Wanted: A Climate Bailout
Mark Hertsgaard : Environment
The United States and the world need to launch a climate rescue plan that's at least as ambitious as the Wall Street bailout.
2008
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Progressive Fusion
James Gustave Speth : Environment
Environmentalists must learn to join forces with other agents of change.
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Our Polar Bears, Ourselves
Mark Hertsgaard : Environment
Sarah Palin played a key role in the Bush administration's effort to ditch the Endangered Species Act.
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Are Evangelicals Going Green?
American News Project : Religion
How solidly Republican will Christian evangelicals be in 2008? Could concern about the planet be the issue that draws many believers into the Democratic camp?
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Presidential Election 2008
Katha Pollitt on the end of the Clinton campaign, Corey Robin on a neo-conservative book scandal and Mark Hertsgaard on the latest climate change legislation effort.
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What Will the Next President Do About Climate Change?
Mark Hertsgaard : Environment
Senate Republicans in denial about global warming blocked a vote Friday on the Climate Security Act, setting the stage for how the next President will address the Earth's most pressing issue.
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Earth at 350
Bill McKibben : Environment
Atmospheric CO2 has spiked to 385 parts per million. Roll that back to 350, and we may still live and thrive.
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What Nuclear Renaissance?
Christian Parenti : Energy
Despite a slick PR campaign hyping its promise, the nuclear industry isn't going anywhere. It's too costly and won't save us from global warming.
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Running on Empty
Mark Hertsgaard : Environment
The era of cheap, plentiful oil is just about over. Now what?
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A Green Corps
Bill McKibben : Environment
The New Deal brought with it programs that served not only the good of the people and the economy but also the environment. We need that now more than ever.
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Labor's War on Global Warming
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Labor Organizing & Activism
Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.
2007
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Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out
Nicholas von Hoffman : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty
Conservation, like taxes, is for little people. When you're rich you can waste all the water you want.
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Global Warming Is Reversible
The technology exists to solve environmental problems and improve our standard of living.
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As the World Burns
Uncomfortable questions nobody wants to raise about the worldwide drought.
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The Real Al Gore
For a Man of Peace, Gore has plenty of blood on his hands.
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Inconvenient Truth-Tellers
: Al Gore
This year's Nobel Peace Prize should spur governments and people everywhere to urgent action on climate change.
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Which Climate Bill on Capitol Hill?
As scenarios on the impact of global warming worsen, Senate Democrats are poised to abandon a realistic bill and support a deeply flawed measure that doesn't solve the problem.
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The Hundred-Mile Diet
Christopher Ketcham : Agriculture
A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.
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The Greenhousers Strike Back, and Strike Out
More contrarian thinking on climate change.
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New Energy for America
Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel : Electoral Politics
Under Bush, the right has failed to address energy independence. Can Democrats rise to the challenge?
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Is Global Warming a Sin?
Is global warming an unprecedented disaster, or just the earth recovering from the ice age?
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Going Green
We can no longer prevent global warming, but we can survive it--if we have the collective will to act.
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Fevered Imagination
Artists try to wake up a sleepwalking public to the dangers of climate change.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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