Ready for Renewables
It’s like the Yankees are coming to Buffalo.” That’s how Alain Kaloyeros, an advisor to New York Governor Andrew…
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Environment
Scorching Capitalism: Naomi Klein Turns Up the Heat in New Movie
This Changes Everything Directed by Avi Lewis Klein Lewis Productions, 2015 As a rule, documentaries about climate change feature…
Mining Giant Credits Activists for Possibly Saving Great Barrier Reef
Fierce environmental activism is being blamed—and credited—with spurring the potential demise of Australia's controversial Carmichael coal mine project. Indian…
The Green Pope in His Own Words
Pope Francis has released his long-awaited encyclical on climate change, entitled “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common…
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‘We Are Next’: California Looks to Follow New York’s Fracking Ban
Juan Flores stands in the community garden at Sequoia Elementary School in Shafter, California, and points to one, two,…
Tar Sands Activists Being Targeted by FBI
FBI investigators with nebulous intentions have attempted to question anti-tar sands activists in several states, the Canadian Press reported…
Inside the Doha Climate Conference
DOHA, Qatar — Less than a month after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, I arrived in one of…
Changing the Political Climate
The Consolidated Edison substation that lit up the Manhattan sky so spectacularly on the night Hurricane Sandy arrived is…
For Sandy’s Responders, Saying Thanks Isn’t Enough
As I was huddled in my north Brooklyn apartment on the night Hurricane Sandy made devastating landfall, I…
Candidates Flee East Coast as Frankenstorm Takes Revenge for their Ignoring Climate Change
Mitt Romney and Joe Biden have canceled campaign events planned for this weekend at Virginia Beach as a massive…
