In the days before Amazon Prime, your Christmas gift-giving options were somewhat more limited. So it that the three wise men in the Biblical account brought local gifts to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem: gold, frankincense and …
Air War: U.S. and Europe Clash Over Proposed Carbon Reductions for Airlines
Depending on the calculations, air travel accounts for perhaps 3 to 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions, far below sources like deforestation, coal-fired electricity and automobiles. Yet I’ve always thought that airplanes play …
Winning the Conservation War: How to Manage the World We’re Stuck With
I have a Going Green column over on the Time.com mainpage today, and it’s a review of a new collection of essays called Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene. Readers of this blog are probably familiar …
“We can have this conversation, but you cannot show me one place — not one! — where there is a proven pollution of groundwater by hydraulic fracturing. I am truly offended that the American public would be hoodwinked by stories that do not scientifically hold up.”
The DMZ After Kim: What Change in North Korea Could Mean for One of the World’s Richest Wildlife Refuges
No one knows what will follow the apparent death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. The Hermit Kingdom remains a black box to experts—especially Americans—and while early reports suggest that Kim’s third son Kim Jong-un …
Pipeline Politics: How an Oil Sands Project Has Become Key to Environmentalism
Given that there are already more than 2.3 million miles of pipelines in the U.S.—carrying petroleum products, chemicals and natural gas—it might seem odd that so much political energy has been expended on a proposed …
“Today, we have reached a great milestone. The reactors are stable, which should resolve one big cause of concern for us all.”
Clean Air At Last: The EPA Cracks Down on Coal Pollution
During his career as a running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jerome Bettis made a habit of running over opponents—that’s why they called him “the Bus.” Now the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hoping that Bettis can …
Free Boris: Over 100 Beluga Whales Trapped in Russian Ice
Bad news for whales out of the Russian Far East: over 100 belugas are reportedly trapped in water between ice floes in the Chukotka region, cut off from the sea. Fishermen in the area—one of the poorest in Russia, bordering the …
“The dominance of short-termism in the market fosters general market instability and undermines the efforts of executives seeking long-term value creation. As we face an inflection point in the global economy and the global environment, the imperative for change has never been greater.”