by Guest Contributor | Dec 29, 2013 | Climate Change, EarthDesk Sunday
We are proud to add photojournalist Peter Essick of Stone Mountain, Georgia to our list of EarthDesk Sunday contributors. His evocative Climate Change essay, presented here, invites us to consider the issue in its larger topical and geographical dimensions. His book,...
by Guest Contributor | Dec 25, 2013 | Art
We present this image by Charles Henry Alston to honor our veterans, more than 100,000 of whom will be homeless Christmas Day. Alston was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance Movement. He created this drawing while staff artist for the Office of War Information in 1940.
by John Cronin | Dec 24, 2013 | Ethics, Law & Policy, Sustainability
Environment is all of America and its problems . . . It is a hungry child in a land of affluence. It is housing that is not worthy of the name. — U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, April 22, 1970.[col grid=”2-1″] “Annie”*...
by Guest Contributor | Dec 22, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
The super-macro photography of Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov takes us where no human eye can venture. He captures snowflakes on the balcony of his Moscow home “mostly on glass surface, lighted by LED flashlight from opposite side of glass, and sometimes in...
by John Cronin | Dec 21, 2013 | International, Law & Policy, Water
Anyone involved in the sausage-making of law and policy knows one small ingredient can affect the entire product. The United Nations is no exception. On December 9, Pace Law School professor Ann Powers, representing the International Union for the Conservation of...
by John Cronin | Dec 21, 2013 | Animal Welfare, International, Law & Policy
You might wonder how one of us puny humans makes a 6-10 ton mammal obey orders. Here’s how:
by John Cronin | Dec 19, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Ecology, Government, Health, Pollution, Water
Broken Federal Toxins Law Has 11% Chance of Being Fixed. On December 16, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a proposed rule that allows soap and hygiene product manufacturers one year to prove “antibacterial” additives are safe and...
by Guest Contributor | Dec 15, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
I have watched Russ Cusick compose one of his exquisite panoramas, snapping 32 pictures, top to bottom, left to right, in quick succession, as if his body was hitting fixed stops. His portraits of the Hudson Highlands, which cover miles of landscape, are a favorite in...
by Guest Contributor | Dec 13, 2013 | Animal Welfare, Corporate Responsibility, Health, Law & Policy
By Avinash Kar Editor’s Note: On December 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its final guidance aimed at reducing use of antibiotics in livestock. In EarthDesk, September 17 we reported the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had finally...