Meet the 2012 Winners!

Oil and Gas Interests Are Spending Big to Keep Their Allies in Office

Raj Patel is no fan of messiahs and iconic leaders. “One bright shining light is dangerous,” says the writer, activist, and academic who was once mistaken as the savior of humankind by an obscure ...

Iron Sink It appears that dumping iron in the sea can help suck carbon out of the air and bury it underwater, like, forever. New research by a team of international researchers published in the journa...

The Country’s Largest Garbage Company is Lobbying to Repeal State Laws that Boost Composting

Greens with Guns: How can the values of hunters and anglers fit within an environmentalist ethic?

America is currently engaged in the most expensive presidential contest in world history. In the United States, money doesn’t just talk – it dictates. How can we hope to make progress on the path ...

Big Ag is Pushing Laws to Silence its Critics

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By Robert Macfarlane
Hamish Hamilton, 2012, 448 pages

The Promise and Peril of Synthetic Biology

A Movement Is Building to Amend the Constitution

Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
by David Kirby,
St. Martin’s Press, 2012, 469 pages

In a move that immediately became irresistible fodder for late night comics and editorial cartoonists, the Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature this summer approved a law that bars state a...

On the Columbia River, Conservation Biologists Find that Whatever Can Go Wrong, Will

American History Offers a Hopeful Lesson in Checking Corporate Power

I can still recall the memory with total clarity: I was afraid that the wind would lift me off the ground and carry me over the edge of the world. I knew if I let go of my parents’ hands, I would lo...

Anywhere Row Stephanie Elizondo Griest’s story, “Life on Refinery Row” (Summer, 2012) was simply great. Corpus Christi’s story could very well be that of El Paso, TX. Even though ASARCO’s co...

Douglas Gayeton’s Lexicon of Sustainability

There’s no getting around it – flying is the single most carbon intensive activity an individual can undertake. The global aviation industry is responsible for nearly 5 percent of all emissions. S...

Asia Guerilla Radio You might not associate Justin Bieber or Rihanna with environmental causes, but in one part of the world their music is helping save primates. In the breaks between a heavy rotatio...

A special report on the environmental pollutant
called money in politics

+Jeff Greenwald is executive director of Ethical Traveler, an Earth Island-sponsored project that seeks to use the economic clout of tourism to protect human rights and the environment. His travel wri...

Speaking Truth to Power

Chris van Es, www.chrisvanes.com America is under assault from a deadly, insidious, and persistent pollutant. This pernicious contaminant threatens our health, safety, and way of life. Its noxious emi...

-John Stewart, author of Why Noise Matters, has been a transport and environmental activist for the past 30 years. He chaired the coalition of organizations that defeated plans for a third runway at L...