Despite Russia’s claims, the Winter Games at Sochi are unlikely to be green
environmentalism
Earth Daze: What Happened to the Environmental Movement?
Forty-three years ago, more than 20 million Americans took part in the first Earth Day. Today, the number is a bit less. Has the modern environmental movement lost its way?
Why Climate Change Has Become the Missing Issue in the Presidential Campaign
We’re in the final few months of what’s shaping up to be the hottest year on record. In September, Arctic sea ice melted to its smallest extent in satellite records, while the Midwest was rocked by a once-in-a-generation level …
SXSW Eco: Searching for a New Environmentalism
At SXSW Eco in Austin, Bill McKibben and other top environmentalists debate the direction of the green movement. Will old ways work, or is change needed to come to grips with the scale of climate change?
Two Years After the Gulf Oil Spill, Why We Won’t Stop Drilling
It was two years ago today that the Deepwater Horizon—a top-of-the-line offshore drilling rig owned by BP and run by Transocean—experienced a sudden burst of gas from a three-mile long well its crew was drilling in the Gulf …
Clean Tech Support Is About to Fall Off a Cliff. Here’s One Way to Save It
Debt-ridden and sclerotic Japan hasn’t been the go-to example of smart foreign governments since about 1991—that slot is now occupied by China—but there’s one program from Tokyo that the U.S. would be wise to copy. It’s …
War on Coal: Why Polluting Plants Are Shutting Down Nationwide
Good news has been hard to come by for environmentalists, especially during an election year with potentially record-breaking gas prices. (Yes that was former President Bill Clinton at the ARPA-E summit on Wednesday telling …
Pipeline Politics: How an Oil Sands Project Has Become Key to Environmentalism
Given that there are already more than 2.3 million miles of pipelines in the U.S.—carrying petroleum products, chemicals and natural gas—it might seem odd that so much political energy has been expended on a proposed …
Political Fractures Over Fracking
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)—a five-member committee that governs the water resources around the Delaware River—was supposed to meet today to decide on whether hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, should be …
Is Ecocide a Crime?
From TIME contributor Joe Jackson:
As oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in May 2010, and then CEO Tony Hayward made his infamous statement that he wanted his life back, he likely had little fear of it being taken in a court of law.
But that reality could be changing as a movement to make …