• Politics

The “Women’s Issue” Biden Should Talk About at Tuesday’s Debate

• 2020 Election
• Donald Trump
• Joe Biden
• Presidential debate

• Sustainability

What I’ve Learned From Baking Bread

• baking
• bread
• consumption
• farmers
• sourdough
• waste
• wheat
• yeast

By Scott Nuzum For many of us, the last six months have had dramatic impacts on the way we think about time. Before Covid-19, many of us felt as though we never had enough time. But in the months since the pandemic struck many of us now face the opposite challenge—namely, how to fill those […]

• Politics

“The Best” is Yet to Come: Denial, Privatization, Inaction

• climate change
• Hurricane Laura
• NOAA
• NWS
• Trump

by Monica Medina and Miro Korenha, co-founders and publishers, Our Daily Planet   While it’s now become a part of meme infamy, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s 2020 Republican National Convention speech made the argument that in America, through a second term of the Trump presidency, “the best is yet to come.” As the GOP’s convention followed that […]

• Animals

Kangaroos: The Risks of the World’s Largest Wildlife Trade

• animal rights
• animal welfare
• Australia
• IFAW
• kangaroos

by Sarah Newman, Dr. Dror Ben-Ami, Helen Bergen, Lee Rhiannon, and lauren Ornelas   How does a great six-foot tall adult male Red Kangaroo, elegantly bounding across Australia’s iconic orange desert, become a public health risk in the form of a steak in a supermarket cooler, or in a can of dog or cat food on […]

• Water

The Failings of Trump’s Navigable Waters Rule Laid Bare

• Center for Progressive Reform
• Clean Water Act
• Navigable Waters
• rollback
• Waters of the U.S. Rule
• wetlands
• WOTUS

By William Buzbee On Thursday, Science magazine published an article [abstract available, article itself behind paywall] I co-authored with a number of distinguished environmental science professors from around the country. In the article, we dissect President Trump’s newly implemented navigable waters rule and show the remarkable disregard for science that the Trump administration displayed in […]

• Ocean

Taking off our masks, figuratively

• #OneOceanOnePlanet
• 52Hertz
• Against the Current
• environment
• Lonely Whale
• ocean
• plastic
• pollution

The need for authenticity, kindness, and inclusivity in the fight to protect the ocean By Dune Ives, Executive Director, Lonely Whale The pandemic has brought our world to a halt in many ways none of us had expected—altering how we live, communicate, celebrate, and of course, feel. And, although we’ve seen a temporary dip in greenhouse […]