This May 19, celebrity chef and food activist Jamie Oliver is promoting Food Revolution Day, when communities around the world come together to focus on real food and its health benefits for kids and adults. What bears noting is that more than childhood obesity is at stake: human health, environmental health and social justice all collide [...]

Homosexual behavior* in animals has always been observed by both biologists and lay people, but it was not until the 1990s that science began to take it seriously. Since Bruce Bagemihl’s seminal 1999 book “Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity,” the behavior has been observed in 1,500 species and is well understood in 500. Until [...]

  In San Francisco, wild animals, namely coyotes, have increasingly been making themselves at home with their human cohabitants.  Some postulate the increase in coyotes is due to an ever-encroaching human population, leaving coyotes little natural space for themselves.  Others attribute the influx to a city that protects the animal in addition to an ample food [...]

  Written by Glenn Hurowitz The Obama administration is poised to make one of the biggest climate policy decisions of its entire administration – and it’s not about coal, oil, or gas, but rainforests.  EPA is deciding whether or not palm oil should be included in the Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates that American motorists [...]

  This is a guest post from Lee Crockett, Director of Federal Fisheries Policy at the Pew Environment Group. Health care is a controversial topic these days, but one thing we can all agree on is the importance of annual checkups. Every year, millions of Americans visit their doctors as a proactive measure to stay healthy, [...]

Many communities have passed bans on single-use plastic bags, but there are plenty of single-use plastic items that are still in use including plastic straws.

On May 15th, more than one million people called on President Barack Obama to save the Arctic from oil drilling. Petitions with more than a million signatures were delivered by citizens, Alaska residents and environmental leaders to the White House, where citizens gathered to ask the president to stop Shell Oil from drilling this summer. [...]

According to reports from ForestEthics, seven major U.S. corporations have distanced themselves from the less-than-trustworthy Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). Although its name implies that the initiative would help protect forests from harmful logging practices, SFI’s track record leaves something to be desired. The corporate exodus is attributed to a report titled “SFI: Certified Greenwash,” which [...]

  Written by Mat McDermott While there are plenty of bans on plastic bags at the city level in the US, with the approval of a ban of plastic bags at point of sale in Honolulu county, Hawaii becomes the first state in the nation to have outlawed plastic bags at every locale in the [...]

Tim DeChristopher, an environmental activist and, to many, a hero, requested an appeal on his prison sentence last week.  Currently, DeChristopher is serving out a two year federal prison sentence for bidding on 13 parcels of land in Utah put up for auction by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) back in 2008. Commonly referred to [...]