The 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act . The act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964…
Obama Set to Protect over 500,000 Acres
Conservationists and environmentalists have not been too kind to Obama the past few years due to their perceived lack of land protection policies from…
The Keystone Pipeline Report: What Now?
This past Friday the State Department put out its report on the Keystone XL Pipeline. Much to the dismay of the broader environmental movement,…
Who’s Going to Fill Their Shoes
The issues facing the future of small scale sustainable farming in the United States are countless. Many of these center around the fact that…
A Sustainable Greensburg
Orion Magazine has been publishing a series of blogs entitled “Reimagining Infrastructure.” The most recent blog is on the town of Greensburg, Kansas which…
Rx Mother Nature
Outside Magazine recently put together a list of six natural strategies for improving overall health, all involving getting outdoors. The strategies suggested are ones…
More on the West Virginia Chemical Spill
Nate Sell recently posted an ETR blog on the chemical leak at Freedom Industries which spilled into the Elk River in West Virginia. In the…
Back to the Farm
NPR recently ran a story on Sarah Ramirez who has changed occupations from Tulare County, California epidemiologist to fruit picker. Ramirez was born the child…
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s Ecological Address
The Huffington Post has published an address of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, also know as “the Green Patriarch,” that was delivered to the 19th…
Chefs in the Woods
The New York Times published an article last month on an interesting new culinary conference, Cook It Raw. The focus of the conference is…