Green Politics

Eco Etiquette: What Would Health Care Repeal Mean For The Environment?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Pill Pollution, Insurance Companies, Supreme Court Health Care Reform, Green News, Preventive Care, Green Living, Medical Waste, Overpopulation, Agricultural Policy, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Green Politics, Obamacare, Obama Health Care Reform, Green News

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. What's the Green stance o...

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Toxic Litmus Test

Edward Flattau | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Environmental Policy, Environmentalists, Global Warming Politics, Environmental Politics, Environmentalism, Gop Primary Election 2012, Tea Party Environmentalism, Gop Primary Elections, Green Politics, Tea Party, Global Warming Skeptics, Global Warming, Green News

How does the eventual Republican nominee appeal to a wider audience without alienating his or her base?

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Global Warming and Religion

Victor Stenger | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Environment, Religion, Green Politics, Global Warming, Green News

Corporate greed is the primary motivation for global warming denial. However, the antiscientific attitudes of the religious right are being exploited to prevent the government of the United States from taking actions that might be essential for everyone's welfare.

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Emanuel the Best Choice for a Cleaner Chicago

Jack Darin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rahm, Sierra Club, Green Politics, Chicago Mayoral Race, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago News

Throughout his career, Rahm has not just been a strong supporter of environmental protection -- he has been a key strategist in efforts to protect Lake Michigan, and to move toward a clean energy future.

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Impact Investing -- Using Green Thinking to Make Green Dollars

April Rudin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socially Responsible Investments, Investments, Investing, Socially-Responsible Investing, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Bernard Madoff, Green Living, Green Politics, Impact, Business News

It's not easy being green. And we all know that it is not easy "making green." But in the future it will be.

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Historic EPA Action Provokes Hysterical Reaction From the Coal Industry

Matt Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Green Politics, Coal, West Virginia, Epa, Spruce Mine, National Mining Association, Lisa Jackson, Congress, War on Goal, Clean Water Act, Annual Energy Outlook, Energy Information Administration, Ken Ward, Green News

In the wake of EPA's veto a large mountaintop removal mine permit, the grandstanding of West Virginia politicians and "sky is falling" rhetoric from the coal industry was hardly surprising.

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Who Will Fill Daley's Big Green Shoes?

Jack Darin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Politics, Chicago Mayoral Race, Chicago, Mayor Daley, Chicago Environment, Illinois Environment, Chicago News

What is to become of Mayor Daley's goal of making Chicago the greenest city in America, if not the world, after he steps down in May?

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Wrong Revolution for a Hungry Planet That's Heating Up

Jan McGirk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Cancun Climate Summit, Global Warming, Tea Party, Libertarian, Julian Cribb, Sarah Palin, China, Green Politics, The Coming Famine, Green News

A little guidance wouldn't hurt the growing portion of US voters who confuse the weather with the climate. A cold snap inevitably brings out the global warming deniers, and this should give us all the shivers.

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Why Wolves Matter: The Green World Theory

Brenda Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Yellowstone, Wolves, Wildlife Management, Healthy Ecosystems, Green Politics, Wildlife, Obama Administration, Green News

In the past fifteen years of studying wolves returned to their native habitat, scientists have discovered that these top predators actually help balance and restore the entire ecosystem.

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10/10/10 Global Work Party: How Social Media Made It Happen

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, 350.Org, Open Source, Diplomacy, Greenpeace, Online Organizing, 10-10-10, Social Media, Politics, Global Work Party, Jess Leber, Activism, Steven Chu, Climate Change, Skype, Un, Bill Mckibben, Tea Party, Green Politics, Environmental Activism, Malawi, The New Yorker, International Day of Climate Action, Barack Obama, Chris Eaton, change.org, Foreign Policy, Step It Up, Phil Aroneanu, Middlebury College, New Media, Koch Industries, Denmark, Climate Bill, Green News

With international negotiations at a standstill, 350.org, Greenpeace and others are using every new media tool available to share their climate message. Two days before 10/10/10, they had registered nearly 7,000 events in 188 countries.

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Want To Fire Obama for a Greener President?

treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Green Politics, Barack Obama, Green News

Climate and clean energy crashed and burned. The handling of the BP spill was criticized as too lenient on the oil giant, too withholding from the pub...

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Inhofe Inception: Your Mind Is the Scene of the Climate (VIDEO)

Miles Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, Inception, Jim Inhofe, Oil Sands, James Inhofe, Environment, National Wildlife Federation, Climate Change, Leonardo Dicaprio, Green Politics, Global Warming, Green News

Inception got us to thinking -- what if you could enter the dreams of Sen. Jim Inhofe, Big Oil's MVP?

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Virginia Menhaden Mess

Ginna Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia, Virginia-Politics-Green, Chesapeake Bay, Green, Green News, Green Politics, Menhaden Fish, Chesapeake Region, Virginia Politics, Fish, Overfished Species, Overfishing, Green News

Should management of the menhaden be left in the hands of legislators? Or should the species be managed by the more scientifically based Virginia Marine Resources Commission? Is there a better approach altogether?

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Why the Hung Parliament in UK Could Make a Greener Britain

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, UK Economic Crisis, Green Jobs, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Green, UK Elections, Green Energy, UK Election 2010, Solar Energy, Green Technology, May 6 UK Election, Green News, UK Election Results, UK Election, Green Politics, Politics News

As parties scratch around to make uneasy coalitions and alliances, I believe that green jobs and technology could provide a unifying theme that will draw together uneasy political allies.

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In Europe "Think Globally and Act Locally" Is More Than Just a Slogan for Saving the Planet

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 05.25.2011

Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, the mainstream American environmental movement has too often regarded federal leadership and mandates as t...

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Why the Green Movement Should Include Environmental Health Issues

Annie B. Bond | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Green, Environmental-Health, Green Politics, Health, Green Living, Green Movement, Healthy Living News

The negative toll of toxic chemicals and pollution on our bodies is probably as dramatic as emissions are for the planet, or plastics are for the oceans, the direct link is just harder to make.

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Earth Day 40

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Day, Climate Change, Environmental Critics, Environmental Movement, Environmentalism, Green Politics, Global Warming, Green News

This downgrading of Earth Day resurrects the tired old shibboleth that when economic growth and environmental reform appear to be in conflict, the latter must give way.

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Educating for Democracy: Is "Green Education" Possible?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Environmental Education, Green Technology, Green Politics, Green News

One of the dilemmas I've noticed coming out of the environmental disaster that is still roiling the Gulf of Mexico is the interconnectedness of our economic system with toxic policies -- programs or planning that will lead to eventual destruction of human life.

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The Great Shame: America's Pathetic Response to the Gulf Catastrophe

Peter Daou | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katrina, Bp, White House, Environmentalism, Gulf Oil Spill, Green Politics, Environment, Earth, Obama, Green News, Green News

A calamity is unfolding before our eyes -- the greatest oil spill in history -- and America's response is little more than a big yawn.

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GE's Dirty Green Jobs

Brendan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Jobs, General Electric, Climate Change, Green Jobs, Corporate Responsibility, Green Politics, Greenwashing Companies, Green News

Recent abuses suffered by GE's "green" workers -- who are now suing GE -- confirm our worst fears that there's little guarantee so far that green jobs are going to be good jobs.

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Empowering a Climate Change Movement -- Part 2: An Inconvenient Truth Finds a Convenient Solution

David Gershon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Low-Carbon-Diet, Public Policy, Al Gore, Cool Community, Carbon Fooptrint, Social Change, Social Change 2.0, Carbon Reduction, Green News, Green, Community Organizing, Green Living, Green Politics, Obama Administation, Climate Change Legislation, The Climate Project, Green News

This is the second of a six-part weekly series excerpted from chapter 11 of my book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. This ser...

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Will Climate Protection Legislation Protect Workers Too?

Brendan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Labor, Workers, Green Jobs, Waxman-Markey, Climate Change, Green Politics, Labor Unions, Global Warming, Green News

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...

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A Green Art Manifesto

Brendan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Craft, Climate Change, Green Living, Entertainment, Copenhagen 2009, Green Politics, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Climate Change Art, Climate Crisis, New York News

You've seen us on the streets and farmers markets of New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta, selling our dresses sewn from recycled umbrellas and clocks milled from reclaimed wine tanks.

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What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs

Brendan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polls, Politics, Green Jobs, Environment, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Congressional Budget Office, Green Politics, Global Warming, Green News

How many epidemics and Katrinas will it take to expose the myth that the U.S. economy is somehow exempt from the threats of climate change?

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The Dalai Lama Calls for Action on Climate Change

treehugger.com | Brian Merchant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green News, Dalai Lama, Climate Change, Green Politics, Copenhagen 2009, Green News

The Dalai Lama urged governments to put the great global concern before domestic politics, and to take serious action in slowing the rise of global wa...

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