RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada wildflower it plans to list as endangered amid a conflict over a mine to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles critical to the Biden administration's...
Listen from Soundcloud at the bottom of the page Season 3, Episode 11 The Relationship: Maya K. van Rossum has served as the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network since 1994. A veteran environmental activist and attorney, her...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Jacqueline Savitz Since Oceana was founded in 2001, we have won more than 200 victories and protected more than 4.5 million square miles of ocean worldwide. Oceana’s approach incorporates legal action, political advocacy,...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Adam Bad Wound and Ramsay Huntley “Why isn’t clean, affordable power from sun available to everyone?” This is the question GRID Alternatives’ (GRID) founders were seeking to answer when they launched their nonprofit in 2004. With...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Rachael Z. Miller Is it worth preventing one plastic water bottle from washing into the ocean? Can we keep microscopic fibers that break off our clothes out of the bellies of fish and off our dinner plates? The Rozalia...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Megan Robinson What’s the top risk facing the globe? The answer from the World Economic Forum may surprise you: “the failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation.” Our society is not well prepared to face the...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By S.E. Spencer The Dr. Seuss classic The Lorax is about a creature who warns others of the harm inflicted by over-development and industrialization on the natural landscape. After being told the story of the Lorax by the...
Special to the Philanthorpy Journal By Ann Woodward There are places we enter in our lives that feel immediately unique. This is the experience that many people have when they enter The Scrap Exchange in Durham, North Carolina. Housed in a fifty-year-old movie...
By Sandy Cyr Traditional diversity work in the US often centers around civil rights differences. Many times, diversity is seen as a problem to be managed. At The Nature Conservancy, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Heather Wishik has shifted the diversity...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Kira Sadler In the woods, the air is still and quiet. The ground is warm from the sunshine that beats down on the hillside all day, but mostly, it’s dark. The lightest breeze brings the smell of ponderosa bark and lupine from the...
