Gabe Elsner

Director, Checks and Balances Project

After siding with Consol Energy in a dispute regarding gas royalties for Virginia landowners, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli received over $100,000 from Consol Energy and its subsidiaries.

Neal Barnard, M.D.

President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

It sounds like a scene from a horror movie: injecting rabies into beagle puppies and watching as they succumb to one of the most miserable of diseases. This isn't fiction. It's a cruel experiment that is real and imminent.

Kevin Grandia

President, Spake Media House

New scientific analysis released today on the impacts of the aviation industry on our climate should give pause to government and industry leaders.

Lorraine Devon Wilke

Writer of Sass & Sensibility

Beyond legalization, what any flyover, any conversation, is obligated to include is the industry's impact on the environment -- inclusive of animal, vegetable and mineral -- which is profound and growing.

Bill Chameides

Dean, Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment

For many Americans, Labor Day Weekend is traditionally the last one for a romp in oceans. Plastic should be on their minds. Study after study shows that we have a real plastic problem in our oceans.

Tom Steyer

Business leader and investor

When you consider the impact climate change will have on our collective future, it is instructive to remember what Martin Luther King had to say about the power of non-violent civil disobedience in that letter in 1958.

David Foster

Executive Director, BlueGreen Alliance

For millions of kids, it's time to head back into the classroom where the average public school building in the United States is over 40 years old, and many are much older. Our children are bearing the brunt of these crumbling buildings.

Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley

Retired Senior Pastor, Providence Missionary Baptist Church

Dr. King's dream is sometimes misunderstood. It is not just about the right to vote or an end to legal discrimination. It is about fulfilling the promise of a land of opportunity and leaving a proud legacy for our children.

Mark Boslough

Physicist; Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

I was always taught that if you don't know how something works, you shouldn't mess with it. The Earth's climate represents a wonderfully complex dynamical system that we do not fully understand.

Bob Comis

Writer, farmer

For most of my life, all of my life, in fact, I have had an intense desire to be extraordinary -- not just to stand out from the crowd. But is in the very ordinariness of farming that I have found contentment.

Norm Schriever

Author, humorist, cultural mad scientist, and enemy of the comfort zone

What can you, the regular consumer or family, do to help?

Anca Novacovici

Founder and President, Eco-Coach

A client of ours recently asked us to help them think about scenario building in the context of sustainability. Scenario building walks an organization through possible future scenarios that could impact their business.

Kerry Kennedy

President, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights

Last month, in an overlooked community on the Gulf Coast, RFK human rights defender Stephen Bradberry proved once again that a small group of determined people, with few resources beyond their own imaginations, can change our world.

Kimberly Freeman Brown

Washington Office Chief, Green for All

We should get behind Obama and the Department of Transportation's commitment to increase the economic benefits of infrastructure investments in a big way. And it doesn't get any bigger than the imminent $3 to $4 billion high-speed rail car purchase by Amtrak and the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

David Kroodsma

Climate Research Analyst, Data Journalist, Cyclist

This makes the fire the fifth largest in California since we started recording fire sizes in the 1930s.

Francesca Vietor

Environment Program Officer, The San Francisco Foundation, and Member of The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Today, we are 11 days into the seventh largest fire in California's history. And it's not over yet. As of this morning, the "Rim Fire" has burned 187,000 acres, including our beloved Berkeley family camp.

Natasha Ashton

Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Petplan

While it may take time to adjust, showing your pet that your love is consistent will go a long way toward making a new house -- or office! -- feel like home.