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Scientific Integrity Lost on America's Parks
Tess Elliott: Though Ken Salazar has vowed to clean up the mess at the Interior Department, his selection for director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, only compounds it.
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EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal
Jeff Biggers: An important announcement suggests that environmental justice may be coming to the Appalachian coalfields.
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Shades of Green
Mark Hertsgaard: Washington and Beijing should launch an efficiency revolution, the quickest path to large emissions cuts.
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The Most Important Number on Earth
OntheEarthProduction : Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky and Terry Tempest Williams discuss the urgent need reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million.
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Noam Chomsky on the Heathcare Hold Up
OntheEarthProduction : Noam Chomsky explains the lag between public will to de-privatize healthcare and political plans to implement a new system.
Reigning in carbon emissions won't be easy as, McKibben pointed out in The Nation, but "We do have one thing going for us: this new tool the web, which at least allows you to imagine something like a grassroots global effort. If the Internet was built for anything, it was built for sharing this number, for making people understand that '350' stands for a kind of safety, a kind of possibility, a kind of future." Visit 350.org to learn more about the science behind this important figure and how you can get involved before the International Day of Climate Action on October 24, 2009.
--Corbin Hiar
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