Rachel Cernansky
Rachel is a freelance journalist based in Boulder, Colorado. She primarily focuses on green business for TreeHugger, and writes for other outlets about environmental justice and politics, sustainable food and nutrition, and human rights issues. She hates greenwashing and writes about that too. Before Colorado, she lived in New York, Kenya, and Rwanda, and has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She gets around by bike, eats plants, and occasionally tweets at the address below.
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Chart Shows Corruption in Govt Review of Keystone XL Pipeline
A new chart out today illustrates the revolving door between politics in DC and the oil industry: specifically TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
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European Union Court Adviser Backs Plan to Include Airlines In Emissions Trading Scheme
The airline industry is supposed to join the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—already a requirement for other heavily polluting industries—in January, but the industry has been fighting the requirement.
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New Yorkers Have Questions About Fracking? Chat With the Environmental Commissioner Saturday
The environmental commissioner's office for New York will host a town hall-style online chat Saturday morning to answer citizens' questions about fracking. The chat will take place on a site called CitizenConnects that in
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TransCanada Influence Exposed: Several Keystone XL Lobbyists Have History With Clinton -- And Obama
It's already been a bad week for the Keystone XL pipeline, but the story continues to unfold: turns out the cozy relationship between the State Department and TransCanada extends beyond the one lobbyist known to be a former
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Environmental Groups Sue U.S. Government to Stop Keystone XL
Despite the fact that the project has not been approved yet, and despite nearly universal opposition (with the exception of the State Department), work on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has actually already begun.
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Documents Reveal Shell Paid Nigerian Military to Suppress Protests
Interesting news from The Guardian this week: oil giant Shell worked with the Nigerian military and with mobile police to suppress protests against its oil activities in the 1990s, according to court documents that were
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Climate Change Threatens Kenya's Rainmakers
We hear a lot about the impact of climate change on agriculture, especially smallholder farmers, but there's a group of people who advise those farmers who are also affected: rainmakers.
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DEC Rushes Draft Fracking Regulations, Skipping Proper Environmental Review Process
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that draft regulations for industrial gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale through fracking will be issued at the same time as the environmental
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Planet Getting Too Hot for Chocolate? Study Finds Climate Change Could Threaten Cocoa Farmers
The world's cocoa supply could be in danger from climate change, according to a new study from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), which says that prices are likely to skyrocket if preventative
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State Dept. Documents Show Agency Advised TransCanada on Keystone XL Review Process
Friends of the Earth has obtained documents through a FOIA request showing the State Department gave advice to TransCanada during the review process for the Keystone XL pipeline.The shady relationship between the State
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Apple Bans Phone Story App, Game That Shows the "Dark Side" of Smartphones
A game called Phone Story, released this week, is designed to allow players to see the dark sides of the technologies we use everyday—from coltan mining in central Africa to high suicide rates at factories in
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World Contraception Day is For Women's Rights, But It's For the Environment, Too
The connection between increased access to family planning and greenhouse gas emissions has been covered here before, but since World Contraception Day was this week and we're still so far from where we need to be on
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Remembering Wangari Maathai: People Should Be "Active Participants" in Environmental Restoration
When I interviewed Wangari Maathai in July 2004, I had no idea she would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just a few months later. By the time the award was announced, I had booked tickets from
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19-Year-Old Improves Solar Power Capacity by 40%
The idea is such a simple one: rotate solar panels to follow the sun throughout the day so they capture the most of the sun's energy as possible. Solar power tracking systems have been around for some time, but a 19-year-old
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Solar Sister and NextAid Showcase 5 Promising Technologies for Africa
Solar Sister showcased just some of the efforts taking place around the world. Here, the Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania install solar panels in their villages. They received training in Rajasthan, India. Image: Barefoot Photographers of
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José Andrés and Clean Cookstove Alliance Come Together at Social Good Summit
Image: U.S. Consulate Chennai via flickr Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves executive director sat on stage today at the Social Good Summit with prestigious chef José Andrés to talk about cookstoves, an issue that has been gaining attention lately
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USAID Launches FWD to Bring Attention to Somalia: Famine, War, and Drought
According to USAID, 750,000 people in Somalia are at risk of dying over the next four months if assistance is not increased. The agency launched a new initiative today, FWD, to address the ongoing drought and famine in the Horn of
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MyShelter Foundation: Lighting Up Homes With A Plastic Bottle and Some Chlorine
If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people
