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Should Earth become a planet of vegetarians?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now A world forced into vegetarianism? When I saw that headline on a story in The Guardian, it was like I’d been waiting for it. It struck me as both amusing, in its...
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Why I’ll still be buying organic edibles
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now By now you have heard about the Stanford University study which found that organically grown fruits and vegetables are not significantly better, in terms of your...
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How ‘The Washington Post’ got it dead wrong
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Electric car supporters have responded to a slap down by The Washington Post editorial board last week, which blamed the Obama Administration for wasting money to...
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One action that could slow both the deficit and climate change
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Beyond that mention at the Republican Convention when Mitt Romney won a laugh quipping that President Obama had promised to keep the oceans from rising, it’s...
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A soda habit that’s becoming no fun
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now We’ve all heard that there’s a dark side to our soda pop addiction. Even though the habit is well embedded into our culture — pre-packaged into lunch and dinner...
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Proposition 37, the biggest reason to vote for it
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Graphic artist Rosemary Pant sent over her take on the California Right to Know campaign last week, and I’m posting a portion of it below. Ms. Pant described herself...
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Scientists predicted Hurricane Sandy (they just didn’t know her name)
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now If you don’t hear “climate change” in the dialogue about Hurricane Sandy just yet, wait for it. Hurrricane Sandy (Photo: NASA) Today, people in the storm’s path are...
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Hurricane Sandy: An SOS to the world
“I send an SOS to the world. I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle…” Sting By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Sting’s exquisite performance of “Message in a Bottle” hit just the right note...
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Surviving Progress, a cinematic antidote for excessive holiday spending
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Like most Americans, I spent the Thanksgiving holiday overeating, shopping and ensconced on the couch watching movies. Surviving Progress explores the possibility...
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Will your university divest from fossil fuels?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Concerned about the heavy toll that carbon pollution is taking on the planet, students across the US are petitioning their colleges to divest from fossil fuels....
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As the wind blows, so goes la economía
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Here’s a Spanish term you may want to learn, if you don’t know it already: eólica energia. That translates to “wind energy” in English. This type of clean,...
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Why you need to brush up on fluoride
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Fluoride has been controversial for longer than many of us have been alive. Back in the 1940s and 50s, when scientists introduced the idea of adding fluoride to our...
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GMO farming produces a bumper crop of weeds
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now If you haven’t heard by now, genetically modified crops or GMOs are typically developed to resist a certain pesticide. That allows farmers to spray their crops with...
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Bonobos, lovable and endangered
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now The best Valentine in my mailbox this morning was this simple picture from Bonobo Conservation Initiative. We share so much DNA with these adorable bonobos, I cannot...
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Glass shards, metal fragments and added niacin, all in your breakfast cereal
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now This would have been a really good week to switch to heart-healthy oatmeal . First, glass shards turned up in Kellog’s Special K with “red berries”. Then at...
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How ‘sequester’ budget cuts could make us green, but not in the way you think
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now No matter what your political leanings, you probably find it painful to watch Washington squirming under the budget ‘sequester,’ which will dramatically cut...
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Stop the Frack Attack rallies in Dallas
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Scores of people worried about the environmental effects of gas and oil drilling in the US, gathered at the Stop the Frack Attack conference in Dallas this weekend....
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Monsanto’s rider would keep regulators, and the Constitution, at bay
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now OK, we all know that this is how Congress works. It passes big bills with a passel of little bills attached to them, like barnacles on a ship. It’s almost necessary...
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Water, it doesn’t grow on trees
This week, we celebrate World Water Day on March 22. Water , our most under-appreciated, under-priced commodity, is worth celebrating. It sustains us. And if you’ve been reading or watching the news...
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The “Monsanto rider” passes, disappointing at least 208,000 Americans
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Organic Consumers.org was among the groups campaigning to stop the Monsanto rider. Despite opposition from food groups and a petition on MoveOn.org signed by nearly...
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