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Worker

Efforts to reduce unemployment and curb inequality must be considered alongside urgent threats to the environment and democracy. 

Oil spill

The recent World Energy Outlook report that has many cheering U.S. oil supremacy—when it should be setting off alarm bells on the climate crisis. 

Natural gas drilling rig

In small hamlets and tiny towns you’ve never heard of, grassroots activists are taking a stand in what could be the final showdown for Earth’s future.

350.org

350.org’s caravan heads to Washington, DC, to push President Obama to address climate change in his second term.

Barack Obama

What does this election mean for the future of the country? Are electoral politics really a mechanism for change? 

The recovery could be an opportunity to realign our relationship with the natural world.

Destruction from Super Storm Sandy

If there was ever a response to Mitt Romney’s smug RNC laugh line about climate change—or to Obama’s failure to address it—Hurricane Sandy delivered.

Destruction from Super Storm Sandy

If we can learn one thing from Superstorm Sandy, it's that we ignore climate change at our own peril.

Destruction from Super Storm Sandy

The recovery could be an opportunity to realign our relationship with the natural world.

Hurricane Sandy

We can choose to ignore scientific warnings about climate change—or we can choose to act.

Blogs

Van Jones heads to Princeton, the Center for American Progress, and today receives the President's Award from the NAACP.

February 26, 2010

News Flash: Winter Olympic officials in tropical Vancouver have been forced to import snow - on the public dime - to make sure that the 2010 games proceed as planned. This use of tax-dollars is just the icing on the cake for increasingly angry Vancouver residents. And unlike the snow, the anger shows no signs of abating.

February 9, 2010

The drizzle of allegations that climate scientists have fudged data, drawn on dodgy sources, withheld information and frozen out dissenters has now become a downpour.

February 5, 2010

Markese Bryant (aka Doo Dat), born and raised in East Oakland, knows firsthand the effects of pollution and poverty in local communities of color. Now he's a leader in the movement to build an inclusive green economy through campus organizing and community education.

January 19, 2010

 Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone’s fault.

December 21, 2009

A leading environmentalist, Monbiot discusses climate science, what's wrong with the U.S., and the need for a strong climate justice movement.

December 18, 2009

What to look out for on the final day of COP15

December 18, 2009

President Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will meet within hours in Copenhagen to try to break the deadlock.

December 17, 2009

Leaked document predicts that current emissions reduction targets inadequate to keep global temperature rise below 3°C.

December 17, 2009

A candid interview with Ambassador Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping.

December 17, 2009
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