Nation Topics - Environment | The Nation

To transform this bland, tired ritual into an occasion for spirited collective action, Earth Day must return to its roots.

Gulf residents and cleanup workers continue to suffer serious health problems from the 2010 disaster, but the oil giant is not being held to account.

As the Keystone XL battle has shown, the blue-green alliance is in trouble—and only a deeper kind of solidarity can rescue it.

Our country has been on a treadmill of pesticides since World War II.

How can permaculture help shape a new world order?

How we subsidize energy giants to wreck the planet, and what we can do about it.

How the big energy companies plan to turn the United States into a third world petro-state.

How progressives can make energy a pocketbook issue, with greener rides—and greener wallets—for the middle class.

What kind of damaged world is being left to our descendents?

Our car-dependent, suburban, homeowner culture is no longer affordable. An exhibit at MoMA examines what to do about it.