Norah Vawter: The Green New Deal — Let’s Get Visionary
We need a plan to save the planet while creating great jobs. Actually, there is one. Lately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future … Continue reading
Jeff Turrentine: A Renewable Energy Revolution in Trump Country?
Americans know which way the energy winds are blowing—and in the heartland, they’re blowing mightily. Something truly noteworthy is taking place in a deep-red swath of the Midwest. According to a … Continue reading
Todd Miller: Why the Migrant Caravan Story Is a Climate Change Story
Drought, crop failure, storms, and land disputes pit the rich against the poor, and Central America is ground zero for climate change. Less than a mile south of the U.S.-Mexico … Continue reading
David Korten: Why I Have Hope in the Face of Human Extinction
Around the world, people are realizing the current path will lead only to disaster, and they’re beginning to ask the hard questions about what to do next. When I ask … Continue reading
Nancy Fresco: In Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change
Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening in an ocean that was once locked in ice. In Alaska, … Continue reading
Christian Kroll: Agriculture is broken, but we can fix it
I remember cycling past corn fields on my way to school. What ten-year-old me didn’t realise, of course, is that the huge machines and the beautiful, tidy monotony of the … Continue reading
Stacy Bannerman: If You Forget About a War, It’s Time to End It
Saying ‘Enough folded flags,’ military families speak out against the Afghanistan War. You’d hardly know it from the news, but we’ve been continuously at war in Afghanistan since 2001. The … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: What Will Donald Trump Be Remembered For?
The World According to The Don(ald) I know you won’t believe me. Not now, not when everything Donald Trump does — any tweet, any insult at any rally — is … Continue reading
John Feffer: The GOP Wants Trumpism, Just Without Trump
Critics like that anonymous op-ed writer have no problem with how Trump’s actually hurting people. They just want the leader doing it to look more presidential. . The recent anonymous … Continue reading
Video: “Climate Change Opera” by Operatico Politico — YOHOE!
. YOHOE: You Only Have One Earth. Opera singers Rebecca Nelsen and Eric Stoklossa of Operatico Politico brilliantly summarize the climate change debate. If you like opera and hate climate change then this is … Continue reading
William Moomaw, et al: What the world needs now to fight climate change — More swamps
“Drain the swamp” has long meant getting rid of something distasteful. Actually, the world needs more swamps – and bogs, fens, marshes and other types of wetlands. Wetlands are some … Continue reading
Molly Fisk: Summer Lightning
In the morning while it’s still cool we hose down the yard, watch a red sun crest the ridge, haloed in wildfire smoke that drifted 200 miles and stalled … Continue reading
Tim Radford: Scientists predict a probable worldwide die-off of vegetation as a result of climate change
Humans are triggering a huge vegetation change which will disrupt their own environment. It has happened before, but this time it is happening fast. LONDON, 7 September 2018 – The … Continue reading
Arlene Weiner: Song for Climate March
This planet’s mine, this planet’s yours. From the melting icecaps to the flooding shores, From bleaching coral to scorching deserts This planet needs both you and me. This planet … Continue reading
