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June 2, 2015
Ecuador’s Battle for Environmental Justice Against Chevron
For more than two decades, impoverished indigenous people have been seeking restitution from the oil giant for polluting their region.
James North
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June 2, 2015
Who Killed Public Housing in New Orleans?
After Hurricane Katrina, big developers, government bureaucrats and anti-housing ideologues pushed to destroy “Bricks.”
Roberta Brandes Gratz
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April 20, 2015
In 1970, Environmentalism Was Poised to ‘Bring Us All Together.’ What Happened?
Today, the environment is a controversial issue divided along partisan lines—but it wasn’t always that way.
Zoë Carpenter
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April 16, 2015
Is California’s Drought Part of a Global Water Crisis?
According to NASA scientist Jay Famiglietti, some of the world’s most unstable regions will face their own severe water shortages in the near future.
Leighton Akio Woodhouse
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March 23, 2015
Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It
The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake.
Noam Chomsky
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December 23, 2014
Why Climate Change Is Not Inevitable
As Ursula K. Le Guin reminds us, any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
Rebecca Solnit
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October 1, 2014
The Invisible Oil in Louisiana’s Senate Race
The petrochemical industry is devastating the state, but no candidates dare take it on.
Zoë Carpenter
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September 18, 2014
Can the Climate Crisis Finally Force Us to Change Our Broken System?
We’ve already lost a lot to climate change, and we’ll lose more unless we take collective action.
Rebecca Solnit
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June 3, 2014
Welcome to West Port Arthur, Texas, Ground Zero in the Fight for Climate Justice
If you live in a toxic environment like this, surrounded by refineries, you’re probably not thinking about some future apocalypse. You’re living in one.
Wen Stephenson
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February 26, 2009
A Global Green Deal
America must step up and lead an international campaign to curb emissions. Done properly, it will green the planet and our wallets.
Mark Hertsgaard