We are What We Eat
Get a great new book about how our eating patterns impact the Earth for free.
Swords Into Solar Panels
Owego can get solar jobs, but it will take the active involvement of Owego itself.
Strange Snow Patterns Consistent with Climate Change
Think the freak snowstorms disproved climate change science? Think again.
Climate Change’s Secret Weapon
Offshore accounts keep island economies afloat. But they also might sink them.
Is Our Democracy Becoming a Joke?
The fate of our planet is no laughing matter.
Evaluating Copenhagen: What it Means for Ecology, Economy, and Equity
Given the continuing confusion within the climate policy community, the media, and even among governments themselves, there is an urgent need to set the record straight on the actual results of the Copenhagen summit, to reinforce the reasons why a UN climate process is so critical, and to point to some possible ways forward to a successful conclusion at Cancun in December 2010.
Save Winter: Stop Tar Sands
Oil sands are now Canada’s fastest-growing source of global warming pollution.
Let’s Pretend to Do Something about Climate Change
What we need now is a serious incentive to pollute less.
China: The Prince of Denmark
Like Hamlet, Shakespeare’s conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these challenges, argues columnist Walden Bello, led to its biggest diplomatic debacle in years.
Reporters Should Tell Us the Truth about Global Warming
At this point, the scientific consensus is so overwhelming that journalists need to assert it as a fact.
Planet Titanic
Thanks to climate change, our ship’s about to smash into the great iceberg of greed.
Magical Realism — A Coup in Honduras, so 20th Century!
A coup is a coup only after Washington defines it as such.
Confronting Climate Debt: What the Rich Owe the World
Naomi Klein, Ambassador Pablo Salon, and Michele Roberts will discuss climate debt and its implications for building a movement for climate justice. Panelists will also share their insights on outcomes from the Copenhagen climate conference and what that means for climate activism in the U.S. and abroad.
Will Cash Cool the Planet?
What’s the best way to retain forests and reverse climate change without scapegoating indigenous and rural communities?
Postcard From…Copenhagen
Women farmers hold the key to addressing climate change.