Floating Ark

The U.S. House will soon vote on a bill that would define acts of peaceful protest as terrorism. Already passed by the Senate, the Animal En...

Richard Perle, long known as the Prince of Darkness among politcal and anti-war circles, admitted to Vanity Fair yesterday that if he had to...

As someone who has now spent two years in the environmental movement in one of the most liberal cities in America, I've been amazed at h...

One complaint about our political leaders worldwide is that they can't be trusted. Joe Citizen feels like he can't really trust ever...

It's been a while since I've posted to the Ark, but the actions of my government over the past 24 hours has brought me back to the k...

A great piece on marketplace about the news stories that should have gotten more attention but didn't. Why the hell did CNN cover the J...

Dailymotion blogged video Petrolius Video sent by Phitness We decided to stop waiting around for a commerical attacking the issue of oil add...

A Japanese oil tanker collided with a cargo ship and spilled 1.4 million gallons of crude into the Indian Ocean -- the Phillippines call it...

RAN is having a vote to choose a new ad campaign around their Freedom From Oil work. You can cast your vote at J umpstart Ford's website...

I've made the jump and am on vacation for the next week. This will, hopefully, provide a chance for me to re-dedicate myself to writing....

Sitting here in the Halcyon coffee shop in downtown Austin, TX with a bunch of other haggard (but happy) Southies, the initial reaction to ...

Two days into the conference and I can honestly say that many of the greatest minds here will play a role in changing the digital landscape ...

The recent mudslides in the Philippines has wreaked havoc on a the residents and natural regions around the south-east Asian archipelago, es...

The organization I work for, Rainforest Action Network , is being featured in this month's Ecologist . If anything I'm interested i...

For those of you who dont know him, James Hansen discovered of global warming. Well, not quite, but he has been the alarm bell since 1988 wa...

Small steps toward curbing global warming emissions is coming out of the hub of tech/science advancement using one of nature's most sim...

Billy Parish of Energy Action posted a great post on a blog I helped get cranking called Its Getting Hot in Here (was the blog for the ac...

The CS Monitor continues to cover more interesting topics than the NYT and their December 5th article on what constitute's happiness in...

A new report by the NEETF (National Environmental Education and Training Foundation) has some startling news to those of us claiming to be...

The thing about binding agreements is that...well, they're binding . In this case, an international protocol was deemed "unfair...