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The Power Is in the Plan
For anyone who cares about stopping climate disruption, today is a big deal. Most of the news we read and watch about climate change is dark. Bleak, even. Depressing. Many of the tweets, posts, and...
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Ten Years After Katrina
Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,800 people, devastated a great American city, and caused more than a hundred billion dollars of damage. An enormous natural disaster was amplified by governmental...
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Arctic Reality
Last week, President Obama made the most extensive presidential visit to Alaska ever. He hiked on a glacier, met with Alaska Native leaders, and became the first president ever to visit the Arctic...
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The Big Picture in Paris
Nothing is reasonable about climate disruption. The hardship caused by rising temperatures won't be distributed fairly. In fact, many of the nations facing the worst consequences have contributed the...
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From Ben to Beneficial
Suppose Ben van Beurden asked you for a loan. Admittedly, that's not likely, because Ben earned about $25 million last year, but let's pretend he left his wallet in his stretch SUV limo or something....
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Hope and Redemption
Never has a single week offered such a moral contrast on environmental issues.Speaking at the White House yesterday, Pope Francis, the widely admired spiritual leader of more than 70 million American...
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Shell Shocker?
Nothing brightens a Monday morning like this kind of news: "Shell pulls the plug on Arctic exploration." With a single headline, the fight to protect the Arctic from a major offshore oil spill has...
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Time to Show Up and Step Up
Last weekend, a friend of a friend who teaches environmental policy at a local university told us how his students are obsessed with footprints -- the environmental kind. "They work so hard," he said,...
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Bring Blue Skies Back to Red Rock Country
The red rock country of the Colorado Plateau, which includes parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah, boasts some of the most remarkable scenery in the U.S. -- if not the world. That is, when...
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Maine Points the Way to a Stronger Democracy
Between the fractious debates and the perpetual polling, you might think all eyes are glued on November 2016 -- and an election that's still a year away. But there was an election this year, and an...
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The Pipeline Stops Here
The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was supposed to reach from Canada clear to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, it ended in the Oval Office.President Obama's decision to deny a permit for the pipeline is a...
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Lands of the Free
With Election Day just past and Veterans Day around the corner, I've been thinking about how deep the roots of our American democracy extend. It's more than just a political ideal that generations have...
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All the Colors of Nature
John Muir has a reputation, not entirely undeserved, as a bit of an ascetic -- someone who would plunge into the wilderness with little more than a crust of bread and a small packet of tea. But that...
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In the Ground
I'll be honest. There were times, particularly in the early years before tens of thousands marched in protest, when I wasn't confident that President Obama would reject Keystone XL. This was, after...
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Time to Choose
Does the world need another film about climate change? Absolutely, and the reason why is embedded in the question itself. Everything's changing, fast. That's obvious when you watch Time to Choose, a...
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The Lights of Paris
Greetings from Paris, where history (we hope) is being made. Maybe a better way of putting it is that here, over the course of two weeks, our planet's future is coalescing from a thousand whirling...
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Exporting Denial During the Paris Climate Talks
Note: My coauthor for this post is Bill McKibben of 350.org. Talk about irony. As the world struggles this week in Paris to finally do something meaningful about climate change, American...
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The Word From Paris
The French probably have a word for it, and if the French don't then the Germans likely do. It's the word for a monumental and historic accomplishment that at the same time falls short of complete...
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Fade Away
Six months ago, it would have been a sucker's bet. A serious climate plan from the province of Alberta, Canada? Sure.... and Senator James Inhofe is about to swear off snowballs to find work as a solar...
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Unlucky Town
As usual, no one saw it coming. But when disaster struck last October for the residents of Porter Ranch, California, no one could see it arrive, either. The plume of methane gushing from Southern...
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