North American forests have had a good day today. This morning, Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle brands, announced stronger fiber sourcing standards that will increase conservation of forests globally and will make the company a leader for sustainably produced tissue products. In turn, Greenpeace, which...

This morning, Greenpeace climbers hung a banner on Mt. Rushmore challenging President Obama to show real leadership on global warming. The banner features an unfinished portrait of the President with the message: "America Honors Leaders Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming." We did...

Late last night the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank, withdrew its $90 million dollar loan to Brazil's cattle giant Bertin. The loan was used for the company to further expand into the Amazon region, which was causing destruction of the rainforest and fueling...

Anyone who has listened to the radio, watched television, read a newspaper, surfed the internet, or chased after celebrity gossip in the past couple of weeks has likely heard about something about a particular sushi chain getting called out for a history of nefarious behavior.

The chain in question is...

When it comes to global climate change, all of our choices matter, right down to what we put on our feet. A three-year undercover investigation by Greenpeace into Brazil's booming cattle industry, the single largest source of deforestation in the world and Brazil's main source of CO2 emissions, has...

We know that IT industry can and should be at the vanguard of climate solutions. We have all seen how tech companies compete with each other to provide the newest, fastest, and shiniest gizmos to power our lives. It is only natural then that they now apply that know-how and...

Secretary Salazar's failure to rescind the Bush regulation that prevents the use of the Endangered Species Act to regulate greenhouse gases and protect the polar bear only serves to cement Bush's legacy of ignoring global warming science. It's a regrettable decision that seems to reflect an emerging willingness by the...

As Somali pirates have captured the world's attention over the past week, I've been up to my neck in pirates of a different sort. Greenpeace got a tip that several Spanish owned vessels blacklisted for engaging in pirate fishing were en route to Singapore to offload illegally caught Chilean...

Thirty years ago, the word "meltdown" was seared into the American consciousness when the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, PA melted the radioactive fuel rods in the core of the reactor and began leaking radiation into the environment in the early morning hours...

In advance of the Capitol Climate Action, which is taking place on Monday, March 2, Dr. James Hansen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, author Paul Hawken, actor and activist Martin Sheen, and many others have released an open letter inviting people to the largest civil disobedience on global warming in U.S....

Dr. James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, is calling on Americans to join him on March 2nd at the Capitol Power Plant in the largest display of civil disobedience in U.S. history to demand national action on global warming. Check out his video. It pretty much...

In a new video, Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon evokes the sacrifices of Ghandi and Martin Luther King in calling on Americans to join the Capitol Climate Action, the country's largest show of civil disobedience about global warming in history, at the Capitol Power Plant on March 2nd 2009.

As Congress continues to sputter on solutions for the climate crisis, a national coalition of more than 40 environmental, public health, labor, social justice, faith-based and other advocacy groups have announced plans to engage in civil disobedience at the Capitol Power Plant in Washington D.C. on the afternoon of...

When you're buying new electronics products there's lots to consider. A few years ago there was practically zero information if you wanted to make an environmentally sounder choice. The huge problems caused by the dumping of old electronics in places like Ghana was only just starting to be recognized. Fast...

It's hard to know if the fish at the market where you shop is sustainable. Supermarket chains can help by stocking only fish off the red list, but only some are making good purchasing choices. In the second edition of Greenpeace's seafood sustainability scorecard released today, the supermarket chains...

Within hours of President-elect Obama's victory, the nuclear industry was at it again:
spinning nuclear power and attempting to put the best light on the industry's prospects after the loss of their favorite candidate, Sen. John McCain. The President of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), Skip Bowman, congratulated President-elect...

In an extraordinary moment of candor last week, Alan Greenspan told a Congressional committee that he no longer believes that the financial system works by self-regulation and that at times the system fails by not purging itself of its own excesses. The testimony was remarkable because Greenspan has long...

This Friday night, PBS's Jim Lehrer will moderate the first Presidential debate. The topics are foreign policy and national security, two issues, I'm sure everyone now agrees, that deeply involve energy and the environment. As Al Gore says, "We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf...

Greenpeace, along with well-known street artist Mark Jenkins, launched a collaborative art project this week that shows the shared plight of polar bears and humanity in the face of global warming. It's particularly timely with Arctic sea ice at near record lows and the...

Our country's biofuels policy is resulting in higher fuel prices, food shortages and increased global warming pollution. The latest person to sound the alarm is not from an environmental group but Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods, makers of Fig Newtons and boxed Macaroni and Cheese.

Rosenfeld points to poor...