There’s no question that for those of us committed to environmental sanity and social justice the November mid-term elections were a disappointing setback. The Republican Party has always been i...

Save Japan Dolphins Goes Global

Nuclear vs. Renewables

Early this year I embarked on a challenging and unforgettable journey. I ventured into the dark reaches of my kitchen cabinets, the depths of my vegetable drawer, and the cobweb-covered corners of my ...

Plenty of ProteinAs letter-writer Jen Williams pointed out in reference to your story about the environmental impacts of eating meat (“What’s for Dinner?,” Spring), vegetarians can e...

Trout Triumph

Since he first published the seminal Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, Stewart Brand has been a leading thinker about how to create an ecologically sustainable society. More recently, he has been encouragi...

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AfricaAsia EuropeNorth AmericaOceaniaSouth AmericaAfrica The Road Less TraveledBen CombeeAccording to a coalition of international scientists, a highway proposed for the Serengeti National Park, ...

Put a Roof on It

Dubbed one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by TIME, physicist Amory Lovins has spent 40 years integrating radical energy efficiency with renewable supply. He is cofounder, chairman, a...

China Leads Green Energy Race A recently report by Vivid Economics, a London consulting firm, surprised some people with the news that China is leading the race for clean energy. Cleantech analysts...

Ban Coyote Bounties!

Nancie Battaglia Journalist, author, and activist Bill McKibben, by all rights, should be an egomaniac. He graduated from Harvard, where he was the editor of the university’s acclaimed Crimso...

You’ve heard of me but we’ve never met, even though I’ve been part of America’s “power elite” for 60 years. You might call me one of the original Baby Boomers. But ...

illustration by Becca thorne, www.beccathorne.co.uk. DecemberWhen we first moved up here, I used to believe that the people I heard complaining about winter’s length, and particularly winter&...

Residents of Vieques Pushed Out the US Navy After 60 Years of Bombing. A Sick Population Now Fights for Redress.

Logging’s Ill-Gotten Gains Hidden in Plain Sight

Joe Riis

A Preview of the San Francisco Green Film Festival

Clean Power Healthy Communities

California’s wealthiest growers, poorest workers, and the water between them…

The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
By Rebecca Costa
334 pages, VanGuard Press, 2010

Who’s to Blame for the Impasse in Global Climate Talks?

Bravo Bodrov

Can a new group of young environmental leaders reinvigorate greens’ grassroots spirit?

The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth
by Eric Pooley
496 pages, Hyperion, 2010

Multinational mining hordes eye Mongolia’s Earthly fortunes