Indigenous peoples from around the world, including Maori from New Zealand and Gwich’in from the far north in Alaska, came to the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth to share their wisdom and set new ground rules to ensure the protection of Mother Earth and the survival of the planet.
More on BP, the merits of cultural boycott, and steps toward financial reform.
Our magical flood of electronic devices, from television sets to cell phones, harbors long-lasting poisons.
If you like my offshore oil drilling program, you’ll love my clean coal and safe nukes.
The Sierra Club calls warns against more offshore oil drilling.
Unless we protect headwater streams, our drinking water could be contaminated.
The new marine protection area in the Indian Ocean seems like a great step forward. Until you look at it a little more carefully.
Hopes are high that this summit will represent a turning point the process and product of climate negotiations.
Congress is deadlocked on the issue of climate change. But a new bill, with bipartisan support, has a good chance of breaking the deadlock and actually reducing U.S. carbon emissions.
Despite widespread civil society opposition in South Africa and abroad, the World Bank just approved a $3.75 billion loan to help South African utility company Eskom build one of the world’s largest coal plants. Please join us for an update on the Eskom loan and on the role of the World Bank in both causing and responding to climate change. The panel will also consider the intersection of the World Bank and international climate negotiations, where the World Bank is vying for a major role in financing adaptation and mitigation efforts in developing countries.
There’s only so much oil in the ground, so what is the Obama administration thinking with its new offshore oil program?
Please join Essential Information, Public Citizen, the Institute for Policy Studies, and Greenpeace to celebrate Annie Leonard, the Story of Stuff Project, and the release of her new book, The Story of Stuff; How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health — and a Vision for Change, from Free Press of Simon and Schuster.
Offshore accounts keep island economies afloat. But they also might sink them.
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.
Al Gore didn’t even touch upon what the world needs to do to avert a global warming catastrophe.