It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.
Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on [...]

In early February to little fanfare, President Obama created a task force on Carbon Capture and Storage. The purpose? A strategy to speed up clean coal development. The President hopes to have five to 10 commercial clean coal demonstration projects up and going by 2016. If you are the type that has thought clean coal [...]

High unemployment and powerful industry make new mining limits unlikely
Most of us take it for granted that when we flip the switch, the lights will go on. Sure, we write the electric company a monthly check, but otherwise lend no thought to the source of the power — like urban kids clueless that chicken originates [...]

Sustainability is a word that is bandied about a lot these days. But how, unless we change some of the present practices can, indeed all we do, be sustained in a world of finite constraints?
Below you’ll read some of the facts and make your own mind up. The interview that you can listen to here [...]

Democracy Now! broadcasts from Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest festival for independent cinema. Today, we spend the hour with Robert Redford. He’s well known as an actor, but part and parcel of who he is is an activist. He took his success and leveraged it to promote his [...]

 
Dear Family and Friends,
With the closing of the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15), I’ve completed my World Hunger Strike commitment in raising awareness and funds to feed those starving in the world due to the climate change crises our world is in.
As I mentioned in my most recent email, it’s been an experience I shall never [...]

If you want to see it greener Save some place for the wild things If you want to make it cleaner ‘Talk It Up!’ J.P Taylor @singin4earth from his album ‘The Last Frontier’ Get the Album here at JP-Taylor.com

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Climate scientist James Hansen talks about global warming, Copenhagen, and his new book.
James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the world’s most famous climatologists. He testified at a 1988 U.S. Senate hearing that the emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was already producing a [...]

Tania Branigan Beijing
Two Chinese rights activists said todayyesterday that they were briefly detained by police after seeking a meeting with Barack Obama in Beijing. They added that US influence over China on human rights had declined. Jiang Tianyong and Fan Yafeng were arrested by plain-clothed police officers after gathering with others at a hotel [...]

What’s on, who’s there and where to stay. Click here for a calendar of actions during the conference
Oxfam members wearing masks of world leaders offer a Copenhagen menu to other members representing poor countries last month in Barcelona. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images
Never mind the boring old delegates at next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen. Nearby [...]