Fearless reporter Buck planned to attend Florida’s “Serve to Preserve” climate summit, now taking place in Miami. His day job is getting in the way, but Buck has mixed feelings about not being there.
I don’t think this year’s summit is anything like last year’s — no big names, rather stupid-sounding sessions and “news” like this […]

Maybe it’s all part of his ongoing effort to appear more macho — you know, “Oil Rigger Charlie” — but Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s about-face on drilling for oil off Florida’s coasts took most of us by surprise this week. See, it was just a year ago that Crist called his first climate control summit […]

Just when you thought Republicans couldn’t come up with anything worse to do to this country, along comes proof they always, always can. Did you think George Bush’s tax rebate, which will plunge our government even deeper into debt, was awful? Well John McCain has a plan to postpone impending economic disaster that will not […]

We like easy ways to do good things for the planet and it doesn’t get much easier than this.
On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour…
Last year’s Earth Hour, which only took place in […]

If you’re like me, you’re tired of looking for ways to help global warming and only finding instructions to use compact florescent light bulbs. Like I haven’t been doing that for 10 years?
But here’s a new one that I can totally get behind: eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Besides the obvious reasons (they’re […]

While the center of the country struggles to keep its head above water, many other parts would gladly soak up some of the excess. An interactive map, available at U.S. Drought Monitor, is updated weekly to show the latest drought level conditions. It’s not looking good for areas that are large population centers, like the […]

In California, the nation’s leading dairy state, 1.7 million cows on 2,100 dairies produce 65 billion pounds of manure a year.
Which contributes more to the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, cars or cows?
According to a study released a month ago by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), it’s cows, hands down:
the livestock […]