The Myth of Clean Coal
Utilities and coal companies are pushing to open over a hundred new coal-fired power plants in the US. But activists, investors, communities, consumers, and scientists are pointing to financial,...
View ArticleNew Generations in Sustainability
Each generation reinvents the world inherited from the previous generation. A new generation is inheriting a wounded planet and a dysfunctional economy. Youthful energy seeks to heal our world and...
View ArticleThe Community-Building Power of Wind
When it comes to renewable energy, wind is taking the lead–at least at this stage of technological development. But what’s the best model for developing it? Should we follow the centralized utility...
View ArticleEnvisioning the Future of Sustainability
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Yogi Berra said that. He also said, the future ain’t what it used to be. For Glen Hiemstra, the future holds the key to current planning....
View ArticleJoe Romm Compares Presidential Platforms on Environment and Energy
We reported last week that Barack Obama will regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act if elected. Not so for John McCain. Today writer and scientist Joseph Romm wrote on his blog...
View ArticleHow the Rich Are Destroying the Earth
While some view the negative impacts of economics and environment as separate, Herve Kempf sees financial inequality and environmental destruction as inextricably linked. The author of , Kempf explains...
View ArticleThe End of Food?
The 18th century British author Jonathan Swift wrote that under the enclosure movement in Britain, “sheep eat men”. That’s because large landowners threw thousands of tenant farmers off their land to...
View ArticleThe Transition — to Sustainability
Today we talk with Hunter Lovins, founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, about the Presidential Climate Action Project. The Sea Change ViewPoint comes from Charlie Cray of the Center for Corporate...
View ArticleViewPoint: Jim Motavalli on Cars and Carbon
Jim Motavalli blogs on green matters for The Daily Green and Mother Nature Network and he blogs about cars in the New York Times “Automobiles” section. He was also a long-time editor for E–the...
View ArticleAfter Capitalism: PROUT as a Sustainable, Democratic Economic Model
Today, Dada Maheshvarananda meditates on the alternative economic model of Progressive Utilization Theory, or PROUT. Joe Romm of Climate Progress analyzes the climate resolve of the Obama...
View ArticleMaking the Case for a Green Stimulus
Alex Bowen, a Principal Research Fellow at The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment of the London School of Economics, discusses An Outline of the Case for a ‘Green’...
View ArticleForecasting Climate Change
What does our future on this warming globe hold? We explore this question today with Stephan Faris, who talks about his new book, . And Matt Madia of OMBWatch tells us about a provision in the...
View ArticleElectricity That Sucks
This week on Sea Change Radio we talk with Maria Vargas of the Energy Star program and Alan Meier, senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a faculty member at UC Davis and the...
View ArticleInside The Mind of Mitt: Romney and the Environment
Environmental journalist Neela Banerjee on Mitt Romney's positions on the environment
View ArticleThe Dirt on Compost: Jason Mark
Have you ever been to the dump? It’s a pretty smelly place. Part of what you’re smelling is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that’s created as biodegradable garbage breaks down. A number of studies...
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Declining Energy Resources Spur Increasing Global Conflict
Michael KlareCWR co-host Francesca Rheannon speaks with Hampshire College Professor Michael Klare about his new book, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy. Klare defines the...
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The Climate of Transportation
John OlverToday CWR takes you to a conference at the intersection between climate change and transportation held last week at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There, climate scientists,...
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Bob Monks: ExxonMobil Exemplifies Corpocracy
The ExxonMobil annual shareholder meeting this year carried high expectations from shareholder activists. Members of the Rockefeller family, descending from the founder of the Standard Oil monopoly...
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The Grey Lady and The EPA
For the better part of the past decade, The New York Times and The Environmental Protection Agency have been frequent punching bags of the right wing. Conservatives allege that The Grey Lady has an...
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Incoming EPA Chief: Fox In The Henhouse
When someone sues an organization repeatedly and then gets put in charge of that agency it’s a pretty classic example of the fox guarding the henhouse. Welcome to the Bizarro World of the Trump...
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