Reflections on Senator Gaylord Nelson’s Vision for Earth Day
When Senator Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day, he envisioned a movement devoted to the environment and the human, to eradicating pollution as well as poverty, to assuring nature’s rights as well as civil rights, to fostering sustainability as well as peace.
It Is Time to End Elephant Abuse for Human Amusement
Tamed elephants are tortured elephants. Ban their use in all forms of entertainment, beginning in New York State.
The Lie, the Witch-hunt and the War on Climate Change
Draconian subpoenas by House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith are designed to have a chilling effect on the work of NOAA climate scientists.
EarthDesk is Building a New Platform. We Will Return April 4
What We Know Now: Six Reporters Weigh-In on COP21
If “historic” and “landmark” are missing from your dictionary, it’s no wonder. They could use a break. Kudos are being heaped from quarters far and wide about the outcomes of COP21. But there are also sobering times ahead, by some reporters’ accounts.
Police Crackdown on Free Speech at COP21
Security at COP21 in Paris was robust and ever present, due in large part to fear of a repeat of the terrorist attacks on November 13 in Paris and St. Denis. But some protesting the lukewarm climate talks believe that security was also aimed at quelling dissent.
Qahatika Girl by Edward S. Curtis
In this Thanksgiving season of loosely woven traditions about Native Americans, the photography of Edward Curtis is a welcome relief and “one of the most impressive historical records of Native American life at the beginning of the 20th century.”
Study: Food Insecurity Affects 1 in 7 Americans, Increases Health Costs by $160 Billion
Last year, hunger and food insecurity increased America’s health costs by $160 billion, more than 1/3 the U.S. deficit, and 48 million Americans, one in seven, lived in food insecure households in 2014, according to the global 2016 Hunger Report by Bread for the World Institute.
U.N. Climate Conferences: The Cartoonist’s Skeptical Eye
Some of the greenest political cartoonists have cast a skeptical eye toward the annual United Nations global climate conferences. Their common theme, the powerful neglect the less so, is a wake-up call to the COP 21 conference attendees — both governments and NGOs.
Yonatan Zunger: Water and Food, not Oil and Religion, Driving Middle East Violence
In the wake of the Paris massacre by Da'esh, Yonatan Zunger, chief architect at Google+, wrote that religion and oil "have little or nothing to do with what we're seeing." Rather, dwindling water, compounded by climate change, is "one profound factor which has driven...
Cartoon of Silence by Arcadio Esquivel
«« »» Arcadio Esquivel, via Cartoon Movement: Born in Costa Rica. Graduated as Caricaturist in the CEAC Institute from Spain, 1982. Graduated as Advertising Designing in the University of Cience and Arts of Costa Rica in Costa Rica, 1999. Professor of cartooning at...
Pioneer River Researcher Joseph Rachlin to Receive Higher Ed Top Honor
Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities to Present Rachlin the Great Work Award at its Annual Meeting November 7, Vassar College. There are 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams in the U.S. Add to that our estuaries, bayous, bays, lakes, wetlands and...