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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

An Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust

StudentNation

"It is intellectually inconsistent for Harvard to invest in fossil fuel companies while our faculty publicize the consequences of inaction on climate change and continued fossil fuel use."

April 15, 2013

Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

Take Action

Join Bill McKibben in signing The Nation's open letter urging Secretary Kerry to consider his legacy and to find the courage to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.

April 12, 2013

Do the Math: The Movie

Peter Rothberg

The Do the Math Movie tells the story of the rising movement trying to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis and fight the fossil fuel industry.

April 10, 2013

Brown University Investment Committee Recommends Divestment from Coal

StudentNation

The committee has recommended divestment only three times in its entire history.

April 10, 2013

What is Student Power?

StudentNation

Right now, Barnard Columbia Divest and 255 other college divestment campaigns across the country are building student power through work on one goal: destruction of the fossil fuel industry.

April 9, 2013

Why the Climate Movement is Historically Unique

StudentNation

Never before has an issue involved every single human being on this planet, and never before has the window for action been so short.

April 4, 2013

One Million Comments Against Keystone XL

Peter Rothberg

The Keystone tar sands pipeline will create just a handful of jobs, won’t improve US energy security, and just isn’t worth the potential cost to our health and our climate. Make your voice heard today.

April 3, 2013

UVM Faculty Senate Vote to Support Divestment

StudentNation

If UVM commits to divestment, it will be the only public university and the largest university to do so.

March 13, 2013

Obama Makes a Strong Choice to Head the EPA

George Zornick

Gina McCarthy appears to have a long-term vision for combating climate change, and the experience to implement it.

March 5, 2013

With Climate Change, a Bad Deal Gets Even Worse for the Global South

Aura Bogado

Polluters in the Northern Hemisphere have long exploited the resources of countries in the South, which will now feel the effects of environmental catastrophe more accutely.

March 4, 2013