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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

Scientific Consensus Won’t Change the Politics of Climate Change
Zoë Carpenter

Following the release of the IPCC’s landmark global warming report, progressives should challenge the cruelty behind climate deniers” politics, not the weakness of their science. 

September 27, 2013
EPA Announces First-Ever Carbon Limits for New Power Plants
Zoë Carpenter

The rules won’t affect current greenhouse gas emissions, but they set a framework for regulating carbon under the Clean Air Act.

September 20, 2013
Yes, Harvard, the Climate Crisis Is an ‘Extraordinarily Rare Circumstance’
Wen Stephenson

Harvard tells students and alumni that it will only consider divestment in "extraordinarily rare circumstances." Well, let's see...

September 16, 2013
Another Delay for Keystone XL?
Zoë Carpenter

An inquiry into conflict-of-interest allegations will likely push the State Department’s decision on the pipeline to 2014. 

August 27, 2013
The IPCC Report and Nuclear Energy
Bob Dreyfuss

Environmentalists ought to embrace, not fear, the usefulness of nuclear power.

August 21, 2013
The Real Politics of Power
Christopher Hayes

Chris Hayes responds with optimism to Wen Stephenson’s review of his documentary, The Politics of Power.

August 19, 2013
Dear Chris Hayes: Good Job. Now Let’s Get Real.
Wen Stephenson

A reaction to Chris Hayes's MSNBC documentary on climate change, The Politics of Power.

August 19, 2013
The Parable of Rupert Murdoch
Madeline Ostrander

Democracy doesn’t fare well when a few personalities dominate media ownership.

August 16, 2013
Is Fracking a Necessary Evil?
Madeline Ostrander

Despite the ills of fracking, the Obama administration claims more natural gas is part of the solution to climate change. 

August 15, 2013
Member of Congressional Science Committee: Global Warming a ‘Fraud’ to ‘Create Global Government’
Lee Fang

Representative Dana Rohrabacher says global warming is a “fraud” to “create global government.”

August 10, 2013
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