The Dalai Lama urged governments to put the great global concern before domestic politics, and to take serious action in slowing the rise of global wa...
Brendan Smith | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
One great fear is blocking public support for climate protection: The fear that protecting the planet will destroy millions of jobs. Without a bold p...
Brendan Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
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?
Jamie Kalven | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
For the last few weeks, I've been talking with gardeners at an imperiled community garden on the South Side of Chicago. Last spring, the University of Chicago informed us it wants its land back.
Brendan Smith | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
What sort of future lies ahead for those of us who work in industries already being impacted by climate change?
Brendan Smith | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
f labor wants to promote green jobs, labor should embrace Van Jones -- publicly, loudly, and fast -- at the AFL-CIO Convention.
DivineCaroline | Brie Cadman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
As the market for organic and natural foods has dramatically increased over the past few decades, and large megastores like Walmart and Costco have go...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Do President Obama and his top staff have the strength to stand up to the right-wing attack machine, and will they carry out the agenda Americans elected them to accomplish?
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green
On Wednesday morning, the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, maker of Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle tissues, announced that it will adjust its production sta...
AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green
PARK CITY, Utah — Cabinet leaders in the Obama administration promised Monday to help Western states develop a robust system for delivering rene...
treehugger.com | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
In an illuminating piece over at the Atlantic, political reporter Marc Ambinder runs down a list of the Republicans who are most influential in the Wh...
Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
Grist has a piece today on a PR firm whose research on engaging the public on climate has leaked. Apparently, their work shows that "climate agnostics...
Grist | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
Ditch "global warming." It makes people think of Al Gore more than anything else, too polarizing. "Climate change" is almost as bad. "Our deterioratin...
politico.com | MIKE ALLEN & CRAIG GORDON | | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green
At the same time Salazar is working on those internal issues, he is also at the forefront of Obama's agenda for energy and climate change, which is no...
Grist | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green
Let's call them the Carbon Nine: Jason Altmire (Pennsylvania), Rick Boucher (Virginia), Artur Davis (Alabama), Baron Hill (Indiana), Charlie Melancon ...
AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
PARIS — The world's biggest polluters made progress on a global deal to finance efforts to fight global warming and help poor countries cope wit...
AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
SHANGHAI — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China's financial capital on Monday on a visit focused on en...
AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green
SHANGHAI — Wealthy nations, as history's biggest polluters, should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, China sa...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Legislation imposing the first nationwide limits on the pollution blamed for global warming advanced in the House late Thursday, cl...
The Climate Change Lobby | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
They're all part of a crazy quilt of about 140 businesses and organizations that jumped into the climate change debate on Capitol Hill in the first qu...
Grist | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
Coal has had areas of the South and Midwest in a devil's bargain for decades now: cheap electricity in exchange for poverty, low-quality social servic...
thedailygreen.com | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green
With Congress moving forward with a flawed "cash for clunkers" bill that will subsidize the purchase of trucks and SUVs that get as little as 15 mpg, ...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green
Former Kansas Governor -- and now Secretary of Health and Human Services -- Kathleen Sebelius just saw some of her legacy tossed out by her successor....
Grist | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green
Climate change is a global problem--but as of yet, there's no global solution. That's why mayors across the U.S. are taking action, from building gree...
Dave Burdick | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
Barack Obama: The first ______ president. Can we put the word "green" in that blank?
treehugger.com | Brian Merchant | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green