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

World Energy in 2040.

Michael T. Klare
climate change rally
A Movement for a New Planet (Climate Change, Environmental Activism)

What to make of change on an overheating planet.

Bill McKibben
Obama
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
The Grand Canyon
Goodbye to All That (Water) (Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Society)

Field notes from a drying west.

William deBuys
Dustbowl
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
Activism image
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
Escalante River
Trek West for the Big Picture (Climate Change, Environment, Politics)

Saving the land one footfall at a time.

Chip Ward
Climate justice activist
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
Henry David Thoreau statue
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

Bill McKibben Webcast From Middlebury College Tonight
StudentNation

A debate over whether environmental and social concerns should influence investment policies of college and university endowments.

January 22, 2013
Avoiding a Climate-Change Apocalypse
Katrina vanden Heuvel

With Hurricane Sandy still on the public’s mind, Obama should take action on carbon emissions and disaster response.

January 8, 2013
Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Wraps Up First Semester on 192 Campuses
StudentNation

A new campaign to push colleges and universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry spread like wildfire this past semester.

January 2, 2013
David Koch Now Taking Aim at Hurricane Sandy Victims
Lee Fang

Having lost the election, the Koch political machine, Americans for Prosperity, now takes aim at Hurricane Sandy relief legislation. 

December 22, 2012
Middlebury to Consider Fossil Fuel Divestment
StudentNation

In the wake of a high-profile student protest and amid a growing university movement to combat climate change, Middlebury College announced that it would initiate steps to address the feasibility of divesting its endowment from the fossil fuel industry.

December 20, 2012
NYU Divest Calls On President Sexton To End Fossil Fuel Investments
StudentNation

The campus divestment movement has made its way to NYU, where students and faculty are pressuring the administration to cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry.

December 12, 2012
After Sandy, Learning From New Orleans: D6 and Beyond
Laura Flanders

From public housing to living wages, how can New York rebuild as a more equal, just city? 

December 7, 2012
Daphne Wysham: The World Bank Should Stop Funding Fossil Fuels
Nation in the News

A World Bank report says a 4 degree centigrade warmer world would be environmentally catastrophic, so why won’t the Bank divest from fossil fuels?

December 6, 2012
Doing the Math Better: A Talk With Christian Parenti
StudentNation

Author Christian Parenti, in conversation with NYU student Rebecca Nathanson, explains why fossil-fuel divestment campaigns—now gaining popularity on college campuses thanks to Bill McKibben—may be a costly distraction.

December 5, 2012
New Hampshire Students Press for Fossil Fuel Divestment
StudentNation

UNH students delivered a petition signed by 1,000 of their peers to the office of President Mark Huddleston calling for the divestment of the institution’s endowment from fossil fuel corporations.

December 3, 2012
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