Big Oil’s Broken Business Model
Many reasons have been provided for the dramatic plunge in the price of oil to about $60 per barrel (nearly half of what it was a year ago)…
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Recycling in the Anthropocene
Individualized recycling is a start but it is not doing nearly enough.
Building people power before the Paris climate summit
As we approach yet another climate summit this November in Paris, the question for the climate protection movement is not just, can some kind of agreement be reached, but how can we reverse the continuing climate catastrophe over the next quarter-century?
Climate Change is Likely Factor in Syria’s Conflict
Researchers say climate change probably caused the savage drought that affected Syria nearly a decade ago − and helped to spark the country’s current civil war.
Ancient Landscapes Point to Dramatic Climate Change
Scientists believe Chinese civilisation could have been founded by climate refugees after the collapse of an Inner Mongolian culture over 4,000 years ago.
The Year the Dam of Denial Breaks on Climate Change
It will be messy, confusing and endlessly debated but with historical hindsight, 2015 will be the year the world turned.
Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit?
Californians have been enjoying summer weather in the dead of winter, but the downside is that unseasonably warm temperatures could threaten many of our favorite foods.
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks
We often hear it said that climate change is too abstract to win the support needed to effectively combat it.
Energy Crunch: a rare moment of unity
In a rare moment of unity, the leaders of the UK’s three major parties last week agreed to work together on climate change.
To Make Hope Possible Rather Than Despair Convincing
We stand at a precipice in history that demands that the human species achieve some fairly unprecedented evolutionary advances.
What Role for Grazing Livestock?
The Sustainable Food Trust recently organised a meeting to consider the question, ‘What role for grazing livestock in a world of climate change and diet-related disease?’
Industry backlash against fossil fuel divestment forces the question: Which side are you on?
Rather than convincing administrators, or even the fossil fuel industry, of their wrongs, divestment campaigners should be convincing everyone that the movement is right.
