It is ironical that the region of the country most vulnerable to economic loss from climate change-related extreme weather is the Southeast. One says ...
New York City is not going to wait around for the U.S. Congress to do something rational. Congress is too busy having tea parties, defeating modest gun regulation, and sequestering critical research funds to be considered a serious participant in climate policy.
Author Sam Keen says, "The radical vision of the future rests on the belief that the logic that determines either our survival or our destruction is s...
Transparency -- a basic principle of our democracy -- is crucial, particularly as the trade deal continues to inflate. We must have a meaningful chance to engage in how our trade and energy rules are set before it's too late.
As much as my sons delight in the tree, sometimes I daydream about less bedraggled alternatives. Instead of accidental, what if our view had been planned and purposeful? In its place could be something more pleasing. Imagine the space of a single street tree transformed into a small-scale woodland.
Climate and environment have returned to the American political agenda. The fact of climate change and the need to adapt to its impact may still be questioned in the U.S. Congress, but it is a central policy issue here in New York and New Jersey.
Imagine a thought experiment, where we put environmentalists in each country in charge of negotiating the next trade agreement. Preposterous! I know. Stick with me.
With word that a large-scale cutting of trees could begin on January 28, 2013, a 24 year-old local woman, calling herself the warbler, climbed into a large ponderosa pine tree slated for removal.
David Vitter is a conservative Republican from Louisiana, the ranking minority member on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and in the case of a carbon tax, blinded by his ideology.
The climate cliff may be farther from our current position than any fiscal precipice, but once we start down the road toward it, there will be no turning back.
It's not morals, but realism that is bringing the U.S. back to the negotiation table. After four years of U.S. absence in international climate negotiations, this affirmation now raises hope that the U.S. will finally follow Europe's example of carbon market regulation and other climate legislation.
Great teachers are not bound by ideology. Our leaders at the national and state level are also teachers. We need them to decide on a course of action, explain why it makes sense, and engage in honest discourse with those who oppose their actions.
What is the right wing really worried about? Perhaps they fear they won't prevail when these films pose a choice between industrial exploitation of the environment for maximum profit, regardless of the consequences, versus protecting the Earth's natural resources in perpetuity.
All the children of the earth know the realties of the delicacy of this time. They don't despair; they live its reality with a quiet nobility that would break even the hardest heart wide open.
What does it take to instill world leaders with a sense of urgency regarding climate change?
How can environmentalists get conservatives to change their stance on environmental policy? It's possible, according to a new study, but yelling at th...
I'm referring to the CO2 cap-and-trade allowance auction held by the State of California. The fact that the auction ran smoothly and compliance entities and others put their money down is one important step in establishing the program's credibility.
Despite practical innovations, progress on getting agriculture into the official climate change negotiations has been excruciatingly slow, much slower than the urgent need to achieve food security.
How is Greece going to repay its debt when troika policies are shutting down the Greek economy? Forcing the Greek government to increase taxation and impose additional austerity cuts constitute nothing short of poisoning the social contract in the country.
He should tackle climate change by pointing out that reforestation, greater fuel efficiency, and expansion of clean, renewable energy are cost-effective and environmentally beneficial remedies in their own right.
After years of silence, the conversation that Sandy unleashed is looping back on itself, feeding a suppressed desire to do everything we can, not just to mitigate the effects of climate change but to try to slow it down.
Environmental issues haven't been a main topic of the election. Why? Because they have no credible environmental track record to promote (in the case of Obama) or no plan that can be explained in a few words or less (in the case of Romney).
In 1998 and for the subsequent eight years or so, I remained agnostic regarding what I viewed as the trade-offs between cap-and-trade and carbon taxes. What happened to change that? Three words: The Hamilton Project.
We simply can't let Mitt Romney buy the keys to the White House and let the special interests write our nation's energy plan behind closed doors. He'd roll back every step of progress we've made -- not just in the last four years, but the last 40 years.
You don't hear many Republicans praise the drop in the unemployment rate below eight percent. Why couldn't they give the American economy credit where credit was due?
