How Did Coal-Rich India End Up With Power Blackouts?
How climate change and Word Bank decisions lead to the crisis.
Avoiding a 21st-Century Dust Bowl
We need a Farm Bill that plants the seeds of resilience.
Weapons for the Weak in the Climate Struggle
This is the dilemma of most countries in the South: we are victims of climate change, and our weapons are few and limited.
One Reason Behind India’s Blackout: World Bank Policies and Neoliberalism
An ideology of neoliberalism foisted on India by the World Bank and IMF was partly to blame for the blackout.
Smoldering Planet
Colorado’s wildfires and the record heat waves should sober up some climate change doubters.
Real Nowhere Men (and Women)
Nowhereisland is about living kindly, governing gently, and not taking oneself too seriously.
We Can’t Put a Price on Nature
The greenwashed economy threatens our ability to pursue sustainable development.
A Perfect and Hot Storm
It’s time to save ourselves from a climate nightmare of our own making.
We Experienced and We Learned: My Journey through Rio+20
So Rio+20 wasn’t a success.
The Elephant in Rio
Don’t bank on a new “green economy” to solve our climate challenges.
Blogging the Rio+20 Earth Summit for the Rest of Us: What’s at Stake with the Green Economy
Simply obtaining measures to implement the commitments made 20 years ago would be better than creating any new corporate-driven initiatives or issuing yet more empty promises.
Clearing the Air
Many health care organizations have joined environmental advocates like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council in supporting a new EPA rule that would curb the deadly pollution spewed from the next generation of coal-fired power plants.
Scraping the Bottom
We are all trust fund babies living off the wealth of our ancestors.
Pumping Gas Prices for All They’re Worth
Can our nation survive $5-a-gallon gas?
Five Bucks a Gallon
The end of civilization as we know it!