Rethinking Animals: From Animal Trafficking to Global Security
The mission of the summit is to emphasize the sentience of animals and the implications for how the industry should be reformed.
Environment
Last Day of the "Rethinking Animals" Summit
It is the last day of the “Rethinking Animals” Summit, and leaving behind the early Sunday sun for the cool dark of the SVA Theatre lobby, I already feel as if things have gotten serious.
Regenerate or Detonate: Talking Soil, Hemp, and Corporate Greed with John Roulac
A passionate environmentalist, author of four books concerning ecology and conservation, founder of five nonprofit organizations and the visionary behind NutivaRoulac continues to put himself on the front lines in the fight to save Planet Earth.
China Is Done Cleaning Up America's Mess
I was listening to NPR one day this summer while driving to pick up my...
EcoOptimism, or How We Come Out Ahead of the Game
In the college ecodesign classes I teach, my first task usually is to address what we call “eco-literacy”: understanding the litany of environmental issues we face. Plastics in the oceans, acid in the rain, endangered species, resource depletion, environmental injustice. A seemingly endless list.
Rock the Vote: Geologist Jess Phoenix Runs for Congress with a Patton Oswalt Comedy Fundraiser
Jess Pheonix is the volcanologist from California’s 25th District who famously vowed to bring “Star Trek values” to Congress. By that she means taking Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a peaceful, conscientious, development-focused society and working toward our best possible future.
Even Without Trump, the U.S. Will Fail to Meet the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Here's Why.
Climate Change was singled out by the United Nations in its January 2016 launch of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of global guidelines as a necessary means to address, among other sustainable issues, the swift deterioration of our planet.
Great Apes, Great Adventure
Subsistence farming has been pressing at the boundaries of Virunga National Park where the mountain gorillas live for decades, pushing the great apes further up the mountains and reducing their habitat.
