about our world in terms of "systems." I know I do it -- consider the health care "system," the political "system" the legal "system."

At least that was my perspective until a few weeks ago when my body's systems...

In the past few years, we've seen corporation after corporation try on the mantle of green. Most of that has been good -- America is moving towards energy independence, we are becoming more thoughtful consumers, and most of us have internalized the idea that what we're doing, making or disposing...

The head of any organization -- whether it's a union, a corporation or my daughter's soccer league -- will tell you it's good to have friends. In recent years, organized labor has found it more and more difficult to make friends with average Americans. And it's not that we haven't...