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D.C. schools chancellor defends decision to ditch chocolate milk
D.C. Public Schools officials apparently have no intention of reinstating chocolate milk in local cafeterias despite a recent grilling by D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and the pleadings of a […]
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Cars vs. bulldozers: a look at road construction GHGs
Photo: Joost J. Bakker IJmuidenThis post originally appeared on Sightline Institute’s blog. Here’s an interesting study (not free, unfortunately) by University of Washington engineering professor Stephen Muench, reviewing the literature […]
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'Natural' gas fails the sniff test
Top decisionmakers in Washington seem to have forgotten that “natural” gas is a fossil fuel, with some of the same damning negatives as coal and oil. For instance, unlike renewables, […]
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Youth and Positive Social Change
“That which touches me most is that I had a chance to work with peoplePassing on to others that which was passed on to meTo me young people come first, […]
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Friday music blogging: The Chemical Brothers
An old favorite of mine, The Chemical Brothers, have just done a soundtrack for the new movie Hanna. It's awesome!
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Outrage: As mountaintop removal linked to birth defects, politicians gut Clean Water Act
I just can’t stop thinking about a new scientific study published this week that found there are “significantly higher” rates of birth defects near mountaintop removal coal mining operations As […]
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What ever happened to the party of national security?
This OnEarth column was written by George Black. I don’t spend a lot of time listening to Rush Limbaugh. But driving through Wyoming recently, I chanced upon his distinctive cadences […]
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Some in the US need to stop opposing the EU program to control carbon pollution from aviation
On Wednesday June 22, the US and European Union (EU) officials will meet in Oslo, Norway for a bilateral on aviation issues. As a part of this meeting they will […]
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Growing Goat Herds Signal Global Grassland Decline
After the earth was created, soil formed slowly over geological time from the weathering of rocks. It began to support early plant life, which protected and enriched it until it […]
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Much ado about nothing
There was plenty of excitement earlier this month when AEP – one of the nation’s largest energy companies – announced that it would phase out five coal-fired power plants and […]
