• Climate Change

It’s Time for Climate Action to Sell Out

By Josh Freed, Senior Vice President for the Climate and Energy Program, Third Way   For years, climate news has offered one of the best doomscrolling fixes, up there with the pandemic and Donald Trump’s assault on democracy. But we’ve finally entered an era when the good news on climate is starting to outweigh the […]

• People

Securing a Sustainable Future for Buffalo, People, and Nature

• #30x30
• bison
• buffalo
• Earth Day
• endangered species
• Great Sioux Nation
• habitat
• Lakota People
• Native peoples
• Wolakota
• World Wildlife Fund

By Wizipan Little Elk On August 23, 1804, a shot rang out on the wind-swept prairie near what is now called southeastern South Dakota, marking the first buffalo kill of the famous Lewis and Clark reconnaissance expedition. For us Lakota, our neighbors, and our buffalo relatives, it signaled the beginning of what was to become […]

• Cosmos

NASA Earth Science to “Meet the Moment”

• biodiversity
• climate change
• COID-19
• Earth
• Earth Science
• NASA
• satellites
• space
• water

This op/ed was originally featured in SpaceNews on March 30th and has been reprinted with their and the author’s permission.  By Nancy Colleton Small businesses and large multinational corporations face incredible challenges and uncertainty in today’s world. Whether an uncertain economy, continuing impact of a pandemic, or the rapidly changing natural environment of water scarcity, ecosystem […]

• Forests

Tackling Climate Change Begins With Investing in Our Forests

by Larry Selzer, President and CEO, The Conservation Fund  Climate change threatens every life support system we rely on—food, water, and biodiversity. The things that keep us alive are at risk, which means we are at risk. We recognize that climate change is the most pressing global challenge we have ever faced, and we must […]

• People

Oh, Happy Day!

• animals
• International Day of Happiness
• nature
• wellbeing
• wildlife

By Beth Allgood, President, OneNature It was a long hike, and rugged. The Himalayan altitude was almost as breathtaking as the scenery, which became more stunning with every switchback turn. I had arrived in Bhutan two days before on my second trip to the remote mountain kingdom.  The first, twenty-four months earlier, was to attend […]

• Sustainability

Special Interests Are Preventing the Expansion of Sustainable Building Codes

• green buildings
• green construction
• ICC
• sustainability

by Brynn Furey As many government officials look for opportunities to make our buildings greener, special interest groups want to put up blockades. Recently, construction and gas industry associations succeeded in erecting a new barrier to sideline city leaders from influencing codes that determine the health and safety of our buildings — and have a […]