Tamar Haspel, 06/27/12

Ex-urbanite now knee-deep in chicken poop: www.starvingofftheland.com

"I've never been so disgusted with the human race," said one commenter. What could he have been reacting to? A piece on slavery? The Crusades? No, it was a piece about pigs.

Colleen Becker, 06/27/12

American writer based in London

Practicing what she calls "political medicine," Stein encourages her natural allies to heal themselves from a "sadomasochistic relationship to corporate politics" by acknowledging their agency.

Dr. Reese Halter, 06/27/12

Broadcaster, conservation biologist

When humans brutally massacre sharks for their fins (finning them alive and throwing them back into the sea) food webs unravel.

Michael Brune, 06/27/12

Executive Director, The Sierra Club

We don't need tar-sands oil from Canada, yet Big Oil is determined to force us to let them pipe through our nation so they can export it abroad. And now we've got some shocking evidence of just how high a price we could end up paying.

Alex Pasternack, 06/27/12

Editor, Motherboard.tv

Public parks don't tend to be cash cows, but the park that sits on top of the old Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island is different. It will be three times the size of Central Park and will sit atop 50 years of trash produced by five boroughs.

Dan Glickman, 06/27/12

Vice President and Exec. Director of the Congressional Program, Aspen Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center.

Whatever the reasons, it's refreshing to see that on something, our elected representatives can get along (at least in the Senate) and the system can still work.

Joaquin Sosa, 06/27/12

Sierra Club 2012 Outdoor Youth Ambassador

During my last week of school this May, I got a surprise far better than good grades. A call from Sierra Club Headquarters in San Francisco confirmed that I had won the "Best Internship on Earth."

Francesco Fiondella, 06/27/12

Communications officer, International Research Institute for Climate and Society

The ability to predict seasonal changes in rainfall and temperatures, if effectively applied, could be one of the best adaptation strategies to climate variability and climate change in the Sahel and across sub-Saharan Africa.

Jane Alexander, 06/27/12

Actress, writer, conservationist

Well, every story has conflict and conflict is raging in the Arctic now over oil and gas drilling. Enormous oil giants are lobbying furiously for the rights to drill in more and more places with fewer and fewer safeguards.

Nathaniel Loewentheil, 06/27/12

Student, Yale Law School

Two strands of thought -- romanticism and technological rationality -- run deep in environmentalism and the tensions between them help illuminate many of the countervailing beliefs and strategies that compose the environmental movement today.

Lori DeAngelis, 06/27/12

Captain, Dolphin Queen Cruises

Dolphins are the ocean's most intelligent creatures, and they are not so different from us. As we have struggled to survive the economic impacts of the BP disaster, dolphins too are under increasing stress to provide food for their families.

Adrianna Quintero, 06/27/12

Director Voces Verdes, La Onda Verde de NRDC

For many Latinos in these seriously impacted parts of the country and for many who work outside in the heat or live in areas that don't meet clean air rules and are struggling under healthcare costs, the risks of climate change are real.

Jeffrey Flocken, 06/27/12

DC Office Director, International Fund for Animal Welfare

The birth of this baby Sumatran rhino is hopefully just the first of more to come -- injecting new genes, new life, and new hope into a species that many feared might never see another calf born again.

Kelly Hauser, 06/27/12

Agriculture Policy Manager, ONE

If Congress passed an amendment to the Farm Bill to allow just 25 percent of Food for Peace food aid grains to be purchased closer to their destination, the U.S. government could save almost $200 million and reach 6 million more people -- almost exactly the shortfall in the Sahel.

Katherine Marshall, 06/27/12

Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University

The resonance of these spiritual and moral insights will grow as we move forward and that spiritual arguments will compel action at least as powerfully as the convictions of science.

Miller Hudson, 06/27/12

Public policy consultant

Sitting on our hands and waiting for the jury to return on the effect of greenhouse gasses feels profoundly shortsighted. Whether or not they trigger the widespread warming that is so evidently altering ecosystems, they sure as hell can't be helping.

Tom Engelhardt, 06/26/12

Editor, TomDispatch.com

What you're up against is the power of the richest, most profitable corporations in history at a time when the sky's the limit, not just for carbon dioxide, but for the infusion of private and corporate money into what we once called democratic politics.