There are many (many) serious problems around the globe. And, there are real opportunities to be had from taking on those challenges in smart ways......
As a left coast liberal, it pains me to say this, but someone has to: Al Gore's persistent refusal to engage in a real discussion about the impact of ...
This past week I returned from a three day trip to Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, and one of the poorest in the world, with over half the ...
Veterans Day had always been a day-off from environmentalism for me, but this year Veterans week was different. The Sierra Club was really, for the first time, a full participant.
Conservation biologists now suggest the vast belt of forest and bogs enwrapping Canada, Scandinavia and Russia has largely been overlooked as important catchments for Earth-warming carbon dioxide.
By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger For weeks, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) has opposed climate change legislation. In the Environment and Public Wor...
You all know about Godwin's Law - first person to introduce Hitler into a thread loses the argument. Well, I'm about to invent a new law, let's call i...
Only 30 percent of Americans say global warming should be a top priority for Congress and the President. Activists need to lose the graphics and get back to the basics: the facts.
With a kind of focus that would have been unthinkable during the Bush administration, President Obama has directed federal agencies and urged Congress to take real action on climate change.
One great fear is blocking public support for climate protection: The fear that protecting the planet will destroy millions of jobs. Without a bold p...
Change is inevitable, and the time for new coal fired power plants has passed.
Ron Reagan is the son of a president and, weekdays on Air America, he's a voice of reason for many listeners who are trying to navigate the complexities of national and global concerns.
The battle for the soul of the Republican Party is over. Conservatives and the moderate have come together behind a constitutional amendment that would prohibit Congress from passing any bill longer than five pages.
On Tuesday when we met in Washington, Ban Ki-Moon said he was hopeful that the December climate conference in Copenhagen will be elevated to the head-of-state level.
The drop in emissions means that we are already more than halfway to the goal of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House of Representatives of a 17% cut from 2005 to 2020.
Two centuries ago, Thomas Paine wrote, "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense." That's precisely the approach Beinecke has taken in her stand against climate change.
The bumps in the road felt by elected officials tackling health care are eerily similar to those taking on global warming.
Schools, like the rest of us, need to acknowledge the part they have played in perpetuating the ignorance that has gotten us into our environmental messes.
Eating Animals, the searing indictment of factory farming by Jonathan Safran Foer, has got the champions of cheap chuck denouncing the celebrated novelist's latest work as just another piece of fiction.
There are too many urgent reasons to tackle this challenge of a generation, and there is nothing more compelling than hearing them straight from the people who care the most.
If all the print publications in the U.S. alone were to eliminate inserts, how much would that reduce carbon emissions? Think of the deforestation it could prevent.
|
||
