by EarthDesk | Aug 30, 2013 | Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability
By Noushi Rahman Professor of Management, Lubin School of Business The economic implications of climate change can no longer be viewed as simply the burden of future generations. Impacts on agriculture in particular may give rise to civil conflicts, with significant...
by John Cronin | Aug 28, 2013 | General
Editor’s Note: Today is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the “I Have a Dream” speech Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered to the 250,000 gathered before him on Washington’s National Mall. In Fall 2000, the...
by John Cronin | Aug 27, 2013 | International, Isanjandugu, Pollution, Water
Far from the offices of EarthDesk — our water cooler, lavatories, and coffee maker — the villagers of Isanjandugu, Tanzania rely on ditches and holes, fed by an erratic, six-month rainy season, for drinking water. With assistance from Pace Academy for...
by EarthDesk | Aug 25, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
Adam Zyglis is the staff editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, his hometown daily newspaper. He accepted the position fresh out of college, after winning 3 national awards as a college cartoonist. In 2004, he graduated summa cum laude from Canisius College with a...
by EarthDesk | Aug 24, 2013 | Health, Pollution
When millions of children are living in neighborhoods where the soil is toxic, and their rivers are polluted, and their air quality is so poor that asthma is epidemic, we still have work to do. — Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark, NJ
by EarthDesk | Aug 23, 2013 | Economics, Energy, Fracking, Health, Law & Policy, Pollution
By Tom Wilber Editor’s Note: A centerpiece of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address was his aggressive support of “shale gas development” or fracking, hydraulic fracturing for gas. He has remained unwavering. So, it is no surprise...
by John Cronin | Aug 20, 2013 | Animal Welfare, Ecology, Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
Earlier this evening, I laid my tools on the cabin top of the boat on which I was working, and settled-in to watch the rust red moon crawl to the shoulders of the Hudson Highlands. Once there, it continued upward, as if loosed from the grip of gravity, and floated...
by EarthDesk | Aug 20, 2013 | Ecology, Energy, Fracking, Pollution, Water
By Frances Beinecke President, Natural Resources Defense Council Editor’s Note: The Arctic is in the crosshairs as never before (EarthDesk, August 8). Its melting ice is yielding to new sea lanes, the Obama administration is asserting America’s right to...
by EarthDesk | Aug 18, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
Editor’s Note: This is especially for Carl Sagan fans, of which I am a big one. As much as I admire the late, good doctor, I equally admire fun, earned irreverence. If you don’t know about the Pale Blue Dot, or its famous narration, you can check out my...