Recent News
• California Panel Backs Solar Mandate for New Buildings
• The UN report is scaring people. But what if fear isn’t enough?
• Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan, Advancing Sweeping Safety Net Expansion
• Calls Grow to Protect Workers From Extreme Heat
• A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us
The Trickster
In some Native American legends, the Blue Jay was a revered trickster who worked with foxes and coyotes. But because of their loud vocalizations, others have thought of Blue Jays as gossips, looked upon as noisy, arrogant, and selfish birds.
Pushing Plastic: Who Is Responsible?
In August of 1955, LIFE magazine featured a short article called “Throwaway Living.” It was accompanied by a large, black and white photograph of an American family joyously hurling a symphony of Styrofoam, paper, and plastic plates, cups, straws, utensils, napkins, and serving trays into the air.
The Summer from Hell
In the nineties, when it was novel, I used to run around shouting about climate change, “It’s not just polar bears and penguins, it’s people, too!”
RCC Joins more than 500 environmental groups to pan carbon capture plans
‘There are still no projects operating anywhere in the world that have delivered on time, on budget, or in the quantities promised.’
In Maricopa County, an electric school bus brings power to the people
One in every nine children in Maricopa County is asthmatic. The Arizona county, home to Phoenix, has some of the most polluted air in the country.
The Symphony of the Everglades: Secrets of a Seemingly Still Ecosystem
I was just 12 years old in 2013 when I took my first official trip to the Everglades. I call it official because of the many times I had quickly skirted through the wetlands on a highway or seen the mangroves out my car window.