Naomi Klein is always worth reading. If you haven't seen Capitalism vs. the Climate, go ahead. I'll wait.

Her 10,000-word exposé is well worth the effort. It makes the essential point that addressing climate change means reorganizing how the world does business.

Klein makes the point by arguing that...

What EPA's role is to do is to level the playing field so that pollution costs are not exported to the population but rather companies have to look at the pollution potential of any fuel or any process or any plant or any utility when they're making their investment decisions.

The average time taken to respond to an email is greater, in aggregate, than the time it took to create.

Email is too cheap to send. That, in a nutshell, is why we are all drowning in it. It costs you nothing to add one more person as a recipient.

My wife and I have no car, no TV, and a no-screens policy around our 8-month-old. We carry him around in an organic cotton wrap. His favorite toys are wood, his baby soap is plant-based, his only pacifier is his left...

The controversial Keystone XL pipeline bringing oil from Canadian tar sands to U.S. consumers will not be built for at least another year. There's now a chance that it will never be built. If you care about the future of the planet, that's a reason to celebrate. Is it not?

Here's the classic economic view of your car-purchasing behavior: You walk into a dealership, choose a car based on brand, color, cylinders, looks and general feel and then start comparing prices among different options. And you don't just look at how much you pay to drive home with the car,...

A freak October snowstorm blanketed New York yesterday, likely setting a new October snow record.

In the meantime, Bangkok is trying to cope with one of the worst floods in history.

Standard journalistic decorum demands that I mention right about now...

It's amazing that this is even news, but here goes: A new study commissioned in the wake of "Climategate" that wasn't confirmed that, yes, the globe is indeed warming, and that the vast majority of climate scientists have gotten it right all along.

We know that we need several Nobel-worthy technology breakthroughs to get out of the current energy mess.

We can sit around and hope. That, of course, isn't a strategy. It's betting on wind (and perhaps solar) and a prayer.

We could also try to pick winners. That's still much closer...

Kevin Kelly, the founder of Wired magazine and author of What Technology Wants, doesn't have a smart phone.

Steve Jobs, the visionary who gave people options they never thought possible, was all about "making choices" and "living life on his own terms."

Success in life and limiting one's choices...

Economists consider what consumers want to be God-given. We don't dare question consumer preferences. They are what they are. Well, it turns out God has a name, and it's Steve Jobs.

Jobs touched innumerable lives in many important ways. He's also famous for saying that:

It's really hard to...

ConEd is asking New Yorkers not to buy its products. That's not because they found religion; it's because they have found regulators that understand the value of conserving electricity.

So far so good. But here's how they try to get the message across:

Global warming is largely a bathtub problem. It's not enough to slow the flow of emissions into the atmosphere. The level of pollution would still be rising. We need to stabilize and decrease carbon pollution already in the atmosphere. That requires much more radical steps than even the typical MIT...

Yesterday's New York Times published my op-ed under the somewhat provocative heading "Going Green but Getting Nowhere." The point, of course, is not to give up, but instead to look for policy solutions that channel market forces in the right direction. Not because the market should be king, but...

First came science fiction — with brave new worlds, meteors, earthquakes, and rising sea levels causing mass exodus, war, and worse — and there was no reason to react because it was science fiction.

Then came fiction — with well-researched accounts of Climate Wars to come in the not-so-distant...

Warren Buffett took to the pages of the New York Times yesterday to state in no uncertain terms what is painfully clear to anyone looking at income inequality: Stop coddling the super-rich.

His call led to predictable outcries...

Ask any climate scientist to explain global warming to a fifth grader, and they will pull out the bathtub analogy: The atmosphere is the tub. The level of carbon is the water standing in said tub. There's a spigot and a sink -- water in and water out. For the...

We all want to do something, anything. We don't just want to sit idle and watch events unfold around us. Call it "action bias."

Then there's "single-action bias."

We all want to do something, anything, but once we've done that one thing, we move on. For something as...

Temperatures are rising and doing so at increasingly faster rates.

Oceans are acidifying and doing so at increasingly faster rates.

We are literally slowing down the rotation of the globe and doing so at an increasingly faster rate.*

All are clearly linked to global warming, yet none of them are...

The U.S. federal gas tax is 18.4 cents a gallon. Why 18.4? Because the Senate didn't have the support for 18.5 cents when it voted on it in 1993.

Sad fact: 18.4 cents is pathetically low and means driving is subsidized to the tune of several bucks a gallon. Forget...