350 parts per million is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide. It's the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change.
Jerry Cope | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Now is the time for the citizens to speak out and demand that leaders from every country agree on a fair and just global climate agreement.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
October 24th, 2009 is a very important day -- 350.org has organized an international day of climate action, to show the world's leaders that there is ...
Alexia Parks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact
We're at a point," I've been told, "where everything we know is out of date. What happens next is unknowable, unspeakable, and undetermined."
Bill McKibben | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
There are big climate actions organized for almost every city on earth on October 24th. If we can build this wave, we have a chance of making real, not token, change in the Senate, at Copenhagen, and beyond.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green
(VOTING IS NOW CLOSED) HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power o...
Bob Wells | Posted 10.01.2009 | Denver
Yoga studios proliferate. My stereotype of Boulder has had to change. Formerly it was a blonde mom driving a Land Rover and on her cell phone. Now: a 20-something carrying a yoga mat.
Jerry Cope | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
COP15 may very well be the last chance for the world to reach a consensus on measures to reduce GHG emissions and avoid climate chaos for the next millennium.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
What's wrong with wanting to make a living speaking and writing about environmental issues? Colin Beavan's never claimed to be an expert, simply a layperson who wanted to enlighten himself and others.
Anne Butterfield | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver
There is an increasingly mindless quality to conservative activism; it grows ever weirder, as if to sustain the same high. So I got to wondering, why are these ranters so credulous? Who's educating this bunch?
Waylon Lewis | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver
Why are we losing the war against climate change? Because Americans are, more and more, merely preaching to our respective choirs.
Sanjay Khanna | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green
This year's Tallberg Forum asked: "How on earth can we live together, within the planetary boundaries?" Some scientists and energy policymakers posed a different question that made my hairs stand on end.
Billy Parish | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green
It can if that number is 350. That's the safe upper limit of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: 350 parts per million (ppm).
Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green
Madigan's book, aptly billed as "the Indispensible Guide To Food Self-Sufficiency," is an invaluable resource to help you tackle just about any homegrown, made-from-scratch project.
Jerry Cope | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
Human aerial artwork allows people to use their bodies as a human declaration and visual petition in a way that is widely accessible, celebratory, and action oriented.
Billy Parish | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
The demand to get involved building a greener, more sustainable future is there, but the supply of opportunities has not been.
Jerry Cope | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green
March 2nd was historic -- a shining example of what citizens in a democracy can achieve when united in a common cause: eliminating coal-fired power plants in the US.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green
The dirty coal power station literally powers our congressional building in DC. It is just one among the thousands around the world that threaten to push climate disruption beyond the point of no return.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
Young people have a variety of ways to generate noise about climate solutions right now, from organizing their campuses to putting boots on the ground in Washington.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green
As the first massive act of civil disobedience, thousands will cross the line to demand an end to our nation's denial of the spiraling impact of dirty coal and old coal-fired plants.
Marc Gunther | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green
But I was amused to stumble upon a different question that's sparking debate among the young people planning to attend the action: What should one wear to a protest against coal?
Jerry Cope | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
Will Congress and the American people give our new President and his administration the support necessary to embark on the path to a long term sustainable future not only for ourselves, but the world?
Betsy Taylor | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green
It's going to take a lot more than the... chaotic process I watched in Poznan over the past two weeks for us to cut global warming emissions as deeply and quickly as scientists say is necessary.
RJ Eskow | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
The root problem runs deeper than excessive personal debt. The problem lies in a value system that measures our human worth according to our net worth.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.12.2008 | Green
While rivers and lakes all over the world are simply vanishing into the ether, something really insidious is bubbling up from the Arctic seabed.
Leah Lamb | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green