"The conference sessions offer a true test of the successes and failures of our climate change narrative.... This conference is mining deep for gold." -- Jen Marlow, co-convenor of Three Degrees: The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference, University...

For four days in late June, I covered the Tallberg Forum, which could be described as a Swedish version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, except more laid-back, inclusive, and creative.

Bo Ekman, the mildly eccentric chairman and founder of the Tallberg Foundation, was formerly on...

G-8 leaders agreed yesterday to the "'aspirational' goal of preventing global temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit," according to the New York Times.

Which reinforces the fact that we persist in speaking about climate change as if it were just a technical problem related to CO2 emissions...

Experts, fortuitously, are among our best friends when their knowledge steers us to safety. Tragically, the converse is also true: experts are among our worst enemies when their hubris leads us astray, or worse.

"The Next 100 Days," a policy summit hosted by The New Yorker earlier this month,...

Parsing Bruce Sterling's closing keynote humdinger

Bruce Sterling, sci-fi author, essayist, design thinker, and one of the founders of cyberpunk, delivered a closing keynote at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (a.k.a. SXSWi), the jewel in the crown of U.S. grassroots tech bashes held annually in Austin,...

America sees its future in Oscar-winning film

Slumdog Millionaire is much more than a breakout film with $150 million (and counting) in box-office earnings and eight Academy Awards: Interestingly, given the heart-rending poverty central to its plot, its success happens to coincide with the growth of U.S....