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Ontario First Nation Wins Cleaner Forest after 10 Years of Logging Blockade
by Anna Willowposted Dec 03, 2012 - On December 3, 2002, members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blockaded the road used to haul logs out of the area. Ten years later, their persistence has paid off in the form of cleaner water and a healthier forest in which to live.
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5 Ways the Space Program Helps Us Fight Climate Change
by Erin L. McCoyposted Nov 30, 2012 - From tracking glaciers to predicting crop failure to figuring out how to store solar energy in molten salt, NASA has produced some of our best tools in the fight against climate change.
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BP’s Civil Fines Could be 10 Times Larger than Record Criminal Penalty
by Signe Predmoreposted Nov 20, 2012 - The $4.5 billion oil giant BP has agreed to pay out for criminal misconduct related to the Deepwater Horizon spill is too small to change the company’s business model. Yet more and bigger payments are likely to come.
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To Change Our Direction, It’s Time to Follow Nature’s Lead
by Sarah van Gelderposted Nov 19, 2012 - It takes humility to recognize that what we’ve called progress isn’t always for the better. Sometimes nature’s original idea was a better one.
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To Save Our Ecosystems, Stop Overloading Them
by Doug Pibel, Madeline Ostranderposted Nov 19, 2012 - Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.
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From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges
by Sven Eberleinposted Nov 19, 2012 - Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don’t harm us or the environment, and nature’s already done the research.
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More Than Nutritious: Why Organics Are Still Healthier
by Robin Broad, John Cavanaghposted Nov 19, 2012 - Two recent studies concluded that organic food is no more nutritious than non-organic food. But the value of organics involves health on multiple levels, from that of farmers to eaters to the planet itself.
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Your Body is a Body of Water
by Jourdan Keithposted Nov 14, 2012 - A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.
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Greenpeace’s Kumi Naidoo: Time to Stand Against Big Oil in the Arctic
by Kumi Naidooposted Nov 13, 2012 - Oil companies—and many of our political leaders—see melting sea ice as an opportunity to drill deeper. Fortunately, you don’t have to occupy an Arctic drilling platform to join the growing movement of people who are putting themselves on the line for our planet’s future.
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Should Chiapas Farmers Suffer for California’s Carbon?
by Jeff Conantposted Nov 13, 2012 - A California proposal would offset the state’s climate-altering emissions by paying for forest conservation in Chiapas. Could there be unintended consequences in a region with a history of human rights abuse and land grabs?
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NASA Climate Expert James Hansen: The Future Is Now—and It Is Hot
by Jeff Raderstrongposted Nov 13, 2012 - Climate change is already increasing the likelihood of weather extremes—like the droughts and heat waves we’ve seen in recent years—according to a new report by one of NASA’s top climate scientists.
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Next Leaders in the Climate Movement: Insurance Companies?
by Jeff Raderstrongposted Nov 13, 2012 - Insurance companies are likely to pay out billions in claims due to events caused by climate change—which makes them well-poised to lead the way to a low-carbon economy.
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McKibben Spearheads Plan to Hit Dirty Energy Where It Hurts
by Fabien Tepperposted Nov 09, 2012 - Could 350.org’s aggressive new strategy bring an end to global warming?
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A Real World Plan for the President’s Second Term
by David Kortenposted Nov 08, 2012 - The pundits are right that Obama should work to bridge political divides. But he needs to reach out to the American people—not to the Republican Party.
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Bill McKibben’s Math: Climate Change Hits Home (in a 22-City Tour)
by Phil Aroneanuposted Nov 05, 2012 - It shouldn't take a hurricane to blow open the debate about climate change. But Sandy might help 350.org prove what's at stake in a nationwide campaign to divest university endowments from the fossil fuel industry.
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