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A New Prognosis
By Jeff TurrentineWhen Kim Knowlton was only a toddler, she found a dead bumblebee in her yard. But rather than recoil, she rejoiced. A fascinated Knowlton took the expired insect inside her house,...
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When Atlas Shrugs, Give Him a Forklift
By Jeff TurrentineOn Wednesday, the White House revealed more details about the two infrastructure initiatives proposed by President Obama in last week's State of the Union address. As I read about...
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Neighborhood Watch
By Jeff TurrentinePssst! Have you heard about Agenda 21? The secret plot to collectivize private property -- hatched by United Nations internationalists and midwifed by operatives ensconced within our...
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A Desire Named Streetcar
By Jeff TurrentineWhen President Obama nominated Charlotte, North Carolina, Mayor Anthony Foxx to head the U.S. Department of Transportation last month, he cited among Foxx’s...
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L.A. Takes the High Road
By Jeff TurrentineIn the summer of 1998, my wife and I left Brooklyn and gamely headed west to Los Angeles, as disaffected New Yorkers are wont to do, in search of the proverbial greener grass. We...
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Time to Put Another $1 Billion in the Meter
By Jeff TurrentineIn the multi-level parking garage that sits directly across the street from where I’m typing these words, in the heart of Manhattan’s business-filled Flatiron District, an hour of...
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Missing the Forest for the Trees
By Jeff TurrentineThe name pretty much sums it all up: Bosco Verticale—Italian for “Vertical Forest.” Once completed, Italian architect Stefano Boeri’s two residential buildings—one 26 stories high and...
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Empty Lots, Grand Visions
By Jeff TurrentineThere’s an interesting civics lesson taking place at the moment in the New York City neighborhood known as Chelsea, an area of Manhattan sandwiched between the high-rises of Midtown...
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Coming Out of His Shell
By Jeff TurrentineWhen you’re raising a budding ocean scientist, you have to be prepared to make some sacrifices. For the family of 17-year-old David Lewis of Yorktown, Virginia, one appreciable...
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Evolution on Elm Street
By Jeff TurrentinePart of OnEarth's Answers from the Past month, in which our contributors explore how contemporary thinking on sustainability has been influenced by wisdom handed down to us from...
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Choking When the Pressure's On
By Jeff TurrentineThe tweets from MetLife stadium pretty much said it all: “Pathetic.” “Major fail.” “[They] should hang their heads in shame.” And they weren’t even talking about the Denver...
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The Texas Bullet: Y’All Aboard!
By Jeff TurrentineIn Asia and Europe, tens of millions of people have been happily riding high-speed bullet trains for decades. On our own shores, however, the implementation of intercity high-speed...
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‘The Facts Are Not Enough’
By Jeff TurrentineA week ago the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its most recent report on the wide-ranging impacts of global warming. The general tone, suffice it to say,...
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Marco Rubio's Non-Denial Denial of his Denialism, Wolves in ♥,...
By Jeff TurrentineGeopolitics, redefined: A new government-commissioned report by a military think tank confirms that climate change is also changing the climate of international conflict and social...
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