There is an inevitable conflict between economic growth and environmental protection, and balancing these necessities is never easy.  But as environmental regulations continue to increase in scope and degree, there are also new and improved tools for companies to use to monitor and report their performance.
For over 25 years, ESS (Environmental Support Solutions), based in [...]

The Northern Fur Seals will hang around all day in one spot, unlike the Harbor Seals, which is a good way to identify a possible sighting of one.  You see lots of Harbor Seals in the Monterey Bay, and at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco Bay, but in most of these places Northern Fur Seals have [...]

It is fascinating to see how top blogs get top traffic. They are prolific - 3x+ per day per author; short pieces; on point. Naturally it is harder to maintain such output if one is simultaneously constructing backup spreadsheets - time is required to create the numerical model that validates the verbage. [...]

It’s appalling that the European environmentalists allowed biodiesel subsidies.  The idea we can burn our biosphere in the tanks of our cars, and that this is somehow better than using petroleum, is the death knell to tropical forests.  In turn this is the cause of droughts due to loss of transpiration, extreme weather because tropical [...]

We have just published a feature story “Saving Endangered Species” covering the courageous activities of the organization WildAid, a San Francisco-based organization that prosecutes people who traffic in wild animal parts.  WildAid also works to raise public consciousness, especially in Asia, in an attempt to reduce demand for wild animal parts.
There are a few issues [...]

Around 8 a.m. on Sunday, December 11th, 2005, in open water just east of the California’s Farallon Islands, a crab fisherman spotted a large female humpback whale entangled in crab lines. The 45 foot, 50 ton whale was exhausted from attempts to free herself, and barely had strength enough to keep her blowhole above water. [...]

The attempts to save the California Condor have been derided by critics who claim the money could have been better spent. They call the California Condor a “welfare species,” unable to survive without ongoing - and very expensive - assistance from humans.
Well what has actually happened is one of the greatest success stories in the [...]