The Grand Canyon is already overrun with tourist infrastructure. Two proposed mega-developments threaten to make the situation worse.
Feature Articles
L.A. Underground
In the US’ Second Largest City, Oil Infrastructure is a “Normal” Part of the Landscape. Grassroots Activists are Trying to Change That.
James William Gibson
Unconventional Agriculture
Our food systems are changing for the better thanks to a rising crop of women farmers.
Amid Farmland, an Oil Field
The Oxnard Oil Field in Ventura County, California doesn’t fit the stereotypical image of an oil patch. There are few pumpjacks bobbing away like in the dusty fields of Kern County, nor any massive ...
Power Play
The oil and gas industry’s political connections and lobbying prowess are well known. Its ties to intelligence and law enforcement agencies have become just as formidable.
Adam Federman
Reflections
The New Greenspeak
To inspire activism, we need more than managerialism
To Our Readers
Swimming in Oil
The fish, famously, doesn’t know it swims in water. The line could also describe our relationship to fossil fuels. It’s commonly said that our reliance on oil and gas resembles a drug addiction, y...
Digging Deeper
Monsanto’s Spin Machine Grinds On
In the fall of 1962, a group of chemical companies including Monsanto – at the time the largest producer of the cancer-causing chemical compound, PCB – launched a full-throttle public relations ca...
Earth Island Reports
Green Life
Helping Rebuild Lives Post-Incarceration
Angela Sevin
Earth Island Project Support
Nurturing Diverse Initiatives to Save Our Shared Planet
1000 Words
Old Timers
Rachel Sussman
Journal Staff
Conversation
Dr. Sylvia Earle
Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle is sometimes fondly referred to as “Her Deepness.” She has set records for solo diving, lived in underwater laboratories, and navigated dark corners of the oceans in...
In Review
Creatures of Chance
The Meaning of Human Existence By Edward O. Wilson W.W. Norton & Co., 2014, 208 pages
Rose Colored Glasses
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us By Diane Ackerman WW Norton, 2014, 344 pages
Voices
Keeping It Real
When our daughter was four, we went canoeing and camping in Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia for three nights with another family, whose daughter was three. The girls entertained themselve...
Talking Points
Funny Money
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Record breaker: 2014 was the hottest year on record, according to climatologists. This map from NASA shows global temperature averages ...
