Looking for leadership? Ask yourselves, what can we do to further a worthy movement? Seychelles’s ambassador. Canada’s senate. The candidates for chairing the US House’s Energy and Commerce Committee. Electric...

We’re all in this leaky canoe together, and we just elected a bunch that denies the canoe is leaking, and these climate change deniers are scrambling for key positions in...

Are we putting the B Team back in because we’re so far behind Germany, China, and India in the race to a sustainable future? You’ll hear a lot about the...

Ecotopia Soon! returns after a ten week break. I lost my endowed-professorship in environmental problem solving at Northland College and moved to Menomonie, Wisconsin to teach Biology at University of...

Remember to vote. Political leaders give up on major climate legislation; others promise gridlock. Randal Paul campaign worker wants apology from woman for making him stomp on her head. Candidates...

Mark Leach reports on the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting and yacking at truck stops and coffee shops between Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and Ashland, Wisconsin. Technical snafus resulted in the...

Ranger Danger joins Mark Leach for environmental and other news, views, and clues: researchers try wolf CDs to move packs; Forest Service barring spelunkers to protect bats from white-nose syndrome;...

How do we immunize ourselves from all the fruh-ha of the fast talkers? Here are some views and clues you might choose to use: Occam’s razor (compare the speaker’s overly...

Dependence, Independence, and Interdependence Day Weekend. In 1776 there was one King George. How many do we face today? Citigroup strategists coin “plutonomism,” the rich deserve to get richer. Plutonomist...

Professor Obvious from the Institute for Advanced Zombie Studies and Mark Leach discuss the zombies in our leaky canoe, robots, Republican rhetoric, fossil-fuel crime, the real science gap, solar investing,...