Category Archives: Ecological Footprint
As U.S. Population Rises, Environmental Leaders Ignore the Obvious
The Washington Post recently published a column titled “Why do we need more people in this [...]
Still Reeling from Maria, Puerto Rico Braces for Hurricane Season
Back in February, I returned to Puerto Rico, my home for many years, and the birthplace [...]
The US Needs To Do Its Part For World Population Day
July 11th is observed by the United Nations as World Population Day. Every year the world’s [...]
Observing Our Impact This World Population Day
July 11th is recognized as UN World Population Day. Beginning in 1989, a day to focus [...]
Fracking is a Waste of Money and Nature
As we acknowledge World Environment Day and World Oceans Day this week – days to recognize the [...]
For World Environment Day, We Need to Act on Plastic
June 5th is World Environment Day, and later this week on June 8th is World Oceans Day, [...]
California Gubernatorial Hopefuls Share Same Platform of Building More Housing
California’s six gubernatorial candidates – four Democrats and two Republicans – have one common platform: build [...]
Why Do We Continue To Ignore Solutions To Planetary Crises?
Talking past each other as the planet gets more and more uninhabitable will likely not [...]
Paradise Lost: Sprawl Transformed Honolulu From Utopia to Urban Mess
Let’s be clear from the outset. Travelers who have never visited Honolulu, Hawaii’s capital located [...]
Fracking Protests Hit Pennsylvania Capital
On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some [...]
On Earth Day 2018, Congress Whistling Past Graveyard on Population Growth
Last month, the United Nations hosted a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) conference in Bonn, Germany. [...]
NEPA in the Age of Trump
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been called the Magna Carta of our nation’s [...]
Fighting climate change isn’t just right, it’s necessity.
In a recent court case in Boston, more than a dozen protesters were found “not [...]
Alarming Environmental Report Disingenuously Dodges Overpopulation Link
“Disappearing Rivers,” a Center for American Progress-commissioned report, was introduced to a Washington, D.C. audience [...]
The Scars of Lancaster County
For over three years the citizens of Lancaster County have been fighting the construction of [...]
Cape Town is running out of water – but there may be more
In the throes of a devastating drought, a city the size of Los Angeles is [...]
Congress Indifferent to Puerto Rico’s Tragedy; U.S. Citizens Left in the Lurch
After an absence of more than 50 years, I returned to Puerto Rico this month [...]
This Friday, Take Time to Respect Wetlands
Friday, February 2nd is World Wetlands Day, in commemoration of the adoption of the Convention [...]
Trump, Congress Ignore Unsustainable Population Growth, Environmental Consequences
In the State of the Union address, President Trump proposed a four-pillar immigration plan that [...]
Overpopulation Driving California’s Affordable Housing Crisis
For months, Sacramento has wrung its hands over California’s affordable housing shortage. Print media has [...]
John Michael Greer Gives His Take On The State of Our Union
Join us for a riveting podcast where we discuss a broad range of topics [...]
Will Bitcoin Boom Spell Environmental Gloom?
For the longest time, Bitcoin, the Internet’s largest cryptocurrency, slowly puttered along as essentially a [...]
Pipeline Spills Justify Protester Outrage
On November 16, TransCanada, the owners of the Keystone Pipeline, reported that a portion of [...]
Homage to the 23 Arrested Fighting Fracking
On May 16, 2017, twenty-three brave souls refused to leave the right of way forced [...]
California Dystopia Pt. 1
I was born the fifth generation of my family in Southern California sixty years ago. [...]
Interview with Paul Clark Environmental Scientist On The Topic of Overpopulation and Immigration
Paul Clark, Environmental Scientist recently published a book entitled, Pandora’s Green Box, wherein he discusses [...]
Harvey in Houston Shows Climate Change Will Rock Us Like a Hurricane
The United States is facing one of the worst hurricane seasons it has had in [...]
After Judge’s Rulings – Next Steps for Lancaster Against Pipelines!
Three years ago activists first began organizing against Williams Energy’s Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline, a 125-mile [...]
Protest Killing Legislation in PA, MN, NC and Coming to a State Near You
On August 16th a bill began winding its way through the Pennsylvania legislature. It is [...]
Mall Sprawl Paves Away Wildlife
It has become a more common sight every year. Husks of retail giants, the likes [...]