Jason Mark

2 months ago | civileats.com | Jason Mark

February 19, 2025 Update: Egg prices may be impacted for reasons beyond the scarcity of laying hens due to bird flu. Farm Action, a farmer-led advocacy group, has written to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, requesting an investigation into “potential monopolization and anticompetitive coordination” by the egg industry. “While avian flu has been cited as the primary driver of skyrocketing egg prices, its actual impact on production has been minimal,” the group wrote.

May 24, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Jason Mark

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend: The official start of summer and the season of adventures to the forests, seashores and mountains. It’s time for family campouts, backpacking trips and canoe excursions. Wait, you mean you don’t have reservations yet? Oh no. If you’ve not already booked your national park or even national forest reservations, there’s a good chance you’re out of luck.

May 2, 2024 | sierraclub.org | Jason Mark

Lydia Millet is an acclaimed novelist, the author of more than a dozen books, but like many writers, she still holds a day job—in her case, as a staffer at the Center for Biological Diversity. In her first nonfiction book, We Loved It All: A Memory of Life (Norton, 2024), Millet welds a novelist's lyricism to an activist's passion to create a genre-bending work packed with wisdom.

Mar 11, 2024 | sierraclub.org | Jason Mark

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the clean energy transition is finally shifting into high gear. Spurred by the urgency of rising temperatures and stimulated by the Inflation Reduction Act, US renewable energy developers are on a tear. Wind and solar are the leading growth sectors for electricity generation, and in the next two years, utility-scale solar capacity is expected to double. Today, renewables are a larger share of the US energy mix than coal and nuclear.

Dec 24, 2023 | sierraclub.org | Tiya Miles |Stephen MIller |Stephen Robert Miller |Rebecca Renner |Jason Mark

There is no better way to start a new year than with books that get you thinking about and relating to the world around you in a deeper way. How did the outdoors shape some of America's most accomplished female leaders? As the climate changes, can we plan for a more resilient future while avoiding the mistakes of the past? What can the Everglades teach us about the importance of cultivating balance and equilibrium with the natural world? These three books of nonfiction offer up the possible answers.