If you want to get emissions reductions, you must make the alternatives for electric power generation cheaper than coal. It's that simple. If you don't do that, you lose.
The Copenhagen Accord is weak and will not pressure countries to do more on climate change. There were too many competing national interests and not e...
As the year and the decade draw to a close, I'm strangely optimistic. True, there are many reasons for pessimism. But over the past week, I have found reasons to at least be cheerful in popular entertainment.
It shouldn't be news anymore that the most important thing that we can do for the planet is not to use less holiday gift wrap -- it is to go vegan. Here are some dry facts to go with the dry sherry this season.
The collapse of the climate talks in Copenhagen seemed like a fitting end to our frazzled, fizzled-out era. Hey, we never liked this decade enough to even give it a nickname.
How should we interpret last week's climate conference? Nearly everyone agrees that the "Copenhagen Accord" falls far short of what we need. Carbon pr...
It's that familiar season, full of quaint old false beliefs. Like that crazy Santa Claus notion there's such a thing as just desserts. Who's been naug...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your iPod has a carbon footprint. The holiday season makes me think about all the gifts I've purchased for loved ones and their greenhouse gas emissions.
Copenhagen can be considered a failure for environmentalists and climate campaigners. We failed to convey was the urgency that is required to effectively tackle an enormous problem.
The obvious, tangible environmental problems that affect our every day lives are so abundant--I find it shocking that we need to resort to a doomsday scenario in order to mobilize.
China has been widely blamed for the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks. Is that fair?
There will be no significant progressive change requiring Congressional action unless the Senate eliminates the filibuster and elects -- rather than perpetuates -- committee chairs.
As our nation looks to establish its bona fides on clean energy, while putting Americans back to work, one often overlooked domestic resource stands abundantly ready to make a difference: natural gas.
As I look back on the past ten years of the "Still-Unnicknamed Zeroes," I'd like to formally request a little less turbulence in the next decade. Please? No era is devoid of history.
The U.S. doesn't just need jobs. It needs a new basis for competitiveness and growth in global markets. Carbon management isn't the opposite of growth, but a the perfect platform on which to achieve it.
The political leaders of the world that gathered in Copenhagen had the unenviable responsibility of forging a strategy to pull humankind back from the brink of a dire future.
As the balance of economic power changes over the next two decades, new and stronger power-brokers may be less willing to embrace change. We must avoid this race to the bottom. Here is how.
Obama's speech said three things: hey foreign leaders, we don't want foreign oil; hey China, even though we've been negotiating all year well, I'm going to scold you; and hey world: even though these are negotiations, I have nothing to offer.
Jeff Gibbs is right to be concerned about using trees and "woody" biomass for renewable electricity. We need to save some dead trees and limbs to recycle nutrients and feed the soil and forest ecosystem.
I think we owe it to the Copenhagen participants to recognize that, for these two weeks, they made the debate over health care seem reasonable by comparison.
As fundamentally important as it is, the global warming drama is still not worth watching. Right now the best show in town features our esteemed leaders thrashing around on health care.
