Kids playing in the Yamuna River in India
It’s pretty clear many people have become too disconnected from the environment. There has been a kind of universal thought in the last 200 or so years…
The video below is the optimistic Andrew Jones of the Sustainability Institute. He uses a simulation he and others created to tell a story of hope and possibility for addressing climate change,…
The melting Greenland ice cap is formed into mounds and ridges near the town of Kulusuk August 2, 2009. REUTERS/Bob Strong
Global warming is speeding up and we are hurtling towards a warmer planet…
We have another vague agreement from the 20 most powerful countries. They have given us a broad goal with no deadline and no real way to reach it. Even this seems difficult to hammer out for the…
Humans are puny creatures but we have impacted the earth and the environment more than some people can fathom. People who deny climate change is caused mainly by humans are a disappearing breed,…
Planned emission cuts still mean a far hotter Earth — (story below). Even the newest plans to fight climate change are not going to be adequate to keep temperatures rising beyond safe levels,…
Sens. Boxer and Kerry at a climate rally in June.Photo: David Pierpont, NWF via Flickr
A few nights ago at Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum, Teresa Heinz read a message from her husband, Sen. John…
Is the world ready for a climate treaty? Not really, not yet. But we are getting closer. I just did a podcast on the UN Climate Summit (you can find the podcast here) and though UN Secretary…
In the photo here, you can see the way Sydney Australia usually looks and then how Sydney looked the other day when they had a massive dust storm. It’s probable that this dust storm, which carried…
Police from the Aceh Tamiang district prepare to enter an illegal palm oil plantation inside the Leuser Ecosystem, the largest protected rainforest in Sumatra May 31, 2009. Picture taken May 31,…
UK Climate Secretary Ed Miliband and Filmmaker Franny Armstrong
This is a review of the Age of Stupid movie and event on September 21st, a movie that was simulcast nation-wide in the U.S. and…
Below is the full transcript from the White House of President Obama’s speech today to the United Nations summit on climate change. As described by someone who heard it:
“President Obama hit…
This is fantastic news. Plans for a new, massive coal plant to be built in South Dakota next year, near the Minnesota border, are now (apparently) dead, or at least in a coma. The main partner for…
Don’t miss this one-night only world premiere from New York City, debuting in only a few hours and kicking off UN Climate Week. Visit the Age of Stupid website for more information. This is your…
(Sept. 17) — Surface temperatures of the world’s oceans were warmer this summer than for any Northern Hemisphere summer since…
