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.
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.
Palin is right. We are greener than thou. We're greener than just about everyone, in fact.
The biggest news coming out of Copenhagen, but not covered by the American media, is that Obama hasn't been able to convince other countries to act even though he is the most popular head of state.
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...
Denying the Red Carpet Four release, thus keeping them away from their families over the holidays, for the crime of peaceful protest is a travesty of justice.
Too many observers, in my view, are judging the Copenhagen Accord by the wrong yardsticks.
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...
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.
The secrecy and isolation of the Chinese/Obama meetings says it all. The rest of us are waiting outside with the rising seas and the fires and droughts and freak storms.
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.
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.
A group of 750 (and counting) businesses have come together. Their purpose is simple and direct -- to demand comprehensive action be taken by Congress to enact a Clean Energy Act.
As the postmortems pour in I want to focus on the story behind the story: how new media, grassroots activists, and citizen journalists worked together in inspired ways to get the Copenhagen story out.
Will Copenhagen's near collapse and half-hearted outcome help or hinder the effort to repair our climate?
