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What climate change means for the wine industry
John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him Mr. Green. But if you ask him how climate change will affect...
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A deepwater drilling moratorium might be a bad idea for Louisiana
We can’t all go cold turkey.This article is part of a special issue of The Nation magazine about green energy, “Freedom From Oil.” PORT SULPHUR, La. — Captain Pete, as everyone in town calls him, has...
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Meet Generation Hot
This article is adapted from Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, which will be published in January 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It first appeared on Huffington Post. My daughter...
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What climate activists could learn from the anti-slavery movement
Cross-posted from The Nation.Students in Portugal.Photo: 350.org From the standpoint of human survival, it makes no sense: Our media and political systems are losing focus on climate change long...
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Why Seattle will stay dry when your city floods
The Emerald City — green in more ways than one. This post is adapted from Mark Hertsgaard’s new book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. If you’re a Seattleite, come meet Hertsgaard at...
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New approach to climate deniers: Launch them into space!
Sir Richard Branson in his WhiteKnightTwo aircraft.Photo: Dave Malkoff This story has been corrected and updated since its original publication. See below for details. Here’s a new idea for how to...
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Cycles and cents: One city sets out to prove that bikes are good for business
Cross-posted with The Nation. Look out, Minneapolis and Portland. Long Beach is making its move, aiming to surpass you as America’s Most Bike Friendly City. Does that sound odd for a city whose chief...
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Missing the point of the cap-and-trade defeat
It’s a baffle. While reanalyzing the cap-and-trade fight and responding to Theda Skocpol’s controversial paper on it, my esteemed colleagues Bill McKibben, David Roberts, Joe Romm, and Eric Pooley...
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The worst part about BP’s oil-spill cover-up: It worked
U.S. Air ForceA C-130 Hercules sprays Corexit onto the Gulf of Mexico. “It’s as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked...
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Plant matters: Is photosynthesis the best defense against climate change?
halfrainThe Earth’s plants and soils already hold three times as much carbon as the atmosphere does. A gigantic, steaming-hot mound of compost is not the first place most people would search for a...
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It's time to renew your enviro vows, Al
The environment should be a winning electoral issue for Al Gore, so why has he said so little about it — thus far — during his run for president? Day after day, the vice president pounds away on his...
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Enviros worldwide call for release of two Mexican activists
Forty-five of the world’s most prominent environmentalists have called for the immediate release of Mexican colleagues Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera Garcia, who have been jailed and...
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Threats to Mexican environmentalists continue
Two political associates of peasant environmentalists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera have narrowly survived an apparent assassination attempt, raising grave questions about Montiel and Cabrera’s...
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Can a beat-Bush effort yield a progressive coalition with staying power?
Is Bush digging his political grave with enviro rollbacks? Photo: White House. Who says George W. Bush never did anything for the great outdoors? His running for reelection could be the best thing to...
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An interview with Terry Tamminen, Schwarzenegger’s top enviro official
Terry Tamminen. Terry Tamminen, secretary of California’s Environmental Protection Agency, may hold the most powerful environmental job in the U.S. outside of Washington, D.C. Not only is California...
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John Francis, a ‘planetwalker’ who lived car-free and silent for 17 years,...
How long could you survive without your car? For the many Americans who think nothing of driving 10 blocks to buy a gallon of milk, the answer is obvious. But before any of you dedicated pedestrians...
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Why Al Gore isn’t running for president
As Hillary, Obama, and Edwards continue to slug it out in the early primary states, one name is conspicuously absent among the Democratic candidates to become the next president of the United States....
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A scary new climate study will have you saying ‘Oh, shit!’
“Oh, shit.”They say that everyone who finally gets it about climate change has an “Oh, shit” moment — an instant when the full scientific implications become clear and they suddenly realize what a...
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In Copenhagen: island nations confront big emitters
Cross-posted from The Nation. Big news from Copenhagen today, where the divide between big emitters and at-risk nations deepened, threatening the prospects of reaching a climate deal for President...
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Obama and Wen to meet soon one-on-one in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN — The Chinese premier Wen Jiabao will meet one-on-one with President Barack Obama soon in Copenhagen to try to reach agreement on a new international climate treaty, according to He Yafei,...
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