Paul Hawken & Andy Revkin: Carbon Gift

October 18, 2013

“Humans are problem-solving animals – you would never know it reading the press,” said environmentalist Paul Hawken. He and NY Times writer...

OPEC Oil Embargo +40

October 18, 2013

“You would much rather breathe the air in any American city than breathe it in Beijing – thank you, EPA,” said former Secretary of State...

Bay Delta: A Grand Bargain?

October 16, 2013

"The Delta is not just a canteen to supply water...it’s a place that a lot of people live and work and call home," said Kip Lipper, Chief...

Grazing, Grass and Gas

October 4, 2013

“We have the potential to use grazing lands and use cattle and livestock to help slow climate change,” according to UC Berkeley professor...

Metro Revolution

September 20, 2013

"I will attest to the fact that the federal government actually has left the building," said Kofi Bonner, president of Lennar’s Bay Area Urban...

Corn, Cars and Cows

August 22, 2013

While ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline, some researchers argue its production makes it less than environmentally friendly. University of...

Overheated

June 28, 2013

“Climate change will be the biggest health issue of my grandchild’s lifetime and my great-grandchildren’s lifetime…we will be looking at...

Nature's Price Tag

July 26, 2013

An emerging area of economics aims to put a price on nature as a way of justifying preserving it in societies dominated by the wisdom of markets....

Fracking News

July 19, 2013

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is “the most profound [energy] revolution that we’ve had in decades,” said San Francisco Chronicle...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...