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Will Green Jobs Be YOUTH Jobs? 23 Jun 2011 | 10:47 am
This post was co-written with Michael Davidson and first appeared on It’s Getting Hot in Here. Just in case our 5 years of swarming state capitals decked out in green hard hats, running campaigns cal...
Weekly Mulch: Greening the Royal Wedding is the Least of Our Worries 20 Jun 2011 | 07:58 am
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The biggest news for the environment this week might just be that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took pains to add a couple of green touches to this morni...
One Year to Earth Summit 2012: A New Generation Goes to Rio 13 Jun 2011 | 03:13 pm
This post was written by Michael Davidson. It originally appeared on It’s Getting Hot in Here. One year from this week, government leaders, civil society members and representatives of the business c...
Weekly Mulch: Activist Tim DeChristopher Convicted of Two Felonies 27 Mar 2011 | 12:03 pm
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted yesterday of two felony counts. DeChristopher was on trial for bidding on more than 22,000 acres of pu...
Weekly Mulch: Conservatives and Liberals Remain In Denial About Climate Change 16 Mar 2011 | 09:09 am
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The negative impacts of climate change are coming on more quickly than anyone expected. According to a new NASA study, ocean waters are creeping steadily upw...
Pray for the people of Japan 14 Mar 2011 | 09:09 am
Words are not enough… but I found this on Facebook and it says a lot: Despite the catastrophe, the Japanese people have responded with grace and dignity. When food and water was being given out, peop...
Weekly Mulch: Monsanto’s Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion 11 Mar 2011 | 05:11 am
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Agribusiness giant Monsanto is strengthening its hold over the food system both in this country and abroad, with some help from the U.S. government. Food sa...
Weekly Mulch: Why is the U.S. Losing the Clean Energy Race to China? Blame the Climate Cranks 7 Mar 2011 | 12:48 pm
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao touched on energy issues in the bilateral summit between the two countries this week. “I believe that as the...
Weekly Mulch: Why Natural Gas Companies Fear Josh Fox, Gasland, and the Oscars 2 Mar 2011 | 05:10 am
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The natural gas industry is afraid that Josh Fox, director of the muckraking film Gasland, might win an Oscar on Sunday. Earlier this month, an organization ...
Weekly Mulch: The Dirty Truth about Natural Gas and Energy Innovation 1 Mar 2011 | 05:10 am
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The argument against natural gas got a boost this week, when a congressional investigation turned up evidence that oil and gas companies were using diesel ga...