Pachamama Rumblings in Lima! (Photo essay of the March in defense of Mother...
Yesterday the whole left brain greenhouse gas haggling exercise at the COP20 Climate Summit got a huge kick in the pants when 20,000 marching souls took to the streets of Lima for Latin America’s...
View ArticleDoes your iPhone have an impact beyond the energy used to recharge it?
One of my beloved British pals proudly sent me a link to this encouraging news about UK energy use. UK using less energy despite growing economy, report findsPeople in the UK are using less energy...
View ArticleHow Gondolas and Hip Hop Transformed the Most Dangerous City in the World
Medellín went from being ground zero of Colombia's drug war to UN poster child for urban equality—and the people made it happen, by designing the city they wanted.Note: This article appears in Cities...
View ArticleWhat Santa does after Christmas
You'd think after sledding for thousands of miles to drop presents through chimneys across the world, Santa would be kicking it in his igloo penthouse, chilling in a massage chair with a bottle of...
View ArticleTurning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land
It is said that Jesus was able to turn water into wine. While such truly miraculous skill to this day remains confined to the realm of saints and sages, I bring good news about a wine-making technique...
View ArticleZen Monks to CA Governor Brown: "Don't even THINK about Fracking!"
I have a sticker in my office that says "Zen Buddhism: Don't even think about it!" This kind of humorous take often leads to the (false) perception that Buddhism and its more western-palatable...
View ArticleWe did it! Biggest Anti-Fracking Demonstration in U.S. History! (photos galore)
So a bunch of concerned citizens of all stripes came out to Oakland yesterday to talk some fracking sense.More specifically, according to 350.org's count, over 8,000 of us marched...and gathered to...
View ArticleGet this: science denier David Koch sits on boards of America's science...
No more dinosaurs for you, Mr. Koch! You just can't make this stuff up! Science Museums Urged to Cut Ties With KochsSo David Koch, he of the oil and manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries and the...
View ArticleA drop in the bucket?
In light of California's historic drought and Governor Brown's executive order to impose a 25 percent reduction on municipal water use, my partner and I thought about ways we can conserve more water...
View ArticleBombshell video shows Chevron covering up its lethal tracks in the Ecuadorian...
#ChevronExposed A week after Chevron CEO John "Hell Freezer" Watson received a "Distinguished Citizen" award from the Commonwealth Club, the gods of irony must have felt compelled to present the...
View ArticleWays in which your garden is like a city
An urban ecosystemIf you’ve ever tried to grow anything in your garden you’ve probably had your share of unrealized visions. In your rookie year perhaps the tomatoes never turned red or the...
View ArticleMy ten years of American citizenship and what it means to me
Sunday (05/10/15) was my 10 year anniversary as an American citizen.What has it meant? What have I learned?Well, since I’ve never felt particularly patriotic in the conventional sense about my birth...
View ArticleNew EPA report estimates benefits of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions
The EPA just released its new report, Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action, a hugely significant piece of research that estimates the physical and monetary benefits to the...
View ArticleBay Area reduces water consumption by up to 40%, civilization does not collapse
Good news! People are capable of conserving and scaling back when they have to and want to.From SFGate: The region’s widespread reductions in water use in June, which were as high as 40 percent in the...
View ArticleThe one great thing coming out of Donald Trump...
The Donald is inspiring some pretty cool art. This little pre-debate snack is courtesy of my friend Anselm Yew...
View ArticleOffering tobacco and bottled water for a pipeline, Chevron gets booted from...
No, this is not the 17th century: Chevron engineers, looking to frack billions of cubic feet of gas from indigenous Unist’ot’en territory in British Columbia, did indeed try to get past the tribe's...
View ArticleCarsick Planet, Part 1: Why the world needs FEWER not better cars
“Carden of Eden” at Flora Grubb Gardens, San Francisco. All photos by Sven EberleinWith the upcoming 21st UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP21) this December promising to be a multi-lane highway towards a...
View ArticleCarsick Planet, Part 2: Reducing the fleet through personal, infrastructure &...
If indeed the continued proliferation of the personal automobile is not compatible with the future we want as I have suggested in Part 1 of this series, the question naturally becomes: How exactly are...
View ArticleCarsick Planet, Part 3: Get around. Not too fast. Mostly walk.
Getting around not too fast on the New York High Line.The previous segment of this series left off discussing how lifestyle choices, infrastructure, and a new economic thinking must work in tandem to...
View ArticlePostcard from Abu Dhabi: On the Road to Masdar City, a Desert Ecocity in the...
Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon city under construction.Last month saw the 11th edition of the International Ecocity Conference Series that was first held 25 years ago in Berkeley,...
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