Activism

A typical Earth Day celebration might entail planting a tree in your yard and teaching children about the importance of low-impact living by promoting the habits of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” But in Utah, the celebration of Earth Day has taken on a new spin, and...

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute recently gathered information from a wide variety of climate change polling in the United States over the past year. They published the results in a thorough fact sheet. We’ve searched the fact sheet for the most compelling tweetable stats, and compiled our top...

This was written by MCAF Leadership Circle member Tina Beattie:  I recently spent a few days at an amazing conference — Tina Brown and Diane Von Furstenberg’s Women in the World Summit — celebrating the work women are doing across the globe to impact women’s...

Yesterday I took the fight for safer chemicals to the streets. Well, not exactly to the streets. I took it to the Safeway store in Silver Spring, Maryland, with my friend Laura MacCleery, of the blog Laura’s Rules. That’s because we joined with a national...

The Third National Climate Assessment, written by 240 contributing scientists, and the result of a collaboration among 13 federal agencies, is a must-read, accessible document. Even though climate scientists are learning more every day about how quickly our world is changing because of global warming,...