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Articles

Our Fossil-Fueled Future (Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Green Energy)

World Energy in 2040.

Michael T. Klare

A Movement for a New Planet (Climate Change, Environmental Activism)

What to make of change on an overheating planet.

Bill McKibben

The Third Carbon Age (Climate Change, Sustainable Development, World)

Don’t for a second imagine we’re heading for an era of renewable energy.

Michael T. Klare

Goodbye to All That (Water) (Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Society)

Field notes from a drying west.

William deBuys

Dust Bowl Blues (Climate Change)

A severe drought in the Southwest is devastating crops and farm communities—and sending a warning about climate change.

Sasha Abramsky

The New Climate Radicals (Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Environmental Activism)

Ken Ward and Jay O'Hara are reminiscent of the human-centered, Quaker-inspired anti-nuke founders of Greenpeace.

Wen Stephenson

Trek West for the Big Picture (Climate Change, Environment, Politics)

Saving the land one footfall at a time.

Chip Ward

Why Investors Must Do More Than Divest From Fossil Fuels (Climate Change, Sustainable Development)

Colleges, pension funds and foundations together have trillions of dollars that could be invested in solutions to climate change.

Dan Apfel

Consumer Climates (Books & Arts, Climate Change)

Climate change and its political repercussions.

Michael T. Klare

Thoreau's Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry (Climate Change, Literature, Philosophy)

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?

Wen Stephenson

Blogs

Obama Lays Out His Plan to Slow Global Warming

Zoë Carpenter

The president committed to leading an international effort against climate change—but he remains undecided about the Keystone XL pipeline.

June 26, 2013

Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline

Zoë Carpenter

Twenty-two protesters were arrested in front of the State Department office in Chicago.

June 18, 2013

Green Mountain College to Divest From Fossil Fuels

StudentNation

Green Mountain is the fifth college in the nation and the second in Vermont to commit to fossil fuel divestment.

May 16, 2013

Christie's Broken Promise

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Although the New Jersey governor tackled Hurricane Sandy recovery head on, he has refused to similarly address the climate change that will make these storms more common.

May 14, 2013

As Semester Winds Down, Divestment Heats Up

StudentNation

At semester’s end, many student leaders involved with campus divestment campaigns will graduate. But the struggle grows stronger.

May 9, 2013

Bill McKibben's Call at Riverside Church

Peter Rothberg

In a sane society, his call would be required viewing coast to coast and urgent action would immediately follow.

May 7, 2013

RISD Students Stage First Fossil Fuel Divestment Sit-In

StudentNation

Student activists are demanding that President Maeda endorse divestment from the coal, gas, and oil industries and commit to presenting the case for divestment to the Board of Trustees at the board’s May 17 meeting.

April 29, 2013

One Movement Against Keystone XL

Peter Rothberg

On April 18, people converged in Nebraska to speak out about the Keystone XL Pipeline at the State Department's only public comment session.

April 24, 2013

How the Climate Reform Effort Was Poisoned From the Inside [EDITORS' NOTE ADDED ON 4/30/13]

Lee Fang

On this Earth Day, it’s worth reflecting on new disclosures that show the anti–global warming campaign was infiltrated by the opposition.

April 22, 2013

NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice

StudentNation

NYU’s Divest campaign met with senior university administrators, providing a faint glimpse of hope for a movement that’s been spreading quickly at other universities across the nation.

April 18, 2013