Will Nuclear Power Split the Green Movement?

Trouble Brewing

As ayoung boy, Aaron Lehmer lamented as the cornfields outside his family’ssuburban home in Des Moines, Iowa gradually were paved over to make wayfor more housing. Lehmer could not fathom how wh...

Each day brings fresh evidence of how humanity’s reckless carbon consumption fuels atmospheric changes. Europe experienced a particularly bizarre summer, as erratic weather simultaneously brou...

As a young boy, Aaron Lehmer lamented as the cornfields outside his family’s suburban home in Des Moines, Iowa gradually were paved over to make way for more housing. Lehmer could not fathom how...

Ricardo GonzalezTheRosebud Sioux like to tell the story of a visiting elder from aSouthwest pueblo who came to their South Dakota tribal lands and asked,“Say, all your animals up here kind of le...

Toyotas vs. Tortillas

Producedand Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Directed by Leila Connors Petersenand Nadia Connors. 91 minutes; Warner Independent Pictures. Theurban organic farm I co-manage relies heavily on voluntee...

For more than 30 years, John Schaeffer has been on the cutting edge of innovations in renewable energy. He is the founder and president of Real Goods, which he has shepherded from a small start-up to ...

The Human Costs of Our Coal Economy

Slowing Climate Change and Saving Money

Former Earth Island Journal editor Gar Smith noted that as a mountaineer, “Dave Brower learned how to balance personal daring against gravity to overcome daunting obstacles.” He took that ...

Venezuela's Socialist Reforms Float on a Sea of Oil

Jim DiPeso

Istockphoto.com Situated on a tall sea cliff above pounding waves, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant enjoys the kind of stunning ocean view typical of Central California’s rugged coast. R...

High in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, on a small island of green above a desert of rock and mud, a man in blue jean overalls wanders throughan overgrown cemetery and struggles to contain...

An excerpt from Paul Hawken's new book Blessed Unrest

The Human Costs of Our Coal Economy

The Adaptation Network is one of Earth Island’s newest projects. “Adaptation” refers toadapting to climate change in the US, although the models the Networkpromotes and the relations...

Are dams fueling climate change?

Caffeine addicts beware: Climate change may end up making it harder to get your morning fix. A new study warns that temperature increases could wipe out the entire coffee crop in Uganda, an African ...

Advocacy JournalismIn response to your Editor’s Letter, “Journalism with a Purpose,” in the Summer 2007 issue: I hope that you can give substance to your call for advocacy journalism...

In South America, business has always overshadowed biodiversity.

ChrisJordan is part of a cohort of environmental photographers who, ratherthan turning their lens on nature, focus attention on the unnaturalnessof our daily surroundings. Sure, the “environment...

AFRICASpotty Logic?Leopards may find themselves in a tight spot now that The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has approved a Ugandan proposal to ...

The Adaptation Network is one of Earth Island’s newest projects. “Adaptation” refers to adapting to climate change in the US, although the models the Network promotes and the relat...

In Loving Memory of Gretchen Wyler