What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs
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?
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?
Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new glo...
Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new glo...
Amb. Nancy E. Soderberg | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
The developed world -- responsible for both today's financial as well as climate crisis -- must help pay the costs for the developing world to do the right thing.
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
For all those that do not want to pay homage to CO2, I say -- stop eating. Or at least stop throwing around the expression "trace gas" so loosely.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
If you think pushing nukes, oil wells and coal mines to "prevent global warming" is counter-intuitive, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
Right now Copenhagen is the most important city in the world. In just 2 short months, the city might witness the formation of a global climate treaty...
Brendan Smith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
We have learned a great deal more about the science of climate change. But we have barely begun to discuss what kind of political change is necessary to do what must be done.
Brendan Smith | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
What sort of future lies ahead for those of us who work in industries already being impacted by climate change?
David Fiderer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green
Depression-era symbolism resonates in California, a state with 12.2 percent unemployment. So Fox News fabricated a narrative taken from the plot of Chinatown to complement Dustbowl images from The Grapes of Wrath
Celia Alario | Posted 09.16.2009 | Green
The youth reporters are focusing on the voices of those who are already being disproportionately impacted, and those who have found successful global and local solutions for a better future.
Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green
Since the "Cash for Clunkers" program was so successful in stimulating demand for new autos, why not use the same concept to stimulate the demand for new clean power plants to replace dirty coal?
Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
If we think we're going to make the goal from solar, wind, and other renewables alone, we must be smoking something. Every clean power technology, including nuclear, has to play a role.
Linda Buzzell | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
A national poll showed 75% to 80% of respondents said that climate change is an important issue. But respondents also ranked it last in a list of 20 compelling issues, such as the economy or terrorism.
Telegraph | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
A group of climate change activists were arrested after supergluing themselves together outside a Government department in support of workers staging ...
John Kerry | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
192 nations will gather this December to hammer out a new global climate treaty. Two will set the tone. Can America and China forge a partnership that will prevent a climate catastrophe?
David Horton | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
Those who deny climate change believe that no environmental issue, no conservation cause, no piece of the natural world, must ever be allowed to get in the way of big profits for big business.
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
At the outset of WWII, we didn't set a goal of keeping German occupied territory to some "upper limit"; we set the goal of making as many airplanes and artillery as possible, and mobilizing troops.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
We have passed the point of waiting to tackle global warming until some indefinite, ideal time in the future. And we have passed the point of speculating about other mechanisms, such as a carbon tax.
AFP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead ...
Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 08.09.2009 | Home
On July 8th Italian Avaaz volunteers and members of the Avaaz European climate action factory -- a rapid response group of youth climate activists su...
Bernie Bulkin | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
In the last decade, we have realized that we have a very difficult problem to solve. It requires an unprecedented amount of global cooperation. It goes by the name of climate change.
David Fiderer | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
One of the great ironies of our age is that skepticism of global warming is treated with greater respect than, say, Holocaust denial.
Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green
What if we were to apply the same organic formula that worked to address human rights issues to environmental issues? Could we imagine the same progress?
Linda Adams | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
Global warming affects our entire planet but it has a disproportionate impact on people in poor communities, especially women.
Brendan Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green