May 05, 2025
The Truth About Carbon Footprints
The carbon footprint concept was a clever marketing tool used by fossil fuel companies to spread the blame on carbon pollution.
Author: Pam Reynolds
Apr 08, 2025
Exposure to Chemicals is Making Our Kids Sick
In the 1970s, Philip J. Landrigan conducted groundbreaking work linking lead in gasoline and paint to a lowered IQ in children exposed to it. Now he’s sounding the alarm about the pesticides and plastics in our lives that are also compromising the health of both children and adults.
Apr 07, 2025
Eight Earth Day Activities to Make an Impact
Learn some of the most impactful activities you can do this Earth Day.
Feb 28, 2025
Let’s Talk About CLF in 2025
We continue to make progress notwithstanding this second Trump administration. They’re clearly better prepared and taking more radical steps to undermine our bedrock environmental laws and stop clean energy progress. But in a sense, their overreach may very well be their undoing.
Jan 29, 2025
Zeyneb Magavi Has a Down-to-Earth Plan for Home Heating
According to Zeyneb Magavi, geothermal energy is a grand opportunity to shift into a new clean energy age, tackling climate change and lowering energy costs all at the same time.
Jan 09, 2025
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Are Ablaze With Fire
When I boarded a yellow school bus from South Central LA to Pacific Palisades each day, no one in either neighborhood was talking about climate change. But times have changed, and the unprecedented fires in Los Angeles are showing us what climate change looks like.
Dec 06, 2024
Girding the Grid for Climate Change
Supercharged storms are rampaging through towns and cities like a bull liberated from a pen, crashing through a fragile utility infrastructure that, in many cases, has not changed in a century. U tility companies submit to the onslaught of storms, repair the damage, then obediently wait for more and do it all over again.
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Oct 17, 2024
What Hurricanes Helene and Milton Reveal About Storm Inequity
People are still digging out in Florida and North Carolina after two powerful hurricanes, Helene and Milton, hit this month. Neighborhoods were flooded, trees and power lines were toppled, and rising rivers even swept away some homes. The devastation was so striking it would be easy to imagine everyone felt it equally. But the fact… Continue reading What Hurricanes Helene and Milton Reveal About Storm Inequity
Oct 10, 2024
There is No Safe Haven from Climate Change
There is no haven from climate change. Like a B-movie horror film, we might run from the boogieman to locales we think are safe, but the scale and magnitude of climate change are so great that, sooner or later, the boogieman will get us.
Our only recourse now is to take our heads out of the sand and work to do something about it.
Oct 03, 2024
How a Climate Superfund Works
A climate superfund holds fossil fuel companies responsible for cleaning up damage following extreme weather that climate change causes.
