This year National Park Week kicks off on April 20th and runs through April 28th. Throughout the week, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation invite you to discover (or re-discover) the natural beauty of our nation's national parks. An even better reason to visit? From Monday, April 22–Friday, April 26, the national …

This was written by Elena Craft and originally posted on EDF Voices: People on the Planet: Biking is a great way to get to work if, like me, you don’t live far from your office. My normal route takes me along Lady Bird Lake and then through downtown Austin, TX. I love riding by the …

This was written by Dr. Jeff Masters, co-founder of the Weather Underground. This post originally posted on Wunderblog, via Climate Progress: It was another year of incredible weather extremes unparalleled in American history during 2012. Eleven billion-dollar weather disasters hit the U.S., a figure exceeded only by the fourteen such disasters during the equally insane …

More than ever, we are a country concerned about the safety of our schools. Moms Clean Air Force has been focused on the environmental threats to our children from air pollution. As MCAF blogger, Molly Rauch points out, the air quality in schools is largely unregulated and can pose significant challenges to health and learning. …

On my way to a party recently, I decided at the last minute to pick up a bottle of wine and some fruit to contribute to the festivities. I was already near my destination and began to drive around looking for a grocery store. After circling several blocks with no luck, I engaged my GPS, …

We can change the world without paying a dime. There are amazing ways to make a difference in our own neighborhoods and even worldwide without the necessity of taking out our checkbooks. I have been learning this lesson and coming into this reality in profound ways lately. The economy is making us more cost conscious, …

This guest post was written by Eamon Umphress, a 16-year-old Texas resident. Most 16-year-olds I know, including me, are interested in getting a job, a car, buying clothes and hanging out with friends. Not saving the world. But I was given an opportunity to do just that. In 2011, at age 15, I became part …

When I was a kid, I loved going back to school. I can still remember the smell of freshly painted hallways, newly scoured floors–and the sight of long, clean, dark expanses of new blackboards. And I still remember some of our “science” projects—probably because, only a few decades later, my own children were given the …

In the clean air arena, diesel is a dirty word…and I know from personal experience all of the reasons why diesel fuel has a bad reputation. So when my husband suggested that I consider the diesel-fueled option in my current search for a new car, I cringed because I can conger up memories of the …

Do you know the children’s book, A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman? If you don’t, I’ll catch you up on this sweet picture book poem that begins: A hill is a house for an ant, an ant. A hive is a house for a bee. A hole is a house …