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Urban Farms Are Sprouting up across the United States. Can They Translate Popularity into Profitability?

My favorite line from the coal industry flaks is their boast that the United States has enough coal reserves to power the country for another 200 or so years. Really?, I feel like saying, only 200...

Who Rules? The People vs. Corporate Power

As Editor in Chief and Publisher of Next American City, Diana Lind is constantly looking at ways to make cities sustainable. She also produces NAC’s signature events, Next American Vanguard and ...

Let’s say you chose the neighborhood you live in because everything you needed – grocery store, school, park, a bank, your job – was within walking distance or a short commute. Imagi...

Not-So-Happy Ending All that was missing from Jacques Leslie’s report on the recent Klamath River settlement (“Rough Water,’ Spring) was a chorus of Kumbaya. Tell us what you thin...

Bear Down

A veteran advocate for electric vehicles, Marc Geller is on the board of directors of the Electric Auto Association and co-founded the association’s San Francisco chapter and the San Francisco E...

A Global Movement Is Bringing Down King Coal – One Power Plant at a Time.

Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South AmericaAfrica Split DecisionThe World Bank, it seems, has something of a personality disorder when it comes to environmental policy. Exhibit ...

Camping at the Presidio

Kumi Naidoo is the real thing. Naidoo, who became the Executive Director of Greenpeace International in November 2009, is not your typical career environmentalist. In a recent conversation, he was ref...

Problem SolvedClimate change – and the associated likelihood of droughts, disrupted harvests, and declining fresh water supplies — is often thought of as a phenomenon that will increase geopol...

Global Justice Groups Say Wealthy Countries Must Pay Reparations for Climate Chaos

by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, 101 minutes

On March 31, President Obama reversed a campaign pledge by calling for renewed oil drilling off US shores. Unfortunately, this was no April Fool’s joke. Domestic drilling, the president argued, ...

A Mining Resurgence in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Threatens the Environment and the Region’s Tourism Industry.

New Society Publishers, 2009, 2008

The Navajo Nation’s Green Economy

Ingrid Munro’s Microfinance Outfit in Kenya Is Helping to Move People out of Slums and into a New Green Town.

by Julia Whitty
256 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

Siberia: The Next Costa Rica?

Edward Burtynsky

Horrible History