The weather in South Africa is beautiful -- warm during the day, cool and breezy at night. This is a unique and fitting place to stage the United Nations Climate Change Conference, as South Africa prepares for the impacts of climate change.

The costs of adapting to climate change are...

Last week's job numbers confirmed for yet another month that in order to truly get our economy moving we need a national jobs strategy that unleashes the innovation and ingenuity of the American people to move our country forward and to get people back to work.

President Obama two weeks...

With the arrival of Chinese President Hu this week in Washington, there can be no better time for the U.S. to make clear its unqualified commitment to winning the global race for clean energy jobs.

This is not just an international issue; it's an urgent domestic one. While the employment...

On our drive to the clean energy future, we are stuck in traffic.

The BlueGreen Alliance continued its cross-country trip when our "The Job's Not Done" Tour Bus participated in Detroit's Labor Day parade with the United Autoworkers.

We started August 16 in Carson, California, and traveled to a total...

This Labor Day, America is facing a dizzying array of problems, none more acute than the twin crises of how poorly we treat our workers and how appallingly we treat our planet. In case anyone believes these issues are distinct and need to be addressed separately, let's remember some of...

Even more than the late autumn drizzle in Poznań, Poland, the rituals of 21st Century international gatherings tend to dampen the spirits of the most vigorous protesters. In her novel, The Sweetest Dream, Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize winning author, captured the essence of this new international bureaucracy, ridiculing its...

Americans are facing a severe economic crisis. Having lost more than a million jobs in the first ten months of the year, creating jobs is the top priority for our nation.

And at the same time, government leaders throughout the world have come together this week in Poznań, Poland for...