Pace Environmental Policy Clinic Reports for Duty
Pace Academy's Fall 2014 Environmental Policy Clinicians reported for duty with a full docket awaiting from their Spring 2014 colleagues: community energy, wildlife protection, invasive plants, food justice, circus animals, and nightsky pollution. We will follow them...
Art for the People’s Climate March
This week's EarthDesk Sunday features poster art created for today's People's Climate March. For more information about some of the art and artists visit the websites Creative Resistance and Just Seeds.
China on the Verge of Exterminating Its Sturgeon
Despite years of warnings from marine scientists, the Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis, may be the first of 26 subspecies of sturgeon worldwide to face extinction. Damming, pollution, overfishing and habitat destruction are the causes. According to the Chinese...
Poisoning the Poor by Pat Bagley
EarthDesk is pleased to return after a brief summer hiatus. In the coming year, we will focus special attention on members of our own species whose sustainability is challenged daily by poverty, food insecurity, illness, homelessness and bigotry. After all, if we...
EarthDesk Returns September 14
Sturgeon Moon 2014
Many are calling tonight's full moon a "super moon." More important, it is a Sturgeon Moon, as occurs each August. In honor of its appearance coinciding with EarthDesk Sunday, below is a reprise of last year's post about the same occasion. Earlier this evening, I laid...
Lego Wars: Old Patnership with Shell Oil Breeds New Controversy
There is concern anew over the decades-old partnership between Lego and Shell Oil. Shell is a major player in the growing efforts to exploit Arctic resources as shipping lanes open due to Arctic melt. See: EarthDesk August 8, 2013. Greenpeace is leading an effort to...
Toxic Algae Horror in Ohio by Nate Beeler
«« »» Here is Nate Beeler's profile from the The Columbus Dispatch: Nate Beeler, the award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Dispatch, has earned the reputation of being both a top-flight artist and first-rate journalist. Formerly the cartoonist for the Washington...
1972 Clean Water Act Update
[countup date=1985/01/01-00:00:00] [timer] since the Federal Clean Water Act's 1985 goal to eliminate the discharge of pollutants [/countup]
Q & A with John Cronin on Environment and Education
The excerpt below is taken from an interview by Barbara Moroch for the Higher Education Supplement of Sunday's Journal News. John is senior fellow for environmental affairs at Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. He edits and is a frequent contributor to...
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Responds to EarthDesk Critique of the Clean Water Act’s Performance
Defending the Clean Water Act from EarthDesk's continuing critique of the law's performance, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy echoed President Barak Obama when she called upon the memory of the 45-year old Cuyahoga River fire as evidence of...
Water Pollution by Arend van Dam
«« »» Arend van Dam is a Dutch political cartoonist whose work has appeared in Reformed Netherlands, Central Weekly, Time, the Financial Times, and the Agrarian Dagblad among others. In addition to his cartoon work, he is also a book illustrator. He sometimes works...