Carbon Emissions

While Earth Warms

David Victor | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green


David Victor

Serious global warming policies require careful political engineering because they imply a radical reorganization of the energy system. Last week's vote is a reminder that those policies could be years away.

Convert Your Car To Electric

ENN.com | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green


Gasoline-powered cars are perhaps the most inefficient devices that many of us use daily. The internal combustion engine is inefficient in term of pol...

Private Jet Sharing Cuts Guilt and C02 for the Eco Rich

The Guardian | Karen McVeigh | Posted 05.29.2008 | Green


It's the ultimate dilemma for the seriously rich with a conscience - how to enjoy private jet travel without the guilt about carbon footprints. But no...

From Woodstock to Rothbury: From Activism to Energy Independence

Dan Worth | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living


Dan Worth

Summer of '68 In the summer of 1968, the US was experiencing post-war growing pains that sparked the birth of a social and political movement that wou...

A Torch to Bear

August J. Pollak | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics


August J. Pollak

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It's 10 AM -- Do You Know Where Your Employees Are, Mr. Administrator?

Carl Pope | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics


Carl Pope

Environmental Protection Agency staff are as upset at what administrator Stephen Johnson has instructed them to do as they are at what he has failed to do.

Hugging an Accountant is Smarter than Hugging a Tree

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.20.2008 | Business


Eben Esterhuizen

Financial accounting is probably the most powerful weapon we have to tackle short-termism, the cause of our environmental problems.

Clinton, Obama Global Warming Plans Overlook China, India

Byron Williams | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics


Byron Williams

The next president must make the argument to China and India that the manner in which they are now realizing economic growth is bad for the planet.

The FDA's Dangerous Cloned Beef Decision

Alec Baldwin | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics


Alec Baldwin

At a time when government agencies should be working in unison on a plan to reduce carbon emissions from as many sources as possible, the FDA's cloning decision is a bad one.

Shellenberger & Nordhaus: Modestly Right, Not Interestingly Wrong

David Roberts | Posted 01.13.2008 | Entertainment


David Roberts

The fatal flaw in "Break Through" is the pivot from an important psychosocial insight about language to a concrete recommendation about policy.

FTC Worries About Improper Use Of Carbon-Offset Money

New York TImes | Louise Story | Posted 01.09.2008 | Business


Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million last year on carbon offset credits toward tree planting, wind farms, solar ...

Newt Gingrich and Republican Fears Over Global Warming

Rep. Jay Inslee | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics


Rep. Jay Inslee

Newt Gingrich may have finally gotten it partly right, but on the biggest issue of our time he is totally wrong -- again.

BP Proves Beyond Petroleum Was Greenwashing

Joseph Romm | Posted 12.18.2007 | Business


Joseph Romm

BP, the oil company that lavished millions on advertising its move "Beyond Petroleum," announced this month it's putting $3 billion into this dirtiest of dirty fuels!

Walking With The Dolphins: My Motive to Think Green

Paige Donner | Posted 12.18.2007 | Living


Paige Donner

Hollywood loves a winner and this glorified high school campus of hipsters has decided that our planet's environment is not just attention-worthy but that Green is Cool, and, even better, Green is Green.

Another Depressing Screed on Global Warming

Nicholas Brown | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics


Nicholas Brown

My generation, our generation for those of you twenty-somethings out there, is going to be the first, by most indications, to really feel the worst effects of climate change.

Leading the Way Towards a Clean Energy Future

Jessy Tolkan | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics


Jessy Tolkan

It is time we stopped subsidizing dirty industries of the past and time we started investing in the future.

When Climate Change Becomes an Issue of National Security

Ann Carlson | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics


Ann Carlson

As Bush chastises the Democrats for endangering national security, the world meets to address what may be the biggest threat of all, with no leadership whatsoever from the leader of the free world.

NYT's Tom Friedman is Wrong on Global 'Weirding'

Joseph Romm | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics


Joseph Romm

The people we are waiting for are the politican leaders. Everyone else needed to solve the global warming problem has been around for a while.

Somebody Didn't Get the Environment vs. Economy Memo

David Roberts | Posted 11.30.2007 | Business


David Roberts

More than 150 companies worldwide, representing some $4 trillion in market valuation, have signed the Bali Communiqué. Can somebody forward this to the U.S. Congress?

18 Top Brit Companies Pledge To Help Curb Carbon Emissions

New York Times | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 11.25.2007 | Business


Britain's largest companies are pledging to offer greener products and invest in research and technology as part of a wider push to reduce carbon emis...

Where's the Press?

Ann Carlson | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics


Ann Carlson

Why is the press largely ignoring how presidential candidates would confront climate change, the most important environmental issue the world has ever faced?

World Food Day: Thinking Outside the Vegetable Box

Sarah Murray | Posted 10.16.2007 | Living


Sarah Murray

If we're worried about our carbon emissions, we might think twice about buying things flown in by air.


 

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