Slouching Towards Copenhagen
What do we make of the prospects for global action on the climate crisis, given recent events both in the U.S. Congress and in the international conversations leading up to Copenhagen?
What do we make of the prospects for global action on the climate crisis, given recent events both in the U.S. Congress and in the international conversations leading up to Copenhagen?
Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green
We have the technology to meet the goal. What we lack is the political will and we need that in spades to aggressively pursue all of the clean power technologies we have for efficiency and new power. We should be treating this like a war, but we clearly are not.
Sam Black | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
How will the changing climate affect global security, and should the two issues be linked?
Carl Pope | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
Imagine a world where everyone has light -- and no one needs to burn carbon to have it.
William S. Becker | Posted 08.19.2009 | Green
If Mother Nature were handing out grades, she'd have a difficult time assigning one to the 1,200-page climate dissertation known as Waxman-Markey, now being considered by the Senate.
Ben Carmichael | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
Palin's argument is so dependent on established Republican strategy that is reads like a grab bag of worn-out phrases.
Lily Riahi | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Lily Riahi speaks with Hans Jørgen Koch about why we need the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) especially given the existence of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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.
Matt Petersen | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
The green auction not only raises funds for Global Green's National Green Schools and Climate Solutions initiatives, it is also a reminder for the need to take action on climate change now.
Matt Petersen | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green
The green auction not only raises funds for Global Green's National Green Schools and Climate Solutions initiatives, it is also a reminder for the need to take action on climate change now.
Jerry Cope | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green
How many people in the US realize that the UN panel on climate change said there is 90% chance that the climate change we are seeing at the moment is caused by human activity?
Jerry Cope | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
That an agreement to reduce CO2 concentration levels must be reached is critical to the survival of human civilization as we know it.
Dan Lashof | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
When the IPCC predicts serious consequences from global warming unless emissions are curtailed, it's cold comfort that a few newspapers in the 1970s speculated about global cooling.
Ben Carmichael | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
Today was much the same; to me, it was simply the weather, and beautiful weather at that. But to England, it was enormously disruptive.
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?
Sahil Kapur | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green
Both groups are convinced they possess a uniquely superior grasp of reality. Facts and evidence are muffled by their messianic quest to inform society of its delusions and inadequacies.
Gillian Caldwell | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green
30 national organizations working to combat global warming came together on a set of recommendations delivered to President-elect Obama earlier this month.
Gillian Caldwell | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green
Now that the heat of the campaign season is behind us, we hope Obama will stop pretending that "clean coal" is a realistic way to reduce carbon emissions and achieve energy independence.
Laurie David | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The scientific community is tired and their time should not be taken for granted. And there is the fact that time is running out. So what should be the next step?
AFP | Marlowe Hood | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
During five days of negotiations, the United States repeatedly challenged passages emphasizing the level of threat posed by climate change, objecting ...
AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report released Saturday,...
Carl Pope | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green