Colorado’s Fracking Disaster

Colorado’s Fracking Disaster

As the people of Colorado are presently learning, it’s horrendous enough to suffer the ravages of a natural disaster, but it’s doubly horrific to then be faced with a more devastating unnatural disaster. First came the epic floods that recently ripped...
Abusing Animals to Defend Tar Sands Oil

Abusing Animals to Defend Tar Sands Oil

Both the old and new media agree on is this: If you need a story that’s guaranteed to be popular, go with animals. Cute kittens, puppies, porpoises, penguins, and polar bears are all a good bet. Now, corporate shills are tapping this animal ploy to push some of...
Naming the Names behind Extreme Weather

Naming the Names behind Extreme Weather

Environmental groups tend to be a bit grim-faced. That’s understandable since they’re constantly confronting industrial uglies that range somewhere between awful and apocalyptic. So it’s a treat when one of them turns impishly playful, as a group of...
California’s Smarter Stewards

California’s Smarter Stewards

Ten days before Christmas 2006, I moved to California, the Shake ‘n Bake State. The first friend I met in my new home was a firefighter with the Forest Service. The first gift I received was a wind-up flashlight for use in the next major earthquake. That’s...