Are Evangelicals Going Green?
American News Project : Religion
How solidly Republican will Christian evangelicals be in 2008? Could concern about the planet be the issue that draws many believers into the Democratic camp?
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Presidential Election 2008
Katha Pollitt on the end of the Clinton campaign, Corey Robin on a neo-conservative book scandal and Mark Hertsgaard on the latest climate change legislation effort.
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What Will the Next President Do About Climate Change?
Mark Hertsgaard : Environment
Senate Republicans in denial about global warming blocked a vote Friday on the Climate Security Act, setting the stage for how the next President will address the Earth's most pressing issue.
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Earth at 350
Bill McKibben : Environment
Atmospheric CO2 has spiked to 385 parts per million. Roll that back to 350, and we may still live and thrive.
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What Nuclear Renaissance?
Christian Parenti : Energy
Despite a slick PR campaign hyping its promise, the nuclear industry isn't going anywhere. It's too costly and won't save us from global warming.
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Running on Empty
Mark Hertsgaard : Environment
The era of cheap, plentiful oil is just about over. Now what?
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A Green Corps
Bill McKibben : Environment
The New Deal brought with it programs that served not only the good of the people and the economy but also the environment. We need that now more than ever.
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Labor's War on Global Warming
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Labor Organizing & Activism
Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.
2007
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Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out
Nicholas von Hoffman : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty
Conservation, like taxes, is for little people. When you're rich you can waste all the water you want.
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Global Warming Is Reversible
The technology exists to solve environmental problems and improve our standard of living.
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As the World Burns
Uncomfortable questions nobody wants to raise about the worldwide drought.
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The Real Al Gore
For a Man of Peace, Gore has plenty of blood on his hands.
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Inconvenient Truth-Tellers
: Al Gore
This year's Nobel Peace Prize should spur governments and people everywhere to urgent action on climate change.
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Which Climate Bill on Capitol Hill?
As scenarios on the impact of global warming worsen, Senate Democrats are poised to abandon a realistic bill and support a deeply flawed measure that doesn't solve the problem.
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The Hundred-Mile Diet
Christopher Ketcham : Agriculture
A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.
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The Greenhousers Strike Back, and Strike Out
More contrarian thinking on climate change.
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New Energy for America
Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel : Electoral Politics
Under Bush, the right has failed to address energy independence. Can Democrats rise to the challenge?
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Is Global Warming a Sin?
Is global warming an unprecedented disaster, or just the earth recovering from the ice age?
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Going Green
We can no longer prevent global warming, but we can survive it--if we have the collective will to act.
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Fevered Imagination
Artists try to wake up a sleepwalking public to the dangers of climate change.
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Don't Bet on Offsets
A. C. Thompson & Duane Moles : Environmental Activism
Erasing your "carbon footprint" is tougher than it seems.
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Flying Into Trouble
George Monbiot : Sustainable Development
Airplanes produce staggering amounts of carbon dioxide--and there's no way to make them more energy-efficient.
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The Dirty Rock
Could clean coal become a reality, or is it just another corporate fantasy?
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China vs. Earth
The world's most industrialized countries started the climate crisis, but China might well finish the job.
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Farewell, Sweet Ice
Matthew Gilbert : Native Americans
Melting ice is threatening the centuries-old society of the Gwich'in tribes.
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Adapt or Die
Areas like Bangladesh and New Orleans, which promise to be hard hit by climate change, face a stark decision.
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Cooler Elites
Doug Henwood : Sustainable Development
Can the ruling classes save the world from global warming?
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Big Is Beautiful
Christian Parenti : Sustainable Development
Green utilities are growing, but they need to grow faster.
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Why We Can't Wait
If Congress follows these five suggestions, we could solve the problem of global warming.
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The Ethanol Hoax
Corn is the magic cure of the moment, which Bush and the global-warming naysayers contend will save the planet. Don't buy it.
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Al Gore, Global Statesman
Nicholas von Hoffman : Al Gore
America has lacked a real leader for so long, it comes as a shock to see someone as visionary as Gore speak clearly to Congress about the climate crisis.
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Green Politicians, Real and Fake
Nicholas von Hoffman : Environment
Some political leaders spin fantasies about how to deal with global warming. Others, like Al Gore and London Mayor Ken Livingston, are prepared to deal with the ugly truth. Who do you believe?
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The Daffodil Delusion: Sensationalizing Global Warming
Michael Corcoran : Media Analysis
Media frenzy to the contrary, a warm winter doesn't point to the end of the world--scientific evidence does.
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Killer Weather Ahead
The good news on the latest global warming report: Political leaders can no longer ignore it. The bad news: It's probably too late.
2006
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CA Leads on Climate
California's global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.
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The G-8's Risky Nuclear Embrace
As leaders of the world's richest nations gather in St. Petersburg to craft a global energy security strategy, they're poised to endorse a major expansion of nuclear power. Bad idea.
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Party of a Different Color
Mark Hertsgaard : Great Britain
"Vote Blue, Go Green" is the new slogan of Britain's Conservative Party, a measure of just how great a concern climate change is becoming to politicians of all stripes.
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Heat Wave
As the planet warms and global catastrophe beckons, what changes are we willing to make to adjust to a brave new world? Tim Flannery and Elizabeth Kolbert seek answers in two provocative new books.
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Gore Warms Up
Al Gore is trying to save the world by stirring a nation in denial over global warming to meaningful action. The pity is that this is a job for a former politician, not a current one.
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Science Fact or Science Fiction?
Bryan Farrell : Journalists & Journalism
Climate change is real, and its impact is potentially devastating to our way of life. So why do the news media have such a hard time telling the straight story?
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Political Science
NASA climatologist James E. Hansen won't let political pressure from the Bush Administration blunt the urgency of his research on global warming: It's not too late to mitigate the damage.
2005
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Titans of Trash
Gas-guzzling SUVs take a lot of blame, but landfills make stealthy stealthy contributions to climate change. While they should be developing innovative waste disposal strategies, corporate-owned landfills use techniques that generate heat-trapping methane that accelerate global warming.
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Melting Away
Geophysicists are debating whether recent catastrophic storms signal an abrupt climate change that will trigger seasons of permanent icelessness in the Atlantic and return the earth to the torrid chaos of an earlier era.
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Global Storm Warning
Scientists universally recognize the devastating effects of global warming, including its possible role in creating Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It's time for skeptics to listen up before another devastating storm hits.
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Climate and the G-8
Mark Hertsgaard : World Economy
Though the G-8 leaders should subsidize zero-carbon energy sources, they should resist Bush's advocacy of nuclear energy.
2004
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Boiling Point
Ross Gelbspan : Environmental Activism
Nature doesn't compromise on global climate change; activists must not either.
2003
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A Light in the Fog
Seattle is curbing greenhouse gases through more efficient power consumption.
2002
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The Truth on Warming
A Green energy future would mean more, not less, economic well-being for most Americans.
This week: Christian Parenti on the Chinese middle class and the impact of the Olympics. Plus: Esther Kaplan and Eric Foner on the Democratic Party's unexpected struggle for the blue collar vote. (13mb mp3)
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