Climate Crisis

Democracy can only approach its promise when it protects all members of society.

A new scientific report shows that global warming can be kept well under two degrees C, but only if most of the known deposits of coal, oil and gas …

As United Nations climate talks get underway this week in Doha, Qatar, they show a subtle, unsettling shift in the global climate change debate.

Here are some of the industry-funded so-called experts that create a polarized misunderstanding of climate science.

In this chapter, Gar Alperovitz charts the varied interconnections between community economic and environmental stability, gender-friendly community design and land ownership institutions.

Michael T. Klare: Of all the findings in the 2012 edition of the World Energy Outlook, the one that merits the greatest international attention is the one that received …

The political and corporate elites in the industrialized world continue, in spite of overwhelming scientific data, to place short-term corporate profit and expediency before the protection of human life …

Coming to terms with personal and collective responsibility as the destruction our unfettered consumption has wrought becomes clearer every day.

We need to drop the ‘fiscal cliff’ politicking and tell the truth about our poor economy and climate change.

Two-thirds of the worldu2019s proven fossil fuel reserves cannot be used without risking dangerous climate change, the International Energy Agency warned this week.