Is Joe Romm leaving the country behind?
By Admin / On July 8th, 2010
That's Bill McKibben's concern about the Straight Up author. From the Washington Monthly:
Romm’s hyper-realism may ignore more important political possibilities.
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Nothing to fear from denialists.
By Admin / On December 17th, 2009
On Grist, Jay Inslee vents about the "birthers" and climate-change deniers:
Both birthers and the climate-change deniers work on a similar premise—that concrete facts can be subjugated to the power of fear.
We have the data on climate change--but can it spur action?
By Chuck Savitt / On December 11th, 2009
In a dramatic break with recent policy, the Environmental Protection Agency has just formally announced plans to regulate climate changing pollution under the Clean Air Act, declaring clear evidence that greenhouse gases "threaten the public health and welfare of the American people." President Obama has pledged to attend the second week of the COP15 climate change talks in Cope
Peter Gleick on water conflicts.
By Admin / On December 10th, 2009
Peter Gleick describes the history of the Water Conflict Chronology and the bottom line for water resources:
International security is not a sterile or static field of study and analysis. It is constantly evolving as international and regional politics evolves and as new threats to security become increasingly important in the affairs of humanity.
Fact-checking Sarah Palin's newest op-ed.
By Admin / On December 9th, 2009
Marc Ambinder has a point-by-point rebuttal of Sarah Palin's latest column in the Washington Post:
Remember, the "revelation" was born from an potentially illegal e-mail hack. "So-called" -- untrue. These are experts. Their science has been validated, independently. Their "actions" here consist of insulting climate change skeptics, immature name-calling, and, at worst, devising a strategy to keep the climate change deniers out of debates and peer-reviewed journals.
The Solutions Generation.
By Jonathan Isham / On July 17th, 2009
At a recent three-day workshop here in Vermont, I joined a visionary set of leaders, including Mary Evelyn Tucker, David Orr, and Larry Susskind, to help launch Solutions. The brainchild of Bob Costanza and his
Terry Tamminen: "Cop" to It Now: An Empty-Handed US Will Be a Party-Pooper
By Terry Tamminen / On April 15th, 2009
The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) sounds like a contradiction in terms--conferences are business-like and dull while parties are, well, fun! But COP 15 is actually the formal name of the annual gathering of nations that participate in the UN's effort to curb climate change and the "party" is about half a year from now in Denmark.
Sowing seeds of good health and of unity
By Ann Vileisis / On April 6th, 2009
Ever since President Obama took office in January, he's kept his eye on the grand prize of making political discourse more civil.
When Politics Kill
By [node:field_contributor] / On September 16th, 2008
When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed me to serve as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency in 2003, my first challenge came not from the smoggy skies of Los Angeles or the pesticide-laden drainage from irrigated fields near Fresno, but from a small town in Missouri.