Could This Be the 21st Century’s Most Powerful Idea?
This is a guest post by Chris Wood, adapted from his brand new book, Down the Drain: How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources. What we have here…
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Is Houston a Tar Sands “Sacrifice Zone”?
This is a guest post by Caroline Selle Much of the debate around the Keystone XL pipeline has focused on the dangers of extracting and transporting the tar sands. Left…
IRS Sleuths Were on the Right Track: Big Tobacco Created Tea Party in 1994
This is a guest post by Pam Martens, cross-posted with permission from Wall Street On Parade. On February 25, 2013, James Hepburn, writing at Daily Kos, made the emphatic assertion…
Exxon Knew of Dangerous Contamination from Arkansas Spill, Yet Claimed Area “Oil Free”
This is a guest blog by Jesse Coleman, cross-posted from Greenpeace blog The Witness On March 29 ExxonMobil, the most profitable company in the world, spilled at least 210,000 gallons…
Will Future Generations Call Obama The ‘Environmental President’ Or An Abject Failure?
This is a guest post by Joe Romm, cross-posted from ClimateProgress with permission. It’s tempting to grade the President on a curve, but future generations won’t — if we destroy…
Into Wine: New Book by Olivier Magny Explores Terroirism, Soil Health and More
This is a guest post by French sommelier Olivier Magny, author of the new book, Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure. When you like wine, and start to learn more…
The Death of ‘Sustainability’
This is a guest post by Glenn Hurrowitz, author and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. Can destroying a tropical rainforest be “sustainable”? Well, according to a decision…
Coal Exports: An Update On Pacific Northwest Coal Fights
This is a guest post by Josephine Ferorelli, originally published at Occupy.com. There is not enough room in the national headlines for all the battles between fossil fuel expansion projects…
New Report, “Cooking the Books,” Highlights State Department’s Keystone XL Miscalculations
This is a guest post by Caroline Selle A new report from Oil Change International, provides new evidence that, if built, the Keystone XL pipeline will have a devastating impact…
INFOGRAPHIC: 13 Oil Spills in 30 Days: The Dirty Business of Moving Oil
by Heather Libby. Originally posted at tkctcktck.org Moving oil is a dirty business, and never has that been more clear than this past month. In the past 30 days the…
Marking Up the Alberta Government’s $30,000 Keystone XL Ad
This is a guest post by Heather Libby. If you’re a regular reader of the Sunday New York Times, you might have noticed a half-page ad in the A section…
Excerpt from Bill Hewitt’s A Newer World: The Insurance Industry’s Response to Climate Change
The following is excerpted from A Newer World: Politics, Money, Technology, and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis by Bill Hewitt. It is taken from Chapter 8,…
Onslaught of Kochtopus Groups Threaten Kansas Clean Energy
By Connor Gibson, crossposted with permission from Greenpeace USA. A recent flood of Koch-supported think tanks, junk scientists and astroturf groups from inside and outside of Kansas are awaiting the…
People in Glass Houses Should Not Throw "Boneheads"
This is a guest post by economist James P. Barrett, Ph.D. “Utterly Boneheaded.” That is how Joe Nocera, writing in The New York Times characterized James Hansen (head of NASA…
Not Smart, But Not ALEC Either
This is a guest post by Glenn Branch from the National Center for Science Education When the Arizona Daily Star asked the president of the Arizona Education Association what he…
The Resurgence of an Evolving Climate Movement, Part 2
Ken Wu is executive director of Majority for a Sustainable Society (MASS) and co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance. For Part 1 of this article, click here. In the first…
The Keystone Principle
This is a guest post by KC Golden, originally published on GripOnClimate.org The big President’s Day rally on the National Mall is more than a Keystone pipeline protest. It’s a…
The Credibility Gap: All Talk and Not Much Action on Climate Change
By Hannah McKinnon, National Program Manager at Environmental Defense. In last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama reiterated his vision for clean energy and urgent action on global…
The Resurgence of an Evolving Climate Movement, Part 1
Ken Wu is executive director of Majority for a Sustainable Society (MASS) and co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance. After years of apathy and political inertia, North America’s climate sustainability…
Evangeline Lilly: I am Canadian. What are You?
This is a guest post by Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress. For those of you who don’t know me, I am a Canadian actress who has been living abroad in Hawaii…