Jay Inslee, BP and Washington’s Climate Story

August 6, 2021

Earlier this year, Washington state passed a bill to put a price on carbon pollution across a huge swath of its economy. But it didn’t get there...

Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature

July 30, 2021

What are the limits on how much humans should meddle with the natural world?  Vandana Shiva is an eco-feminist, activist, editor, and author who...

How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit

July 23, 2021

Unless you live in one of the few dense, urban parts of the country, you probably rely on a car to get around. That culture of car dependency...

REWIND: A Feminist Climate Renaissance

July 16, 2021

Can a feminist renaissance save the climate? A feminist approach to the climate conversation begins over a hundred and fifty years ago. That’s...

Mark Carney, Fatih Birol and the Narrow Path to Net Zero

July 9, 2021

Five years ago, most of the world’s nations entered into an agreement to dramatically ratchet down their carbon dioxide emissions with the goal...

Clearing the Air on Carbon Offsets

July 2, 2021

For more than two decades, carbon offset programs have promised individuals and businesses that they can reduce their overall carbon footprint by...

Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer

June 25, 2021

Last week’s heat wave across the western United States busted more records – a trend that doesn’t seem to be going away.  Despite the...

Shepard Fairey, Mystic and the Power of Art

June 17, 2021

Shepard Fairey is best known for creating the iconic Barack Obama “Hope” portrait during the 2008 presidential election. Fairey’s work is...

Colorado River Reckoning: Drought, Climate and Equal Access

June 11, 2021

The Colorado River hydrates more than 40 million people and 5 million acres of farmland from Wyoming to the US-Mexico border -- but it's not...

Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate

June 4, 2021

More than half of Americans surveyed by Pew have talked about climate change one to two times in recent weeks – and that number is even higher...