Bombshell video shows Chevron covering up its lethal tracks in the Ecuadorian...
#ChevronExposedA week after Chevron CEO John "Hell Freezer" Watson received a "Distinguished Citizen" award from the Commonwealth Club, the gods of irony must have felt compelled to present the public...
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Ways in which your garden is like a city
An urban ecosystemIf you’ve ever tried to grow anything in your garden you’ve probably had your share of unrealized visions. In your rookie year perhaps the tomatoes never turned red or the...
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My ten years of American citizenship and what it means to me
Sunday (05/10/15) was my 10 year anniversary as an American citizen.What has it meant? What have I learned?Well, since I’ve never felt particularly patriotic in the conventional sense about my birth...
View ArticleNew EPA report estimates benefits of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions
The EPA just released its new report, Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action, a hugely significant piece of research that estimates the physical and monetary benefits to the...
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Bay Area reduces water consumption by up to 40%, civilization does not collapse
Good news! People are capable of conserving and scaling back when they have to and want to.From SFGate:The region’s widespread reductions in water use in June, which were as high as 40 percent in the...
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The one great thing coming out of Donald Trump...
The Donald is inspiring some pretty cool art. This little pre-debate snack is courtesy of my friend Anselm Yew...
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Offering tobacco and bottled water for a sea of oil, Chevron gets booted from...
No, this is not the 17th century: Chevron engineers, looking to frack billions of cubic feet of gas from indigenous Unist’ot’en territory in British Columbia, did indeed try to get past the tribe's...
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Carsick Planet, Part 1: Why the world needs FEWER not better cars
“Carden of Eden” at Flora Grubb Gardens, San Francisco. All photos by Sven EberleinWith the upcoming 21st UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP21) this December promising to be a multi-lane highway towards a...
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Carsick Planet, Part 2: Reducing the fleet through personal, infrastructure &...
If indeed the continued proliferation of the personal automobile is not compatible with the future we want as I have suggested in Part 1 of this series, the question naturally becomes: How exactly are...
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Carsick Planet, Part 3: Get around. Not too fast. Mostly walk.
Getting around not too fast on the New York High Line.The previous segment of this series left off discussing how lifestyle choices, infrastructure, and a new economic thinking must work in tandem to...
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Postcard from Abu Dhabi: On the Road to Masdar City, a Desert Ecocity in the...
Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon city under construction.Last month saw the 11th edition of the International Ecocity Conference Series that was first held 25 years ago in Berkeley,...
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Why I don't have a candidate
Seeing that most of the American media including Daily Kos has been in full throttle about a presidential election that at this moment is almost a year away, I’ve been feeling the peer pressure to get...
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With the People's Voice cancelled in Paris, people voicing call to climate...
With the main march as well as a number of other civic events that were planned to accompany official negotiations at the COP21 climate conference in Paris cancelled, organizers have called on people...
View ArticleMeanwhile, the Supreme Court deals a severe blow to humanity's future. Google...
Those are the exact words of a text message I got from one of my friends at the EPA last night, in response to this:In a major setback for President Obama’s climate change agenda, the Supreme Court on...
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The chance the Birdie missed (but is still within grasp of a reusable mug)
By now, everyone has seen the iconic photo of the bird landing on Bernie Sanders’ podium at a recent rally in Portland. While the reactions to what’s come to be known as the “Birdie Sanders” incident...
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How to transform a burst of Bernie Power into a renewable source of Bernergie
An article posted a few weeks ago at The Atlantic entitled What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries by Finnish native Anu Partanen offers some great insights into Northern European democracies...
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Springtime at Joshua Tree (a National Park Week Photo Story)
As National Park Week is coming to an end, I thought I’d share some of the photos I took last week during a visit to Joshua Tree National Park.In light of Congress’Anti-Parks Caucus dedicated to the...
View ArticleThe Day Liberals Reclaimed Patriotism
I think my favorite part about last night’s Democratic convention — right after President Obama’s oratory master class and VP Joe Biden’s no-nonsense takedown of the clueless orange wanna-be dictator —...
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Separated in San Francisco
There are very few situations in life in which the idea of being separated would seem attractive. However, on Polk Street in San Francisco, right in the heart of one of the most bustling corridors...
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“Have You Noticed Your Energy is Cleaner?”
“Have You Noticed Your Energy is Cleaner?” is the subject line of an email I recently received from San Francisco Water Power Sewer, the public utility service that administers the city's recently...
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