As King Tide Approaches, Floridians Turn Up the Call for Climate Action
South Florida’s King Tide—an annual super-high tide brought on by a particular alignment of earth, sun and moon—is expected to peak on Thursday, raising sea...
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Bag Bans Will Keep Harmful Plastic Out of the Ocean
Like anyone who spends time in the water, I’ve had more than a few unpleasant encounters with floating trash. Abandoned dinghies, nets, buoys, mylar balloons,...
Sharing is Caring (for the Planet)
I was recently in San Diego with my daughter, and we used car-sharing services to get around almost everywhere. She typed something into her phone, and a car...
Time for GE to Give the Hudson an A-Level Cleanup
Late last month, I visited one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States—the 197-mile stretch of the Hudson River where General Electric (GE) dumped...
Do the Right Thing: Institutions Can Responsibly Divest from Fossil Fuels
The world is on track to dump 2.5 trillion tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere by mid-century. Does that sound like an innocuous number? It’s...
Big Oil's California Battleground
The new documentary Pump lays out the costs and risks of our dependence on oil to move around—the dependence that’s creating an asthma epidemic in families who...