In Defense of Drakes Bay Oyster Company

Field Notes from Point Reyes National Seashore

The latest environmental controversy has to do with a small, little animal whose anus passes through the middle of its heart. Photo by Flickr user lidiadehenPierce Ranch trail at the Point Reyes National Seashore. For those of you who aren’t molluscologists, I…
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by: Jason Mark – December 18, 2012

Keep Pushing

On the morning after the 2012 US elections, the financial markets delivered their unique take on the ballot results. In the space of a few hours, Wall Street pummeled coal company stocks. Shares of Peabody Energy lost nearly 10 percent in value, Arch Coal plummeted 12.5 percent while Alpha Natural Resources dropped 12.2 percent. The sell-off was driven by shareholders’ anticipation of tighter environmental regulations in the coming years. It was also…
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by: Jason Mark – Winter 2013

Safeguard Your Health: Save the Climate

A focus on public health could be a game-changer for climate change messaging

What will it take to get Americans to care – really care – about global climate change? Photo courtesy Anoto GroupPeople won’t make climate change a top priority in their lives until they see, and feel, how weather disruptions are a clear…
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by: Jason Mark – December 3, 2012

The Environmental Movement Doesn’t Resemble the Obama Coalition

Notes on the Unbearable Whiteness of the Green Movement

Last week Earth Island Institute hosted a discussion here at the David Brower Center in Berkeley to explore what the results of the 2012 election will mean for the environmental movement. I had the pleasure of moderating the evening’s conversation with a…
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by: Jason Mark – November 21, 2012

Prop 37 Defeat Reveals a “Food Movement” that Is Still Half Baked

Good food partisans have much work to do to build a movement infrastructure

A scant three weeks before election day, Michael Pollan, writing in the New York Times Magazine, opined that the vote on California Proposition 37 would best a test of “whether there is a ‘food movement’ in America worthy of the name —…
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by: Jason Mark – November 8, 2012

Vote — for Hope

Amid the lies and the attempts at voter suppression, the most important thing you can do is cast a ballot

The seemingly endless 2012 election that will — with any luck — come to a close this evening has been characterized most of all by the depth of the dishonesty exhibited by the candidates and the campaigns. Photo by Ho John Lee…
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by: Jason Mark – November 6, 2012

Green Party Presidential Candidate Urges Voters to Resist the “Politics of Fear”

Dr. Jill Stein talks with Earth Island Journal about her vision for the US

Perhaps she was still feeling the adrenaline rush from being arrested the day before at the Tar Sands Blockade, because when I finally managed to reach Jill Stein on the phone she was bursting with energy. I soon got the sense that…
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by: Jason Mark – November 5, 2012

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