I hope you’ll take a bit over two minutes and watch the video below, featuring Bill Moyers discussing what is perhaps the most vexing challenge facing journalism today. He asks, “(With respect to climate change), can we get this story …
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As shown in the graphic below, a very long conversation could be had about the well-being of the people in each of the 50 U.S. states. Maybe what it shows is that, for the most part, the states are composites of …
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None of us is going to make it out here alive, so do something beautiful with the precious time you have on Earth. At least that’s the thought that popped into my head when I came across this photo. It …
Here’s something with real merit: floating solar panels, for places where land is at a premium, perhaps Europe and Japan.
The great cities in California tend to have extremely high levels of participation when it comes to environmental and social causes.
To the shame of the human race, there are people who feel a sense of pride and accomplishment by shooting innocent and soon-to-be-extinct game animals: elephants, lions, giraffes, tigers and the rest. Though I can’t do anything about this sickening …
It wasn’t that long ago that American diversity was celebrated and racism disdained. True, 1961 saw numerous horrific injustices against racial minorities, but at least our culture had begun viewing this as something grotesque and sickening. Now, we’re learning that …
I’ve known environmentalist Forbes Black for over a decade, but it was only recently that I noticed his penchant for sarcasm, and damn, he’s good at it.
The only complaint that can be made about organic food is that it cannot be produced at prices and quantities such that it can be affordable for a world population soon to hit 10 billion people. Yet people don’t have …
Should the scientists working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, upon completion of the intense process of peer review, be forced to label their reports as “Preliminary?” Won’t this suggest to readers that such reports and the underlying research has …
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