Greening Houston
The U.S. capital of the oil industry could teach other cities a thing or two about fighting climate change—in a politically inhospitable climate.
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Why Warnings on Climate Spark Aggressive Denials
A new book argues that death threats and abuse illustrate how climate change messengers are being demonised in a way that is without parallel in the history of science.
Digging Deep with Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken on his path from civil rights activist to environmental champion to gardening guru, and what it will to take to make real social change.
What Is the Carbon Limit? That Depends Who You Ask
Scientists are offering widely varying estimates of how much carbon we can emit into the atmosphere without causing dangerous climate change.
Will fossil fuel divestment take root in South Africa?
When it comes to divestment — be it the U.S. campaigns against tobacco and sweatshop labor in the 1990s or the current global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel — the anti-apartheid struggle is always cited as an influence.
Fostering Community Strategies For Saving the World’s Oceans
To conservationist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, getting coastal communities involved in plans to protect their waters is critical for protecting the planet’s oceans.
Naomi Klein in conversation about This Changes Everything
A conversation with Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything, and Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive.
“Severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released two major reports on November 2 – a 116-page Synthesis Report (pdf), summarizing the key findings in the three working group reports issued earlier in the year, and a 40-page Summary for Policy Makers, which summarizes the Synthesis report.
Weathering the Storms, Planting the Seeds
Fundamentally, we have to “hospice what’s left of the system we’re leaving behind, while planting the seeds for the future we’re building.”
Why We Can’t Ditch the 2 C Warming Goal
On Oct. 1, David G. Victor and Charles F. Kennel wrote an opinion piece that appeared in the journal Nature, Ditch the 2 C warming goal.
Review: This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs. the Climate
Climate activists, she believes, need to take a similarly clear moral stance. And as she writes, ‘the climate movement has yet to find its full moral voice on the world stage, but it is most certainly clearing its throat’.
Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all!
[I]nternational media, governments and the United Nations enthusiastically welcomed a new report entitled “Better Growth, Better Climate” and trumpeted its central message around the globe: that economic growth and tackling climate change can go hand in hand….
