The Last Mountain: Fighting Back Against Mountaintop Removal The Last Mountain: Fighting Back Against Mountaintop Removal
The Last Mountain exposes these travesties and the growing mobilization to stand up and fight back.
Jun 29, 2011 / Video / The Nation Video
Pakistan One Year After the Floods Pakistan One Year After the Floods
When extreme weather hits amid extreme poverty, escape becomes nearly impossible.
Jun 29, 2011 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Winners and Losers in the Great Global Energy Struggle to Come Winners and Losers in the Great Global Energy Struggle to Come
A thirty-year war for energy pre-eminence? You wouldn’t wish it on a desperate planet. But that’s where we’re headed and there’s no turning back.
Jun 27, 2011 / Michael T. Klare
Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher: A Green Economy Will Be a More Fair Economy Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher: A Green Economy Will Be a More Fair Economy
Tim DeChristopher explains how environmental activists are using civil disobedience techniques to take bold action to change the status quo.
Jun 21, 2011 / Video / The Nation
Fixing America’s Nuclear Waste Storage Problem Fixing America’s Nuclear Waste Storage Problem
The spent-fuel pools at our reactors, containing thousands of tons of poorly protected but highly radioactive waste, are a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Jun 20, 2011 / Robert Alvarez
Edward Glaeser: How Can Cities Reduce Our Carbon Emissions? Edward Glaeser: How Can Cities Reduce Our Carbon Emissions?
Dense cities are a lot more energy efficient than decentralized sprawl, argues Harvard professor and urban advocate Edward Glaeser.
Jun 17, 2011 / Video / The Nation Video and On The Earth Productions
The American West in Flames The American West in Flames
These past few years, mega-fires in the West have become ever more routine.
Jun 16, 2011 / Chip Ward
Stomachs Too Big to Fail Stomachs Too Big to Fail
A person can only eat so much, but the craving for money is boundless—the purse, not the belly, is the void that is never filled.
Jun 13, 2011 / Lewis Lapham
A Richer Shade of Green: The Wisdom of Sustainable Investment Funds A Richer Shade of Green: The Wisdom of Sustainable Investment Funds
Investors who seek out companies that are meeting the long-term challenge of sustainability will have a strategic advantage.
Jun 8, 2011 / Feature / Leslie Christian
March on Blair Mountain Honors Labor History, Calls for End to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining March on Blair Mountain Honors Labor History, Calls for End to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
A five-day march on Blair Mountain seeks to harness the rich labor history of Appalachia to expand a growing movement to end the destruction of Appalachia through mountaintop remov...
Jun 8, 2011 / Blog / Peter Rothberg