Jun 11, 2025
Progress Report: In Vermont, A Push for Stronger Flood Protections
Vermont’s Flood Safety Act can help provide more protection to communities ravaged by devastating floods in recent years.
Author: Pam Reynolds
Jun 09, 2025
The Down-to-Earth Promise of Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy could be a game changer in Connecticut, where more than 40% of homes burn heating oil for warmth and 37% use natural gas. Pollution from heating buildings accounts for about 30% of the state’s carbon emissions.
May 29, 2025
The Truth About Indoor Air Quality
We spend so much time indoors, working, studying, exercising, or just lounging around on the couch that indoor air quality – or the lack of it – can profoundly affect our health.
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.
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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