Environmental Debt

July 9, 2013

There is a pattern between the way we do business and the changes in our climate. “The companies that are the biggest polluters make the biggest

Governors Ritter and Whitman: Risk and Resilience

June 19, 2013

Hurricane Sandy and the devastating Colorado fires of 2012 underscore the idea that climate disruption is amplifying natural disasters, if not causing

Power Choice

June 17, 2013

Rising interest in clean power is presenting electric monopolies with competition for the first time. Community choice aggregation (CCA) gives towns

Sea Surge

June 18, 2013

Humans have been using their ingenuity to deal with sea level rise, floods, and fluctuating coasts for the past 15,000 years, and recent extreme

Pandora's Promise (6/15/13)

June 15, 2013

In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the U.S. is struggling to define its nuclear energy future. The film “Pandora’s Promise” asks whether we should

Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

June 4, 2013

In the next decade, five billion more people should be able to access most of the world’s information through a mobile device. “The internet is going

Walmart. Emit Less. Live Better

May 6, 2013

Walmart and other large companies are pushing their suppliers to reduce packaging, waste and energy use to save companies money and reduce carbon

Climate Correspondents

May 2, 2013

Environmental journalists representing Brazil, China, Nigeria and the Philippines tackle the climate news of a developing world. Climate issues have

Warrior Writers

May 2, 2013

The urgency of the climate crisis has compelled writers such as Bill McKibben and Antonia Juhasz to cross the line into advocacy. “Often facts can be

Water, Food & Energy with Marvin Odum

April 29, 2013

Climate change is “real” and requires action, says Marvin Odum, President of Shell Oil Company. But that doesn’t change his belief that “there is a

Pipeline Paradigm

April 26, 2013

Are the Canadian tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline huge economic drivers or climate killers? Pipeline supporters such as Canadian diplomat Cassie

Global Meltdown: Christiana Figueres

April 17, 2013

These are tough days for international efforts to put a meaningful price on carbon pollution. It's a tough sell, and many clean-energy advocates say a

Petropoly

April 5, 2013

The country's energy paradigm is caught between the slogans of “drill-baby-drill” and “oil is evil.” The real problem arguably is that the global oil

Senator Dianne Feinstein: Guns, Drones and Energy

April 3, 2013

The United States should restrain the use of guns on the street and drones in the air according to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. “I think we do need

Fracking California

April 2, 2013

Tempting oil reserves trapped in California Monterey shale are raising the possibility of a fracking boom in California. “People began to come to me

Fracked Nation

April 2, 2013

With a thriving natural gas market in the U.S., oil and energy companies are in a race for fracking rights across the country. The fracking bonanza

Tomorrowland

March 22, 2013

“It’s essential for China to be on a low emissions growth pattern,” said Jian Lin, Chairman of The China Sustainable Energy Program. China’s cities

Clean Communities

March 22, 2013

Coastal cities “are facing an existential threat that we are not prepared to deal with,” said Gabriel Metcalf, the Executive Director of San Francisco

Game Change

March 19, 2013

“We are already paying significant economic costs” of climate disruption and they are “only going to increase,” says democratic strategist Chris

Bracing for Impact: Bay Area Vulnerabilities and Preparedness

March 18, 2013

"If we do not take the rational approach to this problem [of climate disruption] we are all facing really catastrophic impacts," said Ezra Rapport