Is it an exaggeration to urge you to “March for Science to Save Your Life”? It is not. Anti-science agendas and policies are being forced on the American people by politicians and corporations that intentionally choose to deny the very scientific principles upon which our entire civilization is based. Rather than work in good faith to […]
Everyone has their own reason for joining the Women’s March on Washington. My reasons are pretty simple – but they matter to me. √ I want to demonstrate with my physical presence that I oppose the hateful rhetoric and destructive intention of the new administration to dismantle the laws that protect our health and the health […]
Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican Member of Congress who’s running for President, vows she’ll cripple the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency if she’s elected. Maybe if she spent a week in China like I recently did, she’d change her mind. I’ve just returned from a seven-day trip to Beijing, China’s capital, and Xi’an, the country’s cultural […]
When are we going to stop pretending we can live with the consequences of drilling and burning oil? Why don’t we ask the eleven people who were killed when the oil rig they were working on exploded last week in the Gulf of Mexico? Or the fishermen whose livelihoods are about to be destroyed by […]
It’s easy to overlook the environmental impact of plastic when it’s so convenient to just throw it away. But as these photos by photographer Chris Johnson shows, there’s no “away.” A lot of what we think we’ve safely disposed of ends up in a huge, toxic “garbage patch” swirling millions of miles away in the Pacific Ocean. The plastic […]
The current debate about health care seems seriously lacking in one important way: there’s no focus on the environmental problems that make so many of us sick. Just scan the front pages of this week’s New York Times if you need to be convinced. “Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells,” documents instances of children contracting […]
The words, “You look just like your mother!” have taken on new meaning in the chemical age in which we live. According to the nonprofit research institute Environmental Working Group (EWG), we mothers pass the pollutants that have built up in our bodies along to our daughters while they are still in the womb. Consequently, […]
Remember when people used to say, “you’ve got the whole world in your hands”? Not any more. These days, we women have the whole world in our purses – or we could, if we’d only change the way we spend our money. Big Green Purse contends that women who shift their spending to environmentally-friendly products […]
