Sometimes reading the news and listening to the pronouncements of politicians, especially south of the border, I’m bewildered by the rampant ignorance about science and the...
Exercise is an important factor in reducing a number of our major health problems, from diabetes to stroke, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and cancer. Our bodies evolved to be active.
It’s easy to be cynical about the annual declarations made by our world leaders. Nevertheless, the International Year of Forests marks a critical moment on our planet.
Rather than subsidizing the tar sands and all the fossil fuel industry through massive tax breaks, we should be investing in energy technologies that will benefit our health,...
It would also be great if we could shift our thinking about economics to include the value of conservation and the services that ecosystems and plants and animals provide for us.
We take notice when animals die in large numbers, but observations going back more than a century suggest that the mass-mortality events of recent weeks aren’t as unusual as we...
We’ve come through the first decade of the 21st century, and it seemed appropriate to revisit a chapter marking the new millennium in my book, The Sacred Balance.