Dear EarthTalk: The U.S. got socked with several major storms this past winter. Local weather reports never mentioned this as odd. But is it a sign of global warming?
Weather patterns and trends are notoriously unpredictable, varying due to a great many different inputs. While it’s true that snowier, stormier winters could be the result [...]
I will be embarking shortly on yet another cross-country drive and will be gone for a month or so. I plan on taking old highways and back country roads instead of the major highways (at least as much as possible) because I want to see the country – not just blur by it at [...]
In past articles, I have written about how changing a light bulb won’t fix everything but also that the little things do matter when added one on top of the other. But one thing I have never said was that this was going to be easy; there is no way for the change you [...]
EWG, a reference I use all the time for finding out product toxicity, has released their annual guide to sunscreens just in time for summer. They cover 1,400 sunscreens, lip balms and moisturizers and tell you what you need to know to find safe and effective sunscreens. I use this list every year to buy [...]
My friend Waylon over at Elephant Journal has penned a great piece titled “Pepsi to Greenies: How much for the conscience? that is just fantastic. I have written before about how people who call themselves “green” are too busy greenwashing for dirty, horrible companies in exchange for cash that they cannot even see their own [...]
Topical? Yes. Timely? Oh yes. While BP could have been accused of greenwashing their oil business in the past, they are now being accused of greenwashing their own oil spill cleanup efforts. Actually, I shouldn’t say accused – it’s just a fact that BP is doing everything they can to minimize their responsibility and control [...]
The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) was an industry group in the United States battling reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. Started in 1989, some of the original members included Amoco, American Petroleum Institute, Chevron, Exxon, Shell Oil, and Texaco, and they assembled together in order to fight any movement on climate change policies [...]
